COLLEGE STATION — The third game of this Texas-Texas A&M baseball series was canceled because of bad weather Sunday after a rain delay for more than eight hours.
Originally scheduled for 1 p.m., the game never began, and the tarp was never removed from the Blue Bell Park field after intermittent rain and lightning and thunder during the afternoon. It was officially called at 9:26 p.m. As the Longhorn players left the dugout with their bags over their shoulders, a large contingent of Aggie students booed them lustily and chanted, “Scared. Scared. Scared.”
The game will not be made up, per SEC rules. Coincidentally, just 10 minutes after the game was canceled, the Aggies’ ground crew rolled the tarp off the field.
No. 2 Texas and No. 18 A&M have identical records of 27-7 and 9-5 in the SEC, good for second place. Both are a game behind league-leader Georgia, which dropped two out of three to Florida.
The Aggies were attempting to sweep three games from the Longhorns for the first time since 1991. They’ve swept Texas only four times, the other times coming in 1942, 1959 and 1966.
The Longhorns go right back into the fire next week with a home series against a hot No. 8 Alabama. They play Vanderbilt and Tennessee on the road and also have Mississippi State and Missouri at Disch-Falk Field.
They probably have an easier remaining schedule than the Aggies, who travel to LSU and surging Florida the next two weekends and have another road series with Ole Miss. They host Auburn and finish the season with a home series against Mississippi State.