RENO, Nev. – The University of New Mexico baseball team dropped its series finale at Nevada 9-2 Sunday afternoon to fall two games behind the Wolf Pack in the Mountain West standings. For two games the Lobos were able to hold one of the most prolific offenses in check, but one bad inning doomed UNM on Sunday.
Trailing 2-0 in the fourth, the Lobos (11-6, 5-4) tied the game on a solo home run by Cory Voss and a bloop RBI double to center field by Andre Vigil that scored Carl Stajduhar. After that, however, it was all Wolf Pack (15-4, 7-2) as they scored five times in the home half of the inning en route to plating the final seven runs of the game.
Luis Gonzalez (2-2) walked the first two batters in the bottom of the fourth, then Nevada rapped out five straight hits, including three doubles, to put UNM in a hole from which it couldn’t escape.
Carson Schneider was by far the most effective of the seven pitchers UNM used. He came in with runners on the corners and nobody out in the fourth and escaped without any further damage. He went on to toss 3.0 scoreless frames with a pair of strikeouts, allowing just one hit and one walk.
Voss finished 1-for-2 with two walks, while Stajduhar, Vigil and Jared Holley each recorded two hits apiece for UNM. Dalton Bowers tallied the final base knock for UNM, which was out-hit 15-8.
The Lobos remain on the road against by far the most difficult portion of their schedule as they head to face No. 12 Arizona State for a game Wednesday evening, before returning to Lobo Field to face preseason No. 3 Houston for a series next weekend.
Notes: UNM once again played without both Sam Haggerty and Danny Collier, who are both nursing injuries and missed the entire series … it was Voss’ second home run of the series and the season.