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Sunday - April 10, 2011

Game 29: Texas at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

I listened to a couple of innings of the Tuesday game at Corpus but that was about it. The line (from TAMU-CC's NeuLion scoreboard thingy):

The starting line-ups:

Texas		TAMU-CC
Brandon Loy (ss) Mark Payton (rf) Erich Weiss (lf) Lucas Kephart (dh) Tant Shepherd (1b) Jordan Etier (2b) Jonathan Walsh (lf) Kevin Lusson (3b) Jacob Felts (c) Paul Montalbano (cf)		Montgomery Weston (ss) Logan Nottebrok (3b) Trey Hernandez (1b) Jacob Perales (rf) Matt Holland (lf) Jumpy Garcia (c) Chris Vergne (cf) Jeramie Marek (2b) Caleb Marx (dh)

Alex Silver also saw his first action late in the game when he pinch-hit and them went in at 3b. Good for him!

It was really nice to see Horns decisively take the lead and keep it. Sam Stafford threw the first 7 innings and had a no-hitter going as he was replaced by Josh Urban for the final two innings of the game. Lots of people complained about taking Stafford out when he was throwing a no-hitter but it made sense to me. He'd already thrown 118 pitches. If he'd thrown 2 more innings, it would've really been pushing things. There's no point, especially in a mid-week non-conference game, in taking that sort of risk. No point at all. Urban, by the way, kept the no-hitter going into the 9th but then gave up a lead-off single in the 9th. Here's a link to the story on the TexasSports.com page: No. 8 Baseball cruises to 8-1 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Posted by Joanna at 10:30 AM