LUBBOCK, Texas – Fresh off a weekend sweep of Houston, Texas Tech Baseball returns home for a three-game weekend series against TCU.
The three-game series against the Horned Frogs opens on Friday night when the Red Raiders host Mahomes Night. As part of the Mahomes Night celebration the first 1,000 fans will receive Patrick Mahomes adidas branded headbands and the Red Raiders will wear their brand new Mahomes/Gladiator branded "Strategy" uniforms.
The series will continue on Saturday afternoon with a 2 p.m. contest before the series wraps up on Sunday afternoon with a 1 p.m. contest. On Saturday the first 500 fans will receive a Tech branded rally towels with Sunday's game featuring a schedule magnet giveaway.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
GAME ONE:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (6-11, 3-0 Big 12) vs. TCU (15-6, 1-2 Big 12)
DATE: Friday Mar. 21, 2025
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Mac Heuer (1-1, 5.48 ERA) vs. RHP Tommy LaPour (2-2, 3.16 ERA)
GAME TWO:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (6-11, 3-0 Big 12) vs. TCU (15-6, 1-2 Big 12)
DATE: Saturday Mar. 22, 2025
TIME: 2 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Tyler Boudreau (1-0, 6.23 ERA) Â vs. LHP Noah Franco (0-0, 0.93 ERA)
GAME THREE:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (6-11, 3-0 Big 12) vs. TCU (15-6, 1-2 Big 12)
DATE: Sunday Mar. 23, 2025
TIME: 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Zane Petty (0-1, 4.15 ERA) vs. TBA
HEADLINES IN 1-2-3:
* Texas Tech returns home to the Rip this weekend for the first time since Mar. 4 and on the backs of a three-game dominant sweep over Houston that saw the Red Raiders start 3-0 in Big 12 play for the first time since 2017 when Tech swept UT in Austin. In the weekend sweep of UH, the Red Raiders did not trail and led for 24 of the 26 innings. After playing a low-scoring 4-1 affair on Friday, the Red Raiders offense exploded for 24 runs in the final two games including 13 runs on Saturday and 11 runs in Sunday's run-rule win.
* In the weekend sweep of the Cougars, the Red Raiders bullpen shined, as the 'pen led by Parker Hutyra and Jack Cebert held the Cougars to just four hits in 12 innings pitched. Hutyra tossed three perfect innings while Cebert whiffed eight in his 5.2 shutout innings. The righty allowed just two infield hits.
* And while the Tech 'pen shined in the weekend sweep of the Cougars, the Red Raiders also got huge contributions up and down the lineup as six different Red Raiders hit over .300 on the weekend including 1B Robin Villeneuve and OF Logan Hughes. Villeneuve went 6-for-11 with two home runs, seven RBIs and six runs scored, while Hughes went 6-for-13 with a pair of home runs, a double, a triple, six RBIs and a pair of runs scored. Villeneuve and Hughes were two of three Red Raiders to record six hits on the weekend as outfielder Damian Bravo went 6-for-14 with six runs scored.
WEEKEND NOTES:
BACK AT THE RIP
The Red Raiders return to Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field for the first time since Mar. 5. The weekend series with TCU will also be the first time that Tech will play a weekend series at The Rip since Feb. 21-23. The Red Raiders have spent four of the first five weekends on the road and will play five of the seven weekends of the season on the road. The Red Raiders have played just five of their first 17 games at Rip Griffin Park.
ALL FOUR TIME ZONES IN THE FIRST MONTH
In the first four weeks of the season the Red Raiders have been busy, as Tech played in four different states and four different time zones in the seasons first 14 games. The Red Raiders opened the season in North Carolina and the eastern time zone before coming home to Lubbock for a weekend set with UCI. The Red Raiders after spending a weekend in Las Vegas (PT), traveled to Arizona to face GCU. On Friday and Saturday, Arizona was on Mountain Time before the spring ahead on Sunday morning switched Arizona to Pacific Time.
BACK UNDER THE LIGHTS
After playing nine straight day games and 10 of its first 11 in the afternoon, the Red Raiders have played four of their last five games at night. With Friday's 6:30 p.m. first pitch, the Red Raiders will close a stretch of five of six games played at night.
