Horns Illustrated Week in Review

Football

The Longhorn football team played their annual Orange-White scrimmage Saturday evening. The scrimmage gave fans an opportunity to see the up-tempo offense that co-offensive coordinators Major Applewhite and Darrell Wyatt have been installing this spring. The “Texas” team came away with the advantage over the “Horns” team 30-13.

Starting quarterback David Ash put in a decent performance, completing 17-24 passes for 162 yards and two touchdowns—but also threw two interceptions. Ash’s first touchdown came on a 38-yard pass to….[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level2)]a wide open Mike Davis for an easy score. Ash threw his second touchdown pass to Kendall Sanders on a quick 9-yard strike—Sanders then made a few of the Texas defenders miss before running 15 more yards into the endzone.

The Longhorn fans seemed the most excited by Texas’ freshman quarterback Tyrone Swoopes’ play. Swoopes went 2-2 passing, but it was his running ability that had Texas fans hollering in the stands. Swoopes made several big runs with his feet and showed good composure when pressured out of the pocket.

Baseball

The Texas Baseball team went 2-2 this week. They started the week with a home win against Texas State, 5-3, Tuesday. Then the team traveled to Stillwater for a three-game road series versus Oklahoma State. The Horns lost two out of three games in the series.

In the Longhorns’ victory versus Texas State, Alex Silver hit an RBI-single in the sixth inning to break a, 3-3, tie and give the Longhorns the lead. Silver went 2-3 and had two RBIs. The Longhorns went on to win, 5-3.

Erich Weiss led the Longhorn offense Thursday night against the Cowboys in a, 8-5, victory. Weiss went 3-4 and recorded one RBI.

The Longhorns dropped the next two games against the Cowboys in a Saturday doubleheader. The Cowboys’ hitters put in a strong eighth inning, scoring four runs before going on to win, 8-3.

The Cowboys picked up their second win of the afternoon, 5-4, led by Robbie Rea and Donnie Walton.

Texas Relays

The 2013 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays took place from Wednesday through Saturday at Mike A. Myer’s stadium last week. In front of their home crowd the Texas men’s and women’s track and field teams found success in several events. Danielle Dowie finished first in the Women’s 400 Meter Hurdles with a time of 56.58 (the time also ranks No. 1 in the country for the event this year). Dowie also competed in Saturday’s 4×400 Meter Relay where the Longhorn relay squad finished second to Florida by .04 seconds.

On Thursday, Isaac Murphy finished third in the Decathlon with 7758 points. The Texas Men’s 4×800 Meter relay team finished first with a time of 7:29.51. Austin Bussing finished second in the 3000 Meter Steeplechase, while his Texas teammate Austin Roth finished fourth.

In the first ever 10k Meter Run, Texas dominated and finished in first through fifth place. Ryan Dohner won first, Craig Lutz finished second, Daniel Vertiz placed third, Rory Tunningley and Mark Pinales finished fourth and fifth.

The Texas Women’s 1600 Meter Sprint Medley team placed third. The Men and Women’s Distance Medley teams both found success. The women’s squad finished second and the men finished first.

The Texas men came in first in the 4×1500 Meter Relay with a time of 15:36.86.

The Texas men had success in the field events with two first place finishes. Jarard Bruner placed first in section B of the Triple Jump with a jump of 15.53 meters.

Ryan Crouser finished first in the Shot Put with a throw of 20.43 meters.

Men’s Golf

The No. 4 men’s golf team hasn’t competed since their second place finish at the Schenkel Invitational two weeks ago in Statesboro, Georgia. This weekend the men’s golf team returns to the Peach State to compete at the Augusta State Invitational (April 6-7th) in Augusta, Ga.

Women’s Golf

The No.16 women’s golf team sits in fifth place at Farms Collegiate Invite after two rounds of competition in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The team will attempt to move up the leaderboard in the third and final round today. Senior Desiree Dubreuil carded a team-best 73 on Tuesday.

Men’s Swimming and Diving

The Texas Men’s Swimming and Diving team competed in the NCAA Championships this week in Indianapolis. They placed fifth in the overall team standings with 288 points, but did earn five individual All-American finishes. Texas swimmer Michael McBroom finished second in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a school record mark of 14 minutes and 32.75 seconds.

Women’s Tennis

The Texas Women’s Tennis team defeated SMU, 6-1, Sunday afternoon. Texas won five out of six singles matches and two doubles matches.

Texas’ Lina Padegimaite defeated SMU’s Hristina Dischkova in the deciding singles match with a, 6-4, 6-3, win.

The Texas women return to action Friday, April 5 vs. Florida International at 2 p.m. Saturday the Horns will face conference foe Texas Tech at 2 p.m. Both matches will take place at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center in Austin.

Softball

The Texas Softball team won their ninth straight game while sweeping Kansas in a three-game series. Blaire Luna won her sixteenth game of the season with a, 5-0, victory over the Jayhawks Thursday. Luna recorded nine strikeouts and allowed two hits over six innings.

Longhorn MVP

The MVP award this week goes to the Texas Softball team for recording their ninth straight victory and starting the season, 5-0, in Big 12 play.

Honorable Mention

The Texas Men and Women’s Track and Field team win honorable mention for their great success this week at the 2013 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. The men and women did a fantastic job representing at Mike A. Meyers Stadium and found success in a number of events with several top-place finishes.

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