The Angelo State baseball team (16-13, 10-10 LSC) split its doubleheader with Eastern New Mexico (13-12, 11-9 LSC) Saturday at Foster Field, falling in the opener, 14-10 in eight innings, before taking the nightcap, 24-3, in a shortened seven-inning game. The Rams also split their weekend series with the Greyhounds as each school took two games.

The Rams had built a 10-2 lead with one run in the first on an RBI-single by Chris Adamson, five runs in the third on a single by Dylan Petrich, a single by Adamson, a fielder's choice grounder by Matt Lenderman and a two-run double by Jason Morriss, a run in the fifth on a Lenderman double and three runs in the sixth on a two-run single by Petrich and a double by Zak Leonhardt. In the seventh, the roof fell in on ASU as they watched ENMU score eight runs on six hits, four walks and one hit batter to knot the score at 10-10.

After holding the Rams scoreless in the bottom of the seventh to send the game into extra innings, the Greyhounds erupted for four more runs in the eighth on back -to-back doubles by Jereme Johnson and Ethan Wagner, a single by Chris Eaton and a two-run double by Luis Quinones to make a winner of Anthony Smith, the third pitcher used by the Greyhounds, improving his record to 2-1. Bryce Bjorklund, the sixth pitcher used by the Rams in the final two innings took the loss and saw his record fall to 0-1 while starter Chase Barrera received a no-decision, tossing six innings, plus three batters in the seventh, and giving up five runs, four earned, on nine hits with two strikeouts and one walk.

The Rams had little time to recover from the shock of game one but recover they did as they put three runs on the board in the first, one when Austin Lasprilla was hit with the bases loaded two on an RBI-double by Leonhardt and a single by Zach Klink. They would add another run in the second on a sacrifice fly by Petrich to make the score 4-0 after two, but that was just the beginning for what happened in the fourth was record setting.

The Rams set school-records for number of batters to the plate, hits and runs scored in an inning when 19 batters came to bat resulting in 15 runs, 14 of them earned, on 11 hits. All nine batters in the lineup scored a run and eight of the nine had at least one hit and or one RBI. Petrich had three RBI on a two-run single in his first time up and an RBI-single on his second time up. Isaac Garcia drove in two runs on his second home run of the year his second time to bat in the inning. When the dust settled, the Rams were up 19-0 heading into the fourth.

Thoughts of game one entered the heads of everyone in the ball park in the fourth when Eastern New Mexico scored three runs off of ASU starter Nicholas Cobler but that was all the damage they could muster off the junior left hander from Missouri City as he went the distance, tossing the second complete game by a Ram this season allowing just the three-spot in the fourth while scattering nine hits with two strikeouts and two walks to improve his record to 2-1.

After ENMU's three runs in the fourth, ASU would add a run in the bottom of the fourth courtesy of an RBI-single by Lasprilla, two in the fifth on a Matt Rechkemmer single and a Puckett sacrifice fly and would close out the scoring in the sixth on a ground out by Morriss and an unearned run scored by Garcia. Six Rams had multi-hit games led by Garcia who went 4-for-5 with five runs scored and two RBI. Leonhardt and Puckett each had three hits, scored three runs and drove in two while Klink, Lasprilla and Petrich each collected two hits.

The Rams will resume LSC action next weekend when they welcome Central Oklahoma to Foster Field in a crucial four-game series. The series will kick off with a doubleheader at 4 p.m. Saturday and will be broadcast live on KKSA 1260AM and on the internet at AngeloSports.com.