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Texas thumps Kansas State in elimination game, forcing rematch with UTSA
By Andrew Olson
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Texas kept its 2025 season alive with a lopsided win over former Big 12 foe Kansas State. The Longhorns won 15-8 to advance to the regional finals for a rematch with UTSA.
The No. 2 national seed, Texas surprisingly found itself in an elimination game on Sunday after a Saturday night loss to UTSA in the winner’s bracket game. With the season on the line, the Longhorns went to work early Sunday.
Texas broke the scoring ice with 6 runs in the top of the 1st inning playing as the visitor at Disch-Falk Field. Kansas State got 3 back in the bottom half of the frame to keep the game from getting out of hand – briefly.
In the top of the 3rd inning, the Longhorns added 4 runs to make it a 10-3 game. UT would make it 8 unanswered runs, adding 1 in the 5th and 3 in the 6th to open the lead to 14-3 before the Wildcats would score again.
Casey Borba had an 8-RBI day, including a grand slam.
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KSU’s bats woke up again, but it was too little, too late for any kind of comeback. Kansas State scored 5 runs across the final 3 innings, but that was far from enough down by double digits.
For Texas, Ruger Riojas got the win. While it’s not his best statline of the year (7 ER, 6 H, 6 K, 2 BB), he was able to throw 119 pitches, going 7.1 innings and allowing. Jim Schlossnagle to save the bullpen. Cody Howard handled the final 1.2 innings.
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
