{"id":173120,"date":"2026-02-20T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:16:06","slug":"baseball-preview-texas-am-welcomes-penn-to-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173120\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Preview: Texas A&#038;M Welcomes Penn to Olsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas A&amp;M kicked off the 2026 season with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodbullhunting.com\/authors\/39655\/aggies-begin-season-with-sweep-of-tennessee-tech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a series sweep of Tennessee Tech<\/a> last weekend. The Aggies won the contests against the Golden Eagles 15-6, 23-7, and 7-1. Caden Sorrell started the season on fire, going 9-for-15 at the plate with three home runs and ten RBIs. The Aggies followed up that series sweep with a midweek win against Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi, defeating the Islanders 8-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas A&amp;M will look to keep the momentum going this weekend as they welcome Penn to Olsen Field. The weekend series marks the first action of the season for the Quakers after going 21-20 (13-8) in conference in 2025. While \u201825 was not a high mark for Penn, the program has had Ivy League success with regular season or tournament titles in three of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One thing to note for this weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tony_Catalina\/status\/2024593295649722585?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Head Coach Michael Earley<\/a>, star slugger Chris Hacopian is a little banged up. Hacopian is listed in the projected starting lineup, but it sounds like he could be a game-time decision on Friday. We\u2019ll keep an eye on his status moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&amp;M kicked off the 2026 season with a series sweep of Tennessee Tech last weekend. The Aggies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9830,13171,27,69966,29,28],"class_list":["post-173120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-gbh-authors","tag-jayarnold","tag-texas","tag-texas-aggie-baseball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}