Staff Report
The Lobos look to continue their hot play this weekend in a three-game series against BYU in Provo, Utah.
This is an important series for both baseball teams as the season begins to wind down. With identical 9-6 records in the Mountain West Conference, UNM and BYU are tied for second place along with San Diego State, behind front-runner UNLV.
After a recent run of five straight close losses, the Lobos are now hoping to build on their current streak of three consecutive wins.
Last weekend UNM hosted SDSU at Lobo field, and after losing a brutal opening contest in which they held a 9-6 lead in the ninth, the last two games of the series were Lobo victories.
Tuesday the Lobos played host to Texas Tech University and won 13-11 against a TTU team that has been ranked as high as 20th this year.
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UNM trailed in the eighth inning of that game, but the hitting heroics of Sean Murray, Josh Mader and Cory Lizarraga netted a come-from-behind win.
Outfielder Josh Jezek has been a major factor for the Lobos in their last two wins. In the SDSU series' final game, Jezek came off the bench to replace starting left fielder Matt Young after he injured his shoulder sliding into home. Jezek capped a tight, competitive ball game with a base hit in the 10th that won it.
Against Texas Tech, Jezek went 3-4 with four RBIs, including a two-run homer in the third that tied the score 3-3.
Senior shortstop Dusty Young will look to extend his school-record hitting streak past the 40-game mark against BYU. Tuesday, Young managed a single in the sixth inning that stretched the streak to 39 games.
Unofficially, Young's streak is the seventh longest in NCAA history.
The Lobos took two of three games from BYU in Albuquerque earlier this year.
