A.D. Ibarra
-Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Tres Barrera's walk-off base hit with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning catapulted the Texas Longhorns to one win away from a berth in the Big XII Championship, what makes this feat all the more amazing is that it came just after the Baylor Bears' Mitch Price hit a three-run homer to tie the game in the top of the ninth.
    Tres' teammates absolutely mobbed him when he reached home plate, "I've been in that situation a lot this year. I've been up with the bases loaded against West Virginia to win the game and wasn't successful. Those things stick in your head when you come up. I came up this time telling myself that I've been here before and I'm going to do it right here. If you stay positive, good things will happen."
    "Tres was really focused behind the plate. He called most of the game himself and for Ty (Culbreth, the 'Horns' pitcher), they've worked together a lot over the last couple years, stated Head Coach Augie Garrido.  About the walk off hit he added, "Then he took a change up and lined for a base hit, the game-winner. A very exciting game."
    Garrido called time out in order to talk to Barrera, "Because he swung through a change up and he swung for a home run. He's a very powerful person by personality and by body type. When you have adrenaline rushing like that and your excited and the whole team is relying on you. He knows and feels that."