{"id":240053,"date":"2026-03-28T00:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:20:24","slug":"3-tcu-downs-2-fresno-state-advances-to-big-12-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240053\/","title":{"rendered":"[3] TCU Downs [2] Fresno State, Advances to Big 12 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STILLWATER, Okla. \u2013\u00a0For the sixth consecutive season, the TCU equestrian team will compete for a Big 12 Championship after taking down the No. 2 seed Fresno State, 13-7, on Friday at Pedigo-Hull Equestrian Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTCU took three of four events in the victory after a fast start.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>The meet opened in Horsemanship, with TCU storming out of the gates to take a 4-1 lead. Picking up the victories for the Frogs was <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/tatum-keller\/17656\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17656\" target=\"_blank\">Tatum Keller<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/sydney-feager\/17653\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17653\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Feager<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/calla-thomas\/17672\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17672\" target=\"_blank\">Calla Thomas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/peyton-staat\/17667\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17667\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Staat<\/a>, with Staat earning an event-high 76.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFences went much like Horsemanship, with the Frogs earning four points to take a commanding 8-2 lead at the break. The point scorers in the first Jumping Seat event were <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/maggie-dumrauf\/17652\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17652\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Dumrauf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/lilly-goldstein\/17655\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17655\" target=\"_blank\">Lilly Goldstein<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/lily-muzzy\/17677\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17677\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Muzzy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/lex-lipacis\/17657\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17657\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Lipacis<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter the break, TCU&#8217;s western crew got to work with three points in Reining. Thomas, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/cassie-hacking\/17670\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17670\" target=\"_blank\">Cassie Hacking<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/kaylene-cunningham\/17650\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17650\" target=\"_blank\">Kaylene Cunningham<\/a> added to the tally to clinch the meet for TCU.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo close out the meet, Fresno State earned three points to trim the deficit on the\u00a0Flat. Salvaging points for TCU was <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/lex-lipacis\/17657\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17657\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Lipacis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/madi-lo-porto\/17680\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17680\" target=\"_blank\">Madi Lo Porto<\/a>, as the score was cemented at 13-7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFROG FACTS<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tTCU now leads the all-time series against Fresno State 24-12.&#13;<br \/>\n\tTCU is also 5-0 against Fresno State in the Big 12 Championship.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Horned Frogs advanced to their sixth consecutive Big 12 Championship meet.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/lex-lipacis\/17657\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17657\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Lipacis<\/a> earned a career-high in Fences with an 87.66.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/peyton-staat\/17667\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17667\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Staat&#8217;s<\/a> 76 was a career-high in Horsemanship.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/madi-lo-porto\/17680\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17680\" target=\"_blank\">Madi Lo Porto<\/a> stretched her win streak on the Flat to three.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/equestrian\/roster\/cassie-hacking\/17670\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17670\" target=\"_blank\">Cassie Hacking<\/a> extended her winning streak to six in Reining.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>TCU will seek its first Big 12 Title on Saturday at 10 a.m. against the No. 1 seed Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STILLWATER, Okla. \u2013\u00a0For the sixth consecutive season, the TCU equestrian team will compete for a Big 12 Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-240053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}