Houston (21-15, 6-6 The American) vs. Texas A&M (27-10-1, 9-5-1 SEC) April 16 | Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park Live Stats | Live Stream | Live Audio All-Time Series: Houston trails, 57-113-1
ON TEXAS A&M • The Aggies enter the week with a 27-10-1 record. • A&M, which ranks as high as No. 7 in the polls, is coming off a 2-1 series win over Auburn. • Junior shortstop Braden Shewmake leads the Aggies in batting average (.329), slugging percentage (.490), hits (51) and RBI (32), and is also tied for the team lead in doubles (8). • Sophomore closer Kasey Kalich is tied for sixth in the nation in saves (9), while sophomore southpaw Asa Lacy is seventh in seventh strikeouts (7). • Shewmake was named to the Rawlings Preseason All-America Third Team, while junior southpaw John Doxakis was tabbed to the D1Baseball.com Preseason All-America Second Team. The two Aggies were also named to Preseason All-SEC Second Team. • A&M, who went 40-22 and 13-17 in league play in 2018, was tabbed to finish fifth in SEC Western Division in the league’s annual Preseason Poll. • A&M is batting .263 as a team and has a 2.88 ERA, which ranks seventh in the nation, compared to opponents’ .221 average and 5.32 ERA.
Huge, huge game. A win would shoot the Cougars into the upper 30s of the RPI and give the Coogs another win over a Top 15 team. Resume builder tonight.
I remember we were playing A&M in the final game of the College Station Regional (I don’t remember the year) Dave South kept talking about how to get your tickets for the upcoming Super Regional they were fixing to host. We started coming back and Aggies message board kept posting “SHUT-UP DAVE!!!” because they thought he was jinxing them.
We came back and won the game and the regional, it was great.