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Texas Baseball takes series from Auburn in Top Five clash

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Texas had a rough start to its top five series matchup at Auburn. But UT took the final two games of weekend to win the series over the No. 4 Tigers.

What started in disaster turned into a very positive weekend for the Texas Longhorns baseball team. The No. 2 Longhorns shutout No.

4 Auburn on Sunday, 5-0. The win gives UT the 2-1 series win in the matchup of top five teams . Auburn used nine pitchers in Sunday's loss.

Tigers starter Alex Petrovic suffered his first loss of the season as the Horns banged out nine hits and five runs. Texas pitching allowed only four hits by Auburn in the game. Starter Dylan Volantis was a little wild, pitching just four innings.

The 6-foot-6 lefty gave up three hits, four walks and struck out four on the day. UT used four pitchers out of the bullpen with the quartet only giving up one more hit the rest of the way. earned our stripes šŸŽ„ #HookEm | @LonghornNetwork pic.