Rice snaps Texas Tech's 10-game win streak to start season
HOUSTON — Parker Smith and two relievers allowed four hits and Jack Reidel hit a tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning as Rice beat No. 16 Texas Tech 3-2 Friday at Minute Maid Park, snapping the Red Raiders' season-opening 10-game winning streak.
The game was the first for Tech (10-1) in the Shriners Children's College Classic. Tech will face Michigan at 11 a.m. Saturday and No. 15 Texas A&M at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Reidel's homer broke a 2-2 tie. It came with one out in the seventh off Andrew Devine (0-1).
Tech erased a 2-0 deficit in the top of the seventh. The Red Raiders had the bases loaded with one out after walks to Drew Woodcox, Hudson White and Dillon Carter. Woodcox scored on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly by Tracer Lopez made the score 2-2, but Owls reliever Justin Long (1-0) retired Nolen Hester to end the threat.
Kevin Bazzell had two hits for Tech, and the others came from Austin Green and Gavin Kash. Long worked around a one-out double by Kash in the ninth, striking out all three batters.
Connor Walsh broke a scoreless tie in the fourth with a two-run homer for Rice (4-5).
Smith went six innings, striking out eight and holding the Red Raiders to three hits.
Tech starter Brendan Girton went 4 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on two hits and four walks. He struck out five.
Women's basketball
Texas Tech and Iowa State finish the regular season facing each other at 3 p.m. Saturday at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. ESPN+ will show the game.
Iowa State (18-9, 10-7 in the Big 12) is 12-1 at home this season and has won its last five games against the Lady Raiders. The Cyclones are in a three-way tie for third place in the Big 12 with Oklahoma State (20-9, 10-7) and Baylor (19-10, 10-7).
Tech (18-12, 6-11) is alone in eighth place in the conference and clinched the No. 8 seed in the conference tournament Wednesday with a 66-49 win against TCU and a loss by Kansas State (16-14, 5-12) at Oklahoma. Tech and Kansas State will face each other Thursday in a Big 12 tournament first-round game at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.
Tech's Bre'Amber Scott is the Big 12's third-leading scorer with an average of 17.0 points per game and its eighth-leading rebounder at 6.2 per game.
Iowa State all-American Ashley Joens is averaging 21.0 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, first and third in the conference, respectively.
Men's golf
ORLANDO, Fla. — Texas Tech's Ludvig Aberg shot 2-under-par 70 for the second day in a row at Bay Hill and was tied for ninth place after Friday's second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Aberg, playing on a sponsor's exemption, made five birdies and three bogeys. He was in a group at 4-under with Masters champions Scottie Scheffler and Adam Scott.
Softball
Peyton Blythe, Kennedy Crites and Carson Armijo drove in all of Texas Tech's runs with home runs as the Red Raiders beat Seton Hall 5-3 and split their two games Friday in the Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic at Rocky Johnson Field.
The blasts by Blythe and Crites were two-run drives in the second inning that gave Tech (14-6) a 4-0 lead. Armijo's solo shot in the fourth made it 5-1.
Taylor Hill and Lela Allen had three hits apiece for Seton Hall (5-6), one of Hill's being a solo homer.
Tech starter Kendall Fritz (4-1) allowed two runs in five innings. Olivia Rains pitched the last two innings for her first save, allowing a run on four hits.
Earlier Friday, Taylor Fawcett capped a five-run fourth inning with a three-run double, helping Rutgers beat Tech 8-4.
Tech got three solo homers in the second inning from Blythe, Alanna Barraza and Makinzy Herzog, the last tying the game 3-3. Down 8-3 in the seventh inning, Tech got another solo shot from Abbie Orrick.
On Saturday, the Red Raiders again face Rutgers (14-3) at 3 p.m. and Seton Hall at 5:30 p.m.
Women's tennis
ARLINGTON — Texas Tech beat Texas-Arlington 5-2 Friday in the first of a two-match weekend road trip for the Red Raiders.
Tech won the best-of-three doubles point, then got singles victories from Avelina Sayfetdinova, Cristina Tiglea, Metka Komac and Arina Oreshchenkova.
Tech (9-4) takes on SMU (6-4) at 11 a.m. Sunday in Dallas.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tech sports roundup: Rice snaps Texas Tech's 10-game win streak
