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Texas Tech baseball: Red Raiders take two of three games in Round Rock

By Matthew Conner

CORAL GABLES, FL - JUNE 1: Head coach Tim Tadlock #6 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders talks to the umpires after a bench clearing altercation with the Miami Hurricanes during the Coral Gables Regional at the NCAA Baseball Tournament on June 1, 2014 at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field in Coral Gables, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)
CORAL GABLES, FL - JUNE 1: Head coach Tim Tadlock #6 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders talks to the umpires after a bench clearing altercation with the Miami Hurricanes during the Coral Gables Regional at the NCAA Baseball Tournament on June 1, 2014 at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field in Coral Gables, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images) /
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Jace Jung and Nate Rombach got a dose of reality

The two biggest stars of the season’s first weekend were true freshmen Jace Jung and Nate Rombach.  But this weekend, they learned that life against big-time competition is a bit tougher than what they experienced in their first taste of college baseball.

In the first four games, that duo combined to go 15-30 with 28 RBI.  Rombach was the National Player of the Week after a 7-14 weekend at the dish with five homers and 15 RBI while Jung was the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week thanks to going 8-16 with two homers and 13 RBI.

This weekend was much tougher going for that pair.  Together, they were 3-17 with just two RBI and only one extra-base hit between them.

Rombach was 0-2 vs. Tennessee before going 1-3 on Saturday and 1-2 on Sunday.  His only RBI of the weekend came Friday night on a sacrifice fly in the 4th inning to give Tech its second and final run against the Volunteers.  On a positive note, he did not have a strikeout in Round Rock so he was putting the ball in play, which means that he didn’t have terrible at-bats despite cooling off tremendously.

Jung’s only hit of the weekend was a loud one.  With Tech up 3-2 in the 7th Saturday against Stanford, he tripled to center field to drive in an important insurance run.  But unlike Rombach, he did not put the ball in play as much this weekend as he struck out four times.

These two young bats appear to be integral to this lineup as both have already shown to have some much-needed pop.  Though tye didn’t set the world on fire in Round Rock the way they did to open the season, they gained some valuable experience against better competition and it will only serve to help their development as college hitters.

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