{"id":254998,"date":"2026-04-18T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254998\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:38:10","slug":"dustdevils-outlast-west-texas-am-in-the-opener-13-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254998\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustdevils Outlast West Texas A&#038;M in the Opener, 13-11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771578616_774_DustyFullColor.png\" alt=\"Texas A&amp;M International\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Texas A&amp;M International<\/p>\n<p>4\/18\/2026 | 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 18 (Sat) \/ 2 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771578616_774_DustyFullColor.png\" alt=\"Texas A&amp;M International\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Texas A&amp;M International&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CANYON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The West Texas A&amp;M Buffaloes battled back from an 11-run deficit on Friday afternoon before falling to the Texas A&amp;M International Dustdevils, 13-11 in Lone Star Conference action at Wilder Park in Canyon, Texas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Dustdevils got on the board in the top of the first inning with an Eddie Saenz solo homerun to center field followed by a Fabrizio Salinas two-run triple to right and a Derek Garcia RBI single up the middle for the 4-0 lead. TAMIU added to their lead in the fourth with a Jesus Sosa two-run blast to center followed by an RBI groundout from Iann Cobos for the 7-0 advantage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWT finally pushed across their first run in the home half of the fourth on a <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tristin-thomas\/14187\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14187\" target=\"_blank\">Tristin Thomas<\/a> walk with the bases loaded and no outs to score <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-alwine\/14173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14173\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Alwine<\/a> but the Buffs would strand the bases loaded to keep it 7-1.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Dustdevils scored again in the top of the fifth as Sosa doubled to the gap in right center to drive in a pair for the 9-1 lead. TAMIU added to their lead in the top of the sixth inning with a Garcia bases-clearing triple off the center field wall with two outs for the 12-1 advantage.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWT cut into the lead in the bottom of the sixth as Thomas led off the frame with a solo shot to right field followed later in the frame by a <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/zac-rackham\/14185\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14185\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Rackham<\/a> RBI walk with the bases loaded, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brock-bunker\/14207\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14207\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Bunker<\/a> would single off the wall in right center to score two followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jacob-police\/14191\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14191\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Police<\/a> RBI groundout. WT wasn&#8217;t done yet as <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/timothy-haynes\/14199\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14199\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Haynes<\/a> doubled to left to score Bunker followed by a Thomas RBI triple and a <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jonluke-hobdy\/14289\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14289\" target=\"_blank\">Jonluke Hobdy<\/a> single to make it 12-9.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-alwine\/14173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14173\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Alwine<\/a> made things interesting in the home half of the seventh inning with a solo homerun to right field to cut the lead to 12-10. The Buffs wouldn&#8217;t go down without a fight as Rackham doubled off the right field wall with two outs in the eighth to score Hobdy at 12-11. The Dustdevils added a big insurance run in the top of the ninth on a Ciro Benivides double to right center for the 13-11 lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/bryan-raitz\/14193\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14193\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Raitz<\/a> claimed the loss (4-3) for the Lady Buffs, allowing nine runs (eight earned) on 13 hits with one walk and three strikeouts in his 5.0 innings of work.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Buffs and Dustdevils return to the diamond on Saturday afternoon with a doubleheader set for 2:00 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Texas A&amp;M International 4\/18\/2026 | 2 p.m. &#13; Apr. 18 (Sat) \/ 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-254998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}