Owls and Pirates Resume Rivalry This Weekend

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Oct 11

1 PM

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vs McClennan JC

Oct 26

Noon

Reckling Park

OWLS OPEN AAC HOME ACTION WITH EAST CAROLINA: The Rice Owls open their second year of American Athletic Conference games at Reckling Park this weekend by welcoming back longtime former C-USA rival East Carolina to Houston for the first time since 2016.

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Watch: ESPN+
Listen: RiceOwls.com
Live Stats: Sidearm

Full Game Notes

PITCHING MATCHUPS
Friday, March 21               RHP Davion Hickson (0-3, 3.51 ERA) vs. LHP Ethan Norby (3-2, 2.48 ERA)
Saturday, March 29         LHP J.D. McCracken (1-2, 5.88 ERA) vs. TBA
Sunday, March 30            RHP Tucker Alch (2-0, 3.45 ERA) vs. TBA

ON THE AIR:   Jason Metko will call all three games on RiceOwls.com and Varsity ap while J.P Heath will handle the play-by-play for all three on ESPN+. He will be joined by Austin Davis on Friday and Sunday and by Enrique Cruz on Saturday.
RICE AND ECU:

Rice leads the overall series 24-14, but the Pirates have won the last five, sweeping the season series last year in Greenville and then defeating Rice twice at the AAC Championship.
Rice leads the series at Reckling 13-5 and also owns a win over the Pirates in Houston at Cougar Field during the 2010 C-USA Championship.
Rice defeated the Pirates 16-8 Clark-LeClair Stadium in Greenville to win the 2007 C-USA Championship,
The Owls are 22-13 in conference games vs. ECU (20-10 in the regular season) and 2-1
Bixby Family Head Baseball Coach David Pierce is 5-5 in his career against East Carolina and has won his last two. He was 3-4 against the Pirates while at Tulane and 2-1 with Texas, with all three games coming in the 2022 Super Regional in which Texas dropped the opening game and then rallied back from a 7-2 deficit with two outs in the seventh to win 9-8 and then earn a spot in the College World Series with an 11-1 win in the deciding game.

LAST MEETING (5/24/24): Rice furiously fought back from an early 7-1 deficit only to see its season come to an end with the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position as top seed East Carolina held on for an 8-7 victory and earn a berth in the semifinals of the 2024 American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship.

LAST MEETING AT RECKLING (3/13/16): Rice had a solo home run by Andrew Dunlap before a bases-loaded triple from true freshman Ford Proctor in the bottom of the eighth inning to rally past No. 16 ranked East Carolina 4-1. With the win Rice claimed two of the three games in the weekend series between the former conference rivals. The Owls improved to 8-7 overall in its final weekend of non-conference action.

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