{"id":201306,"date":"2026-03-22T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201306\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:08:18","slug":"sharp-strikes-out-11-rice-falls-to-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201306\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Strikes Out 11; Rice Falls to South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Rice’s Brayden Sharp<\/a> struck out 11 in relief, but South Florida got a first inning run, and Michael Senay made it hold up, as USF evened the series, 2-0, Saturday afternoon.
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\nSouth Florida (19-4, 1-1) grabbed the lead in the first inning. After the first two batters reached, Nathan Early hit a sacrifice fly to bring in Ryan Pruitt. The Bulls had a great chance to add on in the third, loading the bases with one out. But Brayden Sharp<\/a> came on and struck out Jake Kulikowski and Lance Trippel to get out of the inning.
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\nThe Owls (14-10, 1-1) threatened in the fifth. With one out, Kutter-Gage Webb<\/a> singled to left center. Lorenzo Rios<\/a> drew a walk two batters later. But they were left stranded, as Cole Green<\/a> struck out to end the inning.
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\nThe Bulls added an insurance run in the eighth. After loading the bases with one out, Javin Relaford hit a ground ball to short. Rice got the out at second, but Relaford beat out the throw to first, allowing Trippel to score.
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\nRice had a chance in the ninth. With two outs, J.C. Davis and Paul Smith<\/a> singled. But Garet Boehm<\/a> lined out to short to end the game.
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\nSenay moved to 4-0 with the win. Ryland Urbanczyk<\/a> (1-3) took the loss. Ethan Sutton picked up his fourth save.
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\nUp Next
\nRice and South Florida close out the series tomorrow, Mar. 21. First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m., and the game will be streamed by ESPN+.
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\nNotes
\n*Rice is 4-2 this season in the middle game of a weekend series.
\n*Rice split the first two games of a series for the first time this year.
\n*Brayden Sharp<\/a> recorded a career-high 11 strikeouts in 5.0 innings of relief, tying the most strikeouts by an Owl this year.
\n*It is also the first 10+ strikeout game in relief since Davion Hickson<\/a> had 10 against Charlotte on May 5, 2024.
\n*Kutter-Gabe Webb extended his season-long hitting streak to seven games.
\n*Garet Boehm<\/a> extended his on-base streak to a season-high seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Rice’s Brayden Sharp struck out 11 in relief, but South Florida got a first inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-201306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}