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SPORTS

Seat selection impacts student engagement.

TTU baseball opened the 2020 season with four straight wins, with a combined 65 runs over Opening Weekend. Read recaps of each game on our website.

New Billie Eilish song hypes up future Bond film.

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RecycleMania prompts sustainability leading up to spring season

By ADÁN RUBIO

News & L a Vida Editor

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Texas Tech University Housing will host the annual Recycled Art Contest on Saturday, March 25, 2020, in the Red Raider Ballroom located in the Student Union Building. The Recycled Art Contest is just one event during RecycleMania meant to help people get involved in conservation efforts. Pictured are some of last year’s entries.

Cleaning the environment is a task that may be daunting to some. But for students, faculty and staff at Texas Tech, multiple events will provide the chance to help the earth and have fun.

RecycleMania is an eight-week competition where college students across the United States and Canada compete to be the most sustainable in different categories, according to the RecycleMania website. Colleges can compete in categories, such as the Diversion category, which consists of recycling to divert waste from landfills, and Food Organics, which consists of reducing food waste.

Colleges will receive national recognition and an award if they win a category, according to the RecycleMania website.

Lynne Thurston, senior ad-

viser at Tech University Student Housing, said she is trying to get more of the Tech community involved in campus RecycleMania events this year.

“Our purpose is to make recycling at the front of people’s minds, so that they’ll look around for places to recycle and not just put their aluminum can in the trash or their plastic bottle in the trash,” she said. “RecycleMania focuses on doing it right, so we don’t want you to be trying to do every single piece of whatever. We want you to focus on water bottles, aluminum cans, pieces of paper.”

Even though RecycleMania already started on Feb. 2, Thurston said there will still be opportunities for students to take part in campus events until March 28 when RecycleMania ends for the year. Upcoming RecycleMania events on campus include:

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BASEBALL

Expectations high for Rombach, Jung after doubleheader wins

By MAX HENGST Sports Editor

The No. 3 Texas Tech baseball team’s offense sparked in Saturday’s doubleheader against Houston Baptist and Northern Colorado.

As the Red Raiders scored 46 combined runs in the two games, two freshmen led Tech’s offensive day.

Tu r n i n g h e a d s i n Tech’s opening weekend was freshman catcher/designated hitter, Nate Rombach. In the Red Raiders’ first game of the doubleheader, Rombach hit three home runs, recording seven RBI. In his four at-bats, Rombach scored four runs.

Following the Red Raiders’ 24-3 run-rule win over Houston Baptist, Rombach’s hot bat carried over to help defeat Northern Colorado 22-4. The freshman hit another home run, marking his fourth home run of the day. Of his four home runs, three were KINLEY ROBINSON & MANDI MCDONALD/The Daily Toreador

CUTOUT: Freshman catcher Nate Rombach jogs to first base after being hit by a pitch during the Texas Tech baseball game vs. Northern Colorado on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Tech defeated Northern Colorado, 22-4. RIGHT: Freshman infielder Jace Jung prepares to swing at a pitch during the Texas Tech baseball vs. Houston Baptist game on Feb. 15, 2020, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Texas Tech defeated Houston Baptist, 24-3.

three-run homers. He finished the game against Northern Colorado with two hits, two runs and four RBI. This was the first time Rombach has hit four home runs in one day, including his high school career.

“I think the most (home runs) I’ve ever hit in one game was two,” Rombach said. “I may have hit three in one day, maybe in summer ball when we were playing like three or four games in a row, but I have never had that many.”

With his success at the plate, Rombach said fans and his teammates joked with him, telling him they wanted to see more home runs. While having a good day at the plate, Rombach will try and keep his composure going into future games.

“You just kind of have to be where your feet are. In baseball, whether you are having success or struggling, you just have to go into the next day knowing you’re 0-0,” Rombach said.

“You can have three home runs one day and three strikeouts the next,

so I just have to continue to work hard every single day and just put it behind me and keep trying to help this team win a national championship.”

The spotlight is not new for Rombach as his grandfather is well known in the baseball world. His grandfather coached baseball at Duncanville High School, retiring as the second-winningest coach in Texas high school baseball.

