Dylan Campbell has been an offensive and defensive leader for Longhorns as they head to super regionals
There have been plenty of heroes and big-time players for the Texas baseball team on its march to the NCAA super regionals but few of those Longhorns have worn the cape and been as important at the most crucial times as right fielder Dylan Campbell.
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And while Campbell has been leading the team with his historically hot bat, it was his catch in Texas’s 4-2 win over Louisiana in the first game of last weekend’s Coral Gables regional that earned him kudos and plenty of atta-boys.
Campbell has at least one hit in a Texas- and Big 12 Conference-record 38 straight games, shattering the Longhorns’ mark of 25 games set by Michael Torres in 2008 and rolling past the Big 12 mark of 35 games set by Ty Wright of Oklahoma State in 2007. Campbell’s hitting streak started on March 25 against Texas Tech. He has a hit in 47 of the last 50 games and has reached base safely in 44 straight contests.
Campbell, an All-Big 12 honoree, will be a key figure in the Longhorns’ lineup when they battle Stanford in a best-of-three series beginning on Saturday in Palo Alto, Calif. The winner of the super regional will advance to the College World Series in Omaha.
Campbell leads the Longhorns (41-20) in batting this season with .345 average as well as in hits (80), RBIs (48), runs (65), doubles (tied with Garret Guillemette with 18), total bases (143) and stolen bases (25, in 28 attempts). He has 23 multi-hit games (second on the team to Peyton Powell’s 26), 14 multi-RBI contests (second to Guillemette’s 18), and 13 home runs (second to Eric Kennedy’s 16).
During the historic streak, Campbell is hitting .409 with 14 doubles, three triples, eight homers, 35 RBI and 41 runs scored.
And in the field Campbell is the only Texas position player to not have an error this season, recording 124 putouts and seven assists from right field.
Playing Stanford on the road will be another challenge for a team that’s risen to the occasion in most every opportunity this season.
“Just the mindset coming into the years that we know what our expectations are,” he explained. “We know where we want to go and where the history of this program has been. We know what’s at stake and we know what’s expected of us so we just got to gotta deliver that.”
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Campbell said he and his team will be understand what’s expected of them.
