The Texas Longhorns defeated Tarleton State, 16-2, at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on May 30 to advance to the Austin Regional final. The victory brings the Longhorns’ record to 42-13 and ensures their place in Sunday’s championship game against the winner of UC Santa Barbara and Tarleton State.
Texas hit five home runs during the game, marking their third five-homer performance of the season. Aiden Robbins led off a sequence of three consecutive home runs in the second inning with a 443-foot three-run shot, his team-leading 22nd homer. Two pitches later, Carson Tinney followed with a 426-foot home run over left field’s “Monster,” his fifth such feat since the ballpark opened in 1975 and his 21st blast of the season—ranking fifth-most for a single campaign in school history. Anthony Pack Jr. capped off the inning with an opposite-field homer into left-center field’s YETI Yard; it was his fourth home run in five NCAA Tournament at-bats.
Robbins, Tinney, and Pack Jr.’s back-to-back-to-back homers were the first by Texas players since Silas Ardoin, Skyler Messinger, and Dylan Campbell did so against Oklahoma State on May 1, 2022. Ethan Mendoza added a solo shot in the third inning while Adrian Rodriguez contributed another solo homer in the eighth.
The Longhorns drew a season-high seventeen walks during Saturday’s contest—including seven walks that led to five runs without recording a hit in one inning—and have now scored thirty-five runs across their first two games of this regional tournament. That figure marks their highest ever for consecutive postseason games as they have outscored opponents by thirty-five to three.
Pitcher Dylan Volantis improved his record to nine wins and one loss after throwing six and two-thirds innings of one-run baseball with seven strikeouts before an audience of more than eight thousand fans—the third-largest crowd for a non-exhibition game at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The pitching staff recorded nine total strikeouts on Saturday night to set a new program record for single-season punchouts at six hundred nineteen.
