In the span of just two innings, No. 3 seeded Texas Longhorns baseball took a deficit and turned it into a triumphant lead off the back of the bottom of the bat
ting order., Texas took a comfortable 12-5 victory over the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns. The win clinches a birth in the second round of the regional, where they will face its hosting rivals Texas A&M at 9 P.M. on Saturday, June 1.to start the regional, and the ground-ball pitcher worked efficiently early. But after two separate hung off-speed pitches, Louisiana had jumped out to an early 2-0 lead after three innings.
Next to step to the plate was catcher Rylan Galvan, whose RBI single out of the seven-hole brought the Longhorns its first run of the game. After a single from freshman centerfielder Will Gasparino, fellow freshman Dee Kennedy, another player on a late-season slump, stepped up to the plate. Flores, who had already hit two grand slams on the year, crushed senior relief pitcher David Christie’s first pitch, sending a missile way over the left field fence, ending the day for the reliever and putting the Horns up 10-2. Texas looked confident, filled with the swagger of streaky offense, good base running and fantastic plate discipline.
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