Texas Tech, Western Illinois set for 4 games
The Texas Tech baseball team continues its season-opening 10-game homestand with four games this weekend against Western Illinois.
The series was rearranged on Thursday. No. 20 Tech (4-0) and Western Illinois (1-3) are scheduled for a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Friday and single games at 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Western Illinois finished 8-44 last season.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for a 30 to 50 percent chance of rain throughout Saturday, when the teams originally were scheduled for a doubleheader.
Tech's rotation of starting pitchers will feature Brendan Girton (1-0, 0.00 earned-run average) and Taber Fast (0-0, 0.00) on Friday, Mason Molina (1-0, 0.00) on Saturday and Bo Blessie (1-0, 0.00) on Sunday. It will be the first career start for Fast, a freshman lefthander.
The Red Raiders are coming off a four-game sweep of Gonzaga to start the season. Western Illinois dropped three of four to Southern Indiana.
Tech men's golf
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Ludvig Aberg won tournament medalist honors at The Prestige for the third year in a row Wednesday, helping Texas Tech to a second-place finish out of 24 teams.
The senior from Sweden shot a 1-under-par 70 final round on the Greg Norman Course at PGA West to finish the 54-hole event at 6-under and one stroke ahead of Pepperdine's William Mouw. Tournament champion Pepperdine shot 8-under, followed by Tech at 2-under and Stanford at 5-over.
The Red Raiders' Tyran Snyders (66-70-73) tied for third at 4-under. Also playing for Tech were Calum Scott (73-71-71), Baard Skogen (75-72-74) and Jack Wall (74-71-77).
LCU baseball
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Lubbock Christian University lefthander Aydan Alger threw a two-hit shutout with nine strikeouts, leading the Chaparrals to a 3-0 victory Thursday over Arkansas-Fort Smith in the opener of a Lone Star Conference doubleheader.
LCU won the nightcap 9-8 in 15 innings on Sam Shank's sacrifice fly in the top of the 15th. Eduardo Acosa went 4 for 8, including a solo home run in the 14th that gave LCU an 8-7 lead, but UAFS tied it on Kade Brewer's double in the bottom of the inning.
The game was tied 7-7 after eight innings, and then the teams played five scoreless innings. Josh Akers (1-0), the fourth of five LCU pitchers, went 6 1/3 innings and limited the Lions to one run on three hits. Daniel Womack retired all three batters he faced in the 15th for his first save.
Carson Ogilvie hit a three-run double for the Chaps, and Jarred Gibson had a pair of RBI doubles.
UAFS (5-7, 3-7) hosts LCU (9-5, 9-5) in another doubleheader at 1 p.m. Friday.
In Thursday's opener, Nate Van Maanen singled home a run in a two-run first for LCU. Ogilvie homered in the fifth.
Tech softball
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Makinzy Herzog and Ellie Bailey drove in a run apiece in the seventh inning as Texas Tech rallied past Cal Poly 3-2 Thursday in the first of the Red Raiders' six games in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.
Sage Hoover (6-0) threw 4 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, helping Tech (10-2) win its ninth in a row. Herzog finished with three hits and Kailey Wyckoff and Bailey had two apiece.
Tech's win streak ended later Thursday when UC Riverside beat the Red Raiders 6-4 on Leah Brito's two-run homer in the top of the eighth.
Demi Elder's three-run homer in the fifth inning put Tech in front 4-2, but UC Riverside (6-7) rallied for four runs in the last three innings. Brito hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and Nadia Witt doubled home the tying run in the seventh.
Tech (10-3) faces Utah (7-3) at 12:30 p.m. Friday.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: College sports roundup: Texas Tech, Western Illinois set for 4 games