Expectations remained high for Rombach since committing to Tech. Along with a well-known grandfather, Rombach turned down an early start to his pro career after getting drafted by the Marlins in the 19th round.

“Tech has always been a family school.

Both my parents went and my brother came here for a year,” Rombach said. “I’ve always just liked Tech, and obviously it’s a great baseball program, but it just felt right for me. It was a right fit for me, and it was just where I wanted to be.”

Rombach was not the only freshman with family ties to Tech as third baseman Jace Jung’s older brother, Josh Jung, was one of Tech’s highestdrafted players

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in program history after getting selected by the Texas Rangers organization with the eighth overall pick.

After his brother established the family name in Lubbock, Jung made the decision to come to Tech looking to fill his shoes.

“The legacy he left here, I just wanted to continue it,” Jung said. “Just do the best I can for this team and see how far we can make it.”

As he looks to continue the legacy, Jung is off to a great start as he tallied four hits and five runs in Tech’s doubleheader on Saturday. His offensive performance was highlighted with a two-run homer in the first inning and nine RBI collectively. After sending his first ball out of the park, Jung said he rounded the bases with the biggest smile on his face.

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TECHNOLOGY

Phishing scams warrant caution among students

By EMMA SIPPLE Copy Editor

From one’s laptop to one’s work computer, people on college campuses may be at risk of providing personal information to cybercriminals.

With the threat of phishing, people may need to stay vigilant of different red flags.

During the end of January, people received scam text messages about orders from Amazon and FedEx. This type of scam is known as smishing, combining short message service, or texting, and phishing.

“Smishing or text message phishing has been around a long time. But because so many people now rely upon text messaging as a main

means of communication, the hackers are targeting victims through that means as well,” Scott Hall, managing director of Texas Tech IT Help Central, said.

The messages appeared to be from FedEx and Amazon, Hall said, but the URLs and other details were wrong.

“Usually, these types of messages will try to create a sense of urgency that they need you do respond within a certain amount of time,” Hall said. “There may be some prize or reward, or benefit, tied to it. ‘If you do this, you’ll get this.’ Some of the common things to look for are grammar, incorrect URLs, maybe they’re trying to make it appear that it’s coming from Amazon or FedEx, but it’s

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actually not their URL.” Usually, most people can recognize phishing scams because of the nature of the messages and the errors often in them, Sam Segran, Tech chief information officer and vice president for Information Technology, said.

“If you look at like an 80/20 rule, but 80 percent of them are going to be one that they can detect very, very quickly, very easily,” Segran said regarding one detection method. “The 20 percent or the 10 percent, that you have to be careful about is when a message comes to you where it looks like what we would call spearfishing. They are targeted to that audience.”

These messages could include the Tech letterhead or logo in it, or they appear to have come from a Tech employee, Segran said.

“For students especially, they need to be careful when they get emails that make it look like it is from a financial aid scholarship education loans,” he said.

“Because those are the ones they will tend to fall victim for if it looks like it is targeted for university students, and cyber criminals are smart enough to know, nowadays, that if they’re sending a communication to a student at a university,

they know the general buzzwords to use about loans, scholarships, information like that.”

If students get an email they are unsure about, they should check the email address to make sure it is a legitimate one from Tech, Segran said. He also advised students to call the help desk to see if the email is legit.

“Anytime it looks like they’re asking for information, that should be a red flag right there,” Segran said. “Nobody should be asking you for your personal information.”

IT will send out notices when there are specific targeted attacks going out.

“It’s important for individuals to read those and pay attention to those,” Hall said.

Tech works with Microsoft to catch attacks, Segran said. Emails that are spam or seem like it will go into the spam folder. He said to be cautious when checking the spam folder.

“If you find a legitimate email in a spam folder once in a while, you may rescue that, but generally, if the system has already detected it and put it in a spam folder, be very, very, very careful about even trying to go and open up something like that,” he said.

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Students can be at risk of phishing scams through a number of ways. Texas Tech IT Help Central is one resource students can utilize in the event of a cyberattack. ful of any phishing emails that end up in their inboxes, Segran said.

