Leading Off
Last Non-Game Day Friday. Well, there is football this Saturday and there will be a College Football Open Thread at some point on Saturday morning (the first game of the year is Villanova at Colgate at 11:00 a.m. CST on CBSSN . . . yabba) and the headliner is Florida at Miami at 6:00 p.m. on ESPN and Arizona at Hawaii at 9:30 on CBSSN for those of you who want to get a preview of the Wildcats before the Red Raiders travel to Tucson.
Texas Tech Volleyball
Red & Black. This Saturday. 6 PM. BE THERE.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️https://t.co/TPOmbYdXwP
— Texas Tech Volleyball (@TexasTechVB) August 22, 2019
Texas Tech Soccer
Texas Tech Defeats San Diego State, 6-1. Well, this was pretty much a tail-whipping from the get-go, Texas Tech was up 5-0 in the first half, had 10 shots in the first half, compared to just 4 for SDSU, and were on the board with just 2:44 gone from the game as Jayne Lydiatt scored on a Kirsten Davis assist, and then Lydiatt scored again about 8 minutes later. Davis would have 2 goals herself while Demi Koulizakis and Marisa Weichel each had a goal. SDSU scored on a penalty kick. I think every player subbed into the game because the list is long (box score). I’ve just posted a few goals, and I think there are two more posted on the Texas Tech Twitter.
One down.
Chalk it up.
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— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) August 23, 2019
Offensive explosion and we’ve got @TomStone9’s thoughts on it! https://t.co/Gz5a3qymjH
— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) August 23, 2019
Captain to Captain! 👀@jaynelyd13 picks up goal #️⃣2️⃣ after heading in a beauty of a cross by fellow captain @gabbiepuente!
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— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) August 23, 2019
KD gets in on it!
A through ball finds @kirstendavis22, who beats out the defense and slots it for our third goal!
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— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) August 23, 2019
Texas Tech Golf
It’s 📸PICTURE DAY📸 for the squad! Head over to our Instagram (ttumensgolf) to meet the new team!
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— Texas Tech Men’s Golf (@TexasTechMGolf) August 22, 2019
Former Red Raider Gabby Lemieux is teeing it up at the 2019 @LPGA and @ROAD2LPGA Q-School qualifier in Rancho Mirage, California!
Follow along all weekend at the link below.
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— Texas Tech W Golf (@TexasTechWGolf) August 22, 2019
Texas Tech Softball
Our freshies are finally here! 🥳🥳🥳
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— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) August 22, 2019
Texas Tech Football
Coach Randolph. “We’re talking about depositing. Putting something in the bank so you can withdraw on game day.” Coach Randolph seems like a pretty terrific guy.
Dallas News Preview. DallasNews’ Scott Bell has a Texas Tech preview I think, which is where they’ve maybe compiled a lot of their offseason stuff into one post (so if you’ve skipped it, now’s the time to read it!), including 3 stars, 3 breakout candidates, 3 key questions, 3 games to watch, etc.
Bauman Named Montana State Starting QB. Via Montana Sports’ Nick Petraccione notes that redshirt freshman Casey Bauman (6-6/235) as the starting quarterback. Not a lot of experience last year, Bauman won the job over the spring and preseason camp. Obviously Bauman is a bigger quarterback, but he can run a little as well, he scored 27 touchdowns as a senior, 15 of them on the ground. Did you hear that? Yes, that’s the sound of game-week approaching.
Miscellaneous . . . LandGrant Gauntlet’s Evan Green has a best-case and worst-case for 2019 and the best case is more realistic than the DallasNews one that we looked at earlier this week (or maybe that was last week?) but the worst case is a bit fantastical and the worst case . . . CBS Sports’ Ben Kercheval has the conference preview, including most overrated and underrated teams (Texas Tech did not make either list) and I don’t know that Texas Tech is really mentioned much at all other than Texas Tech is picked as high as 6th and as low as 8th . . .