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SNAPPED THE ROAD STREAKS
The Red Raiders snapped a 17-game road losing streak last weekend in the road sweep of Houston. Dating back to last season the Red Raiders had lost 17-straight road games, the longest streak by a Red Raider team under head coach
Tim Tadlock. The Red Raiders last true road win prior to the series sweep at UH was last Apr. 14 at TCU. The previous longest losing streak on the road under Tadlock was 10 straight (Mar. 10-May 15) losses back in his first season as head coach of the Red Raiders in 2013. The Red Raiders also snapped a nearly two year road series losing streak, as in the series against UH, Tech won a road series for the first time since Apr. 14-16, 2023 against Oklahoma. The series sweep of UH was the first series sweep by a Red Raider squad since May 13-15 when Tech swept then No. 3 Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
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3-0 IN LEAGUE PLAY
The Red Raiders by virtue of last weekend series sweep at UH, has started 3-0 in Big 12 play for the first time since the 2017 season. That year the Red Raiders swept Texas in Austin before dropping two of three at No. 15 OU. That season the Red Raiders went 16-8 in league play enroute to a No. 5 overall seed and a home regional. The Red Raiders have never started Big 12 play 4-0.
RACKING UP THE FREQUENT FLYER MILES
This weekends series at UH will mark the third and final consecutive weekend of games away from Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Pakr for the Red Raiders and will close a stretch of 12-of-17 games on the road. The Red Raiders after opening the season at then No. 6 North Carolina returned to Lubbock for a three-game set against UC Irvine. Following the weekend with the Anteaters, Tech hit the road for the Las Vegas College Classic before heading to Grand Canyon last weekend. Since Feb. 24, the Red Raiders have played just home games: last week's midweek series against UCSD. The Red Raiders have racked up nearly 8,000 miles (7, 378 miles) of travel through the first five weeks of the season.
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ROAD RED RAIDERS
The Red Raiders will become accustom to the road in 2025 as Tech will play just 26 of 53 games at home this season. Starting with the weekend set at No. 6 UNC, the Red Raiders will play 12 of their first 17 games away from the friendly confines of Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field and will play just 10 of their first 26 games at home. In the end, Texas Tech's 27 road games will bring the squad to seven different states: (Arizona, Kansas, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and West Virginia). The Red Raiders in 2025 will play just 31 of 53 games inside the State of Texas. The Red Raiders 26 home games are the fewest in a season since 2022 when Tech also played just 26 games at Rip Griffin Park. The fewest home games the Red Raiders have played in a season was 2009 when Tech played just 22 total home games. This weekend series at GCU will mark the second of three straight road trips for the Red Raiders who open Big 12 play next weekend at Houston. The Red Raiders over the first 17 games of the season (three this weekend and three next weekend) will play just five total road games.
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KYE IS A THREAT ON THE BASES
After recoding 43 stolen bases in his lone season at Galveston College a season ago, Texas Tech sophomore
Kyeler Thompson has flashed some of that patented speed in so far as Thompson has stolen 13 bases thus far and has not been caught stealing. Thompson also sits with the third most runs on the team as the outfielder has scored 17 times in 17 games. Thompson's 15 stolen bases are the second-most in the league and the 10th-most per game in D-I Baseball. Thompson ranks first in the Big 12 in steals per game (0.88) and is one of nine players in the country with at least 15 steals without being caught.
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BACK-TO-BACK FOR BIG MACÂ
After struggling in two of his first three starts of the season against UC Irvine and Illinois, Sophomore
Mac Heuer has come on as of late, as the righty has pitched to a 1.64 ERA of his last two starts. After tossing five-plus one run innings two weekends ago at GCU, Heuer stepped his game up further in his first start of Big 12 play ,as the righty allowed just one hit and one run in six strong innings last Friday night at Houston. Heuer, who earned his first victory of the season in the game, struck out five. In his last two starts, Heuer has pitched 11+ innings and has allowed just five hits and two runs. He has struck out 11 over that span.
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ROBINS CATCHING FIRE
The 2023 JUCO home run leader, Tennessee transfer
Robin Villeneuve has caught fire at the plate, as the first baseman is 21 for his last 43 over his last 11 games with 16 runs scored, four home runs and 14 RBIs. In addition to his strong work at the plate, Villeneuve has also not made an error in the field since the Sunday game against UCI (11 games) and is now fielding .993 on the season. This season Villeneuve is 25-for-60 at the dish (.417) and homered for times and driven in 17 runs. He has scored a team-high 20 eruns and has walked 15 times. His on-base percentage sits at .539.
