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Texas Tech baseball: Five heroes of Red Raiders’ regional win

By Matthew Conner

STILLWATER, OK - SEPTEMBER 25: The Texas Tech Red Raiders flag flies outside the stadium before the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys September 25, 2014 at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Cowboys defeated the Red Raiders 45-35. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
STILLWATER, OK - SEPTEMBER 25: The Texas Tech Red Raiders flag flies outside the stadium before the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys September 25, 2014 at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Cowboys defeated the Red Raiders 45-35. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /
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1B Cameron Warren

With Jung, Klein and Holt all being held in check, Tech needed its other All-Conference slugger to step up and that’s exactly what Cameron Warren did.  The MVP of the Lubbock Regional became the first Red Raider to homer in three-straight NCAA Tournament games and his final two blasts were critical.

In Saturday’s game, he put the Red Raiders up 2-0 with a deep shot in the third inning.  Tech would score only one other run in the game (a Braxton Fulford RBI single) but because DBU was able to put two runs on the board, Warren’s bomb was not technically the game-winner.  However,  the Red Raiders would not have won without Warren’s heroics.

And Sunday, his three-run homer was the only offense the Red Raiders would receive.  Fortunately, the Red Raider pitching staff was able to make the first-inning dinger stand up.

It was the second time this season that Warren homered in three-straight games.  He now has 17 long balls on the season and 27 for his career.

And the Red Raiders needed their lone senior to come up big.  He was one of only two players on the team with more than two RBI this weekend (the other we will get to in a moment) and the only with multiple two-RBI games.  What’s more, with eight total RBI, he drove in 47% of Tech’s 17 runs this weekend.

Moving forward, it will be tough for Warren to keep up that type of production, especially as teams begin to pitch around him or walk him intentionally as DBU did.  That means the other stars in the lineup will have to perform in a manner closer to the numbers they put up in the regular season.  But thankfully, when the Red Raiders saw several of their top sluggers bottled up, their biggest bat came through with one of the biggest weekends in program history.

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