Conference USA release
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The Rice baseball team rallied for the game-tying run in the ninth inning, pushed across two scores in the top of the tenth, and then held-off a Florida Atlantic rally in the bottom of the frame for a 6-4 victory Thursday evening in a C-USA Tournament winner’s bracket game in Hattiesburg, Miss.
With the win Rice, now 34-20 on the season, gets a day off from tournament action on Friday and next plays the winner of the FAU-Louisiana Tech elimination game on Saturday morning. The FAU-LA Tech winner has to beat Rice twice on Saturday in the league’s double-elimination format.