Sunday, March 22, 2015

PORTALES, N.M. — The Eastern New Mexico University baseball team fell in the final game of a four games series against Cameron University Sunday, 8-0, taking one of four games over the weekend.

The Greyhounds (6-17, 2-10 LSC) fell behind 1-0 in the top of the fifth inning against the Aggies (12-14, 6-9 LSC) and the deficit continued to grow, as a four run sixth inning followed by a Cameron score in each consecutive inning would see Eastern lose by a final score of 8-0.

Eastern recorded seven hits in the game, with the Greyhounds recording two hits in the second and ninth innings.  In his first start of the season, Greyhound pitcher Daniel Schiller (So., Port Charlotte, Fla. / Tallahassee Community College) played well, throwing three shutout innings giving up only two hits and no runs with two strikeouts.

The team found some trouble when Schiller was relieved and the Greyhounds would end up going through seven more pitchers by the time the game ended.  The Greyhounds walked 16 batters in the outing, the most since the 2004 season.

Charles Sandberg Jr. (Jr., Bradenton, Fla. / State College of Fla. Manatee-Sarasota) recorded two hits for the Greyhounds, going 2-for-4 on the day.  Sean Gahan (R-Sr., Albuquerque, N.M. / Sandia High School), seeing only his sixth game of the season and first start, went 0-for-2 from the plate but reached base twice by earning to walks.

The Greyhounds will host another four game home stand next weekend, starting Friday at 5:00 p.m.  Eastern will be facing off against the No. 2 team in the conference Angelo State University who is currently 18-5 overall and 8-4 in the LSC.