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Yahoo
14-07-2025
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Longhorns baseball commits Gavin Fein, Kayson Cunningham drafted in 1st round of MLB Draft
Two of the centerpieces of Texas baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle's 2025 recruiting class are likely going pro before ever arriving onto the 40 Acres. Both Gavin Fein and Kayson Cunningham were drafted in the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft. Third baseman Fein was drafted No. 12 by the Texas Rangers. Cunningham, a shortstop, was drafted No. 18 by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Fein, of The Temecula (Calif.) Great Oaks, has been committed to the Longhorns for nearly four years. As a senior, he hit .358 with 16 RBIs and five home runs. In 2024, his brother Dylan was drafted in the seventh round by the A's. Cunningham, a San Antonio Johnson product, committed to the Longhorns in June of 2024. He hit an astounding .509 as a senior, with 27 RBIs and 39 runs scored. He also stole 21 bases on 25 attempts. Cunningham was both the Gatorade Player of the Year and USA Baseball Player of the Year. Neither player is expected to end up playing for the Longhorns now. First round money in the MLB Draft is higher than any college baseball player could make via NIL. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) at @LonghornsWire. Advertisement This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Two Longhorns baseball commits drafted in first round of MLB Draft
USA Today
12-07-2025
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- USA Today
SEC Network schedule for Texas A&M takeover revealed
The 2024 calendar year for Texas A&M Athletics was both memorable and forgettable, depending on the sport. However, nothing matches the departure of former Aggies head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle from the program just days after A&M fell to Tennessee in the College World Series Championship matchup, leaving to join the Texas Longhorns in an unpredictable move that only enhanced the rivalry that was renewed on the gridiron a year ago. Still, Texas A&M's championship run was by far one of the most exciting seasons in program history, and will remain in a positive light despite Schlossnagle leaving. Outside of baseball, the softball team nearly made it to the College World Series before losing to Texas in the Super Regionals, while the men's basketball team, during Buzz Williams' final year at the helm, made it back to the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive season. Texas A&M's 2024 football team entered a new era under head coach Mike Elko, who returned to College Station after two seasons leading the Duke Blue Devils and serving as Jimbo Fisher's defensive coordinator for four seasons. Elko and his new staff were provided a muligan like every new head coach, but after building a 7-1 record despite several key injury issues, the loss of star running back Le'Veon Moss, paired with then-freshman QB Marcel Reed's issues in the pocket, were too much to overcome. Despite A&M's 1-4 finish, there were plenty of incredible moments, including the comeback win over LSU during an electric night inside a packed Kyle Field. On Friday, it was announced that Texas A&M will take over the SEC Network's schedule, an annual event that typically occurs in July. Here is the complete schedule: Contact/Follow us @AggiesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&M news, notes and opinions. Follow Cameron on X: @CameronOhnysty.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
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Texas 1B Jaquae Stewart enters the NCAA transfer portal
A 10th player has entered the NCAA transfer portal and departed the Texas Longhorns program since the end of the season with sophomore first baseman Jaquae Stewart the latest departure on Friday. The 5'10, 227-pounder played for former Texas star pitcher Adrian Alaniz at Sinton along with catcher Rylan Galvan before signing with Houston Christian in the 2023 recruiting class as the No. 23 first baseman nationally, according to Perfect Game. Advertisement In going through fall baseball with the Huskies, Stewart attracted the attention of the Aggies coaching staff when he got a hit off flame-throwing right-hander Chris Cortez, who went on to become a second-round draft pick the next summer. So when Stewart hit .346 with 15 home runs and 62 RBI at Northwest Florida State College and new Texas head coach Jim Schlossnagle was in desperate need of left-handed bats after arriving from College Station, Stewart joined the Longhorns program. When injuries afforded Stewart a chance to start 13 games among 23 appearances for Texas in 2025, he wasn't able to take advantage, slashing .149/.273/.255 with one home run and five RBI while striking out 18 times in 47 at bats (38.3 percent). Looking to upgrade the available options at first base with Kimble Schuessler out of eligibility, Texas landed Wichita State transfer Josh Livingston out of the portal on Wednesday. Advertisement More from
Yahoo
03-06-2025
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SEC stumbles lead NCAA baseball tournament winners and losers in regional round
