Texas Tech University Athletics
Red Raiders Continue Homestand This Weekend With San Francisco
February 13, 2003 | Baseball
Feb. 13, 2003
Opponent: San Francisco
Series Location: Lubbock, Texas
Stadium: Dan Law Field
Capacity: 5,050
Dates: Feb. 14-16, 2003
Game Times: 3 p.m./Noon/1 p.m.
Radio: All Sports Radio Network (1340 KKAM); Mark Finkner (Play-By-Play); Jason Totman (Color)
Internet: www.texastech.com; Game Audio & Live Box Score
Pitching Rotations
Friday
Steve Gooch, RHP (2-0; 1.20 ERA)
vs. Kevin Rose, RHP (0-1; 6.75 ERA)
Saturday
Nathan Fouts, RHP (1-1; 5.40 ERA)
vs. T.J. Franco, RHP (1-0; 3.48 ERA)
Sunday
Dusty Buck, RHP (1-0; 6.48ERA)
vs. Tony Biale, RHP (0-1; 13.50 ERA)
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RED RAIDERS CONTINUE HOMESTAND WITH SAN FRANCISCO
Texas Tech returns to the diamond this weekend where they will host yet another team from the West Coast Conference as the San Francisco Dons will come to Dan Law Field for a three-game series beginning on Friday. The series continues at noon on Saturday and wraps up at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
The Red Raiders enter the weekend with a 6-1 overall record while San Francisco comes to town at 1-4. Texas Tech swept 2002 West Coast Conference Champion San Diego this past weekend in Lubbock 3-0 while San Francisco was idle.
Tech is currently in the latter stages of an 11-game homestand that began Jan. 31 with the season opener against New Mexico. The Red Raiders will wrap up the homestand at 3 p.m. on Tuesday when they play host to instate rival TCU. Texas Tech will then travel to Fort Worth to take on the Frogs in a three-game series at the new Lupton Stadium on the TCU campus.
Red Raider fans are reminded that Friday will be Coca-Cola Friday meaning that all fans who bring an unused Coca-Cola product to the game will receive $2 off the admission price. On Saturday, fans who present their Red Raiders vs. Oklahoma basketball game ticket will be admitted to the baseball game free of charge. The men's basketball team will play the Sooners at 3 p.m.
BRIEFLY
- Texas Tech will put its non-conference home series win record to the test again this weekend as the Red Raiders have not lost a home non-conference series in 13 years. The last time Tech lost a home non-conference series was against Hardin Simmons in 1989 and since then Tech has reeled off 71 series wins and 10 splits.
- The weekend series with San Francisco will mark the first time in school history that these two teams have met on the baseball diamond.
- Texas Tech is batting a Big 12 best .375 as three Red Raiders have batting averages over .400 (Josh Haney: .545; Evan Shahak: .500 and T.J. Bruce: .458). The Tech defense is also tops in the Big 12 as the Red Raiders are fielding at .996%.
- Texas Tech remained just outside the of the ESPN/Baseball Weekly Coaches Top 25 poll as Tech ranked 26th with 86 total votes.
SCOUTING SAN FRANCISCO
The San Francisco Dons will bring a 1-4 overall record to Dan Law Field this weekend where they will take on Texas Tech. San Francisco picked up their first win of year, a 9-8 come-from-behind effort on Tuesday against Sonoma State.
San Francisco, of the West Coast Conference, is batting .262 on the season as a team while their opponents are batting .339. The offensive leader for San Francisco is Ryan Hanson who is batting .450 (9-of-20) with one double and one home run and leads the team with five RBI.
On the hill, San Francisco has a 8.57 team ERA and opponents tally a 5.28 ERA against the Don offense. Saturday starter T.J. Franco leads the staff with a 1-0 record and a 3.48 ERA through 10 1/3 innings of work.
San Francisco finished the 2002 season with an 18-38 overall record while going 9-21 in the West Coast Conference.
ON DECK
Texas Tech will wrap up an 11-game homestand on Tuesday when the Red Raiders play host to the TCU Horned Frogs at 3 p.m. Following Tuesday's game with TCU, the Red Raiders will pack up and head to Fort Worth to take on TCU in a three-game weekend series (Feb. 21-23) at the new Lupton Stadium.
AAAHHHHH - IMPRESSIVE!
One of the biggest concerns of head coach Larry Hays each season is how the defense will develop. After losing the entire infield due to graduation last season, the Red Raiders have a new group of players who have been turning quite a few heads.
Through seven games this season, Tech has committed just one error and that went against a play by Scooter Jordan in the outfield. The new Tech infield has gone errorless combining for 134 putouts and 56 assists. The Red Raiders have now logged 30 2/3 innings of error free baseball and that is not even a season-high as Tech went 32 1/3 to start out the season before committing its first error in the sixth inning against West Texas A&M.
HANEY COMES UP BIG
Junior Josh Haney is pushing Evan Shahak for the offensive spotlight. Haney led all Tech hitters last week with a .600 batting average along with one home run and 10 RBI. He currently leads all Tech hitters on the season with a .545 average with two home runs, two doubles and 12 RBI.
THIS AND THAT
- Junior third baseman Clint McGill is silently hitting .364 on the year and is the only player to have recorded at least one hit in every game giving him a seven-game hit streak.
- Freshman right-handed pitcher Randy Gattis will be given a medical redshirt for this season as he will not be able to compete in order to rehab from a blood clot that was found in his throwing arm.
- Junior right-hander Jeff Karstens (1-0-1) had a big week last week as he scored both a win and a save while maintaining a 0.00 ERA through 6 2/3 innings.
- Junior Steve Gooch improved to 2-0 after getting the win in the first game with San Diego. He leads the team with a 1.20 ERA.
