LAWTON - The Cameron Aggie baseball team wins series over the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds behind powerful hitting and ten strikeouts from starting pitcher
Marcos Feria.
In the first inning, with the Aggies wearing their victory gold uniforms, CU tossed
Marcos Feria to start the rubber match in a series that was tied 1-1. Feria hit the first batter he faced, but was stellar the rest of the frame, inducing a ground out before punching two batters. Ferias struck out the side in the second inning and worked a clean third inning with two more strikeouts to his total.
In the fourth Feria saw back-to-back strikeouts to follow the leadoff fly out off the bat of Nick Schifftner.
After a four-run Aggie fourth inning, sparked by
Jordan Harrison-Dudley who earned a lead-off walk, followed by a
Ryan Carter base on balls before
Casey Yeager took his turn at a free base. Walking the bases loaded with no outs, the Aggies tried to bail out the Hounds, striking out twice.
With two outs and the bases juiced,
Beau Williams laced a single into right field to score a pair of runs. An Eric Ohman walk re-loaded the bases before Julian Marcias was issued a free pass without a place to put him, which scored another Aggie run.
After that four-run inning, Feria went back to the bump and finally ran into some trouble. After he loaded the bases, he hit Nick Tamez to score a run for ENMU. The Hounds got two more runs on a Schiftner single to center field to come within a run of CU.
Weston Max relieved Feria in the frame and produced a grounder to shortstop to end the inning.
After picking up two runs in the fifth, the Aggies struck again in the 6th when
Julian Macias homered to deep left field to make it a 7-3 ball game. The Hounds got two back in the seventh to make it a 7-6 game as ENMU began to mount their comeback.
Right on cue, the Aggie offense leaped into action to put up three runs in the 7th. RBI doubles by
Beau Williams and Marcias pushed the Aggie lead to 10-6.
CU never looked back, giving the ball to
Jayce Clem to slam the door on the Hounds in the 9th and win the series for the Aggies.
Cameron will host non-conference opponent Augustana for a four-game set next next weekend, March 5-7. The two teams will play one game on Friday, followed by a 7-inning doubleheader on Saturday and then one more single game on Sunday.
