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ON DECK
The Tarleton Texan baseball team will open-up Lone Star Conference play this weekend with a four-game set against Eastern New Mexico at Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex, which is set to get underway this Friday, Mar. 15 at 3 p.m. The Texans and Greyhounds will play a doubleheader on Saturday (1 p.m.) before closing out the series on Sunday (1 p.m.).
 
ABOUT THE TEXANS
• The Texans have won a season-high five consecutive games heading into the week, with its last win coming against McMurry in Abilene back on Mar. 5.
• Tarleton has averaged 10.0 runs per game during its current five-game winning streak, hitting .405 as a team with 68 hits (eight doubles, five triples, one home run).
• The Texans stole 21 bases in 27 attempts over the past five games. Tarleton currently leads the LSC with 52 stolen bases on the season.
 
TEXANS AT THE PLATE
• Alvaro Moreno leads the Texans at the dish with a .413 batting average. He has collected 31 hits in 75 plate appearances and has a pair of doubles to go along with one home run.
• Ryan Small leads the team with 10 doubles this season, which is first in the LSC.
• Three different Texans (Matt Olive, Lola Fajide, Rustin Thomas) lead the team with two triples each on the year.
• Colten Boothe has hit a team-high two home runs on the season.
 
TEXANS ON THE MOUND
• Matt Buckmaster leads the Texans with three wins on the season and a 0.92 earned run average. He is tied with Pete Perez in strikeouts as both pitchers have 28 K's heading into the weekend.
• Landon Thompson and Garrett Kelly each have a team-high three saves on the season.
 
ABOUT THE GREYHOUNDS
• Eastern New Mexico head coach Chris Terry is in his second season with the Greyhounds. He brings in a collective record of 25-37 into the weekend's series against the Texans. He is 0-4 against the Texans.
• ENMU leads the LSC in hitting with a team batting average of .379. The Greyhounds have a league-best 201 hits this season with 31 doubles, five triples and eight home runs.
• The Greyhounds have scored an LSC-best 132 runs this season.
• ENMU's pitching staff has a league-worst 6.91 ERA, having given up 115 runs on 158 hits. Greyhound pitchers have walked 65 batters and struck out 80 hitters so far on the season.
• Colten Sims leads the conference with a .582 batting average and four home runs. He has drove in 19 runs this season.
• Rafael Romo is second on the team with a .514 batting average and Daniel Binz leads the team with seven doubles.
• Japreet Shergill leads the team with a 3.86 ERA in four appearances this season. Brett Humphries, Ben Monticello and Ryan Pruitt each have a team-best two wins each.
• Monticello leads the team with 28 strikeouts on the season.
• Kyle Kesmarki is 2-0 with a team-high two saves on the year. 
 
SERIES NOTES
• The Texans lead the all-time series 53-33-1 and have won eight consecutive games heading into the weekend.
• Tarleton has won nine out of the past 10 games and the Texans are 11-5 when playing the Greyhounds under head coach Bryan Conger.
• The Texans have swept the season series against ENMU over the past three seasons. Tarleton went 4-0 against the Greyhounds last season in Portales, N.M. Tarleton outscored the Greyhounds 53-16 in the series last season.
• ENMU's last win over the Texans came on Feb. 27, 2010 in Portales, N.M. The Greyhounds last win in Stephenville came back on Mar. 7, 2009.
 
AROUND THE LSC
• Tarleton's .317 team batting average is fourth highest in the LSC and the team's 3.55 ERA is thrid-best in the league.
• The Texans have committed just 19 errors on the season, which ranks second-least in the conference. Tarleton is second in the league with a .971 fielding percentage.
• Buckmaster is fifth in the league with his 0.92 ERA. He is tied for fourth with three wins this year.
• Moreno is second in the LSC with 31 hits (1.72/game). His .413 batting average is eighth in the conference. He leads the league with 20 runs batted in.
• Evan Robinson is sixth in the LSC with eight stolen bases.
• Tarleton's 19 runs scored against Arlington Baptist on Feb. 23 are a league best.
• The Texans combined for a season-high 14 strikeouts on Feb. 9 against Ouachita Baptist, which also is a single-game high among teams in the league.
 
GOIN' YARD
• Tarleton's Colten Boothe leads the team with two home runs this season. He has a home run at home and then hit a bomb against Cameron in Abilene.
• Alvaro Moreno was the first Texan to go yard this season, hitting a dinger into the left field seats at Houston's Minute Maid Park against Arkansas Tech.
 
UP NEXT
• The Texans will face Texas Wesleyan in Fort Worth on Tuesday, Mar. 19 before returning to LSC play next weekend against West Texas A&M in Canyon.
• The Texans and Buffs will play a four-game series beginning Friday, Mar. 22 at Wilder Park.