SAN ANTONIO – After losing in last week’s conference tournament, the University of Texas at San Antonio baseball team learned its season will live to fight another day.
The Roadrunners earned an at-large bid Monday to the Austin regional of the 2025 NCAA Baseball Championship.
According to the university, this year’s at-large regional bid is UTSA’s first in program history. The Roadrunners qualified for the regional round in three previous instances as conference tournament champions: 1994, 2005 and 2013.
UTSA will be in a four-team pod at Austin’s UFCU Disch-Falk Field, where it will be hosted by the top seed in the region: the University of Texas. The Longhorns will face the No. 4 seed Houston Christian, who won the Southland Conference tournament outright, at 1 p.m. Friday.
The Roadrunners (44-13) will take on the third-seeded Kansas State Wildcats at 6 p.m. Friday.
After beating Florida Atlantic in the American Athletic Conference tournament on Friday, Tulane defeated UTSA 6-3 on Saturday morning.
The winner of the Texas/Houston Christian game will meet the UTSA/Kansas State winner on Saturday.
Coincidentally, the Roadrunners have some experience facing two teams in this week’s Austin regional. UTSA beat the Longhorns 8-7 in a 12-inning affair on March 18 and ran away from Houston Christian in a 12-1 win on Feb. 25.
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