PLAINVIEW, TX: The Texas Wesleyan University baseball club (19-26, 11-11 SAC) dropped two games to Wayland Baptist University (32-20, 13-7 SAC) at Wilder Field on Friday. The Rams fell behind early in game one and took a 6-3 loss before taking a 16-4 loss in the night cap.
 
The temperature at Wilder Field was a normal 77 degrees at game time, but the wind could not be further from normal. The system of storms that moved through North Texas today were pushed by a strong southwest wind that stayed around 30 MPH the entire day.
 
Wayland jumped on top of the Rams quickly in game one, with a pair of runs in the first two innings. The Pioneers were helped in the first inning by a pair of Ram errors, while Chris Buitron and Will Bass each tallied a RBI hit in the second for a 4-0 lead.
 
Jake Howeth put the Rams on the board in the fourth inning with a one out homerun slam down the left field line.
 
Wayland Baptist added a couple more in the sixth on a Bass two RBI single that snaked through the left side to make it a 6-1 advantage.
 
Tyler Kamtz led off the top of the seventh with a base hit back up the middle. Jake Davis stepped in the box and promptly sent a moon shot over the left field fence to cut the lead to 6-3. The Rams could not continue the rally though, and WBU secured the game one win.
 
Dylan Measells went 2 for 3. Howeth went 1 for 3 with a home run. Davis went 1 for 3 with a homer in the game.
 
In game two, the gusty winds wreaked havoc on Wesleyan pitchers as the Pioneers hit eight extra base hits, five of them home runs.
 
Texas Wesleyan put up the first big inning with a three run second that gave the Rams a 3-1 lead.  Davis singled up the middle to start things off, followed by a Rod Lewis shot that sailed over the left field wall for a two run home run.  Nathan Dillon kept the inning going with a double to right field before Ryan Mendez capped the inning with a RBI single to center field.
 
The Pioneers matched that effort with three run in the bottom of the second to regain a 4-3 lead, and followed that up with a six run third inning that featured a pair of two RBI home runs.  
 
Wayland Baptist unloaded again in the fourth inning with six runs on five hits that oddly enough did not involve a home run. An error to lead off the inning allowed a runner on for an Ernesto Lizardi RBI single. That would start a long string of hits that was capped by a Josh Alexander two RBI single to make it a 16-3 game.
 
Texas Wesleyan got a run back in the fifth after Howeth crushed a ball over the center field to make it a 16-4 contest that would eventually be the final.
 
Lewis went 2 for 3 with a pair of RBI. Howeth went 2 for 3 with a solo shot. Dillon went 2 for 3 for the Rams.
 
Texas Wesleyan will look to bounce back in the final game of the series tomorrow. First pitch is set for 1:00 pm.