Texas baseball OF Douglas Hodo III makes SC Not Top 10

Ahead of the first game of the College World Series for head coach David Pierce and No. 9 Texas baseball against the unseeded and upset-minded Notre Dame Fighting Irish, there was some shade thrown by ESPN’s SportsCenter. In this week’s edition of the SportsCenter Not Top 10, released on June 17, Texas redshirt sophomore outfielder Douglas Hodo III made the list.

It was a play in the first game of the Greenville Super Regional on the warning track where Hodo had the ball in his glove and then wound up bobbling it over the fence that made it on the SC Not Top 10 this week. That play resulted in a home run that pushed the lead for the No. 8 East Carolina Pirates in Game 1 of the Greenville Super Regional in the bottom of the eighth inning to two runs.

The opener of the Greenville Super Regional would be the only game that the Pirates would claim a victory over Texas in, though. Texas would go on to walk it off against the Pirates in Game 2 of the Greenville Super Regional. And then, the Longhorns dominated ECU in Game 3 of that super regional to the tune of a double-digit win.

Texas baseball’s Douglas Hodo III makes it on this week’s SC Not Top 10

Momentum went in favor of the Pirates over the Longhorns in the first game of the supers. But Texas would steal momentum back for good in the Greenville Super Regional last weekend in the last two games.

Texas’ wins in the final two games in supers over ECU put this team in the College World Series in Omaha, NE, for the second year in a row. This is also the record 38th appearance in Omaha for the College World Series in the history of the Longhorns baseball program.

Hodo and the Longhorns carry a record of 47-20 (14-10 Big 12) into the College World Series, which begins for this team on June 17. The first pitch time between Texas and Notre Dame in each team’s first game in the CWS in Omaha on June 17 is set for 6 p.m. CT.