Box Score CANYON, Texas --- Marcus Limon and Gabe Sandersius combined to strikeout 16 West Texas A&M hitters in a 6-2 Wayland Baptist victory on a windy Tuesday evening at Wilder Park on the WTA&MU campus.
Limon, who started the game, recorded nine K's in his 5-2/3 innings of work. The senior from Lubbock allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits, but walked six. Sandersius picked up his first save of the season, throwing the final 3-1/3 innings. Seven of the ten outs the senior southpaw recorded came via the strikeout. He gave up three hits and walked two.
While the two Pioneer pitchers were controlling things on their end of the diamond, the Wayland hitters were taking care of business, pounding out 14 hits, led by sophomore rightfielder Ben Christian with three.
WBU got on the board first with a pair of runs in the first. Eddie Allen led off the game with a double over the leftfielder's head, advanced to third on a ground ball to the right side of the infield, and scored on Miguel Pagan's single to center. Pagan later came in on a two-out nubber down the first base line off the bat of Christian that was fielded by Buffalo pitcher Casey Lish. No one made it to first to field a throw for WTAM, and Lish was forced to hold on to the ball.
The score remained 2-0 until the fifth, when the Pioneers crossed the plate twice more. Hennessey brought home a run in each of the seventh and eighth innings with a solo home run, his tenth of the season, and a RBI single to left that plated Allen for the third time of the night.
Scott Keane, who replaced Nic Shadle in the fifth after the junior leftfielder was hit in the side of the head with a pitch, got two hits in the game, as did Pagan, Hennessey, and Aldo Mendez.
The Buffaloes were paced by lead-off hitter Eric Dorton who had three of their seven hits. The loss drops West Texas A&M to 18-8 on the season, while the Pioneers improve to 13-18.
