About as good as it gets for head coach David Pierce and the Texas baseball program to start out the 2020 regular season came with the weekend series sweep of the Rice Owls. Texas completed the sweep of Rice thanks to a close 5-4 victory on Feb. 16.
The Texas Longhorns baseball program held off the in-state foe Rice in the ninth inning, despite the Owls scoring two runs. Texas entered the ninth inning with a 5-4 lead, but Rice pulled back within one run before the bullpen was able to officially close it out. The Longhorns really rode a big fifth and sixth inning for the offense to this win.