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HUGHES BRINGS THE BOOM
After running into some hard luck of the first couple of weekends of the season, Stetson transfer
Logan Hughes continues to shine at the plate, as the outfielder went 6-for-13 last weekend with a pair of home runs, a triple and a double in the three-game sweep over Houston. After hitting .063 after the Red Raiders first four games and .179 over the first seven games, Hughes has caught fire, as over the last 10 games, Hughes is hitting .350 (14-for-40) with three home runs and 13 RBis. Hughes has scored first times over that span and struck out just four times. On the season, Hughes is hitting .279 overall with three doubles, two triples and five home runs. Hughes leads the Red Raiders in triples (2), co-leads the team in home runs (5) and leads the squad in RBIs (22).
TJ BACK AT SHORTSTOPÂ
After spending the first 14 games of the season playing third base, infielder
TJ Pompey made the switch back to shortstop last weekend against Houston. In the three game series, Pompey made just one error over the three game series. So far this season, Pompey is hitting .393 with five home runs and 15 RBIs and four doubles. Pompey has also scored 16 times. He is tied for the team lead in home runs, third in RBis, second in hits and second in average.
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WHAT A DAY, EH?!?
While Canada Day might not be for another 115 days, Mar. 5 against UCSD might as well have been Canada Day at the Rip, as the lone two Canadians on the Texas Tech roster had a day. The Red Raiders first Canadian, Robin Villneuve, went 3-for-5 with three RBIs and a pair of runs scored in the Red Raiders 13-1 win over UCSD. On the mound, the Red Raiders other Canadian, Boudreau, pitched the six shutout innings to record his first career win. No stranger to starting or pitching deep into games, Boudreau went 23-4 with 13 career complete games at Midland College. After appearing in just four games and redshirting as a freshman, Boudreau burst on the scene in 2022-23, going 12-2 with six complete games. After a strong 2023 season, Bourdreau took his game the next level in 2024, whiffing 128 batters in 85 innings. Boudreau finished the season 11-2 with seven complete games.
BRAVO AND ROB EARN ALL-TOURNAMENT HONORS
After a strong weekend that saw the duo go a combined 14-for-27 at the plate with two home runs and eight RBIs, Texas Tech Red Raiders
Damian Bravo and
Robin Villeneuve were named to the Las Vegas College Baseball Classic All-Tournament. Bravo who homered on both Friday and Sunday, jumpstarted an epic six-run come-from-behind victory over Illinois with his lead-off blast to begin the ninth inning. The outfielder drove in five over the weekend and scored three times. The other All-Tournament team selection, Villeneuve, doubled three times, drove in three and scored three times over the weekend.
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BEVIS KEPT US IN IT
After seeing start
Lukas Pirko go down due to injury, Tech got one of the best relief outings of the season from sophomore
Logan Bevis on Saturday night against GCU. In his longest career outing in college, Bevis tossed 3.1 shutout innings and allowed just one base runner (a one-out double). Bevis struck out four and threw 34 of his 55 pitches for strikes. In his first four outings as a Red Raider, Bevis has struck out seven batters in eight full innings and has allowed just two total runs (one earned). Bevis who pitched 15 total innings a season ago at USF, flashed his patented mid 90s fastball on Saturday night in Phoenix. The righty sat 94-96 and even hit 97 a couple of times. His four strikeouts were the most he has recorded in a single appearance in his career. After another 1.1 innings scoreless last weekend at Houston, Bevis has now allowed just one earned run in his 9.1 innings pitched. His ERA sits at 0.96.
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LED FOR 24
In last weekend series sweep at UH, the Red Raiders led for 24 of a possible 26 innings. After not scoring in either of the first or second innings on Friday, Tech raced out to a 1-0 lead in the third inning that the Red Raiders were able to close out. With one victory in its pocket, Tech got off to a strong start on Saturday night in Houston, as the Red Raiders struck for two runs in the first, four in the second and five in the third to take an 11-2 lead to the fourth. The fast start allowed the Red Raiders to close out a 13-8 win. On Sunday, the Red Raiders again struck first in the opening frame, as Tech used three first inning runs to cruise to an 11-1 victory in eight inning. The Red Raiders never trailed in the weekend series.
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 UP NEXT:
Texas Tech closes a four-game homestand on Tuesday afternoon against Tarleton. First pitch from Rip Griffin Park is set for 2 p.m.
