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Kansas State that played with intensity and purpose, and took away a bit of control from the Red Raiders.

Texas Tech entered Thursday in control of its own destiny for a berth in the Big 12 Conference Championships next week in Oklahoma City. But it was Kansas State that played with intensity and purpose, and by doing so took away a bit of that control from the Red Raiders. Tech defensive miscues in the first inning handed the Wildcats three early runs, and it was the difference as Kansas State held off a ninth-inning Red Raider rally for a 7-5 victory in the opener of a three-game series at Rip Griffin Park.

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Newly back from injury, Redman pushing self 05/17/12 - 12:31am

It was the third inning of his first game back in the starting lineup, and Reid Redman was already being tested. A hard-hit ball off the bat of New Mexico third baseman D.J. Peterson forced Redman to dive far to his left, a play the Texas Tech senior third baseman has wowed Rip Griffin Park crowds with the last two seasons. But the ball eluded him and skipped into left field for an RBI single.

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Lack of senior leadership, inconsistent pitching hinder Kansas State in 2012 05/16/12 - 12:46am

In the previous eight seasons under head coach Brad Hill, Kansas State’s most successful teams have had a strong element of senior leadership. Those seniors might not have always been all-conference players, but they took a step up, Hill said, in terms of production, whether it was at the plate or on the mound, that helped push the Wildcats to be successful.

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Scenarios set for Texas Tech's path to the Big 12 Championships 05/15/12 - 12:27am

While the Texas Tech baseball team took the weekend off for final exams, one key series determined just what the Red Raiders must do to qualify for the Big 12 Championships next week in Oklahoma City. Kansas State’s 2-1 series win over Sunflower State rival Kansas pulled the ninth-place Wildcats (24-28, 5-16 in Big 12) to within a game of the seventh-place Red Raiders (28-24, 6-15) going into this weekend’s series between the teams at Rip Griffin Park.

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Despite lack of results in 2012, Spencer says Tech baseball program on right path 05/14/12 - 12:21am

Success on the field

Every day he comes to Rip Griffin Park, Texas Tech baseball coach Dan Spencer expects his team to be concerned about, and compete for, their starting jobs. He holds himself to the same standard. “You need do that and need to understand that it’s a business,” Spencer said in an interview as the team took this past weekend off for final exams. “We try to preach that to these guys, because this is part of their job, the other part going to school, and they’re being be evaluated every day. I don’t consider myself any different than that. I should be evaluated every day.”

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Red Raiders finally building some momentum 05/10/12 - 12:44am

Injury update

Having won five of its last seven games, the Texas Tech baseball team is finally playing the way it was at the first of the year and building some much needed momentum. Just in time to take eight days off for final exams. “I think it will help us,” senior third baseman Reid Redman said. “It will let everyone kind of clear their minds for a couple of days, take care of school and get all that behind them and get ready to make one last run.”

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Flora tosses six shutout innings as Red Raiders blank Dallas Baptist 5-0 05/09/12 - 12:41am

DALLAS — Senior left-hander Ben Flora, used mostly as a situational reliever, tossed six shutout innings in his first start of the season, and Texas Tech took advantage of four Dallas Baptist errors to blank the Patriots, 5-0, in the Red Raiders’ final non-conference game of the season Tuesday at Patriot Field. Flora (1-0) came into the game having thrown just 92/3 innings all season with a 7.45 ERA, but lowered that mark to 4.60 after he held the Patriots (34-15) to just three hits and a walk with two strikeouts.

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