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Rice University football recorded its first win of the season Saturday, beating the University of Kansas 23-14 at Rice Stadium. This is the second straight season that Rice's first win has been against Kansas; last year, Rice defeated Kansas 25-24 in Lawrence, Kan.
With the week off, the Owls were able to sit back at home and relax last Saturday afternoon before preparing for their first home game of the season this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. against University of Kansas.
For the first time in 18 years, the Owls visited an old Southwestern Conference foe when they traveled to College Station to play Texas A&M University on Saturday. With Texas A&M redshirt sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel suspended for the first half of the game for breaking NCAA rules, the Owls soared out of the gate to take a 14-7 lead after the first quarter.
As two seniors who have followed Rice University athletics over the past few years, we have gone through some surprises and disappointments. We have witnessed volleyball's huge upset to clinch the conference title at home in 2009 and women's tennis's impressive winning streak that handed it the conference title last season. We saw both women's soccer and swimming become premier teams in the conference, securing their first conference championships in their short histories. On the other hand, there have been times when seasons have ended abruptly. Baseball last year was on the cusp of going back to the College
The Owls suffered another tough 4-3 loss, this time at the hands of Conference USA rival Tulane University last Sunday. With the defeat, they dropped to 9-12 for the year. With Rice now guaranteed to have a losing regular season, the only chance for a trip to the NCAA tournament will be through winning the C-USA tournament.
The Owls men's tennis team knew it was do or die heading into the 55th Rice Invitational, and they answered with three wins against Radford University, Oregon University and Texas A&M University, all ranked opponents. The wins vaulted Rice University to the .500 mark for the first time since it was 2-2 at the beginning of the season and put the Owls back in the conversation for a possible at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
While many members of the Rice University undergraduate population were enjoying their spring breaks at sunny beaches in 70-degree weather, the tennis team was not having too shabby of a time either as they spent the entire week playing tennis in majestic San Diego and La Jolla, Calif.
Even with the all-important doubles point to take an early lead, the Owls could not secure a crucial win last weekend, falling 4-3 Sunday to Texas Christian University at Jake Hess Stadium. This is another tough break for the Owls following a 4-3 loss at Louisiana State University Feb. 14.
The treading gets tougher for the Owls as they try to break out of their recent slide. Last Thursday, the Owls fell to a rolling Texas A&M University team that cruised in and took the 6-1 result. Even with the negative result, Head Coach Efe Ustundag took some positives from the match saying the team now knows the level they need to play at to beat those elite teams.
According to Baseball America's Top 25 Preseason poll the Owls are only playing three ranked opponents this season, but their schedule is still daunting with key conference matchups and rivalry games.
The Rice University Owls were looking to make an early peak over .500 as they battled with the University of Miami last Sunday in Coral Gables, Fla. However, Rice was hit by a Miami hurricane, falling short against the Canes 1-6.
After a rough start to the year with heartbreaking losses to Texas Tech University and Mississippi State University, the Owls were back on the court last Sunday at Jake Hess Stadium looking to even out their win-loss streak. Playing Lamar University and the University of Texas, Pan American, did the job, and the Owls thrashed both teams 7-0. With the victories, Rice is back at .500 with a 2-2 record. More notably, these were the first two victories for Head Coach Efe Ustundag. Ustundag said he did not think about the first win until he talked to reporters after the fact.
With the early start to a Texas spring, it was time for the men to tidy up their serves and perfect their strokes. The 2013 men's tennis season got underway last Saturday at Jake Hess Stadium.
The men's tennis season was not a smooth drive down Main Street for the Owls. Left and right, there were bumps and bruises, as the team enjoyed some success with a seven game winning streak in late March, but also experienced major heartbreak with the loss to the University of Texas at San Antonio at home in February. In the end, the bruises left too many scars on the Owls resume and they failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in several years.
As the regular season came to a close, the Owls knew they still had unfinished business with the University of the Tulsa after a loss to them at home over the weekend. Seniors Sam Garforth-Bles and Christian Saravia pushed their singles opponents to the limit but could not eke out wins and Rice lost last Friday, 6-1.
With Rice University's esteemed academic tradition, when you think of award winners you think of Nobel Prize winners, award-winning researchers and top scholars. As a student or alumnus, you never expect to hear much about above and beyond athletic performance. It is Rice's academics on which people focus, not athletics. However, over the past two months, Owls fans, whether young children or elderly alumni, might have just witnessed something that they might never see again in their lifetimes.
The countdown to the NCAA tournament is on, and the Owls know that they do not have much room for error. Rice left the court this weekend with mixed results as they easily defeated Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi 6-1 on Friday afternoon but fumbled a momentous chance to boost their NCAA tournament chances as they fell to the University of Oklahoma 6-1 early Sunday afternoon.
The men and women's varsity tennis teams are not the only ones making noise on campus. Club tennis has provided some headlines as well. One club tennis team, consisting of Brown College junior Dylan Tozier, Sid Richardson College junior Chad Bustard, Baker College freshman Nelson Chen, graduate student Akshay Mathkar, Will Rice College freshman Genevieve Tarlton, and Lovett College junior Samaria Mouton, qualified for nationals at the Texas sectionals that were held in Austin during the weekend of March 2 to March 4.
Even though Rice University left Las Vegas last weekend, the Owls are still feeling lucky, as they narrowly escaped matches against Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University with 4-3 wins apiece to keep their streak going at seven games. However, lady luck was not on their side Wednesday as they got swept in College Station, TX by Texas A&M University, 7-0. Texas A&M easily took a 1-0 lead in doubles and never let it up. In singles, senior Sam Garforth-Bles and senior Christian Saravia pushed their matches to three sets, bu it was no use. The Owls went back home overwhelmed. With the loss, Rice ended its season-high seven winning streak.
Before their recent five-game winning streak, it looked like the Owls' ground was breaking from underneath them. What seemed like a promising season at the start was starting to turn sour with Rice's 8-5 record and season-low ranking of 64. Two weeks later, the Owls have moved up 22 spots and have added to their NCAA tournament resume impressive wins against ranked opponents the University of Memphis, Tulane University and the University of Denver.
