■ Texas bows out at Big 12 baseball tournament (Austin American Statesman)
They had slugged their way through the losers bracket, smacked the ball around for three victories until they found themselves with a chance to play for the Big 12 tournament championship.
Then the Texas Longhorns were shut down by a pitcher who had not started a game since last season.
Missouri, behind an extraordinary performance by senior left-hander Kelly Fick, eliminated the top-seeded Longhorns 2-1 Saturday evening. The Tigers (27-31), seeded eighth in the tournament, will face No. 2 Texas A&M today at 1 p.m. for the championship.
On the first pitch of the seventh inning, Tiger outfielder Blake Brown drilled a long home run to left field to extend the lead to 2-0 and give Missouri insurance it would need.■ Saturday roundup: Crunching the numbers (Baseball America)
“I was out there trying to hunt fastballs,” Brown said. “I got that one pretty good.”
But the Longhorns threatened in the eighth. After loading the bases with one out, Tant Shepard cut the lead in half with an RBI groundout.
Missouri turned to closer Phil McCormick to stifle the rally. As the drama in Bricktown increased, McCormick came through for the Tigers again.
Bubble teams need to root hard for Texas A&M and Florida International on Sunday; if those teams lose, Missouri and UALR will earn automatic bids, bringing us to 64 teams, if you assume Troy is in as an at-large (which is not a slam dunk, by any means, but its case is better than all the bubble teams listed below).■ I get a case of vertigo over today's action (College Baseball Today)
Good read, but apparently Missouri did nothing noteworthy on Saturday.
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