Frogs try to end losing streak
Team to play three-game series against BYU
By Evan Erwin
Skiff Staff

History is on the side of the baseball team this weekend, as it kicks off its three-game home series against the BYU Cougars 6:30 p.m. today.

The Frogs, who have an overall 9-7 record this season and a 4-1 all-time record against the Cougars (4-8), have won the last two meetings. In its four wins against the Cougars, TCU has beat them by an average of five runs. BYU’s only win came back in 1998 when it defeated the Frogs 11-10.

Head coach Lance Brown said the coaching staff has not had the chance to scout BYU’s baseball team this season.

TCU is currently on a three-game losing streak. It dropped the final two games of its three-game series against Texas-Arlington this past weekend and lost to the Oklahoma Sooners on the road Tuesday, 13-6.

Brown said the team will look to take advantage of the recent offensive output of sophomore right hander Jake Duncan.

“He is a good ballplayer, and we expect him to be doing what he is doing to protect (senior outfielder) Terry (Trofholz),” Brown said.

Duncan, the only consistent starter in the field who is not a senior, has seemed to find a niche in the cleanup spot, as he has hit .571 with four home runs and 6 RBIs in his last two games at that position in the batting order.

“We have to give people a chance in games to see what they can do,” Brown said.

In the last two games, 19 different players have seen starting time in the field and on the mound for the Frogs.

“We didn’t have a fall to work out our problems,” Brown said. “We are three months behind everyone else.”

The lack of a fall training has shown some of the apparent problems with the team.

Even though they did not have much for fall training, Brown said, he sees that as no excuse for TCU’s recent downfalls.

“Right now it’s time for people to play well,” Brown said.

Evan Erwin