Tech evens softball series with Iowa State
Riley Love smacked a three-run single and Texas Tech hit three home runs as the Red Raiders beat Iowa State 8-4 Saturday in the second game of a three-game Big 12 softball series at Rocky Johnson Field.
Love's big hit gave Tech a 4-3 lead in the first inning. Kailey Wyckoff's two-run homer in the second made it 6-3, and Ellie Bailey and Alana Barraza hit solo shots in the fifth.
Sage Hoover (14-0) remained unbeaten, striking out eight over five innings. Maddie Kuehl threw two hitless innings in relief.
Tech (27-12, 1-4) and Iowa State (12-18, 1-4) finish the series with a game at noon Sunday.
Iowa State won Friday's late game 3-2 in eight innings, getting a game-tying RBI single from Ashley Minor in the seventh and a go-ahead run-scoring double from Mikayla Ramos in the eighth.
Tech pitcher Kendall Fritz (7-3) threw a complete game, allowing eight hits.
Women’s tennis
Texas Tech, having won its past three matches, takes on No. 9 Texas at noon Sunday in Big 12 action at the McLeod Tennis Center.
Texas (16-3, 6-1) has won five matches in a row. Tech (13-6, 3-2) beat Baylor 4-3 on Friday night, though the Red Raiders clinched the victory after winning the first four matches completed.
The Red Raiders took the best-of-three doubles point with wins from the teams of Metka Komac-Avelina Sayfetdinova and Olivia Peet-Cristina Tiglea. Then Peet, Sayfetdinova and Komac won in straight sets at Nos. 1, 2 and 5 singles.
Baylor dropped to 11-11 and 2-5.
Track and field
AUSTIN — The Texas Tech men's distance medley relay of Kirk Zuber, Shaemar Uter, Marco Vilca and E.J. Rush won their event Friday at the Texas Relays, running a time of 9 minutes, 41.07 seconds.
It was the outdoor-season debut for Uter, a freshman, and his first time to compete since late January.
The four-day meet at Mike A. Myers Stadium concluded Saturday.
Tech's Terrence Jones, Courtney Lindsey, Don'Dre Swint and Jacolby Shelton finished seventh in Saturday's final of the 400-meter relay by running a 39.34.
In other action Friday, Devin Roberson took second in the B section of the men's discus with a throw of 189 feet, 8 inches. In the B section of the women's shot put, Tech's Malin Smith was third with a mark of 52-6 3/4.
Maryland transfer Kaithon McDonald, in his outdoor-season debut for the Red Raiders, placed third in the B section of the men's high jump by clearing 7-0 1/4.
Football
Redshirt freshman safety Hut Graham was taken off the Texas Tech roster on Saturday. A Tech athletics spokesman said Graham is no longer on the team, but declined to provide a reason.
Graham, a high-school standout at Gunter, signed with the Red Raiders in December 2021 and redshirted during the 2022 season.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tech softball gives up two-run lead, falls in extras to Iowa State