“If you do get one of these messages, don’t click any of the links in the message, whether it’s a text message or email,” Hall said. “Don’t provide any personal or financial information. Delete the messages, so you don’t accidentally click on or forward them to others and be sure that you’re updating your devices. Those are some of the best ways to protect yourself.”

If students accidentally click on a link or fill in information, they should call Tech IT Help Central at 806-742-

4357, Segran said.

“Don’t be embarrassed.

Call our help desk,” Segran said. “Sometimes, people start giving information and realize halfway, ‘Wait a minute, this is freaking me out.

This is not right.’”

There are more options to get out of a phishing scam than one thinks, Segran said.

“Say, ‘Hey, I went to this website I probably shouldn’t have, but I gave this much information, can you help?’” he said. “We can still help. You know, we can still go and block this site.

The thing is how quickly they come to us.” @EmmaSippleDT

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Residents of Mississippi capital brace for more flooding FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Residents of Jackson braced Sunday for the possibility of catastrophic flooding in and around the Mississippi capital as the Pearl River rose precipitously after days of torrential rain.

Gov. Tate Reeves said the Pearl would continue to rise throughout the day, and he warned that the state faces a “precarious situation that can turn at any moment.”

Officials urged residents to pay attention to evacuation orders, check on road closures before traveling and stay out of

floodwaters, warning that even seemingly placid waters could mask quickly moving currents and pollution. Law enforcement officials went door to door in affected areas, telling people to evacuate, Reeves said.

Rescuers performed four assisted evacuations Saturday, although they said none were needed overnight.

“We expect the river to continue to rise over the next 24 hours or so, “ Reeves said at a news conference in Jackson. “We are not out of the woods yet.”

In the suburb of Flowood,

John and Jina Smith had packed up as much as they could and left their home as waters rose Thursday.

On Sunday, their neighbor Dale Frazier took them back to their house in a rowboat, where they checked on the damage, then got in their own canoe and rowed away.

“We’ve been able to stay in here when the water gets up,” John Smith said. “But as you’ve watched it over the years, you know when to get out. It’s time to get out this time.”

A foot and a half of water

was inside his house, Smith said. He’d already been in touch with a contractor and insurance agent about rebuilding. Both he and his wife say they love their home, where they can sit on their back porch and watch deer and other wildlife “It’s going to take a while for us to rebuild, but we are safe, and we’re all OK,” Jina Smith said.

On Frazier’s lot next door, the water was at the bottom of the driveway but had not crept inside the one-story house where he’s lived for 23 years.

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Seat selection impacts student engagement

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gives a student someone to do class with. If someone misses a day, one of the friends can take notes for the other.

“I think it is important to be aware of how engaged you are

depending on where you sit in the classroom,” Doran said. “I think it might help to experiment as well.”

Erika Brooks-Hurst, administrator for diversity, equity, and

inclusive teaching initiatives for the Tech Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center, said she tells professors to be aware of where the students sit and which students

are providing the most feedback in the classroom. She then wants the professors to try and walk around the room to talk to students in all areas.

Seating should not be a problem for students’ engagement, Brooks-Hurst said. The professors can do different things to make sure that all students can be engaged.

Professors can ask the students to pair and share, she said.

Pair and share is when students are paired in groups, talk about a topic, then one student from the group provides feedback. This helps to make sure all students are engaged in the class.

Another tactic is for professors to try and learn the names of their students to be able to call on them randomly for responses, Brooks-Hurst said. This also helps a professor when they need to call a chatty student out or minimize other distractions.

“It varies where students sit and how they participate in class,” Brooks-Hurst said. “No matter where a student sits, they should be asked to engage in the classroom.”

Emily Boyes, a senior journalism major from McKinney,

as a volunteer for the event, one should email housing at gogreen@ttu.edu. This event does not allow for free admittance into the game.

Trash for Treasure In exchange for a bag of recyclables, students can get free shirts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 13 in the Free Speech Area.

Recycled Art Contest Before taking their recyclables to a recycling center, students staff or faculty can use them to make art pieces for a contest on March 23.

