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Owls Out-Slug Marshall For 13-9 C-USA Road Victory Saturday
March 22, 2008 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Junior Jared Gayhart drove in six runs with a home run and three doubles and senior All-America Cole St.Clair fired 4.1 innings in relief to pace the 11th-ranked Rice baseball team to a 13-9 come-from-behind C-USA victory over Marshall on a frigid Saturday evening at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, W.Va. The temperatures dipped into the 30s shortly after first pitch and the light rain didn't make things comfortable for either team, but Rice came out hot and promptly pounded three doubles and a triple in the top of the first inning. Gayhart led off with what would prove to be his first double of the night and he scored on a triple to the right field corner by Diego Seastrunk. Aaron Luna and Adam Zornes then knocked back-to-back doubles and the Owls appeared on easy-street with a 3-0 lead. Marshall however exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the second to take a five-run lead. The Thundering Herd sent 14 batters to the plate for the biggest inning by an opponent the Owls have seen all season. Texas native Brandon Casamasima led off with a solo home run, but three walks and a hit batter sprinkled around five other hits did the real damage. The Owls chipped away for four runs in the fourth before taking the lead in the fifth. J.P. Padron led off the fourth with a base hit while Jordan Dodson walked and Jimmy Comerota was hit by a pitch to load the bases for Gayhart. The junior from Katy, Tex., drove the ball to the right field wall to score two. Derek Myers' sacrifice fly scored another and Seastrunk's RBI single cut the margin down to one, 8-7. In the fifth Gayhart blasted a two-out three-run homer over the wall in right to put Rice ahead for good, 10-8.
The Thundering Herd was able to get one of the runs back in the sixth. The Owls committed a fielding error with two away and the lapse turned into an unearned run when the next batter, Adam Yeager, tripled to the right field corner. The Blue and Gray answered with three insurance runs in the seventh. Rick Hague doubled down the left field line to start it off and Padron was hit by a pitch, the fifth Rice batter to be hit by a pitch in the game which tied a school record. Dodson sacrificed the runners into scoring position and Comerota drove them home with a base hit through the right side. Gayhart's third double of the game scored Comerota to stretch the margin to 13-9. Rice took the lead with reliever Bryan Price on the mound and the Marble Falls, Tex., native was credited with his second win of the season behind 1.1 scoreless innings. He was relieved by St.Clair with two outs in the fifth, and the senior left-hander proceeded to earn his first save of the season with an impressive 4.1 innings. In the most work from any of the Owls' six pitchers on the night, St.Clair scattered four hits and struck out six without allowing any walks. With its eighth win in a row Rice improved to 16-6 on the season and 2-0 in C-USA play. Marshall moved to 8-10 overall and 0-2 in conference. The teams conclude the three-game weekend series on Sunday at noon Eastern Time (11 am Central). |
