Aggies eliminate Rice

[sinton66]

Texas A&M defeated Rice Saturday to send the Owls home for the season by a score of 7-5. The Owls were leading 5-3 going into the 8th inning when the Aggies hit a grand slam to take the lead. With Rice now gone, there will be a new national champion this year.

[Phil C]

Holy Chiwawa!

[3afan]

:eek:

[Old Tiger]

i say that's a shocker

[Bellville22]

We made the trip to Reckling, and it was unbelievable! What great games!!! A&M had 2 seniors who have struggled all year step up and deliver clutch hits, Matt Alexander a pinch hit double with two strikes for the injured Austin Boggs, and Justin Ruggiano's grand slam in the bottom of the 8th. What a fun day at the ballpark.

[bullfrog_alumni_02]

congrats to the aggies and the owls, good luck in the next round tamu

[JasperDog94]

I don't think I would have called a bet on A&M beating Rice.:eek:

[KL3]

Gig'em Ags.

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by KL3
Gig'em Ags. i don't knwo about all that

[JasperDog94]

Originally posted by KL3
Gig'em Ags. They won't be around much longer...

[Bellville22]

Originally posted by JasperDog94
They won't be around much longer...

That's what people said last week.

[kaorder1999]

interesting....i take it rice wasnt as good this year as they were last year?

[vfunk]

their pitchers were 3 of the top 8 picks in the draft this year...id say they didnt suck as far pitching goes.

[sinton66]

Baseball's a strange game that way. You just never know who's gonna be "hot" or "cold" on any given day. Rice may have been in some kind of slump or something. I really don't think the Aggies were better than the Owls except on this day.

[Bellville22]

Originally posted by sinton66
I really don't think the Aggies were better than the Owls except on this day.

Probably, but we all know that was the only day that mattered.

[KL3]

Old Tiger it really wasn't that big of a 'shocker' seeing as Rice lost their opening game to Texas Southern and had to beat us twice. We had our top 2 pitchers ready for the last day, and we were hitting like we haven't in a month.

Even in the first game, we only got 5 hits I believe, but we had several hard liners right at people. We only lost that game 3-1.
Rice may be better, but championship teams come to play every day, and they didn't against TSU.

And JasperDog, LSU is not a national seed, and do not have the type of powerhouse team they've had in the past, I wouldn't count the Aggies out just yet.

[pakrat]

Originally posted by sinton66
Texas A&M defeated Rice Saturday to send the Owls home for the season by a score of 7-5. The Owls were leading 5-3 going into the 8th inning when the Aggies hit a grand slam to take the lead. With Rice now gone, there will be a new national champion this year.
Sorry to hear that. I rather enjoyed the series last year. Little Rice the giant killer.

[Old Tiger]

anyone know the box score to this one?

[sinton66]

From the Houston Chronicle:

Box score (NCAA)
2004 Texas A&M Baseball
#4 Rice at Texas A&M
June 6, 2004 at Houston (Rice's Reckling Park)

Rice 5 (46-14)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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Josh Rodriguez 2b........ 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0
Austin Davis lf.......... 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0
Paul Janish ss........... 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1
Adam Rodgers 1b.......... 4 1 2 2 0 1 5 0 0
Travis Reagan c.......... 4 1 1 0 0 0 11 0 1
Adam Morris dh........... 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Chris Kolkhorst ph...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clay Reichenbach 3b...... 3 1 2 3 0 0 0 1 0
Adam Hale rf............. 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1
Matt Cavanaugh cf........ 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0
Josh Baker p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philip Humber p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eddie Degerman p........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 29 5 5 5 2 10 24 5 3

Texas A&M 7 (42-20)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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Schindewolf, Erik 2b..... 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2
Pennington, Cliff ss..... 3 2 1 0 2 0 1 2 0
Patton, Cory dh.......... 3 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0
Boggs, Austin 3b......... 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0
Alexander, Matt ph/3b... 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 3
Mavroulis, Coby 1b....... 3 0 0 1 0 2 7 1 1
Stinson, Craig c......... 4 1 2 0 0 2 10 0 0
Infante, John cf......... 4 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 1
Bartek, Travis lf........ 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
Ruggiano, Justin rf...... 4 1 2 4 0 1 1 0 0
Meyer, Jason p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Frame, Doug p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rampy, Blake p.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nicholson, Kyle p....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals................... 33 7 11 7 3 11 27 8 7

Score by Innings R H E
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Rice................ 010 000 220 - 5 5 0
Texas A&M........... 000 102 04X - 7 11 1
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E - Alexander(4). DP - Rice 1; Texas A&M 1. LOB - Rice 3; Texas A&M 7. 2B -
Rodgers(21); Alexander(3). HR - Reichenbach(2); Ruggiano(3). HBP -
Cavanaugh; Schindewolf. SH - Rodriguez 2(3). SF - Reichenbach(2);
Mavroulis(4). SB - Pennington(11).

Rice IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Josh Baker.......... 5.0 6 3 3 1 9 21 22
Philip Humber....... 2.1 5 4 4 2 2 11 14
Eddie Degerman...... 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2

Texas A&M IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
-----------------------------------------------
Meyer, Jason........ 7.1 4 4 2 1 9 23 28
Frame, Doug......... 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Rampy, Blake........ 0.0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2
Nicholson, Kyle..... 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 4 4

Win - Nicholson (3-0). Loss - Humber (13-4). Save - None.
WP - Humber(6); Rampy(1). HBP - by Meyer (Cavanaugh); by Degerman (Schindewolf).
Umpires - HP: A.J. Lostaglio 1B: Scott Cline 2B: John DeLuca 3B: Tim O'Toole
Start: 4:45 pm Time: 3:02 Attendance: 3872
Baker faced 3 batters in the 6th.
Rampy faced 2 batters in the 8th.
Game: NCAA4

[KL3]

Old Tiger, you find what you were looking for in that box score? A&M outhit the owls 11-5, and committed the only error of the game that led to Rice's 2-run homer in the 8th.

Another interesting fact that box score doesn't tell you is that the pitchers who threw for A&M were a sophomore, freshman, freshman, and freshman.

[Old Tiger]

sure did, they just got beat

[BrahmaMom]

Hard to watch the Owls go down like they did. Congrats to the Aggies on a great win. Oh well, now I'm ready for football!

[AggieJohn]

WHOOP