To register an art piece, one must enter it under GoGreen Forms at housing.ttu.edu/ gogreen. The entry deadline is 4 p.m. on March 23. People will be able to vote on the art pieces from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

on March 25 in the Student Union Building Courtyard.

about how many recyclables were processed, Thurston said. The Lubbock community will bring more recyclables to the center than people at Tech.

“That’s because lots and lots of citizens know that the money that we get from recycling goes to student scholarships,” she said. “So, they bring their stuff here specifically instead of taking it to a city location.”

In addition to the impact RecycleMania may have on the environment, the competition may affect participants in different ways.

Elizabeth Bowen, assistant director of the Tech Graduate Writing Center, said the center has participated in RecycleMania

since 2018. The GWC’s second year taking part in RecycleMania consisted of working with the University Writing Center. This year, the GWC is the only writing center participating.

“I guess all of us who work in the writing centers are socially aware of some of the social problems in the world,” she said. “So, being good stewards, I guess, of our world and our resources are important to us. So, it just stands to reason that we would participate in something like this.”

Members of the GWC and the Graduate Center, which is where the GWC is located, typically recycle regardless of the time of year, Bowen said. There are recycling bins in the Graduate

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Even before class starts, students may be able to boost their success in a course by being aware of where they are seated in the classroom.

James Doran, an instructor for the Texas Tech College of Media and Communication, said he has noticed the factors of seat selection among students and himself.

Personally, Doran liked to sit in the front as he said it was best for his attention to keep him engaged and help with his relationship with his professors.

A student who usually sits closer in the front tends to participate more, whether that is due to closer proximity to the professor or the type of personality the student has, Doran said.

Students who sit in the back are most times likely to want to speak less.

When someone has a friend in their class and they choose to sit by them, there are positives and negatives, Doran said. One is likely to want to talk and be distracted with one another with a friend in class, but a friend also

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Skip the Straw Day Students are encouraged to order drinks without straws to help the environment on Feb. 28.

Get Caught Green Handed If a student is seen being green, they will be rewarded with a coupon for Barnes and Noble. The event will take place throughout February and March.

Game Day Challenge Anyone at Tech is encouraged to stay behind after the Tech men’s basketball game against the University of Kansas to help clean up the United Supermarkets Arena on March 7. The game will start at 1 p.m. To register

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Several factors can go into a student’s seat selection in class. Where a student sits can affect his or her engagement and grades in class.

Even though events will not be hosted during spring break, Thurston said she encourages students to apply for the Sustainability Scholarship, which has a deadline of March 22. She said about 50 scholarships were rewarded last year.

One can apply for the scholarship at the Tech University Student Housing website.

“Because we accept things from all over the city of Lubbock, not just people on campus,” Thurston said. “During RecycleMania, we make the effort to isolate all the stuff that comes to us from the campus, and we weigh it.”

The center gets a report

said she likes to choose her seat in the classroom wisely as she likes to sit in the front two rows.

She does this to avoid getting distracted easily and likes to minimize what’s happening around her.

The class size determines a little bit of how student engage within a classroom based on seating selection, Boyes said. In a smaller classroom setting, most students pay attention regardless of position because the teacher can see everyone more clearly. In a larger classroom, she notices the students who sit in the back are less engaged and on their phones or laptops.

One thing Boyes said influences her to sit in the front is being able to have more interactions with the professor and possibly be remembered better.

“I was presented with a study where the students who sit in the front have a higher pass rate and tend to do better in the classroom,” Boyes said.

“I’m trying to get the best grades that I can in college, so I tend to sit in the front.”

Center, and most of the staff takes their recyclables to the recycling center on campus.

“It makes it a fun way to really get recycling at the forefront of people’s minds,” she said regarding RecycleMania.

Being able to encourage education through RecycleMania, as the money goes toward student scholarships, is one factor Bowen said she likes.

“I think anything that gets people recycling rather than filling up the landfills is a great thing,” she said. “I wish more people would realize how important it is to recycle.”

For more information about RecycleMania and forms to register for certain events, visit the Tech University Student Housing website.

