Cowboys To Host Texas-Dallas In ASC Championship Series

Hardin-Simmons’ baseball team will host the University of Texas at Dallas on Friday in the first round of the American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament.

The Cowboys (24-16) and Comets (25-15) have split two games this season with HSU winning 4-3 in Richardson and UTD winning 11-9 in Abilene. It is the third time in five years of the current format the two teams have met in the best-of-three round of the tournament.

Hardin-Simmons finished as the No. 2 seed in the ASC West and UT-Dallas was the three seed out of the East. Other first round series include: the University of the Ozarks at Texas Lutheran, McMurry at Texas-Tyler and Mary Hardin-Baylor at Mississippi College. The winner of each series will advance to a double elimination tournament next weekend at the highest remaining East Division seed.

The home team has won 14 of the 16 series in the four seasons of the two-week tournament format. The Cowboys have won two series and lost two, including defeating UTD in 2005 in a series in Abilene. HSU lost at UTD in 2007.

The series will begin Friday night at 6 p.m. and will conclude on Saturday with a doubleheader if necessary on Saturday beginning at 2 p.m.