ELON, N.C. -- The Elon Phoenix baseball squad heads to the Lonestar State of Texas where it will participate in this weekend's Rice Invitational in Houston.  The Phoenix (4-0) will take on the sixth-ranked Rice Owls from Reckling Park on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Eastern before squaring off with the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders (2-0) on Saturday and the Nebraska Cornhuskers (1-3) on Sunday.

 

Elon has never faced any of the three teams in this tournament.  In fact, Elon has never taken on a team from either Texas or Nebraska.

 

Elon - LH Jimmy Reyes (1-0, 1.50 ERA, 6 K)

Rice - LH Taylor Wall (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 3 K)

 

Elon - RH Ken Ferrer (1-0, 3.18 ERA, 4 K)

Texas A&M Corpus Christi - LH Roy Ferdin (0-0, 6.23 ERA, 1 K)

 

Elon - RH Daniel Britt (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 5 K)

Nebraska - RH Tom Lemke (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 6 K)

 

• Matt Hinson ripped a go-ahead home run on the first pith he saw in Elon's 8-3 decision over High Point on Tuesday.  The bomb was just the 14th hit of the senior's career, but the seventh homer.

 

• Freshmen Alex Swim and Niko Fraser have gotten off to hot starts.  In four games, Swim ha hit .571 with a double and five RBI.  His eight hits lead the team.  Fraser has hit .375 with three runs scored, a triple, one RBI and a stolen base while starting in left field. 

 

• Junior shortstop Neal Pritchard recorded his 100th career hit in the win at High Point.  His 100th hit came in his final at bat of the game and was a two-run homer.

 

• Entering the weekend, Elon has scored a total of 10 runs in the eighth inning.  The Phoenix has allowed a total of nine runs on the year.