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New Billie Eilish song hypes up future Bond film

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n today’s culture, the name James Bond is just passed off as a spy movie of yesteryear. However, the name Billie Eilish is a well-known and household name. Before this year, these two names would never have been thought of together, but that all changed with the release of Eilish’s newest song.

On Feb. 13, Eilish released the long-awaited title song of the twenty-fifth installment of the James Bond film series, “No Time to Die.” The song, which shares the name of the movie, is written and performed by Eilish with a writing and production credit from her brother, Finneas O’Connell. This single was the first Bond theme song to be made out of a bedroom studio and made Eilish the youngest artist in history to write and record a James Bond theme song.

The film, which is set to release on April 10, is directed by Cary Joji Fu-

Marcus Gutierrez is a sophomore creative media industries major from Houston.

kunaga and stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the MI6 agent James Bond aka 007.

Craig is the most recent Bond, starting in the 2006 film, “Casino Royale,” and would portray him in 2008’s “Quantum of Solace, 2012’s “Skyfall” and 2015’s “Spectre.” The character of James Bond, created by Ian Fleming, has been on the big screen since 1962 with Sean Connery as the secret agent in Terence Young’s “Dr. No” and stands as one of the longest-running film series of all time.

The song was immediately met with praise for its meaningful take on the character and the story of Craig’s portrayal of a broken person moving mission to

mission. This type of character portrayal has not been seen in the Bond film series before and the same goes for any of the films’ themes.

From “Dr. No” to “Die Another Day,” the portrayal of Bond has always been a very suave womanizer who has the cool gadgets and gets the girl (a new girl every movie, mind you).

The song, which shares the name of the movie, is written and performed by Eilish with a writing and production credit from her brother, Finneas O’Connell.

When “Casino Royale” was released, audiences were led to believe this would remain the same.

H o w e v e r, t h i s w o u l d change by the end of the film showing a heartbroken and guilt-ridden Bond that would be seen in“Spectre.”

Every subsequent song would either be a description of the story at hand or an attempt to make a Bond movie advertise the artist’s music; this can be seen in Adele’s “Skyfall” and Sam Smith’s “Writing on the Wall” respectively.

Not to say that all of the Bond theme songs don’t bring anything new to the table or have any importance to movie. In the song “You Know My Name” by Chris Cornell, heard in “Casino Royale,” the basis of the song is to reintroduce Bond to a new audience with the proclamation of knowing the name of Bond but being shown a new type of Bond story.

W h e r e “ N o Ti m e t o Die” differs from the others is that the song itself presents the internal con-

flict that 007 has been experiencing since the end of “Casino Royale;” when there is deceit and betrayal in the world, can anyone really be trusted?

Whether it be cool gadgets, fast cars or dry martinis, “No Time to Die” has me hyped for the new Bond film and excited to see what comes next for the legendary spy.

The lines “Was I stupid to love you?” and “Was I reckless to help?” and “Was it obvious to everybody else?” have much larger meanings towards the story rather than being passed off as another Eilish line. These lines reflect the questions Bond asks himself when he attempts to attach himself

to someone with hopes of there being a future.

Throughout Craig’s portrayals, all have these questions in common; always coming back to haunt him after the death of every woman he has grown close to. Either they betray him or they die for him.

That is the biggest message Eilish is trying to portray in her single: a story of a man or woman broken by the world and never given a chance to be happy. This is how this song can differ from the rest; not with just a story but with a message.

Whether it be cool gadgets, fast cars or dry martinis, “No Time to Die” has me hyped for the new Bond film and excited to see what comes next for the legendary spy. Give the song a listen and the film releases in April so definitely check ahead and get a ticket. @MGutierrezDT

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Taking time to experience nature can reduce stress

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e c e n t l y, I ’ v e f e l t like there’s been too much negativity in my life. From discovering I have debilitating chronic pain issues that may never have a definitive solution, to being extremely overwhelmed with work and the idea of graduating, to trying to figure out the next steps in my life—it’s just been a stressful few months.

