Classic Moments Carry Texas to Baseball Regional Crown

In less than 24 hours, the Texas baseball team put together a pair of classic moments to win a regional title and move one step closer to the College World Series.

On Saturday, the Longhorns beat Boston College, 3-2, in the longest game in NCAA history: 25 innings. That's seven hours and three minutes of baseball, highlighted by one of the most impressive individual performances in UT history. Relief pitcher Austin Wood pitched 13 innings and didn't allow a hit for 12 1/3 of those. He threw 169 pitches and gave up only two hits during that remarkable span.

Then some 20-plus hours later, Texas came back from four runs down in the final inning to beat Army, 14-10, on a Preston Clark grand slam that gave the Longhorns their 31st regional title.

Texas now moves on to the super-regional round of 16, hosting TCU in a best-of-three series at UFCU Disch-Falk Field beginning Friday. The winner of that series moves on to the College World Series in Omaha.

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