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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – New Mexico (4-5) had no luck, and no ability to get UNLV batters out, Saturday. The Runnin’ Rebels (4-1) blasted the Lobos 24-7 and 8-5 in Mountain West baseball.
Chase Maddux, son of Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux, got the UNLV win in a seven-inning game one. The Rebels blasted 20 hits and capitalized on two Lobo errors to score 13 unearned runs. Will Armbruester took the brunt of it for UNM, allowing all of the runs in a 10-run fifth, eight of them unearned.
Willie Cano had three of UNM’s 13 hits in the nine-inning nightcap, but UNLV rallied from a 5-4 deficit with four eighth-inning runs and held on. The two teams wrap up the three-game set Sunday.