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Lobos host No. 25 Sooners for mid-week series

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NEW MEXICO
LOBOS
11-7 
#25 OKLAHOMA
SOONERS
16-4

Tuesday, March 19 – 6 p.m. | Wednesday, March 20 – Noon
Santa Ana Star Field | Albuquerque, N.M.
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Leading Off
Playing their first mid-week series of the season at home, the University of New Mexico baseball team will also be playing their third nationally-ranked opponent this season as they welcome in the University of Oklahoma for a two-game set beginning Tuesday night.

The Sooners will enter the series ranked No. 25 in four of the national baseball polls after jumping out to a 16-4 start to their season. The previous two nationally-ranked foes for the Lobos were No. 8/7 Oregon State and No. 24 Minnesota. The
Lobos played both teams in the opening weekend of the season and went 1-2 as they dropped a pair of games to defending National Champion, Oregon State, while beating Minnesota resoundingly, 11-1.

This mid-week series with the Sooners also opens a five-game home stand for the Lobos this coming week. After the series with OU, the Lobos will play host to San Diego State for a weekend Mountain West series beginning on Friday, March 22.
 
Scouting Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma enters this mid-week series off to a 16-4 start to the season and have cracked the national polls entering ranked No. 25 in four polls. The Sooners are coming off a series win of Missouri State this past weekend.

Offensively, the Sooners are hitting .294 (199-for-677) as a team with 139 runs scored, 34 doubles, nine triples and 12 home runs. The leading hitter so far is Tyler Hardman at .373 (31-for-83). Hardman also leads the team in home runs with four and RBIs with 22.

On the mound, Oklahoma has staff ERA of 2.38 and have authored four shutouts this season. In 178.0 innings pitched, the arms for the Sooners have collectively struck out 187 batters. The Sooners have only announced Tuesday’s stater and it will be Ben Abram. Abram is 4-0 in five appearances and four starts with a 1.64 ERA. In 22.0 innings pitched, Abram has struck out 20 batters.
 
Lobo News & Notes
Back and Forth with the Wolf Pack

The most-recent Mountain West series for the Lobos against Nevada was an up-and-down weekend. Playing on the road for the first time in conference play this season, the Lobos dropped the opener in a tight 5-3 game that saw the Lobos rally late. Game two kept the momentum of the Friday night rally as the Lobos scored nine runs on 12 hits en route to a 9-3 win to even the series. In the finale, the Lobos out-hit the Wolf Pack, but an early 5-0 deficit was too much to overcome, losing 6-4. Titans Experience ABQ for First Time

UNM and Cal State Fullerton had met 15 times in their all-time series ahead of their weekend series, but it would be the first time that the two teams had played a game in Albuquerque. The rare change in venue did not bode well for the Titans as the Lobos secured the series in just two games and scored 24 runs in the process with 18 coming in game two. The Titans would salvage the finale to avoid the sweep, but their first trip to the Duke City ended in a 2-1 series loss.

Right Mangs for the Job
Both Jared and Connor Mang are off to great starts offensively for the Lobos as the brothers from Los Alamos are both hitting at least .360 through the first month of the season. In his senior season, Jared is pacing the team in average (.403), slugging percentage (.764), runs scored (24), doubles (11) and RBIs (30). Connor is fifth on the team in batting average (.362) and is right there in slugging (.638), doubles (6), home runs (3) and RBIs (18).

Deimling becomes 3rd Lobo to Earn MW Player of the Week
The early season stranglehold by the Lobos on the Mountain West Player of the Week award continued this past week as senior designated hitter Jeff Deimling became the third Lobo to earn the honor. On an offensive tear as of late, Deimling carried that over to the weekend series against preseason nationally-ranked Cal State Fullerton. In the three-game set, Deimling batted .455 as he went 5-for-11. In the Lobos’ two wins over the Titans, Deimling did most of his damage as he
was 4-for-6 with four runs scored, two HRs and eight RBIs. In each of those two games, Deimling was 2-for-3 with a home run and four RBIs. Overall for the weekend, Deimling would total nine RBIs and slugged 1.091.

Fight at the Bat Rack
In the second game of the weekend series vs. Cal State Fullerton the Lobos notched a season-high 19 hits against the Titans. All nine players in the starting lineup had at least one hit with eight registering multiple hits.

First MW Series Win
The calendar had barely turned over to March and the UNM baseball team already played their first Mountain West series as they hosted San Jose State last weekend. The Lobos would take the series 2-1 after winning the first two and dropping the finale.

In the first game, the bats were alive as the Lobos jumped out to a 9-0 lead through three innings before ending with a 14-2 win. The second game ended in an improbable walk-off fashion as the Lobos were down to their last strike and scored twice on a throwing error to win. The series finale went the way of San Jose State to stave off the sweep.

Marathon 9-Inning Game
All of the following numbers are true and what you would expect for marathon extra inning game, except all of it occurred in one regulation nine-inning game. In the series finale between UNM and San Jose State there were 15 pitchers used, 434 pitches thrown, four balks in an inning, 40 combined run, 42 combined hits and a 9-inning game record 4 hours and 52 minutes.

Two Nickels = A Dime; Two HRs = a Deimling
In the wild series finale against San Jose State, senior Jeff Deimling left the yard twice. His first was a two-run homer to center in the second inning and his second was a three-run bomb to left in the seventh. The multi-home run game was the first by a Lobo since Jack Zoellner hit two against Air Force in 2017.

Schilling Hits His Way to MW Player of the Week
Hayden Schilling is the second Lobo to earn Mountain West Player of the Week honors joining Jared Mang, who earned the year’s first award. In receiving the honor, Schilling had two hits in each game of the four-game week for the Lobos, going 8-for-17 (.471). He also scored five runs, had two doubles, a triple and six runs batted in, including a career-high five on Friday in a 14-2 win.