It’s not 2019 any more for the Texas Longhorns baseball program.
A little less than three years since head coach David Pierce’s team suffered an ignominious 8-2 loss to the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders at Whataburger Field, the No. 1-ranked Longhorns stormed down to the Gulf Coast for a resounding 14-2 win on Tuesday evening.
The 2019 team that finished 27-27 with an abysmal .250 batting average is unquestionably a distant memory as the 2022 version of Texas baseball continued performing at a high level in virtually every phase of the game.
Five pitchers, led by right-hander Andre Duplantier in his first career start for the Horns, combined to shutout Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on two hits with 12 strikeouts.