Greyhounds suffer fifth-straight loss

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — The recent woes continued for Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team on Tuesday.

Once 11-1 and playing for the first time in nine days, the Greyhounds (11-6) dropped their fifth consecutive game on Tuesday when New Mexico Highlands erased a 9-1 deficit to pull out an 11-10 victory.

ENMU won three of four games at Highlands earlier this season, but in the loss the Hounds were unable to hang on to a 15-0 lead, losing 22-16. Meantime, the Cowboys (12-5) are on a role of late and stretched their winning streak to 10 games.

Shortstop Jared Jamerson drove in five runs for the Cowboys and started the comeback with a fourth-inning grand slam that cut ENMU's lead in half.

After Highlands pulled to 9-8 in the sixth, ENMU added a run in the seventh on a two-out single by shortstop Brett Ackerman and a run-scoring double by left fielder Luis Quinones, who went 3-for-4 for the day and drove in three runs.

In the bottom half, pinch-hitter Tyler Hayes was hit by a pitch from Jas Shergill (1-1), ENMU's fifth pitcher of the day. Jamerson followed with a game-tying triple, and rode home on a single to right by Jordan Chavez.

Michael Garcia (2-0), the winner in Highlands' earlier comeback against ENMU, allowed two hits and a run in 2 1/3 innings. Matt Gualco, the Cowboys' fifth hurler, induced an inning-ending double play off the bat of Daniel Binz in the eighth and set the side down in order in the ninth for his first save.

ENMU scored an unearned run in the first, then went up 4-0 in the second on an RBI single by catcher Jacob Rogers and a two-run triple by Quinones. Binz doubled home Derek Crenshaw in the third before the Cowboys got one back on an RBI groundout by Gualco, who also served as the designated hitter.

In the Hounds' fourth, Colton Sims hit a sacrifice fly, Peter Creamer drilled a two-run double and Rogers followed with his second run-scoring single of the game.