Texas A&M Baseball has learned their SEC seeding for next week’s conference tournament.
The Texas A&M Baseball program led by second-year head coach Jim Schlossnagle finished the 2023 regular season 32-23 and 14-16 in the SEC, which by most metrics has the Aggies in the NCAA Tournament after notable series wins against Kentucky, Florida, and Auburn.
After winning their final road series vs. Mississippi State two games to one this weekend, including a 15-10 Game three victory, Aggie fans are hopeful that momentum is on their side ahead of next week’s six-day SEC Tournament in Hoover, Alabama, as Texas A&M is officially a 10-seed, facing the 7-seed Tennessee Volunteers (38-18, 16-14 SEC) in a single elimination game next Tuesday at 12:30 pm CT.
If the Aggies pass the Volunteers, they will face the No. 2 seeded Arkansas Razorbacks (39-15, 20-10 SEC) in a double-elimination round the following Wednesday. How did Texas A&M fare this season against both opponents? Swept by both squads on the road in two of the more challenging environments in college baseball, so yes, while the task is arduous, memories can be made in Hoover, and a shot at the postseason is all this team is asking for. Gig ‘Em!
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Kelly led Hoover High School to a 35-1 record, including a 7-0 run in the region. On the season, Kelly averaged 14.6 points, five assists, and 4.8 rebounds. Along with an excellent offensive game, the point guard’s ability on defense was on full display averaging 2.4 steals per game.
Kelly finishes her High School career as a champion, beating Sparkman high school, contributing 25 of the team’s 55 points. She also finishes as Hoover’s all-time scoring leader, finishing as one of the best to come out of Alabama.
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Two of the leagues hottest teams battle in Hoover on Friday afternoon.
The hottest team of the SEC Tournament will now meet one of the best turnaround stories of the college baseball world in Hoover on Friday.
Alabama, winners of four-straight games including two upset victories at the SEC baseball tournament, will square off with Texas A&M, who won the SEC West after failing to make the tournament one season ago, on Friday at the Hoover Met.
Texas A&M won the first game of its stay in Hoover by defeating Florida, 10-0 in a run-rule win. The Aggies allowed just one hit to the Gators in the game shortened to 7 innings while belting out 12 hits and four home runs. Four batters recorded multiple hits in the game for Texas A&M, Austin Bost led the Aggies by scoring three runs.
Alabama has won their first two games of the tournament in a similar fashion, by jumping out to an early lead and fighting off two late home runs to seal the win.
In Wednesday’s game with No. 3 seeded Arkansas, Alabama grabbed an early 3-0 lead before Arkansas’ Jalen Battles and Chris Lanzilli hit home runs to cut Alabama’s lead to 4-3.
First pitch of this game is still to be determined, as this is scheduled to be the third game of the day.
How to watch, stream, and listen to Alabama’s opening game in the SEC Tournament with Georgia
The Alabama Crimson Tide looks to keep the momentum they built in the final SEC series of the season with Arkansas going on Tuesday morning, as they face Georgia in the opening round of the SEC Tournament at the Hoover Met.
Alabama surprised the Razorbacks last weekend in Tuscaloosa by taking two of three games from Arkansas, with one of those games being an 18-5 shelling.
For Georgia, they ended the season on a high note by defeating Missouri, 11-10 last Saturday. But, they ultimately lost the series to the Tigers, who grabbed two wins in the series by scores of 11-3 and 10-3 respectively.
Georgia holds a 2-1 advantage over Alabama on the season. The Bulldogs won the series played April 22-24 in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide’s win over Georgia in the series finale snapped a five-game losing streak, and they are currently 5-8 since that game.
The no. 11 Crimson Tide squares off with the no. 6 Bulldogs in the first game of the SEC Tournament on Tuesday in Hoover. The winner will face no. 3 Arkansas on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. CDT.
In the pictures in photos courtesy of Stephen Smith of Touchdown Alabama and Patrick Brickman of ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, the Channelview, Texas native in attendance at the Hoover Metropolitan Complex along with his brother — Averion Hurts Jr.
The young campers were put through drills, received t-shirts, gifts, and a host of coaching from NFL stars.
