The Texas Tech baseball team will play Oral Roberts this weekend in the memorial series for former Tech player and assistant coach Brooks Wallace.

Wallace is one of four Red Raiders to have his number retired by the team, according to a news release from Tech athletics, and died at age 27 after a battle with leukemia.

Tech junior pitcher Dominic Moreno said he has a friend who is dealing with leukemia and the after effects of it, and it will probably be an emotional weekend for him.

You get up for morning workouts and youre like I dont want to be here, I dont want to do the running, I dont want to do this, and hes gone through more than any of us have, Moreno said. Hes kind of a guy that I use for motivation every single day.

The Red Raiders enter the series ranked No. 28 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers poll after beating No. 3 Indiana three times in last weekends four-game series.

Sophomore utility player Eric Gutierrez said the series win against Indiana was great for momentum, but the players are trying to just take it one game at a time.

Everybody is pumped for this weekend, Gutierrez said. I mean, were just taking it day by day and weve been working as hard as we worked in the offseason.

In the series against Indiana, the Red Raiders were strong offensively, scoring 23 runs in their three wins. The one loss on opening day was the only time Tech struggled at the plate, giving Moreno zero runs in his start.

Moreno credited the Indiana pitcher in the opening game, but said he thought all of the hitters throughout the lineup stepped up in the next three games.

No matter how good your offense is, Moreno said, youre always going to run into a buzzsaw.

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Red Raiders to play in Brooks Wallace Memorial