After throwing only 11 pitches against Oregon on Sunday night during the Bryan-College Station Super Regional, Texas A&M sophomore left-handed pitcher Shane Sdao is out for the season according to coach Jim Schlossnagle.
“He won’t pitch again this year, but the prognosis was better than originally expected for next year. They have got to wait two weeks, let some swelling go down and then reevaluate him one more time to be sure. But it looks a lot better than expected for Shane next year,” Schlossnagle said. “It changes a lot. He had been as effective of a starting pitcher as anybody on our team. So we will have to adjust a little bit.
“Not ready to announce that yet. Justin obviously did not pitch – he just threw the one inning in the regional and did not pitch in the super regional. So he is ready to go. He had a couple good sessions this week.
“But the goal obviously is to stay in the winners’ bracket so we do not have to play as much. That would help. But we will have to have some other guys step to the forefront. That is one of the things I challenged the pitching staff about: who is going to be the Kaeden Kent or more of the pitching staff?
“Somebody that has not pitched as much is going to have to pitch a lot and pitch well for us to stay up there for a long time.”
Junior superstar Braden Montgomery suffered a season-ending injury on Friday afternoon against the Ducks. The highly touted outfielder and right-handed pitcher will be present to root on his teammates at the College World Series this weekend.
“He is going to join the team in Omaha probably within the next couple days,” Schlossnagle told the media Wednesday.
The No. 3 Aggies (49-13) face SEC rival Florida (34-28) on Saturday evening at 6 p.m. on ESPN.
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