Sunday, April 28
Reckling Park
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UTSA Takes Series FInale
4/28/2024 4:33:00 PM | Baseball
Owls head on the road for the next five games
Reckling Park: UTSA rallied for four runs in the eighth inning, three of them with two outs, to take a 4-2 decision on Sunday and deny Rice the chance to sweep its second consecutive conference series.
The Details: Rice starter Tucker Alch and UTSA's Ulises Quiroga hooked up in a pitcher's duel for the first seven innings. Alch held the Roadrunners scoreless for 6.1 innings on just two hits and retired seven of the 22 hitters he faced on the first pitch. Quiroga gave up a two-run homer to Ben Dukes in the third but allowed only a single to Dukes and a double by Manny Garza over his final four innings, setting the stage for UTSA's winning rally in the eighth.
Up Next: The Owls go back on the road for their next five games, with a midweek game at Lamar on Wednesday followed by a weekend series at Charlotte, and then a game at Texas A&M on May 7. They return home on May 8 for the final stretch of home games with Lamar (May 8), FAU (May 10-12) and Texas Southern (May 14).
The Details: Rice starter Tucker Alch and UTSA's Ulises Quiroga hooked up in a pitcher's duel for the first seven innings. Alch held the Roadrunners scoreless for 6.1 innings on just two hits and retired seven of the 22 hitters he faced on the first pitch. Quiroga gave up a two-run homer to Ben Dukes in the third but allowed only a single to Dukes and a double by Manny Garza over his final four innings, setting the stage for UTSA's winning rally in the eighth.
Up Next: The Owls go back on the road for their next five games, with a midweek game at Lamar on Wednesday followed by a weekend series at Charlotte, and then a game at Texas A&M on May 7. They return home on May 8 for the final stretch of home games with Lamar (May 8), FAU (May 10-12) and Texas Southern (May 14).
- Rice has won eight of its last 10 overall and seven of its last nine in AAC play.
- The Owls fell to 30-21 vs. UTSA and 8-10 in the AAC.
- Sunday's attendance of 3,297 was the third-largest crowd of the season.
- Sunday's two-run game was the ninth in the last 11 home games to be decided by two runs or less, including six by one run.
- The loss snapped the Owls' five-game winning streak, their longest since 2019 when they swept back-to-back C-USA series against Middle Tennessee and LA Tech.
- Rice has won three consecutive conference series for the first time since they won five straight in 2017.
- The Owls scored 13 of their 20 runs in the series with two outs.
- The bottom third of the Owls' order has hit a combined .304 (21x69) and scored 18 runs over the last six games. In the first 34 games of the season, the lower third of the Owls' batting order hit a combined .197 and scored 35 runs.
- Alch worked a season-high 6.1 innings and struck out a season-high five.
- Garza's double raised his average to .413 (11x26) in his last eight games and is now hitting .439 in 11 career games vs. UTSA (18x41).
- Dukes was 2x4 and finished the weekend hitting .538 vs. UTSA (7x13) with the first two home runs of his career and seven RBI and raised his average in conference games to .462 (24x52). He has hit in 14 of his last 15 games (.452,28x62).
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Quiroga,Ulises (6-0)
L: Stratton, Garrett (1-3)
S: Kingsbery,Fischer (4)
Batting:
2B: Lytle,Mason 2 ; King,Matt 1 ; Diaz,Diego 1
HR: Taussig,James 1
RBI: Hill,Caleb 1 ; King,Matt 1 ; Taussig,James 2
SH: Diaz,Diego 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Lytle,Mason 1 ; Hill,Caleb 1 ; King,Matt 1 ; Taussig,James 1
SB: Diaz,Diego 1 ; Stucky,Andrew 1
HBP: Hill,Caleb 1 ; Walker,Isaiah 1
Batting:
2B: Garza, Manny 1
HR: Dukes, Ben 1
RBI: Dukes, Ben 2
SH: Rank, Treyton 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Dukes, Ben 1 ; Motley, Tobias 1
Game Leaders
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