TCU got Ryan Berry out of the game in the seventh inning on a controversial 3-2 hit-by-pitch in which it appeared that TCU's Ben Carruthers reached out with his elbow to catch what could have been strike three. Berry was as livid as you will ever see him but left to a standing ovation. Lefthanded closer Cole St.Clair in and immediately induced a weak grounder to third, but Diego Seastrunk bounced his throw home, and Danny Lehmann was ruled to have come off the plate. That brought another argument from the Rice dugout. St.Clair then got Kervin to ground into a crucial 5-4-3 double play (well-turned by Aaron Luna) for the biggest defensive play of the game.

After another controversial play that had Wayne Graham pointing, gesticulating and yelling in the eighth, St.Clair escaped trouble again with a fielder's choice. As in the seventh, a Seastrunk error set the stage for the chance, and the freshman redeemed himself by making the play to end the inning. In the top of the ninth, Rice's Danny Lehmann lofted a solo homer into the left-field corner to turn the momentum back in Rice's favor at 6-3.

But TCU rallied when the first two runners reached in the ninth against St.Clair. He recovered with a fly-out, strikeout and pop-up to earn his seventh save of the year and secure the win for Rice. It's 12:15 a.m., so I'm going to go find something to eat, but I'll be back in business tomorrow afternoon for Baylor and TCU.