The Owls left the team hotel at 10:45 this morning and are in the process of pregame fine-tuning.
Rice faces Southeastern Louisiana for the second time in the Baton Rouge Regional at 2 p.m. at Alex Box Stadium on the LSU campus. It’s an elimination game. Rice beat SLU yesterday 7-2. SLU staved off elimination later Sunday by beating Utah Valley 3-2. And the nightcap was Rice going down to LSU 4-2. The winner of today’s game will face LSU tonight. LSU is 2-0 in the tournament and in the driver’s seat. Rice and SLU need to win three games in a row to move on to the Super Regional.
Ricardo Salinas will get the start for the Owls. Here are today’s lineups:
Our head SID Chuck Pool dug up a “This Day in Rice Baseball History”:
June 6 is obviously most remembered as the anniversary of D-Day in 1944, but the Owls have played six times on this date:
1999: Earned our second trip to the College World Series by defeating Southwestern Louisiana (Louisiana-Lafayette) 8-3 at the Astrodome to win the Super Regional.
Score by innings: R H E
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Rice ……………………. 000 212 012 – 8 9 1
Southwestern La. …. 000 020 100 – 3 8 2
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Win – Nichols 15-3. Loss – Templet 7-5. Save – K.-Nicholl (8).
E – Curry (5), Nelson (17), Hawkins (3).
DP – Rice Owls 2, USL 1. LOB – Rice Owls 5, USL 11.
2B – Williams (22), Smith (11), Baker (23), Hawkins (12). 3B – Thames (6).
SB – Gray (19), Feehan 2 (18), Gill (19). CS – O’Dwyer (7).
SH – Fox (6). SF – Williams (3).2004: Fell one game short of battling back from an opening-game loss to TSU. Defeated Texas A&M 3-1 in the first game, but lost 7-5 in the second.
Score by innings R H E
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Texas A&M ……….. 001 000 000 – 1 4 1
Rice ………………….. 110 010 00X – 3 12 0
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Win – Niemann (6-3). Loss – Z.Jackson (10-6). Save – none.
E – Z.Jackson (4). DP – Texas A&M 1; Rice 1. LOB – Texas A&M 6; Rice 10. 2B –
Boggs (11). SH – Reagan (7). SF – Janish (4); Morris (1). CS – Schindewolf (3).——————————————-
Rice ……………. 010 000 220 – 5 5 0
Texas A&M ….. 000 102 04X – 7 11 1
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Win – Nicholson (3-0). Loss – Humber (13-4). Save – none.
E – Alexander (4). DP – Rice 1; Texas A&M 1. LOB – Rice 3; Texas A&M 7. 2B –
Rodgers (21); Alexander (3). HR – Reichenbach (2); Ruggiano (3). HBP –
Cavanaugh; Schindewolf. SH – Rodriguez 2 (3). SF – Reichenbach (2);
Mavroulis (4). SB – Pennington (11).2009: Eliminated from the Super Regional at LSU, 5-3.
Score by innings R H E
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LSU …………….. 100 121 000 – 5 10 1
Rice …………….. 001 101 000 – 3 9 0
——————————————-Win – Coleman (13-2). Loss – Berry (7-2). Save – Ott (16).
E – Mahtook (3). LOB – LSU 10; Rice 7. 2B – LeMahieu (12); Dean (16);
Mahtook (7); Mitchell (12); Nola (3); Seastrunk (15). HR – Helenihi (4);
Holt (12); Seastrunk (7). HBP – Ochinko; Nola; Hague 2; Lewis. SH –
LeMahieu (2); Mozingo (5). SB – Mitchell (35). CS – Mitchell (9); Fuda (4);
Sultzbaugh (5).2010: Eliminated Louisiana-Lafayette in the morning, but was then eliminated by host Texas.
Score by innings R H E
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Rice ……………….. 000 701 001 – 9 12 0
Louisiana ……….. 000 000 100 – 1 5 0
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Win – Ojala (6-2). Loss – Hubbell, T (4-4). Save – none.
DP – Rice 2. LOB – Rice 8; UL 5. 2B – Mozingo (13); Seastrunk 2 (17); Fuselier, A (15). HR – Rathjen (13). HBP – Ratterree; Keefer, C. SF – Hague (4).Score by innings R H E
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Texas …………… 000 101 020 – 4 5 0
Rice …………….. 000 000 010 – 1 3 0
——————————————-Win – Jungmann (7-3). Loss – Anagnostou (3-5). Save – none.
DP – Texas 1. LOB – Texas 4; Rice 2. 2B – Shepherd; Moldenhauer; Manuel. HR
– Moldenhauer. SB – Etier. CS – Rathjen.
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