If the Aggies and Longhorns both win their regional openers, the rivals will meet Saturday in a pivotal NCAA baseball tournament matchup.
A month before Texas is set to join the Southeastern Conference , Texas A&M and UT are on a collision course in baseball in College Station . The NCAA selection committee put the “region” in the NCAA Tournament regional, with host A&M, UT, Louisiana and Grambling on site. The regional cranks up at noon Friday, with top-seeded A&M taking on fourth-seeded Grambling in the opener. Third-seeded Texas then faces second-seeded Louisiana at 5 p.m. Friday.
“It’s always fun to play against Texas, you have a rivalry that’s been built up over years and years,” said LaViolette, a former Katy Tompkins star. “But at the end of the day it’s still baseball, and as long as we play the best version of our game, I think we can come out successful. “I feel like we don’t really care who we play at the end of the day, because it’s not really that we’re playing against an opponent, we’re playing against ourselves.
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