SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State baseball team hits the road for the first weekend series away from Bobcat Ballpark in 2018.
The Bobcats (7-4) are set to venture to Isla Vista, California, for a three-game set with UC Santa Barbara (4-7). The two teams are slated to meet March 9-11 at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
These will be the first meetings between the two programs. The last time Texas State competed in California was a three-game series against San Jose State April 19-21, 2013. That marked the lone season that the maroon and gold was members of the Western Athletic Conference.
A LOOK AT TEXAS STATE
•   Texas State is currently 7-4 this season and riding a four-game win streak.
•   The Bobcats swept Stephen F. Austin this past weekend and earned a 6-2 midweek triumph over Rice on March 6.
•   Senior
Dylan Paul led the Bobcats at the plate last weekend with a .545 average (6-for-11). He scored four times and hit a walkoff triple in the series finale.
| GAME 13: Texas State at UC Santa Barbara |
| Time / Date |
4 p.m. / Saturday, March 10 |
| Location |
Isla Vista, Calif. |
| Stadium |
Caesar Uyesaka Stadium |
| Live Stats |
Presto Sports |
| Video |
Big West TV |
| Audio |
Stretch Internet |
| Game Notes |
Texas State |
| TXST Starter |
RHP Connor Reich (2-0, 1.00 ERA) |
| UCSB Starter |
RHP Noah Davis (1-1, 5.19 ERA) |
•   Paul also leads TXST in batting average overall this season, as he is hitting .395 (17-for-43).
•   The Texas State pitching staff boasted a 2.00 ERA this past weekend and held the Lumberjacks to a .136 batting average.
•   The maroon and gold had a midweek game against Baylor postponed due to poor field conditions at Baylor Ballpark. That has been rescheduled for 6:35 p.m. April 2 in Waco.
A LOOK AT UC SANTA BARBARA
•   The Gauchos (4-7) enter weekend play coming off the heels of a two-games-to-one series victory over Penn State. They also own triumphs over Nicholls State and Fresno State.
•   UCSB went 24-32 last season and tied for eighth in the Big West Conference (8-16), but the team advanced to the NCAA College World Series in 2016 (43-20-1).
•   UC Santa Barbara was selected to finish fourth in the 2018 Big West standings in a preseason poll of the conference's head coaches.
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| GAME 14: Texas State at UC Santa Barbara |
| Time / Date |
2 p.m. / Sunday, March 11 |
| Location |
Isla Vista, Calif. |
| Stadium |
Caesar Uyesaka Stadium |
| Live Stats |
Presto Sports |
| Video |
Big West TV |
| Audio |
Stretch Internet |
| Game Notes |
Texas State |
| TXST Starter |
TBA |
| UCSB Starter |
LHP Ben Brecht (0-1, 5.91 ERA) |
TXST SELECTED TO COMPETE IN 2019 SHRINERS CLASSIC
•   The Texas State baseball team is set to join a loaded field for the 2019 Shriners Hospital for Children College Classic, the Houston Astros announced March 5.
•   The tournament will be contested March 1-3, 2019, at Minute Maid Park and feature an all-Texas field of Baylor, Houston, Rice, TCU, Texas A&M and Texas State.
•   The 19th annual event will feature nine games between the six programs.
•   The official times and dates of each game will be announced at a later time.
THE 2018 SLATE
•   The Bobcats began their 56-game campaign with a bang, opening the year hosting to Oklahoma State in a three-game series Feb. 16-18 at Bobcat Ballpark. Other early-season matchups included road trips to Rice, Baylor and UC Santa Barbara. The series with the Gauchos will be the first meetings between the two programs.
•   TXST is billed to play 32 home games and 24 contests on the road.
•   Additional notable non-conference home games include dates with Rice (March 6), Texas (March 27), UTSA (April 3) and Baylor (April 24).
•   The first Sun Belt Conference action will be a three-game home series against Appalachian State March 16-18. TXST will then hit the road for a weekend set with a Coastal Carolina team that won the national championship two years ago (March 23-25).
•   Texas State will compete 23 times against programs who have played in the NCAA Championship at least once over the last two years. That mark also includes 10 contests with teams that advanced to the College World Series during that same period (Oklahoma State, UC Santa Barbara, Coastal Carolina, Texas A&M).
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