{"id":238031,"date":"2026-04-07T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:51:07","slug":"owls-welcome-islanders-to-close-out-homestand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238031\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls Welcome Islanders to Close Out Homestand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice’s eight-game homestand concludes as the Owls host Texas A&M Corpus Christi at 6:35 on Tuesday.\u00a0 The Owls are 4-3 through the first seven games of the current slate at home.
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\nON THE AIR: \u00a0J.P. Heath will call the action on RiceOwls.com and the Varsity Network app as well as a simulcast on ESPN+.
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\nHOT LINKS
\nWatch:\u00a0 ESPN+<\/a>
\nListen: RiceOwls.com<\/a>
\nLive Stats: Statbroadcast<\/a>
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\nPITCHING MATCHUP:
\nTy Baker<\/a> (0-0, 3.12) vs.\u00a0 Bryson Shea\u00a0 (1-2, 9.15)
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\nTURNING POINT: Rice and Texas A&M Corpus Christi have met 23 times overall since the series began with a pair of games in 1962, but the 23rd became significant for more than the result (a 9-4 win by the Islanders) because it was the final game of Jose Cruz Jr.’s tenue as Bixby Family Head Baseball Coach.\u00a0\u00a0 A change in the leadership of the program was announced the next day and one week later, David Pierce<\/a> returned to South Main.\u00a0 The Owls won the first 20 games in the series, but the Islanders have won two of the last three since 2022. , Pierce is 16-5 in his career vs. Texas A&M (8-3 with Sam Houston, 8-2 while at Texas).
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\nHOME FRONT: Rice is 11-6 this season at Reckling Park and has won three of four home series (six of the last seven since last season). The Owls have not posted a winning season at home since they were 15-13-1 in 2018. In the 178 home games between 2019 and David Pierce<\/a>‘s first home game as the Bixby Family Head Baseball Coach, Rice posted a .393 home winning percentage (70-108). The Owls are 19-14 (.576) at home under Pierce.
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\nBOUNCING BACK: From 2022-2025, Rice had at least one nine-game losing streak in each season and had 10 streaks of five or more losses over that time, including a 12-game skein last season. This year the Owls have had back-to-back losses four times in addition to one, four-game losing streak.\u00a0 They responded to their four-game losing streak with a six-game winning streak, the longest for the program since a six-game winning streak in 2019.
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\nLIGHTER PACKING: Rice returns to the road this weekend for a three-game series at Charlotte, Friday through Sunday.\u00a0 After their marathon stretch of 13 of 14 games away from Reckling earlier this year, Rice will not have a stretch of more than four consecutive games away from home down the stretch (games at East Carolina, May 8-10, followed by the finale of the Silver Glove Series at Houston on May 10). Heading into the weekend, Rice (8-8) is one of six American Conference teams to have at least a .500 record in games away from their home diamonds and the Owls eight wins are the second most in the American, trailing only UTSA (11-7). \u00a0
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