The Odessa College and New Mexico Junior College baseball teams provided plenty of offense in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday at the Wrangler Field.
The visiting Thunderbirds carried that over to the second game.
The Wranglers did not
New Mexico JC combined to hit four home runs on the day, with the final one in each contest proving to be the game winner in an 8-7, 12-4 sweep of the Wranglers in Western Junior College Athletic Conference play.
Luis Gonzalez, Christian Hoffman and Camden Melvin homered in the first game, with Kade Benavidez hitting a three-run home run in the top of the eighth inning of Game 2 to clinch the run-rule victory.
Odessa College’s Tyson Pointer and Conor Myles each homered in the first game, with Nate Van Maanen homering in the second game.
The victory clinched the four-game series, 3-1, for the Thunderbirds after the teams split a doubleheader Friday in Hobbs, N.M.
Gonzalez got things started for New Mexico JC in the first game with a three-run homer in the top of the first inning.
After the Thunderbird added a solo run in the top of the second, Pointer and Myles each homered in the bottom of the inning to cut the deficit to one run.
New Mexico JC added another run in the fifth inning, but the Wranglers tied the game with two runs in the bottom of inning and took their only lead of the game (7-6) with two more runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Camden then blasted a two-out, two-run shot over the right-center field fence to lift the Thunderbirds to the Game 1 win.
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