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No. 9 Texas dominates Air Force 10-1, advance to the Super Regionals

Texas is on to the Super Regionals!

No. 9 Texas baseball is moving on to the Super Regionals for the second straight season after a dominant 10-1 performance over Air Force in the Austin Regional final.

The Longhorns’ offense wasted no time in this one, striking for five runs in the first inning behind an Ivan Melendez home run and a Trey Faltine two-RBI double.

Melendez’s home run marked No. 30 on the season, marking the first player in college baseball to hit 30 bombs since Kris Bryant in 2013.

The relentless Texas offense would keep applying pressure all game. The Horns finished with 10 runs on 13 hits, six of which being extra-base hits.

Dylan Campbell continues to prove his bat needs to stay in the lineup as the outfield launched two home runs over the left-field wall in the game. Campbell was locked in at the plate for the entirety of the regional.

The effort of Texas’ pitching staff should not go unnoticed. Texas pieced together a bullpen game to hold the powerful Falcons’ offense to just one run on six hits. Jared Southard picked up the victory giving Texas three shutout frames in relief.

Texas now awaits the winner of the Greenville Regional. If Eastern Carolina wins, Texas will travel for the Super Regional. If Coastal Carolina can pull off the upset, Texas will stay at home next week.

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Five takeaways from the 2022 NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket

The college baseball postseason has finally arrived. 

The college baseball postseason has finally arrived.

Regional play will take place June 3-6 with its usual double-elimination format. The 16 Regional winners will move on to the Super Regional round from June 10-13 where two teams face off in a best of three series. The eight teams who survive the Super Regional advance to the College World Series starting on June 17.

The NCAA committee released the 16 host sites on Sunday night followed by the full official 2022 bracket on Monday afternoon.

Each year the tournament is announced, controversy follows some of the committees’ decision-making. This season features some snubbed teams along with interesting top 16 seedings.

The bracket does set up many can’t miss matchups and storylines including TCU heading to College Station, Ole Miss making the field and Texas State making the trip out west to Standford.

Here are five takeaways from the NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket:

No. 9 Texas to open NCAA regional against Air Force

Texas will host Louisiana Tech, Dallas Baptist and Air Force in the Austin Regional.

The road to Omaha starts this week. Texas is looking to make trip No. 38 to the Men’s College World Series.

Texas (42-19) was named the No. 9 national seed on Monday and will host the Austin Regional starting on Friday.

The Longhorns will open up the NCAA tournament with the Air Force Falcons (30-27). Texas took on Air Force earlier in the season as the two teams split a midweek set. Air Force took game one 14-2 and Texas stole game two 12-10 with a Trey Falitne walk-off home run.

Texas will likely be forced to pitch ace Pete Hansen against the powerful Air Force offense which ranks No. 8 in the country in batting average.

Louisiana Tech and Dallas Baptist will square off in the other opening matchup in the Austin Regional.

Here is a look at the full 2022 NCAA tournament bracket.

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