Game Stories

Explore some of my top game stories below.

Hayden Schott, meet Olsen Magic

After a drama-filled 10 innings of baseball at Olsen Field saw Texas A&M lead Rhode Island 7-0 and trail 11-7 before tying things up in the bottom of the ninth, graduate LF Hayden Schott didn’t know what to think. 
So he said he didn’t overthink it — he just swung. 
“I don’t really know what I was doing,” Schott said. “I kind of just blanked. I was like ‘stick to my approach.’ I figured they were going to try to get one over elbow, so I was like ‘don’t miss if they do.’”
Schott’s single to right...

United they fall

No one involved with Texas A&M baseball ever believed they were going to lose. 
Despite being down 6-1 to Tennessee by the end of the seventh inning in game three of the Men’s College World Series championship series, the Aggies fought back. 
They scratched and clawed their way to cut it down to a one-run deficit, and never had a doubt that they’d dogpile and party the night away when they hoisted the trophy.
“There’s no panic, man,” graduate DH Hayden Schott said. “Down 6-1, we have full belief...

Stoppage time spectacle

When people think of Kyle Field, they think of icons. Names like Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, Mike Evans and Von Miller spring to mind: Champions who’ve earned a place in the history of the sixth largest stadium in the world based on what they’ve achieved on that hallowed ground.
It’s time to add a new name to Kyle Field’s long list of legends: Brazil forward Endrick, whose 96th-minute header lifted Brazil to a 3-2 win over Mexico in the first-ever soccer match at Kyle Field. 
Welcome to Kyle Fie...

‘Every decision and choice I’ve made has led up to that moment’

It started with a commotion in the Texas A&M baseball dugout. 
With the No. 5 Aggies up 13-4 over No. 3 Arkansas with a runner on second base in the bottom of the seventh inning, a Senior Day run-rule victory was just one good hit away. 
So coach Jim Schlossnagle sent hitting coach Michael Earley trotting out to first base to give senior acting first base coach Ryan Targac the news he’d been waiting to hear: Targac would get the opportunity to pinch hit and finish his last regular season game at...