TCU baseball starting, ending non-Big 12 week with familiar foe UT Arlington

Coming off its first Big 12 series loss since last season, TCU doesn’t have to think about conference games for a while. But another familiar foe awaits.

The Horned Frogs (18-5) play their next five contests out of league, starting with Tuesday night’s game at UT Arlington, continuing with a weekend series at Wichita State and then finishing with another game against UT Arlington.

It’s part of a stretch of seven consecutive road games, which began last weekend with a 1-2 showing at Texas. TCU won the finale 9-5 on Sunday, avoiding a sweep. TCU last lost a Big 12 series on April 10-12, 2015, at Kansas State.

“Today shows the resiliency of our team,” coach Jim Schlossnagle said after Sunday’s win, which included three-hit outings from Luken Baker and Elliott Barzilli and Ryan Burnett’s victory in relief. “Burnett pitched well enough to slow them down a bit. Obviously we swung the bats better today.”

TCU is 1-0 against UT Arlington this season, having won 5-1 at Lupton Stadium on March 8. The third game between the teams is scheduled April 6 at Lupton Stadium.

UT Arlington (14-11) is on a four-game winning streak after defeating Baylor on March 22 and sweeping Incarnate Word last weekend. Matt McLean had three hits in Sunday’s 13-0 victory, his eighth multi-hit effort in the past 11 games.

The conference schedule resumes for TCU on April 8 with a three-game series at Kansas.

UT Arlington returns to Sun Belt Conference action with a three-game series at Georgia State starting Friday.

This story was originally published March 28, 2016 at 8:22 PM with the headline "TCU baseball starting, ending non-Big 12 week with familiar foe UT Arlington."