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—Texas won the third national championship in the 2021-22 semester over the weekend as the Longhorns rowing team won the national title for the second consecutive year by edging Stanford in the final race.
Rowing became the Longhorns’ third national championship team in the 2021-22 years after winning the title of UT’s Men’s Indoor Track in March and winning the Texas Women’s Tennis Team last week.
Creepy last year, Texas had to enter the trailing of the First Eight Grand Finals and come up with a product to secure the national title.
Last year, Texas won the First Eight Grand Final to win its first national title under Dave O’Neill after beating Washington by 6 points and Stanford by 4 points.
This year, Texas tied Princeton and Washington to the First Eight Grand Final, tying Stanford three points 61-58.
To win the national title, the Longhorns must finish at least one position in front of the Cardinal and defeat the Tigers and Husky.
The Longhorns did just that, building a two-seat lead after 250 meters, extending the lead to a 500-meter halfboat, well above Stanford at 6: 15.437 and Princeton at 6: 17.707 to 6: 10.733. I won the race. ..
Texas scored 124 points, comparable to Stanford’s total, and won the national championship with the Longhorns victory in First Eight as a tiebreaker.
Texas’ Varsity Four finished in 3rd place and Second Eight finished in 4th place in each race.
Texas First Eight has extended their undefeated streak to 19 consecutive races and has been competing 65-0 since the streak began at the beginning of the 2021 season.
O’Neill is currently head coach and has won two national titles in Texas in seven seasons.
“Our First Eight was great all year round, and they stepped up to all the challenges that were placed in front of them,” O’Neill said. “I knew if the first eight would win after the second eight was over. That should be the case.”
— The Texas Men’s Golf Team is the 4th seed and will face the 5th seed Oklahoma State University in the NCAA Championship match play quarterfinals.
You can follow the match here.
The Texas men had the best results in the final round of stroke play among the top eight teams heading to the match play quarterfinals, moving from 7th to 4th with a 3-under par 277.
Thanks to its powerful finish, the Longhorns headed to Oklahoma on Tuesday. Semifinals against top-seeded Vanderbilt or 8-seeded Texas Tech.
Upon entering the NCAA, Oklahoma was the number one team in the United States and second place was the Oklahoma State. The Longhorns took first place in the Big 12 Championship earlier this month by two strokes and second by one stroke. Second place OSU.
Four years ago, in the NCAA Championship (2019), when Texas senior Parker, Pierceson Coody and Cole Hammer were freshmen, they confused then-top Oklahoma in the semifinals and the national championship with Stanford. Reached the match. The Cardinal won the match 3-2, and Coody’s and Hammer have since returned to the national championship match.
Live broadcasts of today’s match play quarterfinals will be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, and Tuesday’s semifinals will be broadcast from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
— Texas Senior Parker Coody was defeated on Monday by Vanderbilt freshman Gordon Sargent in the 2022 Division I Men’s Golf Individual Championship four-player playoffs.
Coody, Sargent, Ryan Burnett, North Carolina, and Eugene Olopeschakala of Oklahoma State University all finished four rounds of stroke play with an even par 280 and were forced to a sudden death.
Sargent, who opened the final round with a two-stroke lead of Lopez Chakara and a four-stroke lead of Coody and Burnett, struggled with a four-stroke par 74 in the final round without a birdie.
However, Lopez-Chakara made a bogey on the first hole of sudden death, 520 yards at the Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the 18th hole on a par 4. Coody and Burnett made a par. Sargent rolled at 5 feet for Birdie to win the NCAA’s personal title.
Coody’s drive in the hole of sudden death landed in a bunker. His second shot came just before the green, about 50 feet from the hole. Sargent barely missed the fairway on the drive, but hit a great iron shot from the first cut of the rough to five feet just below the hole. Sargent’s Birdie Putt curled to the left of the hole for victory while Coody put a chip within 3 feet of the hole on his third shot.
— Texas Baseball knows exactly what it opposes in its first match against the Air Force as the host of Austin Regional on Friday.
The Longhorns (42-19) were embarrassed by the Air Force 14-2 in Austin on April 19th and needed to record two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Falcons 12-10 on April 20th. had.
Texas starting pitchers Justin Eckhart and Travis Stele fought fiercely against the Falcons.
Eckhart gave up five runs with four hits in two walks and one strikeout in just one inning. Luke Harrison replaced Eckhart in the second inning, giving up three runs with two hits as the Longhorns were delayed to 8-0 on their way to a 14-2 defeat.
Sthele made three innings against the Air Force in Game 2, and Texas needed a two-run home run, Trey Faltine’s walk-off in the bottom of the ninth inning to win 12-10, so eight hits and six runs. Abandoned.
Texas coach David Pierce plays Friday starter Pete Hansen (10-1, 3.01 ERA) against Ace 6ft 6, 235-pound sophomore Paul Skenes (8-1). You may play against the Falcons. 2.34 ERA).
“We know what they have. They know what we have,” Skene told reporters. “So I think it’s only those who play better. It’s fun. I think they’re a class act of such a program, and they think like us. I think.”
If the Longhorns win the match on Friday, they can turn to second-year left fielder Lucas Gordon (7-1, 2.41 ERA) against the winner of the second-seeded Louisiana Tech (42-19) and the fourth-seeded. There is sex. Dallas Baptist (34-22-1).
