Lobo’s Notes: Men’s, Women’s 2nd after MWC Athletics Day; baseball has a home opener on Friday

Lobo baseball makes its home debut

After an uplifting 3-1 start to 2023 at a tournament in Surprise, Arizona, the University of New Mexico baseball team plays its home opener Friday against Northern Colorado (2 -1). The 2 p.m. first pitch (streamed on themw.com) opens a three-game series at Santa Ana Star Field, with Saturday and Sunday games scheduled to begin at noon.

Right-hander Riley Egloff was named Mountain West Pitcher of the Week after beating No. 23 Oregon State in the season opener. He allowed one run on five hits in five innings with seven strikeouts.

The Lobos went clear of 38 baseball innings last weekend. On Wednesday, New Mexico was one of eight error-free teams out of 239 in NCAA Division I.

Lobos in 2nd at MWC T&F

Jonathan Carmin of the University of New Mexico won the men’s 5,000 meters, and the women’s distance medley relay team also won the title on Thursday, the first day of the Mountain’s Indoor Track and Field Championships West Conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

Competition resumes Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and ends Saturday from 9:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. See the program here. The match is streamed live on themw.com.

Lobo’s men and women are in second place until day one.

Carmin covered the distance in 14 minutes, 18.09 seconds. The Lobo relay team consisting of Klara Dess, Annamaria Leszczynska, Danielle Verster and Sarah Eckel arrived at 11:31.55.

Colorado State leads the women’s team with 34 points, six ahead of second-place UNM. Lobo’s men are also in second place, 18 points behind the Air Force’s 22.

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UNM GOLF : Myah McDonald was named a Mountain West Conference golfer after the week after winning the Show at Spanish Trail in Las Vegas, Nevada with a career-best 9-under-par 207. The junior from Kaneohe, Hawaii, batted 10 top-100 players while leading Team New Mexico to a third-place finish in a 15-team field.

NATATION UNM : Ola Tomaszek of Warsaw, Poland was named All-Mountain West Conference in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.