TCU Opens Tournament Play Wednesday Against New Mexico
5/24/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 24, 2011
| No. 1 TCU (40-15) - 2011 Mountain West Conference Tournament | |
| Game No. 5 | vs. No. 6 New Mexico - Wed., May 25 - 9 p.m. CST |
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The TCU Horned Frogs open play in the 2011 MWC Postseason Tournament Wednesday night. The No. 1-seeded Frogs will play 6th-seed New Mexico who advanced after defeating the 3rd-seed BYU Tuesday afternoon. Game time Wednesday is set for 9 p.m. (CST). Matt Purke will start TCU's opening game of the tournament.
TCU NOTABLES
• TCU matched its best finish in league play with a sweep of New Mexico to stretch its winning streak to six games.
• TCU completed just its third regular season with 40 wins in school history.
• The Frogs' 40-win season was the sixth in school history, all coming under Jim Schlossnagle.
• The Frogs won their sixth straight league title with a 20-3 record in conference play.
• Ten Horned Frogs were honored as all-conference performers.
• Jantzen Witte, Josh Elander and Stefan Crichton were all first-time honorees.
• Joe Weik stretched his hitting streak to 16 games with a solid weekend at New Mexico that saw him hit .615 (8-for-13).
• Matt Purke, Kyle Winkler, Teddy Nowell and Tyler Duffie all combined to throw TCU's fourth shut out of the season on Thursday.
• On Friday, TCU set a season-high with 25 runs scored, 26 base hits and 35 total bases.
• Jantzen Witte was 6-for-7 in Friday's win.
• TCU is 25-6 since the start of April.
• Taylor Featherston led the team with eight RBIs against the Lobos.
NEUTRAL SITE NOTABLES
• TCU is playing its first neutral site games of the season.
• Under Coach Schlossnagle, the Frogs hold a 27-17 record at neutral sites.
CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT NOTABLES
• After missing out on a title in 2009, the 2010 squad returned to form with a three-game sweep of the MWC Tournament in San Diego.
• TCU's tournament crown in 2010 was its sixth title in the last seven years.
• TCU is 22-4 in conference tournaments under Jim Schlossnagle.
• TCU has had 30 players honored on the all-tournament squads over the last seven years.
• Matt Purke, Kyle Winkler and Taylor Featherston all have all-tournament plaques on their resumes.
• TCU has won 17 straight road tournament games dating back to the 2004 season.
• Three of TCU's four losses in the conference tournament have come at Lupton Stadium, the other was in Houston in 2004.
• The Frogs have won titles at Houston, at Southern Miss, at UNLV twice, at TCU and at San Diego State.
TCU vs. NEW MEXICO NOTABLES
• Wednesdays meeting with the Lobos will be the 51st in the series.
• TCU holds a 37-13 advantage in the series.
• Since joining the MWC in 2006, the Frogs are 23-6 against the Lobos.
• TCU won five of six meetings against the Lobos this season, including sweeping the Lobos in Albuquerque this past weekend.
• TCU is 4-1 against New Mexico in the MWC Postseason Tournament.
