Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 PORTALES, N.M. – After a pair of walk-off losses to Eastern New Mexico on Friday, the Texas A&M-Kingsville offense erupted for 23 runs in two games Saturday to ensure that wouldn't happen again as the Javelinas swept the Greyhounds 8-4 and 15-4.

With the sweep, the Javelinas are now 7-5 in the Lone Star Conference and 13-9 overall. Eastern New Mexico drops to 4-8 in the LSC and is 14-10.

Trailing 1-0 in the opener, the Javelinas scored three times in the top of the second to take the lead. Blake Johnson singled to lead off and moved to third as Taylor Taska reached on an error. Johnson scored on a balk by Matthew Artalejo, while Taska came home on a throwing error by the Greyhounds. The final run of the inning came as James Black tripled and scored on a single by Clint Wallace.

After Derrick Walls scored from second on a wild pitch in the third for a 4-1 lead, Eastern scored twice in the bottom of the inning to make it 4-3 Javelinas. Colton Sims singled and scored on a double by Sam Hedrick. Hedrick later scored on a hit up the middle by Ryan Forkel off Denver Diefenbach.

Kingsville responded with three runs in the next two innings to lead 7-3.

\With one away in the fourth, Ryan Guedry singled and tallied on a wild pitch after a single by Black. Black was driven in by Walls. In the fifth, Taska walked and later scored an unearned run.
Kingsville added an insurance run in the seventh. Justin Lee led the inning off with a triple and scored on a single by Johnson.

Diefenbach, who allowed a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh, earned the win to move to 4-1 with a complete-game effort scattering nine hits. He had five strikeouts and walked two as he permitted four runs with three earned.

Artalejo (3-2) suffered the loss as he was charged with seven runs with four earned on 10 hits in five innings.

Kingsville had 12 hits in the game with six players posting two apiece.

In the second game, the Hoggies scored a season-best 15 runs on 15 hits. Fourteen of the runs came in the game's final six innings as they tallied three in the fourth, four in the fifth, two in the eighth and five in the ninth.

Black had three hits to lead the Javelinas, while three others – Walls, Lee and Taska – had a pair. Four players had two RBI apiece. Black, Lee, Taska and Cline Andrews each knocked in two runs.
Matt Rhodes earned the win to move to 3-2. He allowed three runs with one earned in 6-2/3 innings of work.

The Javelinas return to Nolan Ryan Field on Tuesday to face St. Edward's at 6 p.m. All tickets for the Tuesday game will be $1 as part of Dollar Days sponsored by flower girls.