Rice Owls vs the Stanford Cardinal, Game 3 (for all the marbles!)

NCAA Sports ^ | 6/23/03 | NCAA

[Ready4Freddy]

Division I 2003 Division I College World Series

June 23, 2003 -- The 2003 National Championship all comes down to one game. The Stanford Cardinal capitalized on a five-run seventh inning and yet another impressive outing from John Hudgins to defeat the Owls 8-3 and even the Championship Series at a game apiece. Follow the deciding game LIVE.

[Cvengr]

4-0?? for Rice!

But of course,...now the score most probably won't be cardinal numbers!

[j.frank.dobie]

My point, exactly. What a year!

No doubt about the loss to OU in football. Not much shame in that. Look at the football final top 10 in all the polls:

AP Top 10
1. Ohio State (71)
2. Miami (FL)
3. Georgia
4. USC
5. Oklahoma
6. Texas
7. Kansas State
8. Iowa
9. Michigan
10. Washington State

USA Today/ESPN
1. Ohio State
2. Miami (FL)
3. Georgia
4. USC
5. Oklahoma
6. Kansas State
7. Texas
8. Iowa
9. Michigan
10. Washington State

BCS
1. Miami (FL)
2. Ohio State
3. Georgia
4. USC
5. Iowa
6. Washington State
7. Oklahoma
8. Kansas State
9. Notre Dame
10. Texas

Like I said, How 'bout them Horns!

[hole_n_one]

Rice 6
Stanford 0
Bottom 6
Rice has 2nd and 3rd, nobody out.

[j.frank.dobie]

Moose pitching. Rice scores two, oops, four runs.

How 'bout them Horns!

Go Rice!

[sinkspur]

8 to zip now.

What was the Stanford coach thinking, intentionally walking a guy with nobody out and a man on first?

[hole_n_one]

Rice 8
Stanford 0
Stanford can't stop the bleeding.

[hole_n_one]

Made absolutely no sense.

[unbiasedtruth]

Here in Omaha and pulling for the Owls. I spent ten years in Houston and another five in Austin before being ship to Nebraska. And though I wanted Texas to repeat, I'm a Rice fan now.

[j.frank.dobie]

Classic Rice cheer:

What comes out of a Chinaman's a**?
Rice! Rice! Rice!

How 'bout them Horns!

Go Rice!

[hole_n_one]

Stanford has 1 hit (double) thru six.

If they have a rally monkey, they'd better uncage him now.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

They need more than a monkey. They need a zoo.

[hole_n_one]

Rice 9
Stanford 0
a slow, miserable death.....

[j.frank.dobie]

Well, there's a pretty nice one across the street from Rosenblatt. Don't think it will help the Indians tonight.

[hole_n_one]

Rice 11
Stanford 0
STILL bottom of the 6th.....

[Captiva]

PING!

sorry.

[hole_n_one]

1's are wild.....

[j.frank.dobie]

This game notwithstanding, a great CWS this year.

No home-run derbys. Good pitching and fundamental baseball.

The new format is great. I'd love to see them go back to a true double-elimination format, but I understand the problems with TV, etc. This is a good compromise.

[Captiva]

I know the innocent looking farm girl brunette rates higher on "who you prefer" surveys, but I think that glamour puss actress is HOT!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Kick some California a$$ .... GO RICE!

[socal_parrot]

You would think that NoCal sports teams would be getting tired of getting their butts kicked when it counts.