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(10/31/08 12:00am)
The baseball team continued their preseason success with a 13-6 home win over the University of Texas last Sunday. Rice has now won all three of its preseason games, having already defeated Texas State University 8-4 at Reckling Park last weekend and UT 13-6 in Austin. The Owls will go for an undefeated preseason when they play McNeese State University tomorrow at Reckling Park. After that game, the team has a break until their first regular season contest at California Polytechnic State University on Feb. 20. Rice was able to showcase several of its new players in the scheduled 14-inning exhibition. Coach Wayne Graham sent eight pitchers to the mound in total- freshman Taylor Wall, junior Ryan Berry, junior Mike Ojala, sophomore Matt Evers, junior Zack Harwood, freshman Andrew Benak, freshman Anthony Fazio and senior Jordan Rogers. The lefty Wall started the game and threw two innings, striking out two. Berry tossed three scoreless innings, while Ojala, Evers and Harwood completed two apiece.
(10/10/08 12:00am)
Unfortunately for the Rice football team, it was the University of Tulsa's turn to beat an opponent by a truckload's worth of points. Just one week removed from trouncing the University of North Texas 77-20, the Owls fell hard to the Golden Hurricane's merciless offense and effective defense, losing by a 63-28 score. The two games shared a few characteristics - in both games the score was close at the beginning, and Jarett Dillard set a major wide receiver record. Despite Rice's defensive efforts, the score only stayed close for a half. The Owls and the Golden Hurricane exchanged scores for the first 28 minutes of the game to work a 14-14 tie, but Tulsa sneaked in one more touchdown with less than two minutes to play and headed into the break with a 21-14 lead.
(09/26/08 12:00am)
Last weekend, the football team traveled to Austin for their 91st meeting with the University of Texas. The crowd of almost 100,000, the largest to see a Rice game since the Owls played the University of Michigan in 2000, saw the Owls fall to the seventh-ranked Longhorns 52-10. Although Rice was only down 7-3 at the conclusion of the first quarter, Texas quickly began an offensive push and scored 31 unanswered points from the first to the third quarters.
(09/26/08 12:00am)
As the offense runs plays in practice, senior quarterback Chase Clement drops back and fires the ball. And whether it's a long spiral downfield that leads him across the goal line or a short, hard pass over the middle, senior receiver Jarett Dillard catches it. The problem for other Conference USA schools and the rest of the teams on the Owls schedule? The two often made make it look as easy in games as they do in practice.
