No. 25 ranked Texas travels to Lubbock this weekend to face off against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech in a three-game series at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. This will be a Thursday through Saturday series due to Sunday being Easter. Tech is on the starting end of a ten-game homestand, with their most recent win coming 13-8 over Division II team Angelo State. Â The Red Raiders have accumulated a 17-13 record in 2012 with a 2-7 mark in Big XII play.
Players to Watch:
Duke von Schamann (#15): Sophomore right-hander Duke von Schamann is scheduled to start on Friday for Tech, and has compiled an impressive line so far this season. Von Schamann has an ERA of 1.72 over seven starts and three complete games. He has a strikeouts to walks ratio of 35 to 8 and is holding batters to a .180 average. On March 23, von Schamann held Oklahoma to a single run over nine innings, hurling 104 pitches along the way. Last weekend, von Schamann held Kansas to one run on two hits in another complete game.
Barrett Barnes (#8): Junior slugger Barrett Barnes is leading the Red Raiders in several statistical categories, including home runs (6), slugging percentage (.642), and RBI (29). Barnes spent his summer playing for the Falmouth Commodores in the Cape Cod League, alongside Longhorns Nathan Thornhill, John Curtiss, and Christian Summers. In 2012, Barnes is batting .347 with 20 walks and is 14/14 in stolen bases.
Game one of the series at Texas Tech is scheduled for a 6:30pm start on Thursday, April 5. Â This will be Texas’ last full conference road series until traveling to Missouri in early May.
