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Out for the Weekend. I’ll be out for the weekend, yes, I’ll be out for a huge baseball series and Selection Sunday. And to top it all off, I’m taking my annual trip out in East Texas, Bagota to be specific, and won’t have much, if any internet service. A handful of dads, mostly Red Raiders, and their sons hanging out. I know you’ll all be great in my absence.
Texas Tech Tennis
RECAP | Women’s Tennis Earns Third Ranked Win of the Season
— Texas Tech Tennis (@TexasTechTennis) March 3, 2018
Our #RedRaiderRecap from today’s 6-1 win over Rice. #TexasTech improved to 9-0 at home and to 13-4 for the season. #WreckEm
📰 ▶ https://t.co/nj0REEtXSk pic.twitter.com/2DDoJH66oC— Texas Tech Tennis (@TexasTechTennis) March 4, 2018
Texas Tech Softball
✌ games, ✌ wins.
Hear from Coach Gregory and then head to the link below for a recap of our Saturday sweep at the Rock!
📰➡ https://t.co/kq57Gp5wMN #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/oBZ3zil5wl
— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) March 4, 2018
Lady Raider Basketball
RECAP | Season Ends for Lady Raiders
📝➡ https://t.co/RON6Q7Q0Lf pic.twitter.com/hJv0HV9GLr
— Lady Raider WBB (@LadyRaiderWBB) March 3, 2018
Texas Tech Baseball
You can check out the South Alabama series thread where Texas Tech swept the No. 11 team in the nation: 8-1 on Friday; 14-2 in game 1 on Saturday; 5-2 in game 2 on Saturday; and 9-7 on Sunday. And the win on Sunday was especially impressive as they threw out a freshman starter that only went 3 innings and the bullpen finally had a rough go at it. The normally reliable Jose Quezada got roughed up and Caleb Freeman had a rough day as well. Still though, the offense was terrific pretty much the entire series and it’s really tough to argue with 13-0 at this point of the season.
Up later this week is New Mexico on Wednesday and then this group heads to Lexington for the weekend to take on #7 Kentucky, who played in the Shriner’s Classic in Houston this weekend and took down Western Kentucky, #24 Houston, Sam Houston State, and Louisiana. Should be another fun series.
Texas Tech Basketball
There were a lot to choose from, but here are the Top 5️⃣ Plays from yesterday’s Senior Day victory over TCU! #WreckEm #4To1 pic.twitter.com/Z3uXIkumBX
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) March 5, 2018
Texas Tech Football
Amendola Returns.
Offensive Coordinator Kevin Johns Report.
Highlights.
Young guys out here making moves on Day 2️⃣. #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/2jvyffRRlO
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) March 4, 2018
Change your best. Raise the standard. #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/9Qn5eqiX9m
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) March 4, 2018
Parker’s Success. A-J Media’s Don Williams writes about safety Justus Parker’s rise to success last year, including a video message from Danny Amendola and Rob Gronkowski, while meeting Amendola last week:
A couple of weeks ago, when Amendola returned to Lubbock for a high-stakes Tech-Kansas basketball game, Parker got to meet one of his favorites. He called it “surreal, this little small-town kid getting to talk to Danny Amendola.”
“He said don’t let anything I did in the previous year … ‘Don’t just keep reflecting on that,’” Parker related. ” ’Look forward and make more plays, just to keep grinding.”
Miscellaneous. I missed both of these last week, but we have two spring previews, from LandGrant Gauntlet’s Josh Cowan and DieHards’ Shehan Jeyarajah . . .