A winning weekend

Rice football players flex while celebrating during a victory over Louisiana at Rice Stadium.

Owl athletes flew high across campus over the weekend.

Rice football players flex while celebrating during their victory over Louisiana at Rice Stadium.
The football team flexed its muscle in a victory over Louisiana. (Photo by Maria Lysaker, Rice Athletics)

In addition to the football team’s 33-21 victory over the University of Louisiana at Lafayette — which snapped the Ragin’ Cajuns’ nation-best 15-game winning streak — the Rice volleyball and soccer teams notched triumphs of their own. The Owls claimed a pair of five-set wins on the court at Tudor Fieldhouse, defeating Kansas State University and 17th-ranked Creighton University to improve to 10-1. At Holloway Field, Rice beat Florida International University 3-0 to move to 2-0 in the Conference USA soccer standings.

Not to be outdone, in College Station, Grace Forbes won the Texas A&M Invitational to lead the women’s cross-country team to a third-place finish.

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