TCU looks for first win of season this weekend
Frogs to play three games against Roadrunners
By Evan Erwin
Skiff Staff

The baseball team (0-1) will look to even its record against Texas-San Antonio today at the Charles and Marie Lupton Baseball Stadium. The Frogs have a three-game series against the Roadrunners this weekend.

The first pitch will be thrown 3:30 p.m. Friday. TCU will also play 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:00 p.m. Sunday.

The last time TCU faced off against UTSA was in 1994 when the Roadrunners swept a three-game weekend series. The all-time record between the two teams is 3-3. In 1993, TCU swept the Roadrunners in three games.

Senior second baseman Will Lewis said the team is still adjusting to the start of its new season.

“We’re getting back into baseball,” Lewis said. “We are working on getting leadoff runners on, bunting guys over, and getting into UTSA’s bullpen.”

UTSA does however have three returning middle relievers led by team captain Hector Rodriguez. Although UTSA’s record last season was 25-29, the Roadrunners, who finished 7th in the Southland Conference, have eight returning starters.

“They are a pretty good team,” head coach Lance Brown said. “We are looking to work out our kinks.”

The Roadrunners still have a big hole to fill at third base. They lost All-American and team Most Valuable Player Mark Schramek to the Cincinnati Reds in the first round of Major League Baseball draft. UTSA looks to fill his position with Tulane’s sophomore transfer Brooks Shankle. Shankle started at third base for the Green Wave in 2001 as a true freshman and batted .280 with four home runs and 35 RBIs.

TCU will likely have a hole of its own to fill. Senior third baseman Jared Lundeen is listed as day to day with a hand injury he suffered in practice.

Brown said Chris Neuman, a junior transfer from Texas, will replace Lundeen today. Neuman won the National Championship with the Longhorns last season. He only committed two errors and batted .259 in two seasons with the Longhorns.

The probable pitcher for UTSA today is senior Mike Srp. He had a 5-6 record last year, with a 3.97 ERA and 41 strikeouts. Srp began his college baseball career at TCU, appearing in five games as a true freshman.

The Frogs look to start junior right hander Clayton Jerome. As a sophomore, Jerome went 9-5 with an ERA of 3.33. His 74 strike outs in 110.2 innings pitched last season earned him TCU’s Pitcher of the Year.

Evan Erwin
e.j.erwin@tcu.edu