Baseball Opening Series: 2/15-2/17 Rhode Island at Rice Owls

[RhowdyRam02]

Friday, 7:30 pm Tyler Wilson (3-6, 3.58) vs. Matt Canterino (7-5, 3.06)
Saturday, 5:00 pm Vitaly Jangols (3-4, 4.75) vs. Addison Moss (2-4, 2.43)
Sunday, 12:30 pm Nick Robinson (1-2, 1.93) vs. Jackson Parthasarathy (3-5, 6.28)

We should be able to see all games here: http://conferenceusa.com/watch/default. ... &path=rice
With audio here: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/rice/#live

Happy Opening Day everyone. We start off the 2019 season with a trip to Reckling Park in Houston to take on Rice from Conference USA. They won the national championship in 2003 and had made the tournament every year from 1995-2017 under Wayne Graham. Last season Rice went 26-31-2, were 7th in Conference USA and the 82 year old Hall of Famer Graham retired. Enter Matt Bragga who spent the past 15 seasons at Tennessee Tech, leading them to 3 tournament appearances. Former Rice players include Lance Berkman, Pete Runnels, Norm Charlton, and Brock Holt.

[RhowdyRam02]

Here's a link to Rice fans (and a random UConn fan) talking about this series: https://csnbbs.com/thread-870332.html
Today it's partly cloudy in Houston with a high of 79, tomorrow it's cloudy with a high of 74 and Sunday calls for scattered showers and a high of 73

[Rhody83]

Rhody is up 2-1 going into the bottom of the 10th.

[Rhody83]

[NYGFan_Section208]

And it looks like T Wilson is back out there. Good news.

[R.Kelly150]

Glad to see the team get a win early in the seasons. It must be difficult to play a months worth of games away from home. Still that makes for a strong team later in the season. They, like pretty much every baseball team, need that No. 1 starter. If Wilson is fully recovered from his injury and is back to his sophomore pitching level then boy we truely have a top-level starter that could pitch well against any team in D1 baseball. To me, the baseball program year in and year out performs at a level way above their funding/support level. Moreover, pound for pound they are the most successful of URIs athletic programs when the funding or lack thereof is factored in.

[ramster]

Reading the Rice Baseball Board it’s clear that their fans were looking for a sweep of Rhody but we had a great 2-1 extra inning win Friday night.
URI is now in the 11th inning in Houston tied 5-5. We just got out of a bases loaded mess in the bottom of the 10th with a force out at the plate from 1b and then a fly out to end the inning. Now top of the 11th.

[ramster]

Bottom of 11th 6’5” soph Ryan Twitchell got 2 K’s and a ground out to the pitcher, while giving a single, now to the top of the 12th

[SmartyBarrett]

Tied it with 1 in the ninth yesterday to send the game to extras. Tied it with 2 in the ninth to send it to extras today. Rhody up 6-5 trying to close this out in the 13th.

ETA: Well, I jinxed it. Rice ties it in the 13th and has the winning run on 2nd with no outs.

[ramster]

Rice wins it in bottom of 13th 7-6. Good, respectable job by URI.

2,324 attendance Saturday and 3,081 for Friday nights game to watch URI and Rice

https://riceowls.com/news/2019/2/16/bas ... nings.aspx

[ramster]

Houston Chronicle on Friday Nights 2-1 URI win

https://www.chron.com/sports/rice/artic ... 621548.php

[ramster]

URI lost 15-3 today. Nice effort by Connor Romano who help Rice scoreless for 2 innings and stuck out 5 Rice batters.
Good to come away with a win in the series and came very close to taking 2 of 3.