Game Recap: Baseball |  | Cameron Brennan

 A large fourth inning from the Patriots, sunk Eastern New Mexico baseball, 13-0 (7 Inn.), on Sunday afternoon at Irwin Field. Despite the loss, ENMU wins the series 3-1 against UTT and moves to 8-12 on the season and 7-11 in LSC play. The Patriots stand at 11-13 with the same record in conference.

Camden Matthews led off the game with an infield single, and advanced to third later in the inning. Unfortunately, Eastern couldn’t push the run home as they went scoreless in the top of the first. The Patriots struck first in the bottom of the inning as two hits put runners in scoring position with no outs. A sacrifice fly and a single brought home two runs, Cooper Hamilton cut down a runner trying to score with an accurate throw from right field to hold the Patriots to two runs, 2-0 UTT.

The next runs came in the fourth inning for the Patriots, as they scored in bunches. Three straight singles scored a run to make the score 3-0 and loaded the bases after a hit by pitch. Three more singles in a row and a wild pitch scored four runs, pushing the score to 7-0. The next two batters brought home three more runs, 10-0 UTT. A bases clearing single sent two more runs home, as the Patriots plated 10 runs in the fourth frame holding a 12-0 advantage.

UT Tyler added another run in the fifth inning, and the final six Greyhound batters were retired as the Patriots took the series final13-0 in seven innings.

NOTABLE STATS

  • The Hounds posted four hits during the game, with C. Matthews, Spencer Roach, Nick Schifftner, and Jack Thompson.
  • Tommy Perez takes the loss throwing 3.1 innings allowing nine runs from 12 hits. Robert Nidy, Stephen Rausa, and Reed Carter all made an appearance on the mound. Carter threw two hitless innings with one walk, while Nidy faced three batters and Rausa recorded two outs.
  • Nolan Cox picked up the victory throwing six innings allowing just four hits. A.J. Irwin tossed a scoreless seventh inning with no hits.

FROM THE SOURCE

“Always tough to win four games in a weekend and Tyler Showed up hot with the bats today and nothing was falling for us early,” said Head Baseball Coach Riley Price. “When you add a few errors in the mix, games can get away from you quickly and that’s what happened to us. Their lefty on the mound was pretty solid and kept us off balance,” said Price. “We just couldn’t get any momentum going with the sticks. Overall, still a good weekend for us and saw a lot of good things. We need to build on those and continue to get better going into next weekend”.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

  • The Hounds have won the first series against the Patriots in program history, and the have moved the all-time series to 4-6 in favor of UTT.
  • Eastern have won two LSC series in a row and have won six of their last eight games.
  • ENMU prepare for University of Arkansas-Fort Smith in an upcoming four game series. The series is set one nine inning game on Friday, Mar. 18, a seven-inning doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 19, and the full nine inning series finale on Sunday, Mar. 20. First pitch of game one on Friday is set for 6 pm.