After winning in 25 innings on saturday night/sunday morning on Boston College, the Longhorns beat Army 14-10 to win the regional championship.  Texas scored 8 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning.   Brandon Loy tied the game with a 3 run double and then senior Preston Clark won it with a grand slam home run.  The Longhorns will host the Super Regional this coming weekend the winner of the TCU regional.

The Westlake baseball team beat Laredo United 5-0 in a one game 5A regional semifinal on Thursday evening in San Antonio.  The Chaparrals move into the Region 4  regional finals against the winner of S.A. Reagan and Sharyland.

The #1 ranked Bowie Bulldogs softball team lost to #2 Smithson Valley 1-0 in the first of their best of three 5A regional final series in San Marcos.  The run is the first allowed by Bowie in the entire playoffs.  Bowie now needs to win two in a row to earn their third straight trip to state.

More on this game tonight at 6, but I just got back from the Hutto-Lake Travis “Winner take all” one game series.

Thanks to a walk-off balk, (say that three times fast) Lake Travis won the game 1-0 and advances in the playoffs.

It was a pitcher’s duel to say the least, and was scoreless through seven until that deciding score. Congratulations are in order to the Cavs, who move on and played very well,  but my heart can’t help but go out to Eythan Lenz, the sophomore pitcher who threw a complete game but had the balk at the end.

Somewhere in there is an Augieism, that being a phrase Augie Garrido would say about the game of baseball. Augie has said before that baseball can be great to you one day, and cruel the next. This was the case for Lenz. He’s a talented pitcher who will certainly be on the other side of an emotional game like this somewhere later in his baseball career.

To Lenz: Hang in there, kid. It sounds stupid, but you pitched a great game. And for Lake Travis– revenge is up for grabs as they are set to face Corpus Christi Calallen, the team who eliminated them in the playoffs last year.

The 5th ranked Longhorns beat Kansas 9-3 at the Big XII tournament in Oklahoma City.  Chance Ruffin pitched a complete game to earn his 9th win of the season.  Brandon Belt got the scoring started with a 2 run homer in the 1st inning.  Cameron Rupp added a 3 run home run in the 4th.

Texas improves to 39-13-1 and get a little revenge after getting swept by the Jayhawks in their regular season series.

Texas has a day off Friday and they face Kansas State on Saturday afternoon.  The Longhorns need to beat the Wildcats and they need some help to make it to Sunday’s title game.  Baylor holds the tie-breaker over Texas, so the Bears have to lose to K-State tonight and again on Saturday to Kansas for the Horns to make it to that title game.

The Lake Travis baseball team moved into the regional round of the 4A playoffs with a  5-0 win over New Braunfels Canyon on Tuesday evening at Austin’s Burger Center.

Westlake beat San Antonio Clark 5-3 Tuesday in San Marcos to move into the regional round of the 5A playoffs.  All of the area round series are one game series so they can catch up after having the playoffs delayed because of the swine flu concerns.

Former NBA player, Oklahoma Sooner, Olympian and musician Wayman  Tisdale died today from cancer. He was just 44. Tisdale may be best known in Big 12 circles for his sparkling career with OU, where he was a three-time, first-team All-American, and even made it to the team as a freshman, but it’s his impact on his teammates and former OU coach, Billy Tubbs, that impacted me today.

We caught up with Tubbs, the now athletic director at Lamar University, at today’s NCAA Golf Regional at the UT Golf Club. Tubbs, as always, was a class act. He was visibly shaken by Tisdale’s passing, but still, agreed to have a word with us.

Here’s just some of what he said.

“This makes the losses in basketball seem immaterial,” he said.

“Wayman Tisdale was a great human being, and a great player– the first guy to ever make All-American as a freshman– there’s enough said about his basketball career– but just a great human being. He was a guy the fans loved so much, the team loved so much, and just a great positive person.

“You really have to admire the job he did in his fight against cancer. He led you to believe he was fine, when we knew all along it was a matter of time, but it’s always surprising. It’s a great loss to the Sooner Nation. ”

It’s more than a great loss to the Sooner Nation; it’s a great loss for basketball fans, jazz fans, and anyone who appreciates a fight against cancer.

Westlake beat S.A. Madison 6-4 in 8 innings in a one game playoff at the Dell Diamond.  Will Harris had a 2 run double in the top of the 8th after Madison tied it with a home run in the 7th.  Chaps advance to play the winner of S.A. Clark and Victoria in the Area round of the 5A playoffs.

The UT men’s tennis team knocked off 5th ranked Tennessee 4-3 on Wednesday in College Station to advance to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.  The Longhorns will meet Georgia on Saturday, Bulldogs beat Texas last year for the national championship.