TCU has to win to avoid its first 0-2 start since 1999. The Horned Frogs haven't lost to a non-FBS team since an overtime loss to Northwestern State in 2001, which was then-coach Gary Patterson's first home game. Nicholls is another FCS team from Louisiana, and is coming off a 38-24 home loss to Sacramento State last week.
As freshman Karson Bowen bounced toward home plate and then into the TCU dugout after his go-ahead grand slam, head coach Kirk Saarloos saw something the Horned Frogs really needed at that time. “Relief is the thing I saw,” Saarloos said. Only a couple of days after being swept in a three-game series at West Virginia in late April to extend their season-long losing streak to five games — “Definitely a pretty low point,” record-setting slugger Brayden Taylor said — the Frogs trailed in the eighth inning at home against Dallas Baptist before Bowen’s big blast.
Save the Frogs, a California nonprofit, will be constructing a new wetlands habitat for the Illinois chorus frog as part of Save the Frogs Day in April.
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