SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State baseball team heads to Austin to continue its season-long three-game series against No. 18 Texas.
The Bobcats (22-21-1, 10-11 SBC) will open up a new month against the Longhorns (30-17, 12-6 Big 12) at 6:30 p.m. May 1 at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
Texas knocked off Texas State 6-1 on March 27 in San Marcos. The season finale will be May 15 in Austin. Texas State is 0-4 against ranked opponents this season, falling three times to then-No. 27 Coastal Carolina and once to then-No. 14 Texas A&M.
Texas leads the all-time series 47-11, but the Bobcats were able to defeat the Longhorns 11-10 in 10 innings last season in San Marcos. UT won the season series by capturing both contests in Austin.
A LOOK AT TEXAS STATE
• Texas State is currently 22-21-1 this and 10-11 in the SBC after dropping a weekend home series to Georgia Southern.
• The maroon and gold posted a 14-5-1 record through the first 20 games of the season, but they are 8-16 since.
• True freshman
Dalton Shuffield leads TXST in batting average (.362), while senior
Luke Sherley is the team RBI leader (31). Junior
Jonathan Ortega leads Texas State with 52 hits.
• Senior
Derek Scheible leads in runs scored (36) and home runs (10).
• The Bobcats are 4-7 in midweek games this season and are on a four-game losing streak in said contests. The last midweek triumph was at Baylor April 2.
A LOOK AT TEXAS
• The Longhorns boast a 30-17 record overall with a 12-6 mark in Big 12 Conference action.
• UT has an RPI of No. 30 this season and is nationally ranked in all five polls. The highest ranking of No. 18 comes from Collegiate Baseball News.
• Texas is 2-3 in its last five outings, most-recently dropping a weekend road series at West Virginia. The team is 22-7 at home in 2018.
• Kody Clemens leads the Longhorns with a .331 batting average (58-for-17). He also owns the team lead in home runs (13), runs scored (43) and RBIs (49).
WHERE THEY STAND
• TXST is currently 10-11 in league play and sits in eighth in the SBC standings.
• If the season were to end today, the Bobcats would be one of four teams to play an opening-round, single-elimination game on May 22. They would face current No. 9 seed for the right to advance to the main double-elimination bracket.
• This weekend's opponent, Arkansas State, is currently in 11th place and is slated to miss the tournament.
• The top six currently includes Coastal Carolina, Little Rock, South Alabama, Troy, GS, and Louisiana.
• The teams slated to compete in the two play-in games are UTA, Texas State, Georgia State and ULM. Arkansas State and Appalachian State are presently on the outside looking in.
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