Vanderbilt infielder Rustan Rigdon (19) sits in the team's dugout after the Commodores were eliminated from the NCAA baseball tournament with a loss to Wright State in the Nashville Regional at Hawkins Field. History was made in the NCAA baseball tournament. And not the good kind, either, if you're No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 Texas. These two leading contenders for the national championship were quickly ejected from their respective regionals over the weekend, marking the second time since national seeding was introduced to the tournament in 1999 that the top two seeds failed to advance out of regionals. Advertisement After losing to Louisville on Saturday and Wright State on Sunday the Commodores became the first No. 1 overall seed to be eliminated in the regionals altogether since UCLA in 2015 and the first No. 1 seed under the current format to fail to at least reach its regional final. The Longhorns lost to Texas-San Antonio twice in as many days. The Roadrunners were 0-6 in its tournament history entering the weekend while Texas, hosting a regional for the 38th time, won the SEC regular-season crown by two games under first-year coach Jim Schlossnagle. These upsets serve as a black eye for the SEC, which dominated the regular season, the USA TODAY Sports college baseball poll and the 64-team bracket. With No. 7 Georgia and No. 10 Mississippi also sent packing, the SEC now turns to No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Auburn and No. 6 LSU to carry the flag for the conference. The Tigers were pushed to the brink by underdog Little Rock but managed to eke out a 10-6 on Monday night to advance. The tournament continues with super regionals beginning on Friday. Those are best-of-three series played on the home field of the higher-ranked team. From there, the eight winners advance to Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series. Advertisement Led by the two massive disappointments coming out of the SEC, here are the biggest winners and losers from the opening weekend: Winners Arkansas The Razorbacks went unscathed through their regional - winning by a margin of 26-6 in three games - and are now the highest remaining seed left in the field. While this makes Arkansas the de facto favorite moving forward, the aforementioned chaos that is college baseball means a title is anything but guaranteed for a program that has never won the College World Series and has endure several heartbreaks along the way. The ACC By the conclusion of Sunday's action, three ACC squads had punched their tickets to the next round and two more added to the league's total on Monday when North Carolina and Miami were victorious. Two of the weekend victors, Duke and Louisville, advanced through regionals hosted by SEC members, a particularly satisfying outcome for certain fan bases subjected to the 'it just means more' mantra on a daily basis. It wasn't all good news for the league as national seed Clemson and regular-season conference champ Georgia Tech were knocked out, but thus far it's been a promising showing for the conference. Texas-San Antonio The Roadrunners were known to be dangerous heading into the tournament, and they proved it with a pair of wins against No. 2 seed Texas. UTSA won a 9-7 slugfest Saturday to send the Longhorns into the losers' bracket, then jumped on Texas early once again Sunday and held on 7-4 to reach the super regionals for the first time in program history. The Roadrunners, who were winless in their previous three trips to the tournament, next face UCLA. West Virginia The Mountaineers provided arguably the most dramatics of the weekend. After rallying Saturday to defeat host Clemson, West Virginia again found itself trailing in the late innings Sunday against Kentucky. But the Mountaineers overcame a 12-7 deficit with a six-run eighth and held on to eliminate the Wildcats 13-12 to secure a second consecutive trip to the super regionals. The erstwhile Pac-12 The former power conference will be well represented in the round of 16. The first weekend wasn't all good for former Pac-12 schools with nationally seeded Oregon making an early exit, but a trio of other former league members did advance, with Oregon State joining Arizona and UCLA after its defeat of Southern California on Monday night. Coastal Carolina The 13th-seeded Chanticleers completed a sweep of their home regional in Conway, South Carolina., finishing it off Sunday with a masterful pitching performance from Riley Eikhoff and Dominick Carbone in a 1-0 shutout against East Carolina. The Pirates made a surprising run to the regional final by knocked off Florida twice after qualifying for the field by winning the American Athletic tournament. Oklahoma State The Athens regional ended painfully for Oklahoma State, which seemed poised to put the tying run on base on a wild pitch in the ninth inning of Sunday's elimination game against Duke but had the runner called out for leaving the baseline and interfering with the throw to first. But one of the last four teams in the World Series field also captured maybe the most dramatic moment of the weekend. Earlier on Sunday, the Cowboys trailed Georgia 9-7 heading into the bottom of the ninth but rallied for four runs, ending things on a two-run, walk-off blast by third baseman Brock Thompson. Mississippi State After