Making amends: baseball wins three of four games in key-early season series against Northwestern

By Steve Habel/Senior Contributing Writer

AUSTIN, Texas – No. 23 Texas made amends, in a big way, for a sloppy beginning to a four-game series with Northwestern by dominating and recording wins the final three games of the series, including a 12-1, seven-inning victory Sunday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

All that timely hitting and close-down pitching that Texas didn’t produce in the first game was displayed aplenty in the final three games, most notably Saturday’s nightcap and the series finale Sunday when the Longhorns (8-4) combined to score 28 runs, surrendered just four and never trailed.

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