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Rice Tops East Carolina 10-3 Friday Night At Reckling Park
April 18, 2008
HOUSTON -- Junior catcher Adam Zornes drove in three runs and tied a career-high with four hits to lead a 16-hit Rice attack as the sixth-ranked Owls' baseball team defeated visiting East Carolina in the opening game of a three-game Conference USA weekend series Friday evening at Reckling Park. Rice posted double-digit hits for the ninth time in a row and the Blue & Gray now has a nine-game win-streak to match. The game was a scoreless pitcher's duel for the first three and a half innings, but the Rice jumped on the board for three runs in the fourth and went on to score in each of its next four turns at bat. The Owls followed the three-run fourth with one in the fifth and two in each of the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to slowly pull away. J.P. Padron led off the fourth with a single to center and a single by Aaron Luna put runners on first and second. Rick Hague drove a double down the left field line to score one and Zornes' first hit of the night drove in two more. East Carolina answered with a run in the fifth on an RBI single by Stephen Batts, but the Owls got it right back after a leadoff walk to Jimmy Comerota, sacrifice by Jordan Dodson and RBI single by Jared Gayhart. ECU came back and score in its half of the sixth to make it a 4-2 game, but the exchange rate for scoring runs was not working in the Pirates favor. Zornes hit his team-leading seventh homer of the season put run on the board in the sixth. Chad Mozingo's double and Comerota's bunt single contributed to another.
Back-to-back doubles by ECU's Harrison Eldridge and Ryan Wood made the score 6-3, but the Owls stole home for its seventh run and Zornes scored on an RBI single to make it 8-3. In the eighth a total of three doubles, by Padron, Diego Seastrunk and Hague led to two more runs and the 10-3 final. Zornes led five Owls who had two or more hits on the night. He also had his second steal of the season. Padron was 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles. Rice sophomore starting pitcher Ryan Berry worked into the sixth to earn his fifth win of the season. He allowed just two earned runs in 5.2 frames while striking out four on the night. The Owls improved to 29-10 on the season and 11-2 in C-USA action. East Carolina fell to 27-11 overall and 8-5 against the league. The two teams continue the weekend series on Saturday at 7 pm, a changed time from some earlier listings due to the game's selection for a television broadcast by CBS College Sports. Sunday's final game of the series is 1 pm at Reckling Park. |
