The Rice baseball team rallied for the lead in the eighth inning, then broke a one-run game wide-open in the ninth to claim an 11-5 victory over Texas-San Antonio in Sunday’s Championship Final at the Conference USA Tournament in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Already the 2014 regular season champion and the tournament’s No. 1 seed, Rice won its sixth C-USA Tournament title in nine years as a league member. The Owls have now won three of the last four C-USA Tournaments.

The latest tourney crown was led by Owl senior Michael Aquino, who went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI Sunday. The Woodlands, Texas, native finished the week-long event batting .571 (12-for-21) with nine RBI, seven runs scored and slugging at an .857 clip. Owls Skyler Ewing, Ford Stainback, Chase McDowell and Blake Fox joined Aquino on the 2014 all-tournament team. click here for complete story