{"id":267124,"date":"2026-04-26T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267124\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:37:09","slug":"buffs-drop-a-pair-of-saturday-contests-at-texas-am-kingsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267124\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffs Drop a Pair of Saturday Contests at Texas A&#038;M-Kingsville"},"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\/04\/Texas_AM_Kingsville.png\" alt=\"Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville<\/p>\n<p>4\/26\/2026 | 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 26 (Sun) \/ 12 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\/04\/Texas_AM_Kingsville.png\" alt=\"Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CANYON, Texas \u2013\u00a0West Texas A&amp;M baseball dropped a pair of Lone Star Conference contests on Saturday afternoon to the Javelinas of Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville at Nolan Ryan Field in Kingsville, Texas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Buffs and Javelinas close out the regular season on Sunday afternoon with first pitch of the finale set for Noon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGame 1 \u2013 Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville 5, West Texas A&amp;M 1<br \/>\nThe Buffs got on the board in the top of the first inning with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-alwine\/14173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14173\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Alwine<\/a> RBI double to the gap in left center to score <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jonluke-hobdy\/14289\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14289\" target=\"_blank\">Jonluke Hobdy<\/a> for the 1-0 lead. TAMUK responded in the bottom of the frame on a Cash Benavidez two-run long ball to left at 2-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJavier Benavidez extended the Javelina lead in the home half of the fourth inning with a two-run triple down the right field line followed by a Jake Gann single thru the right side for the 5-1 advantage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cade-griffin\/14245\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14245\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Griffin<\/a> claimed the loss (8-4) for the Buffs, allowing five earned runs on three hits with three walks and two strikeouts in his 3.1 innings of work.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGame 2 \u2013 Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville 9, West Texas A&amp;M 4<br \/>\nWT jumped out to an early lead in the nightcap, pushing across four runs in the top of the third inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jacob-police\/14191\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14191\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Police<\/a> singled thru the left side to score Hobdy followed 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 triple and a <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/will-franklin\/14194\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14194\" target=\"_blank\">Will Franklin<\/a> ground-rule double for the 4-0 lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTexas A&amp;M-Kingsville answered in the bottom of the fifth with six runs highlighted by an Easton Hewitt three-run homer to left. The Javelinas added insurance runs in the sixth inning on a WT defensive miscue that scored one followed by a Hewitt RBI base hit at 9-4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobuffsgo.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/riley-kettner\/14178\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14178\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Kettner<\/a> claimed the loss (7-2) on the mound, allowing three earned runs on two hits with a walk in 0.1 innings of relief.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville 4\/26\/2026 | 12 p.m. &#13; Apr. 26 (Sun) \/ 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-267124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267124","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=267124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}