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Tech Hosts Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic
March 16, 2017 | Softball
Red Raiders welcome Saint Francis (PA) and East Carolina for three-day event at the Rock.
LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech softball will return home for a three-game home weekend as it hosts the seventh-annual Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic this weekend, March 17-19, at Rocky Johnson Field.
The Red Raiders will kick off the event Friday as it takes on Saint Francis at 6:30 p.m. Tech battles East Carolina Saturday at 4 p.m., before squaring off with Saint Francis once more at 6:30 p.m. The Red Flash and the Pirates will also play against one another twice during the weekend.
The event marks the first meeting between Texas Tech (13-11, 0-0) and both foes. The Red Raiders, who posted a 1-2 showing at the Tulsa Invitational last week, hold a 28-3 all-time mark at the Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic.
A live stream of each Texas Tech game will be available through TexasTech.TV, and live stats are available at TexasTech.statbroadcast.com.
A full schedule of the 2017 Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic, along with relevant links, is available here.
PROMOTIONS
Friday: St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Saturday: Senior Citizen's Day, Post-game Autographs (Following final game)
For a complete schedule of promotions for the 2017 season, visit here.
TICKETS
Adults - $5, Youth - $3
Individual tickets can be purchased in advance at the Athletic Ticket Office or one hour prior to every home Tech game at Rocky Johnson Field. For more ticket info, visit here.
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Texas Tech Athletics reminds fans that the Clear Bag Policy is in effect for the 2017 Red Raider Softball season. For info on the policy, visit here.
ABOUT JEANNINE McHANEY
Jeannine McHaney, long considered the driving force behind women's athletics at Texas Tech, is the namesake of this weekend's tournament which has become an annual tradition at Rocky Johnson Field. McHaney joined the Texas Tech faculty in 1966 in a number of roles as she was a professor in the physical education department in addition to serving as the university's director of women's intramural sports and the school's first volleyball coach, a position she held for nine seasons.
Following the establishment of the Women's Athletic Department in 1975, McHaney was selected as the program's first athletics director until the men's and women's departments eventually combined. She remained a top athletics administrator throughout the next two decades until her passing in 1994. Each year, a student-athlete from each women's program is selected as a Jeannine McHaney Scholar with one of those eventually being crowned the McHaney Scholar Student-Athlete of the Year. The award winner exemplifies the standards established by McHaney in the areas of academic achievement and athletic excellence as well as service to the community and the university.
QUICK HITS
• Texas Tech hosts the seventh-annual Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic this weekend at Rocky Johnson Field.
• The Red Raiders welcome a pair of foes they have never faced before in East Carolina and Saint Francis.
• Tech went 1-2 last week at the Tulsa Invitational, knocking off Wichita State but falling to Montana and Tulsa.
• This weekend marks just the second home event of the season for the Red Raiders, who hosted the Texas Tech Invitational March 3-5.
• The Red Raiders are 3-2 at home this season.
• The road trend will continue through March as 25 of Tech's first 33 road games are played away from home leading up to an April 5 home game against Abilene Christian.
• Big 12 play begins next week for the Red Raiders as they travel to Iowa State March 24-26.
