Game 1 | Game 2

WEATHERFORD, Okla. - The UAM baseball team got a split in their final conference doubleheader of the season, coming back in game two 15-3 after falling in game one 9-5.

UAM (17-26, 6-16 GAC) got four fewer hits and four fewer runs in game one of the double, falling 9-5 to the home-standing Bulldogs (24-15, 11-9 GAC). Christian Gallegos scored the first run of the day with a triple that drove in Taylor Eaves and finished his trip around the bases on a Danny Loya grounder to second.

Unfortunately, the Bulldogs came up with eight runs before the Weevils could hang any more, including a four-run fifth inning to put UAM in the four-run hole that they could not climb out of before the end of the game.

Josh Chism took the loss in game one, going 4.2 innings and giving up eight of Southwestern’s nine runs on 11 hits with one walk and one strikeout.

The Weevils’ bats woke up for game two. Two doubles and a single with runners on in the second inning gave UAM a 5-0 lead before the Bulldogs could answer. They would not lead in the game. Gallegos got a two-RBI double scoring Justin Hollis and Chase Stokes. Danny Loya drove in Taylor Eaves and Gallegos on the next at-bat with a double of his own, and was driven home on the next at-bat by a Josh Chism single.

Hollis and Gallegos drove in two insurance runs in the fifth off a single and a Bulldog error, but the sixth inning is where the Weevils put things out of reach for good. Josh Chism and Chase Stokes got the inning started with a pair of solo homeruns to put UAM up 9-2. Taylor Eaves added another with a single that plated Taylor Walker from second.

Gallegos drove in another with a single, scoring Hollis, and Danny Loya drove in two more with a double. Chism ended the inning’s scoring driving in his second run of the inning with a single that scored Loya from third to wrap the scoring in the frame.

Gallegos drove in his sixth run of the day, and fifth of the ballgame, in the top of the seventh,  driving in Walker for the final UAM run of the game.

Kenny Marshall got the win in game two, going six innings allowing two runs on three hits with three walks and seven strikeouts in 26 batters faced. Eddie Smith closed the seventh, allowing one run on one hit with one walk.
The two teams will conclude the series tomorrow with a single game beginning at 1 p.m.