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at stake with game against Bears The Frogs, who are tied for second place in the Conference USA standings, will be heading into today’s game against No. 17-ranked Baylor to prepare themselves for this weekend’s match-up against conference foe South Florida. TCU, who enters the game after taking two of three in its conference series against Charlotte, is set to square off with regional rival Baylor for a one-game series at 2:35 p.m. at the TCU Diamond.
The Frogs (15-15. 6-3 C-USA) will be facing the Bears (20-11, No. 17 Baseball America) for the second consecutive Tuesday. Last week the Frogs won 5-3 in Baylor, and are 2-0 against the Bears this year. Head coach Lance Brown said the team will look to beat Baylor, but more importantly use the game to prepare for their weekend series with South Florida, a team they are not familiar with. “We’ll try to win,” Brown said. “But we are trying to go over South Florida and figure out where they are. We’ll try to use this to prepare us for this weekend. We’ll get the right pitchers ready, and see how many left and right-handed batters we will need. That way we will get set up to where we know what we will have to face, and be prepared for it.” In the first two games over this past weekend, TCU had an offensive explosion, winning 11-6 and 20-3. In Sunday’s finale however, the team fell behind early and was not able to recover, losing 5-4. The loss that snapped a six-game winning streak. Brown said that despite winning two of the games, losing the one hurt the Frogs in the conference race. “I guess if you were to go in and take 2 out of 3, that it would be good,” Brown said. “But we didn’t play that well the third game, so you leave disappointed. We really thought we should have had three, we let that one slip away.” Brown attributes the won-loss record in conference to the lack of knowledge of opponents in their first year of Conference USA. “If we were in the WAC, we knew we knew the teams we had to play and how good they were,” Brown said. “In this league you sort of don’t know. I think it’s gonna be a weekend to weekend thing.” Junior first baseman Walter Olmstead stood out the most in the major offensive production of the weekend, Brown said. Olmstead, who a month ago had a .156 batting average, was named Conference USA Hitter of the Week. In the weekend series against Charlotte, Olmstead was 7-for-13, including two doubles, two home runs, and back-to-back six RBI games. Olmstead narrowly missed his third home run in as many days in the ninth inning of Sunday’s game. For the season, Olmstead is now batting .306, and leads the team with 6 home runs. “They (Charlotte) threw him some good pitches,” Brown said. “He was patient enough to wait and hit the good pitches. I think every weekend helps him with where he was at the beginning of the year. He was pressing too hard at the beginning of the year, and now I think he has just relaxed.” Danny
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