NANAIMO - After two years of anticipation the Nanaimo NightOwls first West Coast League baseball season was over in a flash.The team had 60 scheduled .
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FRESNO, Calif. – Justin Armbruester was brilliant in a 10-inning shutout performance, lifting New Mexico past Fresno State 1-0 in the second game of a Mountain West Conference baseball doubleheader on Saturday.
The 5-7 Lobos fell 5-2 in the opener. The series finale is 2:35 p.m. Sunday.
Armbruester (2-1) allowed just three hits and struck out 17 batters in the complete-game effort.
Matt Chambers’ double drove in Connor Mang in the top of the 10th inning for the Lobos. A runner was placed on second to begin the inning.
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• In Las Cruces, there was no shortage of offense for the New Mexico State baseball team (4-6), which erupted offensively at the Presley Askew Field in 14-3 and 19-2 sweeps of Dixie State. The first went six innings, the second seven.
The Lobos play Oklahoma and host Grand Canyon Saturday.
• At The Spring Games in Clermont, Fla., No. 12 Kentucky thumped New Mexico State 11-1 in five innings early Friday before the Aggies bounced back and edged Florida International 4-3.
NMSU (2-7) faces both of those teams Saturday, then wraps up the event with a Sunday game vs. Stetson.
Five Aggie errors led to nine Kentucky runs as Felicia De La Torre (1-3) took the loss. NMSU managed three hits, all singles.
BASEBALL: In Abilene, Texas, host Abilene Christian scored six first-inning runs and beat New Mexico State 8-7 Friday night in the Aggies’ delayed season opener. NMSU had COVID issues that prevented its scheduled opener last week at UNLV. Connor Laux had three hits in his debut for the Aggies, Josh Laukkanen took the loss in relief for NMSU, which had fought back to tie the game at 7 in the seventh. The two teams play again Saturday at 2:05 p.m.