KINGSVILLE, Texas – After completing the season sweep of Cameron last weekend in Oklahoma, the Texas A&M-Kingsville baseball team enters its weekend series with Eastern New Mexico at Nolan Ryan Field tied atop the Lone Star Conference with West Texas A&M.

The Javelinas and Greyhounds will meet at 6 p.m. on Friday in a single game, while squaring off in a Saturday doubleheader with the first game at 1 p.m. Friday's opener will be live streamed on tamuk.tv with live stats available at www.sidearmstats.com/tamuk/baseball/.

The Hoggies sit at 27-13 overall and are 18-8 in the Lone Star Conference. After opening conference play 1-3, Kingsville has gone 17-5 since. They are tied with West Texas A&M at 18-8 in the LSC, but the Buffaloes hold the tiebreaker having won the season series 4-3. Eastern New Mexico is 21-19 on the season and 10-16 in the LSC.
Kingsville and Eastern split their earlier 4-game set in Portales.

The series will pit two of the league's top three teams in hitting against each other. ENMU is third in the Lone Star Conference with a .295 mark, while Kingsville is third at .289.

The Hoggies have three players hitting .348 or better. Derrick Walls leads the way with a .352 average followed by Ryan Guedry at .350 and Taylor Taska at .348. Walls is second in the LSC with a .462 on-base percentage and 18 stolen bases, while third in runs scored 33 and walks with 26. Taska is third with 28 RBI and fifth with five home runs.
Clint Wallace is fifth with six sacrifice bunts.

On the mound, the Javelinas have a staff ERA of 3.00 which leads the LSC, while the Greyhounds have a 4.83 ERA. The Kingsville pitching staff is led by Denver Diefenbach, who is fifth in the nation with eight wins, and Dallas Ponder, who is third nationally with 11 starts. Ryan Scott shares the LSC lead with seven wins

ENMU is led by Brett Ackerman and Matthew Burks who are third and fifth in the Lone Star Conference in hitting. Ackerman is hitting .358, while Burks, who has 38 runs, is averaging .353. Blake Cooper, who has a league-best .621 slugging percentage to lead the league and is tied for first with 30 RBI, and Burks share the LSC lead in home runs with eight apiece.  The Greyhounds are led by Matthew Artalejo on the rubber. He has a 6-3 mark with a 2.94 ERA.