making a coaching change amid a disastrous start to SEC play, Mississippi State rebounded to reach the final of the Tallahassee regional before losing to No. 9 Florida State. That marked the second year in a row the Bulldogs were bounced in the opening weekend; the program hasn't advanced to Super regionals since winning the whole thing in 2021. But the weekend ended with some very good news: Late on Sunday night, Mississippi State announced the hire of longtime Virginia coach Brian O'Connor, a five-time ACC coach of the year who led the Cavaliers to the 2015 national title. Losers Vanderbilt The top-ranked team in the tournament led for just one of 27 innings over the weekend: Vanderbilt needed a three-run seventh inning and another run in the bottom of the eighth to beat Wright State 4-3 in Saturday's regional opener. You can attribute this historic tournament exit to the Commodores' disappearing bats. One of the hottest teams in the country heading into tournament play, Vanderbilt scored 10 runs over these three games and hit just .132, managing just four hits in the opener, five in the 3-2 loss to eventual regional winner Louisville and then three in the 5-4 loss to the Raiders. Two-time national champions under celebrated coach Tim Corbin, the Commodores reached the finals in 2021 but haven't advanced out of the regionals since. Texas This had been a banner year for the Longhorns, who were buoyed by the offseason addition of Jim Schlossnagle from rival Texas A&M. But things had started to unravel down the home stretch of the regular season, capped by an early exit from the SEC tournament, so there were some warning signs heading into regionals. This was still a completely unexpected whipping at the hands of Texas-San Antonio. Oregon After dropping the opener of the Eugene Regional to Utah Valley – the 6-5 loss included a controversial decision to remove an Oregon run due to 'malicious contact' on a play at the plate – the No. 12 Ducks trailed Cal Poly 3-1 after three in Saturday's elimination game before rallying for seven runs across the middle innings to lead 8-5 heading into the bottom of the seventh. Then came the meltdown: Oregon reliever Ian Umlandt walked in a run, gave up a two-run single and then another run-scoring single to hand the Mustangs the 9-8 lead. They'd add another run in the bottom of the eighth for the 10-8 win. Losses from higher-ranked teams meant the Ducks were in line to host a Super Regional; that makes this collapse all the more painful. Advertisement The biggest stories, every morning. Stay up-to-date on all the key sports developments by subscribing to USA TODAY Sports' newsletter. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NCAA baseball tournament winners, losers: SEC stumbles in regionals
USA Today
03-06-2025
- Sport
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SEC stumbles lead NCAA baseball tournament winners and losers in regional round
SEC stumbles lead NCAA baseball tournament winners and losers in regional round History was made in the NCAA baseball tournament. And not the good kind, either, if you're No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 Texas. These two leading contenders for the national championship were quickly ejected from their respective regionals over the weekend, marking the second time since national seeding was introduced to the tournament in 1999 that the top two seeds failed to advance out of regionals. After losing to Louisville on Saturday and Wright State on Sunday the Commodores became the first No. 1 overall seed to be eliminated in the regionals altogether since UCLA in 2015 and the first No. 1 seed under the current format to fail to at least reach its regional final. The Longhorns lost to Texas-San Antonio twice in as many days. The Roadrunners were 0-6 in its tournament history entering the weekend while Texas, hosting a regional for the 38th time, won the SEC regular-season crown by two games under first-year coach Jim Schlossnagle. These upsets serve as a black eye for the SEC, which dominated the regular season, the USA TODAY Sports college baseball poll and the 64-team bracket. With No. 7 Georgia and No. 10 Mississippi also sent packing, the SEC now turns to No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Auburn and No. 6 LSU to carry the flag for the conference. The Tigers were pushed to the brink by underdog Little Rock but managed to eke out a 10-6 on Monday night to advance. The tournament continues with super regionals beginning on Friday. Those are best-of-three series played on the home field of the higher-ranked team. From there, the eight winners advance to Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series. Led by the two massive disappointments coming out of the SEC, here are the biggest winners and losers from the opening weekend: Winners Arkansas The Razorbacks went unscathed through their regional - winning by a margin of 26-6 in three games - and are now the highest remaining seed left in the field. While this makes Arkansas the de facto favorite moving forward, the aforementioned chaos that is college baseball means a title is anything but guaranteed for a program that has never won the College World Series and has endure several heartbreaks along the way. The ACC By the conclusion of Sunday's action, three