Shoulder surgery to sideline Josh Jung for most of season
Former Texas Tech third baseman Josh Jung underwent surgery Wednesday on his left shoulder, The Dallas Morning News reported, and will be sidelined for most of the upcoming season.
Rangers general manager Chris Young said it could be six months before Jung can be used as a designated hitter, the Morning News reported, and probably longer before he would play in the field.
Rangers team physician Dr. Keith Meister performed the surgery to repair a torn labrum in Jung's non-throwing shoulder.
Jung was expected to compete for the Rangers' starting third-base job in spring training, though Major League Baseball remains in a lockout that has delayed the start of camps for players on 40-man rosters.
Jung was the Rangers' first-round draft choice in 2019. He missed the start of last season with a foot injury. After returning in mid-June, he batted .326 with 19 home runs and 61 runs batted in 78 games at Double-A Frisco and Triple-A Round Rock.
Golf
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Texas Tech junior Ludvig Aberg won The Prestige for the second year in a row, shooting 3 under par for 54 holes on the Greg Norman Course at PGA West.
Aberg shot rounds of 71, 69 and 70. He finished two strokes ahead of runner-up Carson Berry from Oregon State and four clear of Vanderbilt's Reid Davenport. Berry also shot 70 in Wednesday's final round, and Davenport closed with a 66.
Aberg birdied the par-3 13th hole and par-4 14th to regain the lead, then poured in another birdie at the par-3 17th to extend his advantage.
Vanderbilt won the team championship at 16-over, followed by Oregon at 26-over, Kansas at 29-over and Tech at 33-over. The Red Raiders finished five shots ahead of Long Beach State and Oregon State and six up on Stanford.
There were 120 players from 24 teams in the field.
Tech's Calum Scott (78-75-71) tied for 33rd. Rounding out the Red Raiders' lineup were Kyle Hogan (76-74-77), Baard Skogen (74-79-75) and Garrett Martin (78-76-76).
Softball
Texas Tech will try to snap a seven-game losing streak when the Red Raiders play five games in four days at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California.
Tech (3-7) opens against California Baptist (5-5) at 5:30 p.m. CST Thursday. On Friday, the Red Raiders face No. 17 Missouri (8-3) at 7:30 p.m. and No. 3 UCLA (7-3) at 10 p.m. Tech plays Long Beach State (2-7) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Northwestern (7-2) at 11 a.m. Sunday.
Tech won three of four games at the season-opening University of Houston Invitational, then lost all six last week, four to ranked opponents, in the St. Pete/Clearwater Elite Invitational in Florida.
The Red Raiders' top run producers so far have been right fielder Carson Armijo, batting .286 with two home runs and five runs batted in, third baseman Abbie Orrick (.276-2-6) and second baseman Arriana Villa (.240-3-5). The team batting average is .191.
No. 1 starting pitcher Kendall Fritz is 2-2 with a 2.30 earned-run average.
Football
Texas Tech on Wednesday officially announced the hire of C.J. Ah You, a former all-Big 12 defensive end for Oklahoma, as outside linebackers coach.
Tech was left one assistant below the 10-man maximum when the New York Giants recently hired Tech running backs coach DeAndre Smith. Ah You's addition makes the staff complete.
Tech coach Joey McGuire also announced two adjustments to the staff: associate head coach and special teams coordinator Kenny Perry will also coach running backs. Josh Bookbinder, previously listed as linebackers coach, will be inside linebackers coach.
“We’re excited how this staff came together with coach Ah You being the final piece,” McGuire said. “To coach at Texas Tech, you have to possess the passion to inspire and build relationships with our players, and that describes Coach Ah You perfectly."
Ah You, 39, played defensive end at Brigham Young, Snow College and Oklahoma from 2001-06. He was the Big 12 defensive newcomer of the year in 2005 and all-Big 12 in 2006, then spent 2007-12 with the St. Louis Rams.
He has been a special-teams quality control coach at Oklahoma (2014-15), defensive line coach at Vanderbilt (2016-18), defensive line coach for the XFL's New York Guardians (2019-20) and a defensive analyst at Southern California (2021).
Nevada had just hired him to be its defensive line coach in early January.