Owls Use Disappearing Act on Texas Tech
By Mark Anderson
Houston, Feb.10—The Rice Owls reached into their bag of tricks and used the disappearing act to defeat the Red Raiders by a score of 5-1 here at the Minute Maid Classic.
Eddie Degerman began the disappearing act with his mixture of fastballs, curves, and other assorted pitches that left the Red Raiders trying to figure out where the ball disappeared. Eddie’s fastball was clocked consistently between 89-91, and only once did it reach 92 mph. Eddie used his assortment of pitches to hold the Red Raiders hitless until the 5th inning. He only gave up two hits and a run while striking out seven.
Coach Graham had nothing put praise for Degerman and St. Clair afterwards. “Degerman and St. Clair—it’s hard to pitch any better than they pitched,” said Graham.
The Owls held a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when Buchanon reached on an infield single, went to third on Rodriguez’s single, and then scored on Savery’s single that moved Rodriguez to third. After Luna struck out, Chad Lembeck sent a sacrifice fly to right to bring in Rodriguez and put the Owls up. But the Red Raiders charged back in the sixth when Callander reached first on Rodriguez’s second error of the game, stole second, and scored on a two-out single by catcher Matt Smith. That ended Degerman’s night—and brought on another disappearing act—Cole St. Claire. St. Clair ended the inning with the first of seven strikeouts recorded in his three and a third innings of work to record a save.
The third disappearing act was performed by Aaron Luna, the freshman from Southlake Carroll. Luna gave the Owls the lead that would prove to be insurmountable when he homered in the sixth inning with Joe Savery on base. Aaron had a little help on this at-bat, though. Luna explained that the team had noticed that when the pitcher got down in the count, “he tended to go with fastballs away.” It was a fastball away that Luna whacked to put the game away.
Another act that baffled the Red Raiders was the color of the pitcher’s gloves. Twice the home plate umpire stopped the game when the Red Raiders sent in a new pitcher and made him change to a one-tone glove. Needless to say, the crowd was not entertained. And truthfully, at that point, they could have worn ten tone gloves out to the mound and it would not have made a bit of difference because Rice pitching absolutely stifled the Red Raider bats. The only real scare for the Owls afterwards was when Dany Lehmann took a pitch to the head--and it wasn't the glove's fault. After a few minutes to clear the cobwebs, Lehmann trotted down to first. “He was overthrowing and lost control,” said Lehmann afterwards.
BOX SCORE:
http://riceowls.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2005-2006/g3.html
Houston, Feb.10—The Rice Owls reached into their bag of tricks and used the disappearing act to defeat the Red Raiders by a score of 5-1 here at the Minute Maid Classic.
Eddie Degerman began the disappearing act with his mixture of fastballs, curves, and other assorted pitches that left the Red Raiders trying to figure out where the ball disappeared. Eddie’s fastball was clocked consistently between 89-91, and only once did it reach 92 mph. Eddie used his assortment of pitches to hold the Red Raiders hitless until the 5th inning. He only gave up two hits and a run while striking out seven.
Coach Graham had nothing put praise for Degerman and St. Clair afterwards. “Degerman and St. Clair—it’s hard to pitch any better than they pitched,” said Graham.
The Owls held a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when Buchanon reached on an infield single, went to third on Rodriguez’s single, and then scored on Savery’s single that moved Rodriguez to third. After Luna struck out, Chad Lembeck sent a sacrifice fly to right to bring in Rodriguez and put the Owls up. But the Red Raiders charged back in the sixth when Callander reached first on Rodriguez’s second error of the game, stole second, and scored on a two-out single by catcher Matt Smith. That ended Degerman’s night—and brought on another disappearing act—Cole St. Claire. St. Clair ended the inning with the first of seven strikeouts recorded in his three and a third innings of work to record a save.
The third disappearing act was performed by Aaron Luna, the freshman from Southlake Carroll. Luna gave the Owls the lead that would prove to be insurmountable when he homered in the sixth inning with Joe Savery on base. Aaron had a little help on this at-bat, though. Luna explained that the team had noticed that when the pitcher got down in the count, “he tended to go with fastballs away.” It was a fastball away that Luna whacked to put the game away.
Another act that baffled the Red Raiders was the color of the pitcher’s gloves. Twice the home plate umpire stopped the game when the Red Raiders sent in a new pitcher and made him change to a one-tone glove. Needless to say, the crowd was not entertained. And truthfully, at that point, they could have worn ten tone gloves out to the mound and it would not have made a bit of difference because Rice pitching absolutely stifled the Red Raider bats. The only real scare for the Owls afterwards was when Dany Lehmann took a pitch to the head--and it wasn't the glove's fault. After a few minutes to clear the cobwebs, Lehmann trotted down to first. “He was overthrowing and lost control,” said Lehmann afterwards.
BOX SCORE:
http://riceowls.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2005-2006/g3.html
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