Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Staff report
KINGSVILLE, Texas — It was kind of a lost weekend for the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team.
Texas A&M-Kingsville second baseman Ryan Fickel hit a two-out RBI single to left-center field in the bottom of the 11th inning on Monday to give the Javelinas a 3-2 win and a four-game sweep of the Lone Star Conference series.
The Greyhounds (5-14, 1-7 LSC) were outscored by a grand total of seven runs in the series, including a pair of one-run losses.
Senior left-hander Clyde Kendrick tossed five shutout innings on Monday, striking out nine, but the Javs (15-7, 9-2) got to relievers Nick DeArmond and Kiegan Basso for two runs on only one hit in the bottom of the sixth to tie it.
Kingsville loaded the bases with one out on a walk, a hit batsman and an infield hit and scored on a balk by Basso and a sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Jimmy Roche.
It stayed that way until the 11th, when Roche hit a one-out double to left-center and scored on Fickel’s two-out hit.
On Sunday, the Javs took a pair of seven-inning games, winning 8-5 in the opener and 4-2 in the nightcap.
Kingsville chased ENMU starter Cody Pope (3-2) in the opener, building an 8-0 third-inning lead. The Hounds got two runs in the fourth and three in the sixth, with third baseman Brennen Pierson hitting an RBI double in the fourth and a two-run single in the sixth, but reliever Dustin Luna got three outs, two by strikeout, to strand two runners in scoring position.
In Game 2, ENMU’s Mike Peters (0-1) allowed only one earned run in a six-inning complete game as the Hounds made four errors behind him. Kingsville’s Hayden James (4-2) pitched a complete-game five-hitter, allowing two unearned runs in the sixth as the Hounds pulled to 3-2.
ENMU is slated to play a single nine-inning game today in San Antonio against St. Mary’s. The Hounds, who had their first home LSC series against Tarleton State canceled by snow March 1-2, return to Greyhound Field this weekend for four games against Cameron, starting with a 5 p.m. single contest on Friday.
