Baseball Players Report for Classes/Fall Ball
August 30, 1999 | Baseball
Aug. 30, 1999
LUBBOCK, Texas - Forty-eight Texas Tech baseball players reported Monday for classes and fall baseball practice in preparation for the 2000 baseball season. Fall baseball at Texas Tech officially begins Tuesday, September 14 at Dan Law Field. The annual fall Red-Black Series runs from Monday, October 4-Saturday, October 9 at Dan Law Field. The Red-Black Series is open to the public.
Texas Tech welcomes back 17 letterwinners, six starters and two starting pitchers from a 42-17 team. What's more, Texas Tech welcomes in 26 newcomers including 17 junior college and other transfers along with nine high school freshmen. Texas Tech completed its seventh consecutive 40+ victory season, its third season of hosting an NCAA Regional in the last four years and its fifth straight NCAA Regional appearance in the 1999 season.
Texas Tech head coach Larry Hays is one victory shy of his 1,200th career victory. His current record is 1199-640-2 overall in 29 years of head coaching at both Lubbock Christian (16 years) and Texas Tech (13 years). Hays will enter his 30th season in 2000.
RETURNING TEXAS TECH PLAYERS REPORTING (22) Name Pos. HT WT B/T CL Hometown/Previous School/High School Mark Austry 1B 6-0 208 L/L Sr-2L Fort Worth, Texas/Coastal Carolina/Arlington Hts Brennan Burns 3B-C 5-10 180 R/R Jr-2L Orange, Calif./UCLA/Tustin Daniel Cole RHP 6-0 170 R/R So-1L Lubbock, Texas/Monterey Eric Cunningham RHP 6-3 200 R/R Fr-RS Lubbock, Texas/Coronado Marco Cunningham OF 5-10 185 R/R Sr-1L Silt, Colo./Trinidad State J.C./Rifle Miles Durham OF 6-3 195 L/R Jr-2L Abilene, Texas/Cooper Chaz Eiguren 1B-DH 6-5 215 R/R Sr-1L Broomfield, Colo./Seward County J.C. Clancy Fossum RHP 6-1 165 R/R Jr-1L Waco, Texas/Texas A&M/Midway David Garza 2B-OF 5-9 165 B/R Fr-RS Mount Pleasant, Texas/Mount Pleasant Cesar Gutierrez RHP 6-1 185 R/R Sr-1L Eagle Pass, Texas/Southwestern J.C./Eagle Pass Scott Holzhauer 2B 5-10 170 L/R Sr-1L Long Beach, Calif./Long Beach C.C./Lakewood Joe Juarez C 5-6 165 R/R Fr-RS Lubbock, Texas/Lubbock Ben Long RHP 6-2 170 R/R Fr-RS Grapevine, Texas/Tulane/Grapevine Trey Lunsford C 6-1 190 R/R Jr-1L San Angelo, Texas/Grayson J.C./Central David O'Keeffe INF 5-11 190 R/R Sr-1L San Francisco, Calif./Canada J.C./Sacred Heart Chad Reynolds RHP 6-5 200 R/R Sr-3L Wolfforth, Texas/Frenship Steve Richardson OF 6-2 200 B/R Jr-2L Nashville, Tenn./David Lipscomb Brandon Roberson RHP 6-3 185 R/R Sr-1L Fort Worth, Texas/Hill J.C./Western Hills Steve Rowe RHP 6-5 215 R/R So-1L Houston, Texas/Strake Jesuit Ryan Stonerock LHP/OF 6-0 175 L/L Fr-RS Sherman Oaks, Calif./Notre Dame Kevin Tracey RHP 6-3 195 R/R Sr-1L Lake Oswego, Ore./Santa Rosa J.C./Lakeridge Lance Woodcock SS 6-0 165 R/R Sr-1L Shingle Springs, Calif./American River J.C.
NEW TEXAS TECH PLAYERS REPORTING (26) Name Pos. HT WT B/T CL Hometown/Previous School/High School Chaz Ackerman RHP 6-0 200 R/R Jr-TR Billings, Montana/Conners J.C./Billings Dusty Buck INF/P 6-1 175 R/R Fr-HS Lubbock, Texas/Monterey Clifton Collier OF 6-0 190 R/R Fr-HS Austin, Texas/Westlake Grant Culver OF 5-11 200 R/R Jr-TR Wichita, Kansas/Butler County J.C. Luke Gradishar INF 5-11 180 R/R Jr-TR Pueblo, Colo./Glendale J.C./Gonzaga Matt Harbin LHP 6-4 210 R/L So-TR Spring, Texas/Houston Baptist/Klein Oak Clark Harris C-INF 6-2 215 R/R Fr-HS Dallas, Texas/St. Marks Joseph Hudson LHP 5-10 170 L/L So-TR Houston, Texas/Florida Atlantic/Kingwood Josh Jones RHP 6-2 190 R/R Jr-TR Ben Wheeler, Texas/LSU/Ben Wheeler Chad Landry 1B/RF 5-11 205 L/L Jr-TR Nederland, Texas/Seminole J.C./Nederland Shaun Larkin INF 5-9 170 L/R Jr-TR Cypress, Calif./Cypress J.C./LaQuinta Blake McGinley LHP 6-1 170 L/L Jr-TR Bakersfield, Calif./Bakersfield J.C./North Eric McLamore INF 5-10 180 R/R Sr-TR Farmington, N.M./TCU/Grayson J.C./Farmington Cory Metzler RHP 6-1 170 R/R Jr-TR Oklahoma City, Okla./Hutchinson J.C./Yukon Casey Morton LHP 6-0 155 L/L Fr-HS Lubbock, Texas/Monterey J.J. Newman INF/P 6-1 180 L/R Jr-TR Lubbock, Texas/Seward County J.C./Skyline Jason Rainey OF 6-0 185 L/L Jr-TR Cooper, Texas/Paris J.C./Cooper Scott Richardson C 6-1 197 R/R Fr-HS Nashville, Tenn./David Lipscomb Adam Riddle OF 6-2 190 R/R Fr-HS Abilene, Texas/Cooper Greg Schwenn RHP 6-0 185 R/R Fr-HS Los Alamitos, Calif./Los Alamitos Corey Sellers OF/P 5-10 175 L/L Sr-TR Orange, Texas/West Orange-Stark Ryan Shipton IN/OF 6-1 185 R/R Fr-HS Newbury Park, Calif./Newbury Park Richard Simon RHP 6-3 187 R/R Sr-TR El Paso, Texas/Southwestern J.C./El Paso Clyde Tedrick RHP 6-3 200 R/R Sr/TR Midland, Texas/Wayland Baptist Aaron Tims RHP 6-0 175 R/R Fr-HS Fort Worth, Texas/Eastern Hills
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