Feb. 25, 2005
HOUSTON, Texas – No. 27 Nebraska remained undefeated on the season with a 12-0 shutout victory over the New Mexico baseball team Friday night at Reckling Park in the second game of the Crowne Plaza/Rice Invitational. Seventh-ranked Rice topped Western Carolina, 9-1, in the first game of the day. New Mexico (4-7) returns to action Saturday at 3:30 p.m. MT to face Western Carolina (2-2), while Nebraska and Rice will meet at 12 p.m. MT.
Nebraska’s Joba Chamberlain struck out 15 Lobos without allowing a run in seven innings of work to pick up his first win of the year. He also only gave up two hits for the Huskers, who improved to 6-0.
Lobo starter Jason Fernandez (2-2) fanned 10 batters in 6.2 innings, his best total in his two years at UNM, but also surrendered eight Nebraska runs, seven earned, on nine hits.
NU jumped on Fernandez early, scoring three in the second and two in the third on five hits. The Huskers added solo runs in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings to go up 8-0.
Nebraska took advantage of three Lobo errors in the eighth in scoring four more runs to take a 12-0 lead.
Freshman Jordan Pacheco collected two of UNM’s three hits in the game.