West Texas A&M (3-3, 1-3) vs. Eastern New Mexico (5-3, 5-3)
Game 1	Friday, February 14th at 2:00 p.m.
Game 2 & 3	Saturday, February 15th at 1:00 p.m.
Game 4	Sunday, February 16th at 1:00 p.m.
Location	Canyon, Texas | Wilder Park
Live Statistics	Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4
Live Video (FloCollege)	Game 1 | Game 2 & 3 | Game 4
Other Links	Game Notes

CANYON, Texas – The Buffs return to Wilder Park this weekend as they host the Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico in a four-game Lone Star Conference series beginning on Friday afternoon.
 
A LOOK AT THE HOUNDS
Eastern New Mexico enters the weekend with an overall record of 5-3 following a four-game split in Portales against St. Edward's last weekend. The Hounds claimed an LSC series win at Texas A&M-Kingsville on opening weekend.
 
ENMU is hitting .274 as a team this season with 47 runs on 66 hits highlighted by 13 doubles. The Greyhounds are led offensively by Willie Ponce as the senior outfielder from Olathe, Kansas is hitting .481 to drive in seven RBI for a slugging percentage of .815 to go along with two walks and four stolen bases. His 13 hits so far this season ranks 23rd in Division II baseball.
 
The Hounds pitching staff holds an ERA of 4.00 as they are tied for the national lead in complete games (2) and shutouts (2). Junior lefty Nick Mooney is 2-0 with a 0.77 ERA so far this season, allowing one earned run on six hits with nine walks and nine strikeouts in his 11.2 innings of work with an opposing batting average of .162.
 
GREYHOUNDS IN 2024
The Greyhounds finished the 2024 campaign with an overall record of 21-29 with a 19-29 mark in Lone Star Conference action to finish 10th in the league standings. ENMU went 9-15 on the road last season highlighted by an LSC series win at Oklahoma Christian on April 12-14. The Hounds hit .303 as a team last season with 22 triples which ranked ninth in the nation.
 
ENMU HEAD COACH RILEY PRICE
Riley Price is now in his sixth season at the helm of the Eastern New Mexico baseball program, holding an overall record of 77-140 during his time in Portales. Price took over the Hounds following one season as the top assistant at Minot State. Before his time in North Dakota, Price spent time as an assistant at Angelo State, Baker University and Washburn.
 
SERIES HISTORY
The Buffaloes lead the all-time series against the Greyhounds, 80-56 in a series that dates back to the 1994 season. The Greyhounds are 24-44 all-time in Canyon including 5-20 at Wilder Park since the facility opened in 2011. Last year's series saw the Buffs and Greyhounds split a four-game series.
 
WT HEAD COACH CORY HALL
West Texas A&M didn't have to look far to find the new head coach for Buffalo Baseball as longtime Associate Head Coach Cory Hall was promoted to the skipper of the Buffs announced on June 28th. Hall has spent 14 seasons as the top assistant and pitching coach for the Buffs, having four different pitchers (Austin Moore, Josh Payne, Marshall Kasowski, Joe Corbett) drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft during his time in Canyon with multiple other professional players learning under one of the top pitching minds in collegiate baseball.
 
WT COACHING STAFF
Shawn Neale was named WT's Recruiting Coordinator in 2022 as the Toronto native returns for his ninth season in Canyon, the Buffs ranked 13th nationally in batting average (.334) last season while sitting 16th in hits (623) and 24th in on-base percentage (.432). 
 
WT alumni Cooper Harris returns to Canyon as the new pitching coach for the Buffs following two seasons at LSC foe Cameron. Nollan Koon enters his first season in the dugout for the Buffaloes as a graduate assistant coach in December of 2024. Koon returns to the Texas Panhandle following time as a hitting coach at Northeastern State.
 
LONE STAR CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL
Defending Regional Champion Angelo State picked up 29 of the 37 possible first place votes for a total of 483 points to sit atop of the poll followed by Lubbock Christian (five first place, 457), West Texas A&M (two first place, 411), UT Tyler (one first place, 386), St. Edward's (311), Texas A&M-Kingsville (268), UT Permian Basin (266), Texas A&M International (two first place, 234), St. Mary's (205), Eastern New Mexico (200), Cameron (143), Oklahoma Christian (119) and Sul Ross State (66).
 
Angelo State's Jacob Guerrero was tabbed the league's Preseason Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. The outfielder and graduate student from Colleyville, Texas batted .368 with 11 home runs, four triples, 25 doubles and 76 RBIs. He was the conference's stolen bases leader (30) and scored 79 runs. 
 
Rawley Hector of UT Tyler earned Preseason Pitcher of the Year honors as the senior right-hander from Van Alstyne, Texas went 7-3 with a league-best 2.95 ERA. Hector, the reigning LSC Pitcher of the Year, recorded a pair of complete-game shutouts and struck out 56 batters over 73 1/3 innings. Opponents hit just .241 off him.
 
NCBWA DIVISION II PRESEASON TOP-25 POLL
The West Texas A&M Buffaloes will begin the 2025 campaign ranked 23rd in the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association (NCBWA) Division II Top-25 Poll.
 
Defending National Champion Tampa picked up all 20 first place votes to sit atop of the poll with 500 points followed by Angelo State (473), Catawba (444), Central Missouri (442), Point Loma (421), Indianapolis (378), IUP (361), North Greenville (344), Southern New Hampshire (318) and Colorado Mesa (317) to round out the top ten.
 
The South Central Region was represented by Angelo State (2nd), Colorado Mesa (10th), Lubbock Christian (15th) and West Texas A&M (23rd).
 
NCBWA PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS
A trio of West Texas A&M Buffaloes have been honored for their efforts on the diamond as members of the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association (NCBWA) Preseason All-American Teams announced on January 30th. Dylan Fesperman and Kyle Micklus were named to the 2nd Team with Kory Schmidt claiming 3rd Team accolades.
 
THIS IS LSC BASEBALL
The LSC baseball season begins as early as Jan. 31. Throughout the year, all 13 LSC teams will play a single round-robin schedule with a four-game weekend series against each league opponent. 
 
The LSC Baseball Championship will feature a two-week tournament comprised of the top seven teams. The opening round is best-of-three series and will be held May 2-4 at the sites of the No. 2 (vs. No. 7), 3 (vs. 6) and 4 (vs. 5) seeds. The league's top seed from the regular season will receive an opening-round bye and host the double-elimination championship round on May 8-10.
 
AROUND THE LSC
Two weeks of LSC Baseball are in the books and five teams have winning records: Angelo State (6-2), St. Mary's (6-2), UT Tyler (6-2), Eastern New Mexico (5-3) and St. Edward's (5-3). ASU and UT Tyler, who are both nationally ranked and opened the season with four-game sweeps, split in Tyler.
 
Lubbock Christian responded from an 0-4 start to the season with a sweep of its own, going on the road to take all four games from Sul Ross State. The other series win from the weekend was Texas A&M-Kingsville, which took three games at Cameron.