Texas Christian Weekend Series

[oxfordrebel]

The Rebels will continue their 5 game home-stretch with a weekend series against the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs. Here are some quick facts:

Conference: Mountain West

Website: Texas Christian University Athletics

Current Record: 4-1 (0-0 MWC); 1-1 Away

Current W/L Streak: W4

Current rank:
#23 in Baseball America
#16 in Collegiate Baseball
#27 in NCBWA

Current Pseudo-RPI (Boyd's World): 2009 RPIs have not been released yet.

Team Stats:
.337 Team BA; .227 Opponent Team BA
2.84 Staff ERA; 7.53 Opponent Staff ERA
.956 FLD%, 9 E
44 Men LOB; 31 Opponent's Men LOB
3 Double Plays; 6 Opponent Double Plays

2008 Final Record: 44-19 (19-5 MWC)

All-time Series Record: Friday night will be the eighth meeting between the Rebels and the Horned Frogs. TCU leads the series 4-3 presently. The two teams met in Fort Worth last season. The Friday night game was rained out so the two teams played a double-dip on Saturday. The Rebels took game 1 by a 3-1 count; however the early series lead would not hold up as the Horned Frogs took game 2 by a score of 5-4 and clinched the rubber match 2-1 on Sunday. The last meeting of the two teams in Oxford was in 1995. The Rebels took both of those games, 9-4 and 10-1.

Projected Starter:
Friday: RHP Tyler Lockwood - 3.60 ERA; 0-0; 1 Start; 1 Appearance; 5.0 IP; 7 H; 2 R; 2 ER; 1BB; 0K; 0HR; .412 Opp BA
Friday OM: Aaron Barett
Saturday: RHP Sean Hoelscher - 7.50 ERA; 1-0; 1 Start; 1 Appearance; 6.0 IP; 9 H; 5 R; 5 ER; 2BB; 8K; 1HR; .346 Opp BA
Saturday OM: Drew Pomeranz
Sunday: RHP Kyle Winkler - 2.45 ERA; 0-0; 1 Start; 2 Appearance; 3.2 IP; 3 H; 6 R; 1 ER; 3BB; 3K; 1HR; .200 Opp BA
Sunday OM: Phillip Irwin

Other notes:

First pitch is set for 6:30 pm Friday, 1:00 pm Saturday, and 1:30 pm Sunday.

TCU Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle is in his 6th season at the helm of the Frog's program. He is 211-102 at TCU and 288-149 overall as a head coach.

The Frogs have won 5 straight conference tournament titles; 2 in the CUSA and 3 in the MWC. They are one of just 3 schools in Texas (along with Rice and Texas) to appear in the last 5 NCAA Regionals. They were #5 nationally last year in fielding percentage.

TCU started the season on the road last weekend at baseball "helment" school Cal State-Fullerton. They lost their first game Friday 7-6, but then took the series with a 8-6 win on Saturday and 11-6 on Sunday. They then went back to Fort Worth where they defeated Dallas Baptist 6-0 on Tuesday and then Texas State 8-2 yesterday.

OF Chris Ellington leads the Frogs at the plate. He is currently hitting a .458. IF Matt Vern is just behind him hitting at a .400 clip.

IF Matt Curry and OF Jason Coats are leading the team in HRs with 2 apiece.

Ole Miss swept the University of Central Arkansas in a two game mid-week series and will look to continue the win streak this weekend.

[olemissreb10]

Is tonight's game going to happen? The forecast doesn't look good

[oxfordrebel]

Is tonight's game going to happen? The forecast doesn't look good

I'm thinkink the same thing...

Won't know until game time. I hate the idea of having to play a DH tomorrow. When we played a DH against them last season it didn't turn out that well...

[oxfordrebel]

EDIT: Included the projected starters for Ole Miss. No stats, just as a reference.

[oxfordrebel]

It's been raining in Oxford a lot. Suppose to be off and on all night. If we do play baseball tonight, I'd expect a lot of rain delays...

[oxfordrebel]

Rebs and Frogs didn't play tonight. Double-header tomorrow starting at noon.

BTW, snow being forcasted in Oxford for tomorrow night. They'll try to get both in before it starts...IF it starts...