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April 4 Weekend Baseball Roundup
Rice becomes first C-USA team to sweep a league series in 2010

	Chad Mozingo

April 4, 2010

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Rice became the first Conference USA team to sweep a league series, taking three games from cross-town rival Houston. Memphis, Tulane and UAB each won two-of-three games on the road in conference action, defeating Marshall, East Carolina and UCF, respectively. Memphis, Rice, Tulane and UAB are now tied atop the league standings with 4-2 C-USA records.

Sat., April 3 Results
Memphis 10, Marshall 8 (Rick Russell, Jacob Wilson and Chad Zurcher homered for the Tigers)
Memphis 21, Marshall 13 (Tyler Huelsing first C-USA player this year to hit 3 HR in a game, leading MEM to DH sweep)
(23) East Carolina 15, Tulane 6 (John Wooten and Corey Thompson each with four hits; Thompson HR, 3 RBI)
Tulane 7, (23) East Carolina 5 (Tulane wins 5th straight series; Brandon Boudreaux extends hit streak to 10 games)
UAB 7, UCF 2 (Beau Pender did not allow a run until the 9th inning; UAb scored all seven runs with two outs)
UAB 6, UCF 1 (Ryan Ussery has five RBI and Ryan Woolley throws 6.2 scoreless innings as UAB sweeps DH)
Rice 8, Houston 7 (12 inn.) (Anthony Rendon hits grand slam to lead Owls to series sweep)
Southern Miss 15, St. Mary's 7 (6 inn.) (Four Eagles hit homers; USM scores 11 runs in third inning)

Fri., April 2 Results
Marshall 7, Memphis 4 (Kirby Pellant with two hits, a double and three RBI to lead MU)
UCF 16, UAB 7 (UCF scores 16 unanswered runs. Chris Duffy extends hitting streak to 18 games)
Tulane 10, (23) East Carolina 5 (Jeremy Schaffer with a pair of hits, including a grand slam, along with five RBI)
Rice 11, Houston 2 (Michael Ratterree and Jeremy Rathjen each with three RBI)
Southern Miss 4, St. Mary's 3 (USM scores three times in ninth. B.A. Vollmuth homers for fourth straight game

Thu., April 1 Results
Rice 6, Houston 0 (Taylor Wall throws complete-game, one-hit shutout with seven strikeouts)
St. Mary's 19, Southern Miss 11 (B.A. Vollmuth homered for the third straight game and drove in three runs)