Rice Baseball This Week, May 18-24
Wednesday-Sunday – American Baseball Championship, Clearwater GN: Rice
Thursday – #3 Rice 5, #7 Wichita State 4 Box l Recap: Rice l WS l Roost
Friday – #2 East Carolina 4, #3 Rice 3 Box l Recap: Rice l ECU l Roost
Friday – #4 UAB 9, #3 Rice 6 Box l Recap: Rice l UAB l Roost
RICE UPDATE
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, May 18-24
Monday-Wednesday – M Golf at NCAA Athens Regional
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, May 18-24
Wednesday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Venezuela, Iran, and the Middle East
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Hong Kong l Reception with Rice VP Stephen Bayer
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar with Bianca Mabute-Louie
Thursday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: What FEMA’s new maps mean for Houston
Thursday (10 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Liz Tran
Shepherd School Events This Week, May 18-24
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Chris Boswell:
Boswell Signs Record Extension (ESPN)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Garrett Stratton (0-0, 4.26) pitched a scoreless inning in relief for Hi-A Brooklyn.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Five Owls Earn American Conference Honors (Rice Owls)
5 Owls Named to All-Conference Teams (The Roost)
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T30 at -8 at the Visit Knoxville Open on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Stan Woosley '66, '71 (Thanks, Mike Ross '70, '74!):
It was announced this week that Stan Woosley was one of three scientists who are sharing the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which "honors a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical, conceptual or observational discoveries leading to fundamental advances in our understanding of the universe". Read more.
Rice Trivia
Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Susan Zimmerman for the guest trivia question!
Austrian sculptor Oswald Lassig did almost all of the original limestone carvings on the Rice campus. He shares a first name with the cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit created by Walt Disney in 1927. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Ann Bixby, Ted Richard, Andy Williams, Mike Ross, Clarke Anderson, Bob Toone, John Montana, James Walker, Martha Proctor Gano, Arthur Rogers, Paul Reese, Anne Eldredge, Guy Rollins, Brian Lattimer, Chris Kohnhorst, Art Gottschalk, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Melinda Clark, Boyd Harrison, Greg Williams and Dan Hyde!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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