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Huge Ticket holders who declare soccer tickets after which fail to scan in for 2 video games will get their ticket revoked for remaining soccer video games with out refund, in keeping with guidelines on the Huge Ticket web page on the Texas Athletics web site.  

In April, The Day by day Texan reported on adjustments to the claiming course of for the Huge Ticket. Nonetheless, Texas Athletics’ April electronic mail to returning UT college students didn’t point out the revocation course of for not utilizing two claimed soccer tickets. It’s unclear when the rule was developed. Texas Athletics declined to remark about this coverage. 

In keeping with the web site, if a scholar claims a ticket for a soccer recreation however fails to attend the sport one time, they may obtain a warning. On the second time, their capability to say tickets for all remaining residence soccer video games will probably be “revoked, with out refund.”

Gabrielle Jabour, a advertising and marketing and Plan II senior, mentioned there have been instances final 12 months she determined on the final minute to not go to a recreation, particularly after they had been within the morning. 

“There have been instances once I awakened exhausted after a late night time the night time earlier than and determined to not courageous the 100+ diploma warmth once I already had low power and didn’t really feel nice,” Jabour mentioned. 

Nonetheless, Jabour mentioned she thinks the method is affordable and claiming your ticket upfront is helpful. 

“I might be actually irritated if I used to be planning on going to a recreation and bought prepared for it and went all the way in which to the stadium solely to be turned away,” Jabour mentioned. “Understanding you could have a ticket upfront helps take away a number of the uncertainty that comes with first come, first serve occasions.”

Alternatively, sociology sophomore Mimo Gorman mentioned she is spontaneous and doesn’t at all times plan to go to a soccer recreation till the final minute. 

“There’s lots of people who go to those video games,” mentioned Texas Spirits member Gorman. “You would need to assume, ‘Oh, if I declare now, I’ve to beat all the opposite individuals who need to go, too,’ and you then’re extra involved about getting a ticket earlier than everybody else as an alternative of planning should you can go.”

Gorman mentioned she is “on the fence” about getting the Huge Ticket once more due to the brand new coverage. 

Daniela Contreras, a Mexican American and Latino research sophomore, additionally mentioned she thinks claiming upfront is nice to supply extra security on the stadium.

“There are particular video games, I believe all through the soccer season, which can be going to attract extra individuals out,” Contreras mentioned. “After which with a view to sort of facilitate a protected atmosphere, not just for the faculty college students, however for the opposite followers, I believe it’s good. To allow them to sort of see how they’ll put together forward of time.”

Jabour mentioned she understands why these new guidelines have been added however desires transparency from Texas Athletics. 

“It could be irritating to be turned away from a recreation that was supposedly ‘bought out’ after which later see empty seats within the scholar part as a result of some college students claimed a ticket and by no means confirmed up, successfully losing a seat,” Jabour mentioned. “That being mentioned, I imagine Texas Athletics has a accountability to do an excellent job making their new claiming coverage very clear and promoting them so that each one college students are conscious of the coverage.”

After simply two hits and a six-run loss, Texas has been eradicated from Large 12 postseason play and will have simply kissed their probability at a regional goodbye.

The state of Kansas received their revenge on the Longhorns within the Large 12 event. Kansas State and Kansas had been a mixed 2–4 towards Texas on the season coming into event play, however two days in and the Longhorns have already been knocked out by the hands of the 2 underdogs.

Kansas State took down the Longhorns 6-0 simply 20 hours after the Kansas Jayhawks upset the Longhorns as an eight-seed group 6-3. The underwhelming weekday slate dropped the Longhorns to 0-5 on the season at Globe Life Discipline and sure performed themselves out of their probability at internet hosting a regional on June 2.

For the second straight sport, the Longhorn bats appeared to fail at waking up when it mattered most. In contrast to the Kansas sport, which was inside a one-run deficit for many of the sport, Kansas State had six runs on the board earlier than Texas had their second hit.

After six sturdy innings of one-run baseball, redshirt sophomore proper hander Lebarron Johnson Jr. was taken out within the high of the sixth after permitting a lead-off single. Following Johnson was sophomore lefty David Shaw, one of many Longhorns most constant and efficient relievers in Large 12 play. Shaw allowed a stroll and a single to the subsequent two batters, and regardless of recording an out, he exited the sport in a harmful scenario, permitting the bases to be loaded with a 3-0 rely.

