KINGSVILLE, Texas (March 18, 2022) – Lubbock Christian University used just two pitchers to cover 14 innings of work on Saturday and allowed just two runs total in that time, sweeping a doubleheader from Texas A&M-Kingsville with 2-0 and 4-2 wins.
 
The Chaps (20-5, 18-5 LSC) got a complete-game shutout from Ethan Coombes in the first game and a complete game with just one walk allowed in the second game from Shandon Herrera. The Javelinas (16-9, 14-9 LSC) were held to just a .240 batting average for the day.
 
GAME ONE
The only two runs scored at all in the first game came in the top of the fourth inning. Larry Leitha got the Chaps on the board to lead off the inning, homering over the left field wall. It was the first LCU home run of the series and his eighth of the season. Mason Donohoe followed with a walk and scored later in the inning on a single from Carson Ogilvie.
 
Two runs were enough for Coombes though, as he breezed through the Javelina lineup all day, allowing just eight baserunners. Texas A&M-Kingsville never had more than one runner on the bases at once, and no runner made it farther than second base.
 
Lubbock Christian did have other chances to score in the game, collecting 10 hits overall in the game. They had the bases loaded in the top of the fifth with a double, a single and a walk, but TAMUK brought in a reliever and got a double play to end the threat.
 
The Chaps put two on again in the sixth but could never add insurance. Coombes made it work anyways striking out four batters and finishing the complete game with 103 pitches.
 
GAME TWO
It was a pitcher's duel again in the second game, but it didn't look like it would be that way early on, especially for Javelina hurler Logan Garza. Garza walked Eduardo Acosta to start the game and then gave up two straight singles to score a run. Two more runs came in before the inning ended to give the Chaps an early 3-0 lead.
 
Texas A&M-Kingsville got one run back in the bottom of the second and tried to get another across by having a runner caught in a pickoff rundown between first and second and sending the runner from third, but Chaparral first basemen Luis Navarro made the heads up throw to home and Jaxson Edwards applied the tag for the third out of the inning.
 
The Javelinas pulled within a run in the fifth inning with a single, a sacrifice bunt and an RBI single from Giancarlo Servin.
 
LCU got the run back immediately in the top of the sixth. Ogilvie led off and doubled down the left field line, advancing to third on a wild pitch. He scored on a single by Acosta.
 
Herrera execute the shutdown inning perfectly on the mound, sitting the Javelinas down in order in the bottom of the sixth, and he repeated the performance in the seventh with a strikeout and two fly outs to end the game.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
.246 | Ethan Coombes allowed just four hits on the day, lowering his opponent's batting average for the season to .246
2 | LCU's two runs scored were their fewest in a win this season, and it is their first shutout since winning 10-0 against Cameron on April 16, 2021
.402 | Luis Navarro went 4-8 in the doubleheader with three singles and a double, raising his batting average back over the .400 mark
 
NEXT UP
Lubbock Christian will go for their second-straight series sweep on Saturday, taking on Texas A&M-Kingsville in the series finale at 1 p.m.