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FIU Stumbles In Series Opener To Rice

MIAMI (May 19, 2022) – To open the final series of the 2022 campaign, the FIU baseball team fell 8-2 to the Rice Owls.

Panther shortstop Steven Ondina tallied his eighth multi-hit game of the season with a pair of base hits and scored once. Five other Panthers collected a base knock on Thursday night including a ninth inning home run off the bat of Bryan Loriga.

FIU starter Patrick Pridgen was saddled with the loss after allowing five runs in 3.1 innings. Pridgen punched out five outs to push his season strikeout total to 112, which ties for the 11th most strikeouts in a season in program history.