Junior right-hander Charlie Hurley changed Shaw, and from there the floodgates opened. Hurley walked the batter on the subsequent pitch, surrendering the primary run of the season inning. The 6-foot-8-inch righty then allowed a base hit and a stroll, bringing in two further runs earlier than being changed by redshirt junior Zane Morehouse. Morehouse did end the inning, however not earlier than giving up a two-RBI double that, luckily for the Longhorns, caught the ultimate runner at residence for the second out of the inning. By the point the mud settled, Texas was down 6-0 and any hope at advancing within the event appeared bleak.

One cause for Shaw’s exit, in addition to Longhorn struggles, might be attributed to harm considerations for the No. 1 seed. Although it isn’t the explanation Texas misplaced, it’s the first time all season head coach David Pierce has needed to take care of greater than redshirt sophomore Tanner Witt’s harm. Shaw now joins reliever Heston Tole with arm accidents, with three of the Longhorn beginning hitters scuffling with accidents.

Simply as he appeared to have secured the beginning DH position, senior Tanner Carlson broke his arm and hasn’t been in a position to play all event. Although in a position to play, redshirt junior Peyton Powell and freshman Jared Thomas are each battling by way of again accidents. Powell was unable to play his normal third base place on Thursday, forcing junior Mitchell Daly again into the beginning lineup as Powell moved to the DH position.

On the optimistic aspect for the Longhorns, Dylan Campbell has accrued a success in 35 straight video games after his eighth inning single to middle, certainly one of solely two for Texas all sport. Thirty 5 has been the quantity to chase, because it now ties Tyler Wright for the longest streak of all-time within the Large 12.

Texas has been eradicated from the Large 12 event however will play on June 2 when regional play begins. Longhorn followers might be glued to the TV on Might 29 because the NCAA choice present will choose who’s internet hosting regionals and who’s going to play within the three-game begin of the postseason.

4 days after a title-winning sweep in opposition to No. 6 West Virginia, the Longhorns’ scorching streak rapidly got here to an finish as they had been outmatched in opposition to the No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks on Wednesday.

Regardless of a promising weekend in Austin that noticed Texas securing the No. 1 seed within the Huge 12 match and a share of the common season title, the Longhorns did not experience their momentum heading into match play. The Kansas Jayhawks, who completed simply 8–16 in Huge 12 play, knocked the Longhorns to the decrease bracket after a 6-3 victory in Arlington.

The deciding second got here within the seventh inning, with the sport tied at two, an already low rating for the Longhorns who spent the weekend scoring six runs per sport within the first two innings. With junior lefty and Huge 12 Pitcher of the 12 months Lucas Gordon chased out of the sport after 5 innings, redshirt sophomore right-hander Travis Sthele was tasked with maintaining the sport inside attain. After an improved sixth inning, Sthele bought into hassle within the seventh, loading the bases off of a single, a stroll, and an intentional stroll. Stepping in was Jayhawk and junior DH Janson Reeder, who had already homered in opposition to the Longhorns in a 4-10 dwelling victory just below three weeks earlier, Kansas’ solely win over Texas this yr.

On a 3-2 rely, Sthele threw a fastball proper down the center, permitting Reeder to launch a bomb to proper discipline, simply over junior Dylan Campbell’s head. The DH flipped his bat and rounded the bases in swagger, understanding he’d simply hit the most important dwelling run of his life and his first grand slam of the season.

Wednesday’s loss spelled one other unlucky outing for Sthele in Arlington. Although he was capable of end the sport with no extra harm, the pitcher has now given up 12 runs this season in Arlington, eight of which got here unearned in opposition to Vanderbilt in Texas’ third sport of the season throughout the 2023 Faculty Baseball Showdown.

Texas’ most important spark of offense got here from junior second baseman Jack O’Dowd, who homered twice within the sport and was liable for the primary and final runs UT scored. Wednesday was O’Dowd’s first multi-homer sport of his profession and was the catalyst that Texas wanted on the finish of their lineup.

Sadly for O’Dowd and the pitching workers, the remainder of the Longhorn batters didn’t come to play. The workforce struck out 9 occasions, three of which got here within the ninth inning. The highest six within the Longhorns order hit simply 4/20 with zero additional base hits. Although the field rating made the sport appear shut, it felt just like the Longhorns had been enjoying defensive the entire sport, distinction to the 14 runs per sport they’d been scoring of their final 5 video games.

The Longhorns now fall to 0–4 at Globe Life Subject in Arlington on the season and can want a robust displaying in opposition to Kansas State on Thursday for an opportunity at a Huge 12 match title.

Three days after securing a Large 12 common season title, the Longhorns introduced residence a set of eight awards, headlined by junior Lucas Gordon’s Pitcher of the Yr honor.

Gordon’s marketing campaign featured a formidable 2.48 ERA over 83.1 innings pitched, each high two within the Large 12. Amongst beginning pitchers with over 70 innings pitched (10 complete), Gordon gave up the least quantity of earned runs (23) and struck out the fourth most batters (85) whereas giving up simply eight residence runs all 12 months.

Becoming a member of Gordon on the primary crew was junior catcher Garret Guillemette, outfielder Porter Brown, outfielder Dylan Campbell and redshirt sophomore pitcher Lebarron Johnson Jr. Junior third baseman Peyton Powell additionally hauled in an All Large 12 second crew honor. The trio of batters mixed for 39 residence runs with 156 RBIs and a median OPS (on base and slugging) of 1.031 of their 56 video games of motion. Johnson Jr. was third within the Large 12 in ERA and held opponents to a .213 batting common. The fireballer additionally gave up the least quantity of hits amongst certified starters within the convention.

Freshman first baseman Jared Thomas additionally obtained an award, being positioned on the Large 12’s all-freshman crew, the primary honoree since present Longhorn Mitchell Daly two years in the past. Thomas was considered one of 5 batters chosen for the crew, ending third in OPS by a freshman and was one of many Large 12’s most affected person hitters, placing out simply 30 occasions in 182 at-bats.

Although he was not capable of win coach of the 12 months, 5 All Large 12 first-team choices are essentially the most which have ever been obtained on a David Pierce led Texas crew, and eight separate Longhorns receiving awards can also be a private greatest for Pierce.

Texas will look so as to add extra awards to their shelf because the Large 12 event begins on Wednesday, Might 24 towards the Kansas Jayhawks.

After climbing itself out of a 4–7 begin to the 2023 season, Texas baseball proved themselves worthy of the Huge 12 title on Saturday night time, defeating No. 6 West Virginia in a full sweep sequence.

Key gamers Jalin Flores, Jack O’Dowd and Jared Thomas turned a 6-4-3 double play to present the Longhorns their closing win to conclude a comeback season of observe.The trio that recorded the ultimate outs of the common season noticed simply 40 at-bats on final yr’s group, all of which got here from O’Dowd as a bench bat, however previous expertise didn’t appear wanted to boost the trophy.

Thomas and Flores, each of their closing video games of their first season, delivered when it mattered most. Alongside the double play to safe the 7-3 win and sweep over No. 6 West Virginia, the pair of younger stars delivered with their bats in a sport that meant greater than any they’ve performed of their lives. Thomas scored three of Texas’ seven runs off of his three-for-five night time, and Flores’ residence run and three RBI led the Longhorns on a Saturday that might be remembered by two of the youngest Longhorns.

Regardless of being three video games again from No. 6 West Virginia heading into its weekend sequence and the ultimate matchup for every group, Texas baseball got here in with confidence. By Friday night time, the Longhorns had scored 22 runs in two video games and have been only one sport again from being Huge 12 champions, one thing that didn’t appear promising at many factors inside the common season.

Even with West Virginia’s greatest pitcher, junior Ben Hampton, taking the mound on Saturday, Texas didn’t appear phased. Actually, WVU was the group pressured to panic, because the 4 runs scored off of Hampton within the first inning have been the one runs Texas wanted to clinch the victory and hoist the trophy in entrance of 1000’s of followers decked out in burnt orange on the UFCU Disch-Falk Area.

After a 2022 season that noticed seven beginning hitters go away an Omaha-bound roster, head coach David Pierce needed to search deep to search out manufacturing from anybody, whether or not they have been bench gamers, at different faculties and even utterly new to varsity baseball. With a primary seed and presumably a regional spot on the road, Pierce despatched out a lineup that consisted of 5 Longhorns who weren’t on the roster previously season, three of which have been freshmen.

The ultimate inning was entrusted to freshman right-hander Kobe Minchey and junior USC switch Charlie Hurley, whose floor ball pitch to West Virginia’s leadoff man Tevin Tucker secured the victory and despatched the Longhorns right into a frenzy of celebration.

Although the 2023 Longhorns story couldn’t be written with out the point out of recent faces like Thomas and junior transfers Porter Brown and Garret Guillemette, the veterans of the roster contributed greater than Pierce might’ve ever hoped for. Senior Eric Kennedy and junior Dylan Campbell, each key components of final yr’s Omaha run, not solely led the group within the clubhouse, however on the sector as properly. The pair led the group in runs, residence runs, and slugging proportion, and have been two of the 5 Longhorns with an OPS (on-base + slugging) over one.

