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Tech Falls To No. 2 Texas 10-0
April 03, 2004 | Baseball
April 3, 2004
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas pitching staff of Sam LeCure, J. Brent Cox and Buck Cody threw a combined one-hitter and the Texas offense pounded out 13 hits and the second-ranked Longhorns cruised to a 10-0 win in the second game of a doubleheader. The win gives Texas the series win as they now lead 2-0.
Texas took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a solo home run by Curtis Thigpen. The home run was his fourth of the season.
After taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the sixth, the Longhorns exploded for seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to break the game open. The Longhorns picked up seven runs on six hits in the inning a two-RBI double by pinch hitter Ryan Russ and a two-RBI single by Thigpen.
Longhorn hurlers Sam LeCure, J. Brent Cox and Buck Cody pitched a combined one-hitter marking the first time that Tech had been one-hit since March 23, 1991 against the Houston Cougars. LeCure earned the win for Texas as he allowed just one hit in seven innings and struckout seven. Michael McGowan suffered his first loss of the season and fell to 2-1 as he allowed six earned runs on four hits in six innings of work.
Texas Tech will try to avoid the sweep on Sunday as they will take on the Longhorns in a 1 p.m. game at Dan Law Field.
Game Notes
- The back-to-back shutouts marked the first time that Texas Tech has been shutout in consecutive games at home since April 11, 1975 when Tech fell to Texas A&M in a doubleheader 4-0 and 1-0.
- Texas clinched the series today and picked up its first series win in Lubbock since the 1992 season.
- The one-hitter by Sam LeCure, J. Brent Cox and Buck Cody marked the first time that Tech had been one-hit since March 23, 1991 against the Houston Cougars.
- Texas Tech honored the family of Rick Husband in a pre-game ceremony just prior to the first game of the day. Husband was a 1980 graduate of Texas Tech and was the Shuttle Commander for the Columbia STS-107 Mission that was lost on Feb. 1, 2003.
- The attendance in the first game was 4,297 and was a season-high for the Red Raiders.
