Rice University
13-14-1, 0
Middle Tennessee
15-11-1, 0
Rice & Middle Tennessee Finish In 9-9 Tie After 12 Innings
4/3/2021 8:23:00 PM | Baseball
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The Rice and Middle Tennessee baseball teams played 12 innings, and implemented the NCAA's new extra inning playing rules to avoid a possible tie, but the league foes finished in a 9-9 deadlock in the final game of a Conference USA weekend series Saturday afternoon in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The same teams have already been in the same scenario, in the same location in fact, to finish in a 5-5 tie in nine innings in April of 2018. Saturday's contest went three extra frames but was ended due to a travel curfew in the series' final game.
Trailing 7-5 to start the top of the ninth Rice rallied for three runs to take an 8-7 lead on a pair of hits and a fielding error. The Owls could not close out the win in the bottom of the inning, however, and MTSU tied the score 8-8.
The teams started the 10th using the new extra-inning format of starting the frame with a runner in scoring position. Neither team scored in the tenth, but both were able to push across a run in the 11th to make it 9-9. The game ended by pre-game agreement after a scoreless 12th.
Records
Rice is now 13-14-1 on the year and 2-5-1 in C-USA league games. Middle Tennessee moved to 15-11-1 overall and 4-3-1 in conference.
Team Stats
Batting:
2B: Edwards, Cade 1 ; Long, Justin 2
HR: Edwards, Cade 2 ; Bulman, Austin 1
RBI: Edwards, Cade 2 ; Bulman, Austin 2 ; Walsh, Connor 1 ; Long, Justin 1
SF: Walsh, Connor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Edwards, Cade 2 ; Garibay Jr., Guy 1 ; Karp, Will 1 ; Bulman, Austin 2 ; Walsh, Connor 2 ; Dukes, Ben 1
Batting:
2B: Bryce Symlar 1 ; Daniel Freeman 1 ; Brycen Thomas 1
RBI: Fausto Lopez 1 ; Brett Coker 3 ; Jake Hagenow 1 ; Daniel Freeman 2 ; Brycen Thomas 1
SH: Luke Vinson 1
SF: Daniel Freeman 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Fausto Lopez 1 ; JT Mabry 2 ; Cole Escher 1 ; Brett Coker 2 ; Jake Hagenow 1 ; Bryce Symlar 1 ; Daniel Freeman 1
SB: Fausto Lopez 3 ; Cole Escher 1 ; Brett Coker 2 ; DJ Wright 1
CS: Fausto Lopez 1 ; Hunter Sullivan 1
HBP: Jake Hagenow 1
