{"id":308142,"date":"2026-05-25T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:16:07","slug":"texas-receives-no-6-seed-as-austin-regional-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308142\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas receives No. 6 seed as Austin Regional host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burntorangenation.com\/texas-longhorns-baseball\/102320\/texas-longhorns-baseball-regional-host\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After receiving one of the 16 regional host bids on Sunday evening<\/a>, the No. 5 Texas Longhorns landed the No. 6 overall seed in the 2026 NCAA Division 1 Baseball Championship that would allow head coach Jim Schlossnagle\u2019s team to remain at UFCU Disch-Falk Field through the super regional round if they can advance out of the Austin Regional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Austin Regional is paired with the Eugene Regional, where No. 11 seed Oregon is the host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the record 65th postseason appearance for the Longhorns (40-13), Texas is paired with UC Santa Barbara (38-18, No. 38 RPI), Tarleton (37-19, No. 56 RPI), and Holy Cross (25-28, No. 201 RPI). It\u2019s the 36th time the Horns have hosted a regional, which features a double-elimination format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With a 22-8 record in the Big West, UCSB landed the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, opening with a 7-4 win over No. 5 seed Cal State Fullerton before falling out of the winner\u2019s bracket with a 4-2 loss to No. 2 seed Cal Poly and getting eliminated with a 7-0 loss to No. 3 seed UC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Longtime head coach Andrew Checketts was named Big West co-Coach of the Year as second baseman Will Vasseur, outfielder Rowan Kelly, and right-hander Jackson Flora were all named first-team All-Big West with Florida named the conference Pitcher of the Year after going 11-0 with a 1.05 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas is familiar with Tarleton, which won the WAC regular-season title with a 12-6 record and the tournament title by blasting Sacramento State, 21-11 \u2014 on March 17, the Texans beat the Longhorns 6-1 at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in the most surprising midweek loss of the season for Schlossnagle\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Like Checketts, third-year Tarleton head coach Fuller Smith was named the conference Coach of the Year as outfielder Rayner Heinrich was named first-team All-WAC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Holy Cross finished fourth in the six-team Patriot League during the regular season, but made a run in the conference tournament, winning a second consecutive postseason title by beating Bucknell, the co-regular season champion, 14-11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Outfielder CJ Egrie was named Patriot League Player of the Year with right-hander Jayden Wywoda joining Egrie on the All-Patriot League first team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas opens the Austin Regional in the late game against Holy Cross on Friday at 5 p.m. Central on SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After receiving one of the 16 regional host bids on Sunday evening, the No. 5 Texas Longhorns landed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,20340],"class_list":["post-308142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308142","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=308142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}