Clutch shot lifts Aggies to golf title

By Rusty Miller | ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOLEDO, Ohio – Hands on his hips, Texas A&M’s Bronson Burgoon stood over a ball nestled deep in the rough and 120 yards from the hole.
Nothing much was riding on his next shot – just a national championship.
With one mighty hack, Burgoon gave Texas A&M its [...]

DQ at regional brings shocking end to Osaghae’s season

FROM STAFF REPORTS
NORMAN, Okla. – Eleven Texas Tech individuals and two relays did what they needed to do Friday and Saturday to keep their seasons alive. But the Tech contingent to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships will have a stunning omission.
Omo Osaghae, one of the nation’s top high hurdlers throughout the school year, [...]

Red Raiders seem headed in right direction

BY GEORGE WATSON l AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
In terms of team accomplishments and not so much the record, Texas Tech had just completed its best baseball season in three years and, in several cases, set marks only teams in the late 1990s and early 2000s had accomplished.
Yet, there head coach Dan Spencer sat in Lubbock on Monday afternoon. [...]

Tech excels on first day of regional meet

NORMAN, Okla. – Texas Tech will send at least five athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Harrison Benjamin and D’Andra Carter both won events Friday on the first day of the NCAA Midwest Regional, while Lillian Badaru, Ozie Okokie and Darrell Roddick also punched their tickets to the national meet. And the Tech [...]

Raiders aiming for top-five finish at regional meet

Tech golfers still hope to make splash at NCAA tourney

FROM STAFF REPORTS
TOLEDO, Ohio — As the old saying goes: When it rains, it pours.
And right now, the No. 17 Texas Tech men’s golf team is finding ways to pour in more birdie putts despite persistent rain and wet conditions at the NCAA Championship.
Because of a rain delay of more than four hours Wednesday, Tech [...]

Tech golfers have work left to do at NCAA tourney

FROM STAFF REPORTS
TOLEDO, Ohio — Breezy, cool conditions and sporadic rain made things a little tough for the No. 17 Texas Tech men’s golf team in the first round of the NCAA Championship at Inverness Golf Club.
Tech shot 19-over-par 303 as a team on Tuesday and is in 21st place, nine shots out of being [...]

Texas slams Mizzou to win fourth Big 12 championship

AP
OKLAHOMA CITY – Sporting a banged-up hand and a new nickname, Cameron “four-finger” Rupp still was able to provide the pop that pushed Texas to its fourth Big 12 baseball title.
Playing with his right ring finger bandaged up, Rupp hit a grand slam during an 11-run outburst in the fourth inning as the top-seeded Longhorns [...]

11-4 loss ends Tech’s season

BY GEORGE WATSON l AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
OKLAHOMA CITY – The only team to enter the Big 12 Championships with a losing record found itself one win away from playing for the tournament title.
But a program that had gone a step further than perhaps most people expected found it difficult to take what would have been a giant [...]

Defending champ Texas reaches Big 12 title game

OKLAHOMA CITY – A pair of RBI singles by Brandon Loy provided the difference as defending champion Texas advanced to the Big 12 title game by beating Kansas State 4-2 on Saturday.
Loy put the top-seeded Longhorns (40-13-1) ahead 3-2 with a two-out single up the middle in the sixth inning Saturday. Travis Tucker then came [...]