Former Alabama QB Jalen Hurts is in Hoover today hosting a youth football camp pic.twitter.com/9oy0Y7axNN
As the regular season closed, it was announced that Alabama would earn the No. 10 seed in the upcoming SEC Tournament in Hoover, Ala.
The Alabama Crimson Tide wrapped up the 2021 regular season on Saturday by falling 7-3 to Mississippi State, ending a three-game sweep by the Bulldogs.
As the regular season closed, it was announced that Alabama would earn the No. 10 seed in the upcoming SEC Tournament that will be played at the Hoover Met in Hoover, Ala.
The Crimson Tide finished the regular season with a 29-22 record, and a 12-17 mark in SEC play. Alabama won three weekend conference series’, but ends the season on a four-game losing streak.
The Tide’s first draw will be the South Carolina Gamecocks, who earned the No. 7 seed by finishing 33-20 and 16-14 in the SEC.
Alabama will face South Carolina on Tuesday at approximately 1 P.M. CT. The winner will face No. 2 seed Tennessee on Wednesday at 1 P.M. CT. All games with the exception of the finals will be broadcasted on SEC Network.
Matt Moore is entering his second season as an assistant at West Virginia, serving as offensive line coach for the Mountaineers.
Moore joined the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days” and discussed his football career dating back to his playing days at Valdosta State, starting 34 games at left guard from 1991-94 under head coach Hal Mumme and offensive coordinator Mike Leach.
Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire
Moore also discussed his time coaching at Hoover High School. He served as the Bucs’ offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 1999-2004 for head coach Rush Propst. Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt coached alongside Moore during the 2004 season at Hoover.
Chip Lindsey enters his second season as Troy’s head coach in 2020.
Troy went 5-7 last season and will kickoff the 2020 campaign Sept. 5 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Trojans will play at Tennessee Nov. 21.
Lindsey previously served as offensive coordinator at Southern Miss, Arizona State and Auburn. He was also a head coach at Lassiter High School (2008-09) and Spain Park High School (2011-12), along with serving as offensive coordinator at Hoover High School in 2007.
Lindsey joined the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days” to discuss the Troy program, his coaching career and his time knowing UT head coach Jeremy Pruitt.
Jeremy Pruitt discusses coaching at Hoover, evolution of college offenses.
KNOXVILLE — The 2020 college football season is nearing 100 days until kickoff.
Tennessee will kickoff Jeremy Pruitt’s third season as the Vols’ head coach Sept. 5 against Charlotte at Neyland Stadium.
Pruitt recently joined “SEC This Morning” to discuss a wide-range of topics including his time as an assistant at Hoover High School (2004-06) under then-head coach Rush Propst.
“The league that we played in was very well coached, and a lot of the guys that we coached against are coaching in college,” Pruitt said. “Some of the guys that I coached with or coached against, whether it’s Bill Clark at UAB, John Grass at Jacksonville State, or Chip Lindsey at Troy, Matt Moore is at West Virginia — he was our offensive coordinator at Hoover. So it’s interesting ten years later, it’s almost like the game that we started coaching in college is what we we were coaching back then.
“I know from a defensive perspective, looking at the offenses, with the way the game has kind of become, a lot of loose plays, and it’s on the perimeter with a lot of RPOs. This was things that we were seeing everyday in practice, so lots of things that I am seeing right now across college football. I think at Iowa State — they play with three-high safety looks — and I see other teams doing this. It was things that I saw back in the early 2000s. So it’s interesting how the game kind of evolves and comes back around, and I’m sure it will continue to do that.”
“He runs the same type of offense that I run, he has always been creative, but I just feel like that game sits where Jeremy is at his best. That is where I think Jeremy is at his best, is in that kind of game.” — Rush Propst said of Tennessee playing at Oklahoma in Week 2.
“Going back to those days, we played against a fast-paced offense every single day,” Pruitt told Burns. “I’m not really comparing that to what Lincoln does, but I do think that in the way that we structured in how we call things, I think we really adapted probably faster — maybe than some other teams in how to deal with fast-paced offenses.
“Just from a call-system, making it one word, we had to do that going back to when I was coaching at Hoover. We could be very, very multiple and run everything that we wanted to within our system, but it was all one word calls. They managed to do it on offense, you got to manage to do it on defense. I felt like from a structural standpoint, we have been able to do that.”
