Fresno, UNC vying for finals
Lauren Reynolds...CWS Finals. North Carolina followed this path last season, beating Rice to force a deciding game and then winning the bracket against the Owls the following evening. • With a win tonight, North Carolina...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 22, 2008Spots in the CWS finals up for grabs
Lauren Reynolds...row) and went to the CWS Finals. Last year, North Carolina beat Rice to force a deciding game and then beat the Owls again to win the bracket. Stanford has also followed this path before...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 21, 2008Day 4's numbers to note
Lauren Reynolds...26-2. • Rice falls to 10-13 all-time in its seven CWS appearances with all of the appearances coming since 1997. It is only the third time that the Owls went 0-2...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 17, 2008Elimination day for Rice, LSU
Lauren Reynolds...Rice will play LSU (ESPN2, 2 p.m. ET) in the day's elimination game. North Carolina will take on upstart Fresno State in the winners' bracket game (ESPN2, 7 p.m. ET). The Owls...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 16, 2008The sun also rises in Omaha
Lauren Reynolds...field. • It was an uncharacteristically slow start for Rice this year, as the team won just six of its first 11 games. The Owls started conference play slowly as well, finishing March by...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 15, 2008Fresno capitalizes on Rice errors
Lauren Reynolds...on the road, took an early lead against College World Series regular Rice on Sunday. Fresno scored four unanswered runs against the Owls in the second inning. The Owls can partly blame themselves for the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 15, 2008Bulldogs taking bite out of Rice's CWS hopes
Lauren Reynolds...to increase its lead to 16-2. Rice got on the scoreboard in fifth with a Jared Gayhart sac fly, which drove in Chad Mozingo. The Owls added another run in the sixth when...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 15, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN NOVEMBER
Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "rice owls" make the list?