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Second loss bumps Rice from C-USA baseball tourney NEW ORLEANS – Fifth-ranked Rice opened the Conference USA tournament on Wednesday afternoon seeking history. The Owls will leave the Crescent City with that mission accomplished, although it wasn’t the sort of history they planned to revisit. For the first time since the 1995 Southwest Conference tournament, Rice went 0-2 in a postseason conference tournament, falling to East Carolina 4-3 at Turchin Stadium. The top-seeded Owls (42-13) dropped back-to-back games for the first time since late-March. No. 5 seed East Carolina (40-18) will meet the Houston-UAB loser on Friday. Rice had won consecutive C-USA tournaments, but after falling to UAB on Wednesday, showed relatively few signs of life against the Pirates. T.J. Hose (6-4), who was demoted as the Friday night starter after struggling out of the gate, picked up the win in relief. The Owls sprang to a 3-0 lead, with Adam Zornes’ two-run home run in the second inning serving as the big blow. However, the Owls squandered opportunities for big innings over their next three at-bats, with J.P. Padron grounding into a double play in the third, Rick Hague getting erased at home plate on a failed safety squeeze bunt in the fourth, and Zornes grounding out with runners on the corners to close the fifth inning. Those failures allowed Pirates starter Justin Bristow to linger for four innings despite his early struggles, and they enabled to Pirates to rally against Rice starter Ryan Berry. Kyle Roller cut the deficit to two runs with a homer to center in the fifth, and the Pirates exploded for three runs on five hits against Berry (7-4) and Cole St. Clair in the sixth.

Congrats!

Source: Baseball might try replay in Arizona Fall League Major League Baseball is making tentative plans to experiment with instant replay in the Arizona Fall League, according to a baseball official with knowledge of those discussions. If that experiment proves practical and successful, MLB then is likely to continue the experiment next March during the World Baseball Classic and spring-training games. If no insurmountable problems arise, baseball could begin using replay -- though only to decide home run calls -- as soon as next season. What is yet to be determined is whether calls would be reviewed by a "replay umpire" in each stadium, as the National Football League does, or in the MLB offices in New York, a system that would more resemble the National Hockey League. Calls for some kind of instant replay system for home runs have arisen following a string of questionable home run calls by umpires. On Sunday night, umpires at Yankee Stadium reversed their correct call and concluded a shot by Carlos Delgado of the Mets was foul. A night later, umps in Houston mistakenly ruled a ball hit by the Cubs' Geovany Soto off a center-field wall was in play when it should have been a home run. Soto turned the hit into an inside-the-park home run anyway. And on Wednesday night, a ball hit by Alex Rodriguez that struck a stairway beyond the outfield fence and bounced back into the outfield was ruled a double when it should have been a home run. Last November, general managers voted 25-5 to try replay on boundary calls -- whether possible homers are fair or foul, if balls actually clear fences, whether there's fan interference. The recommendation went to commissioner Bud Selig, but had no binding effect or time frame. Nor did it offer a recommendation on how it would be implemented.

Spurs will be alright!

We'll be there! 8)

Police: Fan may have been sliding down handrail before fatal fall ATLANTA -- A 25-year-old man died from injuries sustained after falling about 150 feet down a stairwell at Turner Field during Wednesday night's game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets. The senior investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office, Mark Guilbeau, said Thursday that the man who fell was Justin Hayes of Cumming, Ga. Guilbeau said an autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death. Atlanta Police Department spokesman Ronald Campbell said Hayes was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with serious head injuries. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hayes was pronounced dead at the hospital. Braves spokesman Brad Hainje said Hayes apparently fell from the club level to the landing on the stairwell on the field level during the eighth inning. Campbell said Hayes may have been sliding down the handrails when he fell and that alcohol may have been involved. Police are still investigating the incident. Earlier this season, a fan at Shea Stadium in New York was killed when he plunged four stories from an escalator during a game. According to media reports, witnesses said the man was perched on the escalator handrail when he lost his balance and fell.

2 big games tonight!!!

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I would have put WB above the Woodlands for sure..

I agree 100%

Looks ok to me, what did you think?

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Kansas State beat Okie State..

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Where is Kvilleballa?

Food!!!

Gametime!!

SETXsports.com will broadcast this series!

We'll be broadcasting the Buna games!