{"id":253409,"date":"2026-04-16T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:41:08","slug":"no-7-tcu-falls-to-no-2-texas-am-in-national-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253409\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 7 TCU Falls to No. 2 Texas A&M in National Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCALA, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Despite a valiant comeback effort, the seventh-seeded TCU equestrian team fell to No. 2 Texas A&M, 11-8 on Thursday afternoon at World Equestrian Center.
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\nThe Aggies took Reining and Fences, but TCU earned event wins on the Flat and in Horsemanship.
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nThe meet began in Fences and the Aggies started fast by taking three points in the event. Lex Lipacis<\/a> took TCU’s lone point with a 79, while Maggie Dumrauf’s<\/a> 84.7 ended in a drew point.
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\nSuccess continued for Texas A&M in Reining, as they took four points to hold a commanding lead after two events. Earning TCU’s lone point was Calla Thomas<\/a> with a 70.
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\nOn the Flat, TCU was able to fight back to give themselves a chance, winning three points. Lex Lipacis<\/a>, Victoria Zahorik<\/a> and Lilly Goldstein<\/a> all earned the points for TCU, making the score 9-5 heading into the final event.
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\nIn Horsemanship, Calla Thomas<\/a> and Peyton Staat<\/a> took the first two points to cut it to two, but A&M would earn the next two to clinch the meet. Marcella Bee<\/a> picked up a victory in the final ride of the day.
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\nFROG FACTS<\/p>\n


\n\tTCU trails the all-time series with Texas A&M, 9-13.
\n\tThe Horned Frogs finished the season at 8-7, the fifth consecutive winning season which is a program record.
\n\tThis was TCU’s 13th all-time appearance at the NCEA Championships, and the Horned Frogs are now 11-12 all-time.
\n\tMarcella Bee<\/a> made her first appearance of the season in Horsemanship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Despite a valiant comeback effort, the seventh-seeded TCU equestrian team fell to No. 2 Texas A&M,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-253409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253409","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=253409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}