Longhorn Network to Televise 62 UT Baseball & Softball Games Beginning January 28

 Longhorn Network will exclusively televise 32 games of the University of Texas baseball team and 30 games of the softball program. The games, stretching from January through May, will comprise more than 124 hours of live event programming for the 24/7 University of Texas network.

LHN’s coverage of UT baseball will commence Saturday, Jan. 28, with the alumni game featuring former Longhorns Roger Clemens, Huston Street, Drew Stubbs, Brandon Belt, James Russell and others, coached by Clemens and Brooks Kieschnick two-time national Player of the Year at Texas in 1992-93 and the first UT inductee to the College Baseball Hall Of Fame. Then, UT will open its regular-season slate with a three-game series against Duke. In late March, the Longhorns will face California from the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas. LHN will also televise the last conference rivalry game vs. Texas A&M before closing out the season with a home series against Baylor. Kevin Dunn and Carter Blackburn, college sports commentator for ESPN, will handle play-by-play duties for the network, and former UT great and 17-year Major League veteran, Greg Swindell, will serve as analyst. The Longhorns ended the 2011 season with a 49-19 record and won their 77th conference title and advanced to the College World Series for the 34th time in school history.

In addition, Texas GameDay hosted by Lowell Galindo from UFCU Disch-Falk Field will provide comprehensive pre-game coverage of seven games including interviews with players and coaches, analysis and features.  Beginning in March, legendary Texas head coach Augie Garrido will host a weekly 30-minute coach’s show from Longhorn Network’s Austin studio.

For softball, Longhorn Network will air 30 exclusive game telecasts, 16 of which will feature UT against 2011 NCAA Championship participants and seven against 2011 Women’s College World Series participants. The first game will be televised Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. when the Longhorns get a visit from Cal State Fullerton. All-American and two-time Olympian Cat Osterman will share analyst duties with former NFCA first team All-American and Big 12 Co-Pitcher of the Year, Amanda Scarborough, from Red and Charline McCombs Field.

The Longhorns concluded the 2011 season with a 46-10 record, placing them 7th in the NCAA Women’s Softball RPI. The team returns seven positional starters, three pitchers and 12 total letter winners from a team that reached the NCAA Austin regional a season ago.

Longhorn Network is available on Verizon FiOS TV, Grande Communications, Consolidated Communications, En-Touch Systems, E-Tex Communications, Bay City Cablevision, Mid-Coast Cablevision and Texas Mid-Gulf Cablevision. Longhorn Network is now available online to Verizon FiOS subscribers at LonghornNetwork.com. It will be available on tablets and on smartphones to fans with an affiliated video subscription in the near future.