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Photo by: Maria Lysaker - Rice Athletics
Owls Open Road Swing by Beating Lamar
5/1/2024 10:08:00 PM | Baseball
Owls hand Cardinals only their third loss at home this year
Beaumont: Ben Dukes, Manny Garza, and Tobias Motley each had three hits to lead a 15-hit attack for Rice and lead the Owls to an 8-6 win over Lamar on Wednesday night.
The Details: The Southland Conference-leading Cardinals came into the game hitting .284 on the season and sporting a 21-2 record at home, but Rice jumped out to an early lead, and nine pitchers combined to hold them to just five hits. The Owls broke out on top with four runs in the second inning. Jack Riedel opened with a walk and after a single by Garza moved him to third, he scored on a sacrifice fly by Kyte McDonald in his first plate appearance since April 12. Eric Correa followed with a walk and Motley doubled home Garza. Jacob Devenny brought both of them home with a single up the middle to close out the scoring. It was the sixth game in the last seven that the Owls have scored at least four runs in one inning. Riedel led off his second consecutive inning by reaching base, drilling a double to right center to open the third, and came home to score on an RBI single by Pierce Gallo. The Owls added two in the fifth on Garza's RBI double and a run-scoring single by Eric Correa that plated Garza. Garza brought home the Owls' final run with a single in the sixth, bringing home Riedel, who scored three runs in the game. Lamar cut the margin to 8-6 in the bottom of the sixth, but Reed Gallant, Jackson Blank, Tom Vincent, and Davion Hickson held them scoreless the rest of the way and the Owls won for the ninth time in the last 10 games.
Up Next: The Owls travel east on Thursday in advance of opening a three-game series in Charlotte against the 49ers on Friday. They remain on the road next Tuesday with a road game at #1 Texas A&M before returning to Reckling on May 8 for the back half of the home-and-home series with Lamar.
The Details: The Southland Conference-leading Cardinals came into the game hitting .284 on the season and sporting a 21-2 record at home, but Rice jumped out to an early lead, and nine pitchers combined to hold them to just five hits. The Owls broke out on top with four runs in the second inning. Jack Riedel opened with a walk and after a single by Garza moved him to third, he scored on a sacrifice fly by Kyte McDonald in his first plate appearance since April 12. Eric Correa followed with a walk and Motley doubled home Garza. Jacob Devenny brought both of them home with a single up the middle to close out the scoring. It was the sixth game in the last seven that the Owls have scored at least four runs in one inning. Riedel led off his second consecutive inning by reaching base, drilling a double to right center to open the third, and came home to score on an RBI single by Pierce Gallo. The Owls added two in the fifth on Garza's RBI double and a run-scoring single by Eric Correa that plated Garza. Garza brought home the Owls' final run with a single in the sixth, bringing home Riedel, who scored three runs in the game. Lamar cut the margin to 8-6 in the bottom of the sixth, but Reed Gallant, Jackson Blank, Tom Vincent, and Davion Hickson held them scoreless the rest of the way and the Owls won for the ninth time in the last 10 games.
Up Next: The Owls travel east on Thursday in advance of opening a three-game series in Charlotte against the 49ers on Friday. They remain on the road next Tuesday with a road game at #1 Texas A&M before returning to Reckling on May 8 for the back half of the home-and-home series with Lamar.
- Rice has won six of its last seven and nine of its last 11.
- The Owls have won four straight on the road for the first time since the end of 2022.
- Rice has won four straight over Lamar and improved to 27-28 all-time at Lamar's Vincent-Beck Stadium…. Jose Cruz Jr. is now 4-2 vs. Lamar.
- The Owls have scored four or more runs in an inning in six of the last seven games. They had scored four or more twice in the first 34 games.
- Rice collected 15 hits, the fifth time in the last six games they have had at least 12 hits in a game.
- The bottom third of the Owls' order has hit a combined .307 (25x81) and scored 20 runs over the last seven 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.
- Motley was 3x4 in the game and is hitting .467 in his last four games (7x15).
- Gallo has driven in 10 runs in the last 11 games and is hitting .346 (18x52) in his last 14 games and is hitting .357 (10x28) in eight midweek games with five RBI.
- Garza's extended his hitting streak to nine games, finishing 3x5… He is hitting .452 (14x31) in his last eight games.
- Dukes was 3x4 to extend his multi-hit streak to four games and he has multiple hits in eight of his last nine games. He has hit in 15 of his last 16 games (.470, 31x66).
- Davion Hickson earned his sixth save with a scoreless ninth inning. He is the first Owl to have six saves since Kendall Jefferies had six in 2019.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Hamilton, Tyler (1-4)
L: Morse, Trhea (4-1)
S: Hickson, Davion (6)
Batting:
2B: Dukes, Ben 1 ; Riedel, Jack 1 ; Garza, Manny 1 ; Motley, Tobias 1
RBI: Devenny, Jacob 2 ; Gallo, Pierce 1 ; Garza, Manny 2 ; McDonald, Kyte 1 ; Correa, Eric 1 ; Motley, Tobias 1
SH: Dukes, Ben 1 ; Gallo, Pierce 1
SF: McDonald, Kyte 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Riedel, Jack 3 ; Gallo, Pierce 1 ; Garza, Manny 2 ; Correa, Eric 1 ; Motley, Tobias 1
PO: Dukes, Ben 1
Batting:
2B: Evans, Brayden 1 ; Skinner, Zak 1
HR: Evans, Brayden 1
RBI: Evans, Brayden 2 ; Wilson, Tanner 1 ; Orsak, River 1 ; Roccaforte, Austin 1
SF: Orsak, River 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Dodge, Kanin 2 ; Evans, Brayden 2 ; Wilson, Tanner 1 ; Varnado, Drake 1
HBP: Dodge, Kanin 1 ; Evans, Brayden 1 ; Wilson, Tanner 1 ; Orsak, River 1
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