Red Raiders extend streak to 9 with wins over Rider, Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Kendall Fritz threw a six-hit complete game and Texas Tech beat No. 22 Maryland 6-1 Friday night for its ninth victory in a row.
Makinzy Herzog went 3 for 3 with a run-scoring double and Morgan Hornback hit a two-run homer. The victory was Tech's second of the day in the Terrapins' Capital City Classic. Earlier Friday, the Red Raiders run-ruled Rider 9-1 in five innings.
Tech (24-7) took a 3-0 lead in the first inning against Maryland (20-5). Arriana Villa drove in the first run with a fielder's choice, and Peyton Blythe and Ellie Bailey followed with an RBI double and an RBI single, respectively.
Hornback's homer came in the seventh and made it 6-0.
Sydney Lewis broke up a shutout bid by Fritz (7-1) with a pinch-hit homer with one out in the seventh. Fritz struck out six with no walks.
On Saturday, the Red Raiders play North Dakota (3-25) at 3:30 p.m. CDT and Maryland at 6 p.m.
In Friday's early game, Tech hit five home runs and Sage Hoover allowed two hits in a run-rule-shortened complete game win over Rider.
Kailey Wyckoff and Alana Barraza launched two-run homers in the bottom of the first inning, giving Tech a 4-1 lead. In the fourth, Demi Elder unloaded a two-run drive and Herzog a solo shot.
Bailey hit a two-run homer in the fifth, invoking the run rule and ending the game.
The home runs were Bailey's eighth of the season, Herzog's seventh, Wyckoff's sixth, Barraza's fourth and Elder's third.
Hoover (12-0) struck out four and walked three. Rider (4-11) reached her in the first when Jessie Niegocki walked, Julia Harsche doubled and Chaela Crowder delivered an RBI groundout.
Soccer
Former Texas Tech star Janine Beckie will miss the rest of the National Women's Soccer League season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, according to an announcement Friday by her team, the Portland Thorns FC.
The Thorns said Beckie will have surgery on her right knee in the coming weeks and will do rehabilitation with the club's sports medicine staff. The Oregonian reported Beckie suffered the contact injury during the Thorns' preseason match Wednesday against the U.S. Under-23 women's national team.
Beckie, a 28-year-old forward, played in 17 games last year for Portland, which won the NWSL championship. She's also played in the NWSL for the Houston Dash (2016-17) and the New Jersey-based Sky Blue FC (2018) and in the Women's Super League with Manchester City (2018-22).
Men's tennis
EUGENE, Ore. — Texas Tech spotted Brigham Young the doubles point, then stormed back for a 4-1 victory Friday night for its sixth dual-match win in a row.
Isaac Arevalo, Dimitrios Azoidis, Lorenzo Esquici and Franco Ribero won their singles matches on the Nos. 3, 6, 5 and 2 courts. BYU (3-8) lost its fifth in a row.
The Red Raiders (11-6) won both duals on their Oregon trip. In Thursday night's action, Esquici won a three-set match from Ray Lo, clinching a 4-2 victory for Tech over Oregon.
Tech and Oregon (8-6) were tied 2-2 before Azoidis won No. 6 singles 7-6 (4), 6-3 over Luke Vandecasteele. Then Esquici outlasted Lo 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (2) at No. 5 singles.
Tech got off to a 2-0 lead. The Red Raiders took the best-of-three doubles point with wins from the teams of Esquici-Arevalo and Ribero-Piotr Pawlak. Olle Wallin then beat Joshua Charlton 6-2, 7-5 at No. 1 singles.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tech roundup: Red Raiders extend streak to 9 with wins over Rider, Maryland
