Thomas Jones

3 days ago | statesman.com | Thomas Jones

Texas softball: Longhorns No. 6 overall seed, will open NCAA Tournament v Eastern Illinois Thomas JonesAustin American-StatesmanTexas (46-10), the No. 6 overall seed, will open the 64-team tournament at McCombs Field Friday at 3:30 p.m. against Eastern Illinois. Michigan and Central Florida will also compete in the Austin regional, with the top team advancing to the NCAA Super Regional round.

4 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Thomas Jones

ATHENS, Ga. — Based on how Texas A&M softball is playing, Aggie coach Trisha Ford couldn’t even let the cancellation of the SEC Tournament championship game due to rain dampen her enthusiasm for the NCAA postseason. Entering the scheduled championship game against Oklahoma, the Aggies had broken all sorts of SEC records while rolling to a pair of run-rule wins, including a 14-2 shellacking of rival Texas in a tournament semifinal Friday.

4 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Thomas Jones

ATHENS, Ga. — While Texas A&M and Oklahoma are enduring a weather delay at the SEC softball tournament, officials are confident that a break in the rain will allow the championship game to start approximately 30 minutes after the tarp covering the field gets pulled, according to a Texas A&M official. With the threat of inclement weather increasing as Saturday wears on, SEC officials announced on Friday that they moved the championship game from 4 p.m. CT to noon CT.

5 days ago | statesman.com | Thomas Jones

ATHENS, Ga. — After a dozen years of separation, Texas and Texas A&M reunited in the SEC when the Longhorns joined the conference last July. The schedulers in the revamped SEC seemed to recognize the unique circumstances of the revived rivalry as well as the inherent drama; the Longhorns and Aggies faced off in every traditional team sport in the newly branded Lone Star Showdown this school year except for softball.

6 days ago | statesman.com | Thomas Jones

ATHENS, Ga. — Texas softball will open the SEC Tournament in a quarterfinal contest Thursday against Ole Miss, which stunned Florida 6-3 in extra innings in a second-round game Wednesday. The 11th-seeded Rebels (37-16), ranked No. 21 in the nation in the latest ESPN/USA Softball poll, knocked off sixth-seeded and No. 4 Florida behind a go-ahead, three-run home run in the eighth inning by Mackenzie Pickens.