When things start looking too bleak, I used to im-

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merse myself in books, TV shows and movies. Anything that would distract me for a while. Eventually, though, this stopped being a satisfying remedy. The books I wanted to read were all political in nature, and the shows that actually maintained my interest were full of drama and way too much action; both of which stressed me out in the time I was trying to unwind.

It got to the point where I was constantly wound up, constantly worrying about the next thing I had to tackle to get through the week. There was no “off” time. That is, until I started exploring nature.

I’m not a particularly athletic person, so it was a sur-

prise to me when what really helped me unwind was fresh air and hiking. My love affair with nature truly started to develop last semester when I took a spontaneous trip to Palo Duro.

Most of my friends that had recommended it to me since I first moved here had said it would be one of the most beautiful views I’d ever seen. Simply put, the canyon wasn’t that impressive. It didn’t matter to me, though.

There was something about being outside in the sun, pulling cold air into my lungs and focusing hard on each step as I took it that relaxed me. This felt contradictory. I grew up in the city, so I was never accustomed to being truly in nature. Not only that, but I have chronic pain that often affects my day-to-day life. It seemed odd that I would be so thrilled by the outdoors in the way I was that day at Palo Duro.

My love for nature grew

even more in December.

The only thing I asked for last Christmas was a trip to Panama, my mother ’s home country. I just wanted to see my family, to escape being overwhelmed for a while. I didn’t anticipate I would find my way back out to nature.

As a kid, I always hated when my family would want to take me anywhere outdoors in Panama, a country thats climate can only really be described as very hot and humid. I despised sweating so much and having to constantly fend off mosquitos.

But not this time.

Where I previously felt annoyance and discomfort, I was able to find peace and meditation. I found quality time and profound conversation with my uncles and my grandparents, picnics at the culmination of our hikes and views. Of course, it was insanely humid out, but the further we got from the city and

the higher we hiked, the air began to cool down significantly. I realized the harder I pushed myself, the more I was rewarded.

I could feel all of the stress roll off of my shoulders with each step I took climbing to the peaks of the hills and mountains of my mother’s first home.

I could find so many professionals who would have a lot to say about why I felt so good when I started falling in love with nature, that it lowers blood pressure and reduces stress for a number of reasons that I couldn’t begin to understand. But none of that matters, really, at least not to me.

The only thing that matters is how it feels to take a real break from the pressure of my daily life, to be surrounded by nothing but silence and the sounds of animals nearby. Hiking may not be something I can access every single day, and

it definitely isn’t a fix-all for everything that happens in my life, but at least there is something that is successful in bringing peace into my life.

For those of you who feel overwhelmed by life sometimes, I strongly recommend making some space in your busy schedule or over the weekend to spend time outside. I recommend taking that time to not think about anything. Instead, just exist. This is something that strangely has given me motivation to keep going.

Sure, I still haven’t been able to pick that stressful, action-packed show back up, nor have I been able to finish the book about the politics of Puerto Rico.

But with one step at a time, hopefully both will be picked back up and finished, just like all of the other pieces in my life: one step at a time. @GMathesonDT

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Rumfield, Montgomery start season after humbling experiences

man first baseman, sat out last season after being Cameron Warren’s backup. After not appearing in a single game, Rumfield redshirted to keep a year of his eligibility.

“I really was never told that I was being redshirted, it was just kind of a thing,” Rumfield said. “I was confused and probably angry,

but that’s just me because I’ve played every single game my whole life, I started. Just to come here and take a step back, it’s kind of humbling, and it makes you want to work harder.”

Rumfield played his first game as a Red Raider against Houston Baptist on Saturday, pinch-hitting for sophomore Cole Stilwell. In his only plate appearance, Rumfield recorded a hit and scored one of Tech’s 24 runs.

“Just getting the opportunity to get out there and compete (Saturday) was a gift,” Rumfield. “That was my first time playing in college ever.

Just to get out there, I think I was a little pumped up, to get first hit out of the way on my first at-bat was huge.”

After his first appearance, he earned a start in both games against Northern Colorado on Saturday and Sunday.

In those two games, Rumfield recorded six hits and five runs.

Two of his hits were doubles.

