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DALLAS — The Texas Tech baseball team’s struggling offense put together one of its best innings and top hitting games of the season Tuesday at Dallas Baptist. But it still wasn’t enough as the Patriots were just a touch better in taking a 10-9 victory over the Red Raiders at Horner Ballpark. The loss knocks Tech (17-18), which tied a season high with 14 hits, below .500 overall for the first time this season and for the first time since ending the 2010 season 28-29. The Red Raiders have now lost nine of their last 10 and nine of their last 11.

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No. 15 Tech women's tennis tames Texas for first time in Austin 04/07/13 - 12:41am

AUSTIN — Caroline Starck fought back from losing the first set to claim the final two, and the No. 15 Texas Tech tennis team rallied for a 4-3 win over No. 24 Texas in a Big 12 Conference match on Saturday at the Pennick-Allison Tennis Center. The win improves the Red Raiders to 15-4 overall and keeps them atop the league at 5-0. It’s only the second time the Tech women have beaten Texas and the first win for the Lady Raiders in Austin

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Tech sports roundup: Kansas State scores two in the ninth to rally past Tech, 6-5 04/06/13 - 12:46am

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Austin Fisher snuck an RBI single through the right side with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and Kansas State rallied for two runs in its final at-bat for a 6-5 victory over Texas Tech in the opener of a three-game Big 12 Conference series Friday night at Tointon Family Stadium. Tech (17-15, 4-6 in Big 12) led since scoring three runs in the top of the fourth inning to take a 3-2 lead, and led 5-3 going to the bottom of the eighth before the Wildcats (21-10, 4-3) added a run on a Mitch Meyer sacrifice fly.

New Mexico pounds Tech pitching 04/03/13 - 12:51am

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico pounded out 12 hits against four Texas Tech pitchers, scoring at least once in each of the first five innings to jump out to a big lead and cruise to a 10-3 victory over the Red Raiders on Tuesday at Lobo Field. Conversely, the Red Raiders (17-14) managed just three runs on three hits against a Lobos team that entered the game with an ERA above 5.00 and had allowed more than 6.6 runs per game.

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OSU tops Tech twice, takes series 03/31/13 - 1:04am

STILLWATER, Okla. — Simone Freeman and Kat Espinosa combined to hold Texas Tech to an unearned run on three hits, and Oklahoma State came back from a loss in the first game of the series to win twice Saturday, 2-1 and 4-1. Freeman pitched the first two innings and allowed one hit while walking two and striking out two. Espinosa (12-7) finished it by scattering two hits and two walks with four strikeouts.