HOUSTON (Interstat) — Ryland Urbanczyk delivered a strong start and the Rice Owls rallied from a four-run deficit to beat the Tulane Green Wave 6-5 in 11 innings Saturday afternoon at M.O. Campbell Center.

The Owls completed the weekend sweep, improving to 34-22 overall and 12-11 in the American Athletic Conference. Tulane fell to 25-31, 9-14.

Urbanczyk pitched six innings, allowing four hits and two earned runs with four strikeouts. He retired the side in order in three of his six frames. The right-hander had tossed five-plus shutout innings in his previous start against East Carolina.

Tulane starter LuisPablo Navarro was brilliant over four and two-thirds innings, yielding no hits and no runs while striking out four. The Green Wave took a 5-0 lead in the third inning when Jason Wachs hit a two-run home run, his ninth of the season, scoring John who had walked and stolen second.

The Green Wave added a run in the fifth on a fielder’s choice and another in the sixth on a single by Haas, but the scoring stalled after that. Tulane managed only six hits total, led by Wachs’ home run and a double by Bryson Ayala.

Rice scratched across its first run in the seventh. With two outs, Devenny was hit by a pitch, advanced to second on a balk and scored on a single by Daigre that was misplayed in left field by Wood, allowing Daigre to take second.

The Owls loaded the bases in the eighth but failed to score when Green flied out to right. In the ninth, trailing 5-1, Rice mounted a comeback. Chilcutt doubled to lead off, moved to third on a wild pitch and, after a walk to Davis and a walk to Smith, Hiram bocachica singled to right, scoring two runs to cut the deficit to 5-3.

Tulane answered in the top of the 10th. Ayala doubled down the left-field line, driving in two runs to extend the lead to 5-3. But Rice again answered. In the bottom half, Anderson singled and Green walked. With two outs, Daigre grounded into a fielder’s choice that scored Anderson, then Green scored on a wild pitch to tie the game.

The game remained tied after Tulane went down in order in the top of the 11th. In the bottom of the 11th, West reached on a throwing error by Tulane second baseman Ayala and advanced to second. bocachica singled to center, putting runners at first and third. Webb was intentionally walked to load the bases. Anderson then lifted a sacrifice fly to left, scoring West with the winning run.

bocachica finished two for two with two RBIs. The Owls totaled 10 hits. Jack Brafa pitched three and one-third innings of relief for Tulane, allowing one unearned run and striking out two. Anthony Diaz worked two and two-thirds innings for Rice, allowing one earned run. Carson Kuhn earned the win with one and one-third hitless innings.

Tulane’s loss continued a difficult series. The Green Wave had lost the first two games by scores of 10-6 and 12-0. Rice won for the fifth time in its last seven games.

Interstat’s game simulator projected a final score of Rice 7, Tulane 4. Interstat’s ELO system gave Tulane a 54.90 percent probability to win.