“I’ve always had the same confidence, my confidence has never wavered,” Rumfield said. “It’s just the fact to get in there and go do something is huge. Being able to impact a game was awesome.”

In his 2019 redshirt year, Rumfield spent a lot of his time in the weight room with the Director of Strength and

Condition, Sports Nutrition, Tory Stephens. In a year, Rumfield said he went from weighing 190 pounds to 230 this season after lifting and eating more.

Along with Rumfield’s rough 2019 season, Montgomery, sophomore left-handed pitcher, struggled towards the end of his freshman season.

Although he pitched in 12 games, Montgomery’s season went downhill.

Montgomery started in nine of his 12 appearances.

Last season, he got his ERA as low as 4.15 but finished with a 5.14 ERA on the season.

In his 35.0 innings pitched, Montgomery struck out 24 batters while giving up 32 hits and 20 earned runs.

“For me, it was one of the first times I’ve started to struggle,” Montgomery said.

“It’s definitely a tough thing to get over and start to realize, but then again, you just kind of got to fall back on ‘What do I know and what do I need to do to achieve more success?’

It kind of taught me, if I get an opportunity, go out there and capture it, don’t let it slip away.”

Being a freshman last season, Montgomery realized the talent in college baseball after starting Big 12 play.

“Around Texas or maybe a little after, I kind of started

me over there, I think I’ve gotten a lot better at just fielding ground balls and everything. Just making the transition to the hot corner.”

With Jung and Rombach leading the Red Raiders’ offense early, the Red Raiders will look to continue their winning streak this season.

Tech is set to play Tennessee, Stanford and Houston at the Round Rock Classic at Dell Diamond Feb. 21-23.

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TOP: Redshirt freshman infielder T.J. Rumfield catches a ball at first base during the game between Texas Tech and Northern Colorado on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. Tech beat Northern Colorado, 14-3.

BOTTOM: Sophomore LHP Mason Montgomery throws a circle change in the game between Texas Tech and Northern Colorado.

Tech posted a 4-0 record over the weekend.

By MAX HENGST Sports Editor

Although this is T.J. Rumfield and Mason Montgomery’s second season with Texas Tech baseball, both are looking to have a more successful year after humbling moments last season.

Rumfield, redshirt fresh-

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Comparing himself to his older brother, Jung said the two have the same work ethic.

“He makes me just want to be better because all he does is work at his craft and just try to perfect his craft, and that’s something I want to do as well,” Jung said regarding his brother. “Any chance I can learn from him, from his mistakes, I’m always for it.”

With this being his first season in scarlet and black, Jung is familiar with Tech baseball as he traveled to several games when his older brother played, including attending the College World Series twice.

As his brother transitioned from playing third base to shortstop last season to fill the defensive void, Jung is going through the same situation.

In high school, Jung played shortstop, but since the Red Raiders have opened their season, he has started at third base like his brother.

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tunity, you make the most of it,” Montgomery said. “Then again, now that I’m a sophomore, I kind of know how it goes. You just do what you can do. You can’t control anything that you can’t control. Then you also have the competitiveness of the team, and you know have to be on your feet, you know whether it be competing for a spot or competing against other teams.”

Although he earned a start in his first appearance of the season, Montgomery said he is aware of the talented arms on the team. He said he wants to remain a starter on the team, but continued to say he is willing to play whatever role he can to help the Red Raiders win.

With Tech winning its first four games of the season, Rumfield and Montgomery will look to build off their hot starts for the rest of the season in hopes of winning a national championship.

to realize this is the real deal, you know, we gotta go full force at it,” Montgomery said. “I kind of, like I said, I struggled and then again, I kind of worked through it and now I’m here.”

After struggling, Montgomery leaned on Assistant Coach Matt Gardner for help on improving. The two worked everyday one-on-one, whether it was before or during practice.

Starting his 2020 campaign, Montgomery was named the starting pitcher for the game against Northern Colorado on Sunday. In his four-inning outing, Montgomery struck five batters out while giving up two hits and two earned runs.