The Huge 12 event, hosted in Arlington, kicks off on Wednesday, Could 24, and would be the closing check of the energy of the Longhorns earlier than regional play returns. At this level final yr, Texas was ranked because the fifth-best group within the Huge 12. That group ended up in Omaha, an honor that each group within the nation strives for all through a greater than 60-game season.

Texas Baseball is one win away from incomes the Massive 12 common season title.

A sentence many followers may’ve thought unimaginable slightly below a month in the past after being unsuccessful at house with a sweep to an unranked Oklahoma Sooners to fall to 8-7 within the Massive 12. Now the Longhorns are enjoying for an opportunity to win the convention championship in what was deemed a “rebuilding 12 months” by many within the faculty baseball world.

“It’s imply, it’s superior.” junior outfielder Dylan Campbell stated. “Clearly we got here into the sequence understanding what was at stake … we nonetheless got here out and dealt with our enterprise.”

After dropping seven beginning place gamers and two beginning pitchers from the 2022 workforce, Texas baseball regarded unlikely to make a lot noise within the Massive 12 or nationally with a rag-tag workforce of transfers and underclassmen. When the Longhorns began the season 4–7, hopes of profitable the Massive 12 had been all however gone. Even heading right into a weekend matchup towards West Virginia, the No. 66 workforce within the nation, that includes three of the perfect bats within the Massive 12, Texas didn’t surrender. Now, after profitable the primary two video games of the sequence by a mixed rating of 22-6, Texas has taken management of its personal future to win the Massive 12 and presumably have a regional sequence again in Austin.

“Little doubt,” head coach David Pierce stated when requested if that is the perfect the workforce has performed all 12 months. “To see the three (offense, protection and pitching) come collectively at a superb time of the 12 months, it’s thrilling for our workforce.”

Friday night time’s 10-4 trouncing of the Mountaineers showcased a newfound power of the Longhorns’ offense early and infrequently. With one out within the second inning, Texas already had seven runs on the board, principally due to house runs from freshman first baseman Jared Thomas, Campbell, and senior middle fielder Eric Kennedy. With a six-run lead and a rowdy crowd behind his again, redshirt sophomore right-hander Lebarron Johnson Jr. started working towards the highest 10 workforce.

“Seeing them produce the runs offers me (the) confidence to go on the market and assist my workforce win,” Johnson Jr. stated.

Johnson Jr., who has not too long ago labored his method into the quantity two spot within the rotation for Texas, added one other spectacular recreation to an already versatile resume that included 5 scoreless innings towards then-No. 1 LSU in February. LBJ went 5 1/3 innings, putting out 11 and giving up simply two runs in his fifth straight begin of over 5 innings.

Johnson Jr. now stands atop the Massive 12 in convention ERA with a 2.08 ERA, a complete 0.92 factors forward of his teammate Lucas Gordon in second place. He now has 48 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings within the Massive 12 alongside an exceptional six earned runs in his final 5 begins.

“I really like Lucas,” Johnson Jr. stated. “He’s my locker mate, so we chat it up on a regular basis as starters, however he pushes me to be higher and I push him to be higher.”

Thomas, Campbell and Kennedy every had two RBIs, and sophomore third baseman Peyton Powell additionally added a house run in a two-for-four efficiency. Campbell added three runs for the Horns alongside a number of defensive performs, together with a diving catch to rob freshman DH Logan Sauve of additional bases within the seventh.

“He’s, to me, (one in all) if not the perfect proper fielder within the nation,” head coach David Pierce stated about Campbell. “When you’ve got your greatest gamers as the primary guys within the constructing, they need to be on this spot.”

To win the Massive 12, Texas wanted to brush West Virginia and have OU take a recreation off of Oklahoma State. Throughout Texas’ blowout win, Oklahoma shut out the Cowboys to offer the Longhorns an opportunity on the title, as a three-way tie with Oklahoma State, Texas and West Virginia would favor Texas based mostly on head-to-head matchups. The Longhorns now can do no worse than a three-seed within the Massive 12 even with a loss tomorrow.

Texas has now scored 64 runs of their final 4 video games relationship again to final sequence towards San Jose State and can depend on redshirt sophomore Tanner Witt’s arm for an opportunity on the Massive 12 title on Saturday.