College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, June 22-28
No events
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, June 22-28
Until August 29 – Moody Center: Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – John Boles Book Signing, Brazos Bookstore
Thursday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Lily Zheng
Friday (12 pm CT) – Moody Center: Wellness at the Moody Series
Saturday (1 pm CT – Moody Center: Art Lab: Felted Charms
Shepherd School Events This Week, June 22-28
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
American Conference Football:
Preseason Media Poll (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Tristan Gray (.248) singled and scored for the Twins and Dane Myers (.252) singled, walked and scored for the Reds. Jose Cruz (.227) went 3-for-5 with a double, 2 RBI and a run for AAA Toledo.
Justin Long (2-3, 8.37) pitched 1.1 scoreless innings in relief for Hi-A Rome.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Per the D1Baseball Transfer Tracker (subscriber content), RF Zachary Gingrich is transferring from Texas State to Rice.
Other Sports News
Rice M Golf:
Owls Sign Transfer Nolan Kuszyk for 2026-7 (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was at -4 and missed the cut at the Memorial Health Championship in Springfield IL on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
VivaTech:
Rice turns lab-born ideas into transatlantic partnerships (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Mike Ross and Andy Williams for the guest trivia question!
Two former Rice baseball players have hit home runs from both sides of the plate in a single game playing for two different MLB teams, Jose Cruz Jr for Toronto and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lance Berkman for Houston and Saint Louis. (Thanks, John Montana!)
Way to go, Betty Bixby (2), Clarke Anderson (2), Ted Richard (2), Kirkwood Johnston (2), Bob Toone (2), Randy Schaffer (2), Steve Lukingbeal, John Montana (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Ann Bixby (2), Paul Reese (2), Walt Greenberg (2), Jimmy Disch (2), Guy Rollins (2), Greg Williams (2), Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), James Walker (2), David Gano (2), Boyd Harrison (2), Art Gottschalk, Russell Henderson (2), Arthur Rogers (2), Martha Proctor Gano (2), Susan Zimmerman (2), Sallie Schwall (2), Ben Mayberry (2), Melinda Clark (2) and Jimmy Walts (2)!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome