Angelo State sweeps twin bill from Hounds

Second baseman Tyler Coughenour hit a go-ahead, two-run double down the left field line in a three-run seventh and Angelo State completed a Lone Star Conference baseball doubleheader sweep of Eastern New Mexico on Saturday with a 7-4 victory at Greyhound Field.

The Rams notched a 4-3 win in the opener, which went eight innings. The teams complete the four-game series at 1 p.m. on Sunday, with ASU looking for the series sweep.

Mike Weatherly (4-2) pitched a complete-game eight-hitter in the nightcap. He carried a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth, but the Greyhounds(18-15, 5-10 LSC) pulled even with four unearned runs, the result of two Angelo State errors.

Dylan Montano (0-2) relieved starter Ryan Boydstun at the beginning of the third inning and blanked the Rams (24-12, 9-6) until running into trouble in the seventh.

With one out, No. 9 hitter David Googin beat out an infield hit and Ryan Greer walked. Coughenour greeted Kyle Kesmarki with his double inside third and eventually scored on a two-out single to center by Christian Summers.

Earlier, catcher Andrew LaCombe put the Rams in front with a two-run single in the first, and ASU scored twice in the second on a wild pitch by Boydstun and Coughenour's groundout.

In the opener, the Hounds battled back from an early 3-0 deficit to get the game into extra innings, but Summers hit a one-out triple in the eighth and scored on LaCombe's single to center.

Peter Creamer hit an RBI single and Colton Sims scored on a wild pitch by Jake Feckley to make it 3-2 in the third, and Daniel Binz doubled home the tying run in the sixth.

Feckley allowed 10 hits and struck out four over seven innings. Austin Church worked a perfect eighth for his second save.

Senior right-hander Jas Shergill (2-4) allowed 11 hits and struck out four in going 7 1/3 innings.