Rice Baseball This Week, April 13-19
Wednesday – Rice 5, Sam Houston State 3 Box l Recap: Rice l SHS l Roost
Friday (6:35 pm CT) – vs. Memphis Game Notes: Rice l MEM l LS l Radio l ESPN+
Probables: RHP Tanner Wiggins (2-1, 3.48) and RHP Will Howell (3-5, 7.49)
Saturday (12 pm CT) – Rice Alumni Baseball Tailgate and Crawfish Boil
Sat (2:05 pm CT) – vs. Memphis Game Notes: Rice l MEM l LS l Radio l ESPN+
Probables: RHP Ethan Sanders (2-4, 3.96) and LHP David Case (2-6, 6.04)
Sunday (1:05 pm CT) – vs. Memphis Game Notes: Rice l MEM l LS l Radio l ESPN+
Probables: RHP Ryland Urbanczyk (3-2, 2.48) and TBA
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Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, April 13-19
Monday-Tuesday – M Golf at Mossy Oak Intercollegiate, West Point MS
Monday (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. UAB
Thursday-Saturday – W/M Track at Bryan Clay Invite, Azusa CA
Thursday-Saturday – W/M Track at Beach Invite, Long Beach CA
Thursday-Saturday – W Tennis at American Championship, GRBTC
Thursday-Saturday – M Tennis at American Championship, Tulsa
Thursday-Saturday – W/M Track at Tom Tellez Invite, Houston
Friday (5 pm CT) – Volleyball at Texas
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, April 13-19
Monday (12 pm CT) – SRUW l Field Trip to Rice Library Service Center
Monday (6 pm CT) – CSWGS Martel Lecture: Robin Wall Kemmerer
Tuesday (5 pm CT) – Rice360 Global Health Seminar
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: The Genius of Taylor Swift
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club
Wednesday (8 pm CT) – Seattle l Omar Syed
Thursday-Sunday – ARUBA Weekend
Thursday (4:30 pm CT) – 2026 Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase
Thursday (8 pm CT) – Bay Area l Omar Syed
Friday (12 pm CT) – Hudspeth Lecture Series: Elizabeth Brannon
Friday (4 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series: He Bian
Saturday (3 pm CT) – Moody Center: New Art / New Music Spring 2026
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, April 13-19
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Luke McCaffrey:
Luke McCaffrey is making encouraging progress (Riggo's Rag)
Professional Baseball News
Owls in MLB:
Update: April 15 (The Roost)
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Trei Cruz (.213) went 2-for-4 with a run, 2 RBI and a walk for AAA Toledo.
Garrett Stratton (0-0, 3.18) pitched a scoreless inning in relief for Hi-A Brooklyn.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Pierce helping Rice engineer one of college baseball's great turnarounds (D1Baseball.com, Subscriber Content)
Other Sports News
Rice M Golf:
Boandl Named American Golfer of the Week (Rice Owls)
Rice W Track:
Javelin thrower embraces No. 2 national ranking (The Rice Thresher)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 1 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T60 at even par at the Tulum Championship in Tulum Mexico on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Watson Fellow:
Rice senior named Watson Fellow (Rice News)
Houston Zoo:
Rice students bring the heat for flamingos (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Jackie Burke Jr, who entered Rice in 1941 at the insistence of his mother but left to join the Marine Corps during World War II, holds the record for the largest final-round comeback in Masters history, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit to win the 1956 Masters. Watch here. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst, Mike Ross, Andy Williams and Susan Zimmerman!)
Way to go, John Montana, Art Gottschalk, Bob Toone, Martin Kaplan, Dick Fuqua, Mike Ross, Ann Eldredge, Kirkwood Johnston, Scott Wise, Andy Williams, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Richard Avant, Ann Bixby, Ted Richard, Richard Zansitis, Guy Rollins, Matt Moake, Bob Reinhold, Paul Reese, Russell Henderson, Martha Proctor Gano, Clarke Anderson, Kirwin Drouet, Boyd Harrison, Betty Bixby, Robert Gilmer, Susan Zimmerman, Greg Williams, Arthur Rogers, Horst Paul, Chris Kohnhorst, James Walker, Melinda Clark, Sallie Schwall and Mike Alsup!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome