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In a win-or-go-home affair between No. 2 ranked Texas baseball and the No. 6 ranked Virginia Cavaliers late in the night of June 24, head coach David Pierce was trying to keep his team alive in Omaha. Texas needed a win over Virginia to keep from heading back to Austin early.
Although there was a lot of anticipation surrounding this game for Pierce and the Longhorns, it didn’t start the way we imagined it would. Texas and Virginia weren’t actually able to get the first pitch of this game off until 9:45 p.