Rice Baseball This Week, April 13-19
Wednesday – Rice 5, Sam Houston State 3 Box l Recap: Rice l SHS l Roost
Friday – Memphis 4, Rice 1 Box l Recap: Rice l MEM
Saturday (12 pm CT) – Rice Alumni Baseball Tailgate and Crawfish Boil
Sat (12 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
Rice Football:
Spring Football Notebook (Yahoo Sports)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Trei Cruz (.215) went 1-for-4 with a run and a walk for AAA Toledo.
Parker Smith (1-1, 5.40) allowed 3 earned runs in 6 innings for a no-decision for Hi-A Asheville.
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 W Basketball:
Owls Add Pair of Power Conference Transfers (The Roost)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was +1 and missed the cut at the Tulum Championship in Tulum Mexico on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Rebecca Schreib:
Schreib wins George R Brown Prize for Exellence in Teaching (Rice News)
Kenneth Tam:
Tam named Guggenheim Fellow (Rice News)
Karen Shannon McDonell:
Karen Shannon McDonell ’77, Jones College, passed away on April 16 after a long battle with cancer. She is survived by her son, Shannon (Shan) McDonell ’12, Will Rice College; and her partner Jim Shetter. She is predeceased by her husband Bruce McDonell ’75, Baker College. Karen was a devoted Rice alum. She worked in Rice’s alumni office from 2014-2019. A celebration of life will be held later this year. I will post the obituary when available.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
First, Melissa Kean added the following about Jackie Burke Jr: “Rice has Jackie Burke’s papers in the Woodson. It's a beautiful collection of interesting stuff mostly about the history of Champions Golf Club. Ira Gruber of the history department had been a great collegiate golfer at Duke and was a member of Champions. He helped us acquire the collection and I got to spend some time with Burke, who helped fix my tendency to hit hooks!”
Next trivia question on Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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