Texas baseball: LHP Dylan Volantis to start on Friday... at least for the Alabama series
Texas coach Jim Schlossnagle has announced that sophomore pitcher Dylan Volantis will start on Friday against No. 11 Alabama. Volantis' scheduled start this past Sunday was cancelled by weather.
With Alabama in town this weekend, the Texas baseball team will mix up its pitching rotation. Following Tuesday's 14-7 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi , Texas coach Jim Schlossnagle announced that sophomore Dylan Volantis will start on Friday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field against Alabama. The Longhorns will then turn to Ruger Riojas on Saturday before Luke Harrison pitches in Sunday's series finale.
Over the first nine weekends of its season, UT has consistently gone with an order of Riojas, Harrison and then Volantis. More: Subscribe to the Statesman's Texas sports newsletter Texas (28-7, 9-5) is currently the No. 4 team in the D1Baseball poll.
Alabama (27-11, 9-6) is ranked 11th. Texas Longhorns pitcher Dylan Volantis (99) steps up to pitch during the NCAA D1 Baseball Tournament Regional against UTSA at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Aaron E.
Martinez / American Statesman) Schlossnagle warned onlookers to not read too much into this game plan for the Alabama series. According to Schlossnagle, this isn't an indictment of Riojas, who has won just one of his last five starts, or Harrison, who is coming off a career-worst performance at Texas A&M . Since Volantis lost out on a scheduled start last weekend when UT's Sunday game in College Station was cancelled by inclement weather, he didn't want the left-hander to wait 15 days between his last start on March 4 and this upcoming Sunday.