Baylor to face Texas A&M, Rice & Texas State in Shriners College Classic
Weekend Schedule
BAYLOR (8-0) vs. Texas A&M (8-2)
March 1 – 6:35 p.m. CT
BAYLOR (8-0) vs. Rice (3-6)
March 2 – 3:05 p.m. CT
BAYLOR (8-0) vs. Texas State (5-3)
March 3 – 12:05 p.m. CT
Houston, Texas • Minute Maid Park
Story Lines
The No. 12 Bears head to Houston this week for the Shriners College Baseball Classic at Minute Maid Ballpark. The Bears will face Texas A&M at 7 p.m. CT on Friday, Rice at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday and Texas State at 11 a.m. CT on Sunday.
HOW TO WATCH AND STREAM
All three games this weekend will be televised by AT&T SportsNet, the television home of the Houston Astros, and streamed on the AT&T SportsNet app. There are also many ways to stream all nine games live and for free. The games will be streamed on MLB.com, Astros.com and the MLB At Bat app. Additionally, the games will be available live on the Astros YouTube channel and the official social media accounts of the Astros, including Facebook Live and Twitter.
Direct links to the Astros streams on MLB.com are below:
Tuesday
The Bears came from behind to defeat DBU 10-4 on Tuesday evening in Waco. After trailing 2-0 after the top of the first, the Bears went to work to tie things up and more. Davion Downey and Davis Wendzel each hit two home runs on the day, including hitting back-to-back homer runs in the eighth inning. A combined effort by the pitching staff got things done as LHP Paul Dickens went three innings in his first Baylor start, followed by one inning from Jimmy Winston, two from Ryan Leckich who got his second win of the year, two from Luke Boyd and one from Kyle Hill. The Bears plated two in the sixth inning to take the lead back and never relinquished it.
Last Weekend Recap
The Bears are 7-0 on the season after sweeping visiting Cornell, 3-0. The Bears tallied double-digit run totals in all three games, including a 17-0 shutout on Friday. Overall, the Bears outscored the Big Red, 39-7 on the weekend.
In game one, Hayden Kettler was once again outstanding, collecting a career-high nine strikeouts in six innings of shutout ball. He earned the win to improve to 2-0 on the season. At the plate, Chase Wehsener had a career day, driving in a career-high 5 runs on 3 hits with one walk. All in all, the entire starting lineup had at least one hit on the day, with six Bears collecting multi-hit games. Josh Bissonette, Cole Haring and Mack Mueller each launched their first home runs of the season.
In game two of the series, Paul Dickens entered in relief in the fourth inning with the bases loaded and two outs and got a pop out to end the inning. He would cruise through three more scoreless innings en route to his first Baylor victory. Richard Cunningham had 3 hits on the day, while Nick Loftin led the team with 3 RBI. Both Bissonette and Wendzel had two doubles on the day, tying their career-high marks.
