Owls Host Panthers on Final 713 Night of 2025.

HOMESTAND CONTINUES WITH PRAIRIE VIEW: After opening by taking two of three against Charlotte, Rice continues its final homestand of the 2025 baseball season by hosting Prairie View A&M in the final non-conference game of 2025. The Owls conclude the 2025 home slate with three games against Wichita State, Friday through Sunday.

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

PITCHING MATCHUPS: Probable pitchers have not been announced at this time.

ON THE AIR: J.P. Heath will call the game on both RiceOwls.com and ESPN+.

FOUR FOR TWO: Rice (8-13), UAB, Wichita State, and Memphis (7-14) head into the last two weeks of the regular season battling for the final two spots in the AAC Tournament in Clearwater, Florida which begins play on May 20.Remaining schedules by opponents' conference records:

Rice 25-17 (Wichita State 7-14, @UTSA 18-3)
UAB 24-18 ( @Charlotte 12-9, FAU ,12-9)
Memphis 18-24 (Tulane 11-10, @Wichita State 7-14)
Wichita State 15-27 (@Rice 8-13, Memphis 7-14)

FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP: Blaine Brown (.305) is bidding to become the first true freshman to lead the Owls in hitting since Anthony Rendon (.388) in 2009 and the first to hit over .300 since Ford Proctor hit .336 in 2016. Proctor was also the last freshman to lead Rice in RBI (41 in 2016), and Brown leads the team this year with 36. Hiram Bocachica Jr (31) and Brown (28) lead the Owls in runs. Rendon is the last freshman to lead Rice in runs (94). Bocachica leads the Owls with 12 steals, the most by a freshman since Tyler Henley had 12 in 2005 while becoming the last freshman to lead the Owls in thefts.

SERIES NOTES:

This will be the 15th meeting between the schools, the 12th in the regular season, with all 15 games taking place on the Rice campus.
The schools first met in 1986 in a three-game series at Cameron Field and met twice in 1993 and 1994.
The Panthers made their Reckling Park debut on June 2, 2006, in the opening game of the NCAA Regional as the Owls, who were the national #2 seed in the tournament, needed to overcome an early 5-1 deficit.
The schools met both in the regular and postseason in 2007 and again in the first round of the regional in 2012.
The series resumed in 2019, followed by games in 2021 and 2024.

LAST MEETING (5/5/2024): Robert Fernandez, Jackson Mayo, and Mauricio Rodriguez combined on a two-hitter while Manny Garza led an 11-hit attack with three hits as Rice downed Prairie View A&M 6-1.

The Panthers struck first on a leadoff homer off Fernandez to open the second inning, but the junior from Miami only allowed two walks over his remaining three innings of work while his Owls teammates swiftly erased that early deficit with two runs in the bottom of the second. Trenton Rank doubled with one out and Landon West followed with a walk. Ben Royo singled home Rank to tie the game, and West and Royo moved up to second and third on the throw. Max Johnson lifted a fly ball to right, allowing West to score and put Rice ahead to stay. After Mayo took over for Fernandez in the fifth and retired the side on a pair of strikeouts, Rice extended the lead to 4-1 on a two-run double by Nathan Becker. Mayo breezed through three hitless frames, and the Owls added two more runs in the sixth thanks to a sac fly by Pierce Gallo and a wild pitch allowing Kyte McDonald to score. Mauricio Rodriguez worked the final two innings to close out the win.

COACHES: David Pierce is 3-0 vs. Prairie View, winning 8-1 and 4-2 in 2012 and 12-8 in 2013 while coaching at Sam Houston State.

UP NEXT: Rice closes out the 2025 home schedule this weekend by hosting Wichita State, with the series opener at 6:30 on Friday.

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