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Beeter, Dallas’ pitching leads to opening day win

By MAX HENGST Sports Editor

Opening the 2020 baseball season, Texas Tech’s pitching duo redshirt sophomore Clayton Beeter and sophomore Micah Dallas dominated the game against Houston Baptist, helping the Red Raiders with their 5-1 win.

Beeter started the season opener at the mound for the Red Raiders for the first time in his career.

Last season, Beeter was a reliever for the Red Raiders, pitching through 20.2 innings. In his time at the mound, Beeter struck out 40 batters, giving up just 12 hits and eight earned runs.

In his first game as a starting pitcher for Tech, Beeter stayed at the mound for 6.0 innings, throwing 68 pitches. Beeter received his first win of the season after striking six batters out, allowing just two hits and a run.

“It was a lot of fun,” Beeter said. “I was looking forward to this for this whole week, and the excitement was definitely building up the entire time. It was a lot of fun.”

While this was Beeter’s first time starting for Tech, this was not new to him as he started at the mound in high school. Despite starting in high school, Beeter said there is a big difference between starting and coming out of the bullpen other than the inning you head to the mound.

“It’s just, in the bullpen, you don’t have a lot of time to think about it, you just get hot and go in,” Beeter said. “Starting is a lot more mental in my opinion. Trying to hone in

Sophomore pitcher Micah Dallas pitches the ball from the mound during the Texas Tech baseball vs. Houston Baptist game on Feb. 14, 2020 at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. The Red Raiders defeated the Huskies, 5-1.Tech baseball started the season with a 4-0 winning streak over the weekend.

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your focus and not really think about the noise and everything like that.”

After redshirting a year and coming out of the bullpen a season after having Tommy John surgery in December of 2017, Beeter said he knew he could be a starter for Tech.

After building his stamina up and pitching through six innings, Beeter said he felt good going into the fifth and sixth innings but tried to stay warm in the cold weather.

Dallas entered the game in the seventh inning and closed the game for the Red Raiders with 3.0 innings pitched. In his time at the mound, Dallas recorded five strikeouts of his 10 batters faced. He gave up

no hits, runs or walks.

“Arm feels great,” Dallas said. “It’s just exciting to be able to play out here for the fans. I just love playing the game of baseball. It felt amazing.”

NEXT BASEBALL HOME GAMES • • •

WHERE — Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park WHEN— 2 p.m. Feb. 25 and 1 p.m. Feb. 26 WHO— Southern University

As Dallas was all smiles following the game, this was his first game coming out of the bullpen since being named a starter for

the Red Raiders on March 21, 2019, as Tech took on Michigan. Last season, Dallas pitched through 76.0 innings, striking 84 batters out.

“As a starter, you kind of feel like you have to, you’re going the distance,” Dallas said. “As a reliever, you can just come in there and shut it down. You kind of have this different swagger to you. Just you’re in there to shut down the game.”

Last weekend, Dallas’ arm was sore, resulting in him not pitching during practice to be on the safe side.

Head coach Tim Tadlock did not want to start Dallas without the innings and pitch count from the weekend.

Opening his sophomore

season at the mound, Dallas said he is a lot more comfortable with a season of experience under his belt. He said he believes the year of experience has helped him mature and gave him a better approach to the game.

Dallas and Beeter combined for 11 strikeouts, two hits, one run and one walk. The two threw 101 total pitches, matching Houston Baptist’s starting pitcher Kyle Gruller’s outing alone. Coming out of the bullpen, Dallas said his energy is effective for short outings with the emotion he brings.

“I just love the adrenaline rush from pitching.

It’s something I can’t even describe,” Dallas said.

“When I go out there, I put everything I have. I give it my all. If my emotion comes out, then it comes out. I think it fires up the team and some fans a little bit.”

Despite not starting, Dallas said he is not mad about coming out of the bullpen. Looking forward to the rest of the season, he said he just wants to help the Red Raiders in whatever way possible.

“When it’s said and done, it’s what the coaches put me as, and so anything that’s going to help my team win,” Dallas said regarding seeing himself as a starter or reliever. “I see me out there as a pitcher. I just love going out there to pitch.” @MaxHengstDT