Baseball | 4/30/2015 3:56:00 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2015
PORTALES, N.M. — The Eastern New Mexico baseball team will head to San Angelo, Texas, on Friday to take on Angelo State in their final regular season series of 2015.
The last time the two teams met, the Greyhounds (15-28, 10-19 LSC) shocked the Rams (32-14, 19-13 LSC) by taking three of four games from Angelo and coming two runs away from sweeping the series. That is just what ENMU is looking to do this weekend, as their only hope of making the playoffs lies in them winning all three games and having another team lose its three games.
That team is Tarleton State University who will take on the Lone Star Conference's top seeded team, Texas A&M-Kingsville. The Texans (20-20, 13-16 LSC) are currently three games ahead of the Greyhounds but it is easy to imagine that the No. 1 team in the conference can pull off the sweep at home against Tarleton.
The Greyhounds had a slight setback in last weekend's series against Cameron University, dropping 2-of-3 games to the Aggies. Luckily for ENMU, Cameron has two more losses on the season than the Greyhounds, so they remained behind ENMU in the conference standings.
ENMU is 17-29 against Angelo State over the series history. The last time the two teams met ENMU won 5-4, 3-1 and 5-2, dropping one game in the series 4-2 to the Rams.
Recap from April 25-28The Greyhounds started off their week taking one of three games against Cameron University over the weekend, keeping their playoff hopes alive. The Greyhounds lost both games of the Saturday doubleheader 4-2 and 9-7, but took the final game on Sunday 3-1.
After going into extra innings tied 1-1, the 10th inning started off with
Chris Sanders reaching first base on an error, followed by a
Daniel Ward single too put men on first and second. A sacrifice bunt moved the runners ahead and then after an intentional walk to the dangerous
Charles Sandberg Jr.,
Mark Foley stepped up to the plate and ended the game with one swing, driving the ball down the right field line to score two runs and take the final 3-1 lead.
Ward led the team in hits over the weekend, going 5-of-12 from the plate and extending his consecutive games with a hit streak to nine, one shy of the season high.
Sanders led the team in RBIs with three while going 3-of-12 from the plate.
Clyde Kendrick put in an amazing performance from the mound, pitching six innings while allowing only one run and striking out a series-high eight strikeouts. His performance was followed up by reliever
Kiegan Basso who pitched the four remaining innings, allowing no hits, no runs and striking out seven Aggie batters. Besides one walk, Basso pitched four perfect innings, earning a 0.00 ERA and his first win on the season.
After returning from Lawton, Okla., the team made its way down to Hobbs, N.M., to play against in state rivals University of the Southwest in the deciding rubber match of the season. With the series tied 1-1, fans could expect an exciting game.