ACC squads had punched their tickets to the next round and two more added to the league's total on Monday when North Carolina and Miami were victorious. Two of the weekend victors, Duke and Louisville, advanced through regionals hosted by SEC members, a particularly satisfying outcome for certain fan bases subjected to the 'it just means more' mantra on a daily basis. It wasn't all good news for the league as national seed Clemson and regular-season conference champ Georgia Tech were knocked out, but thus far it's been a promising showing for the conference. Texas-San Antonio The Roadrunners were known to be dangerous heading into the tournament, and they proved it with a pair of wins against No. 2 seed Texas. UTSA won a 9-7 slugfest Saturday to send the Longhorns into the losers' bracket, then jumped on Texas early once again Sunday and held on 7-4 to reach the super regionals for the first time in program history. The Roadrunners, who were winless in their previous three trips to the tournament, next face UCLA. West Virginia The Mountaineers provided arguably the most dramatics of the weekend. After rallying Saturday to defeat host Clemson, West Virginia again found itself trailing in the late innings Sunday against Kentucky. But the Mountaineers overcame a 12-7 deficit with a six-run eighth and held on to eliminate the Wildcats 13-12 to secure a second consecutive trip to the super regionals. The erstwhile Pac-12 The former power conference will be well represented in the round of 16. The first weekend wasn't all good for former Pac-12 schools with nationally seeded Oregon making an early exit, but a trio of other former league members did advance, with Oregon State joining Arizona and UCLA after its defeat of Southern California on Monday night. Coastal Carolina The 13th-seeded Chanticleers completed a sweep of their home regional in Conway, South Carolina., finishing it off Sunday with a masterful pitching performance from Riley Eikhoff and Dominick Carbone in a 1-0 shutout against East Carolina. The Pirates made a surprising run to the regional final by knocked off Florida twice after qualifying for the field by winning the American Athletic tournament. Oklahoma State The Athens regional ended painfully for Oklahoma State, which seemed poised to put the tying run on base on a wild pitch in the ninth inning of Sunday's elimination game against Duke but had the runner called out for leaving the baseline and interfering with the throw to first. But one of the last four teams in the World Series field also captured maybe the most dramatic moment of the weekend. Earlier on Sunday, the Cowboys trailed Georgia 9-7 heading into the bottom of the ninth but rallied for four runs, ending things on a two-run, walk-off blast by third baseman Brock Thompson. Mississippi State After making a coaching change amid a disastrous start to SEC play, Mississippi State rebounded to reach the final of the Tallahassee regional before losing to No. 9 Florida State. That marked the second year in a row the Bulldogs were bounced in the opening weekend; the program hasn't advanced to Super regionals since winning the whole thing in 2021. But the weekend ended with some very good news: Late on Sunday night, Mississippi State announced the hire of longtime Virginia coach Brian O'Connor, a five-time ACC coach of the year who led the Cavaliers to the 2015 national title. Losers Vanderbilt The top-ranked team in the tournament led for just one of 27 innings over the weekend: Vanderbilt needed a three-run seventh inning and another run in the bottom of the eighth to beat Wright State 4-3 in Saturday's regional opener. You can attribute this historic tournament exit to the Commodores' disappearing bats. One of the hottest teams in the country heading into tournament play, Vanderbilt scored 10 runs over these three games and hit just .132, managing just four hits in the opener, five in the 3-2 loss to eventual regional winner Louisville and then three in the 5-4 loss to the Raiders. Two-time national champions under celebrated coach Tim Corbin, the Commodores reached the finals in 2021 but haven't advanced out of the regionals since. Texas This had been a banner year for the Longhorns, who were buoyed by the offseason addition of Jim Schlossnagle from rival Texas A&M. But things had started to unravel down the home stretch of the regular season, capped by an early exit from the SEC tournament, so there were some warning signs heading into regionals. This was still a completely unexpected whipping at the hands of Texas-San Antonio. Oregon After dropping the opener of the Eugene Regional to Utah Valley – the 6-5 loss included a controversial decision to remove an Oregon run due to 'malicious contact' on a play at the plate – the No. 12 Ducks trailed Cal Poly 3-1 after three in Saturday's elimination game before rallying for seven runs across the middle innings to lead 8-5 heading into the bottom of the seventh. Then came the meltdown: Oregon reliever Ian Umlandt walked in a run, gave up a two-run single and then another run-scoring single to hand the Mustangs the 9-8 lead. They'd add another run in the bottom of the eighth for the 10-8 win. Losses from higher-ranked teams meant the Ducks were in line to host a Super regional; that makes this collapse all the more painful.
