Box Score

Senior Randall Taylor threw a complete game tonight in Farmington, New Mexico to lead the Patriot Baseball Team to a 6-3 victory over New Mexico State University.  With the victory, DBU improved to 28-26, while NMSU fell to 22-32.

DBU jumped out to the early 2-0 lead in the top of the second when Senior Matt Tucker led off the inning with a single and advanced to second off a single by Senior Garrett Baker.  Tucker, who advanced to third off an Aggie error, scored the Patriots first run on a RBI sacrifice fly by Junior Nick Santos.  Baker then scored the second run off a RBI single to right field by Sophomore JT Bloodworth. 

Sophomore Evan Bigley led off the top of the third inning by reaching base on a hit by pitch and scored when Tucker smashed a triple to right field.  The Patriots extended their lead to 4-0 after Tucker scored on a ground out by Baker. 

New Mexico State scored their only three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning when they managed to start the rally on a bunt single and followed that up with four more seeing eye singles. 

The Patriots finished out their scoring in the fifth and seventh innings, when they scored on an RBI single by Sophomore Trevor Head and a solo homerun by Junior Nick Santos. 

Taylor finished out the victory for the Patriots and picked up his seventh win when he threw his second complete game of the season.  Taylor's final line for the night was 9.0 innings, allowing three runs on nine hits, and he struck out a season high 12. 

Leading DBU at the plate was Tucker, Baker, and Head, who went two for four, with one RBI a piece, while Santos was one for three with two RBI and Bloodworth was one for three with one RBI.

The Patriots and Aggies will play the second game of the series on Friday night at 7:05 in Farmington, New Mexico.