UNM sports: Time for these track and field athletes to shine; baseball wraps up home schedule
May 11—FRESNO, Calif. — The University of New Mexico men's and women's track teams are competing in the Mountain West Conference meet at Fresno State's Veterans Memorial Stadium. Events, mostly preliminaries, were to begin late Thursday. Among the Lobos to watch:
Ethan Brouw, top ranked among league men in 800 meters;
Jake Burkey, league indoor long jump champion who has been injured and will be making his outdoor season debut;
Jonathan Carmin, league indoor 5,000 champ, will also run the 1,500;
Maisie Grice, whose only 3,000-meter steeplechase race of the season was third fastest in the league and 15th best nationally;
Emma Heckel, a reigning all-league and All-American in the women's 5,000;
Tianna Holmes, the UNM women's 200 and 400 record-holder;
Gracelyn Larkin, reigning 5,000 champion;
Amelia Mazza-Downie, the league's top 10,000 runner who will enter the women's 5,000;
Javon O'Bryant, the reigning 400 outdoor champ, also will run the 200 and 4×400;
Stephanie Parsons, three-time league athlete of the week coming off her season-best time in the 1,500;
Aidan Quinn, four-time league triple jump champ, also long-jumping;
Elise Thorner, reigning women's 1,500 champ;
Jovahn Williamson, reigning men's 200 champ, will run also in the 400 and 4×400;
Brodie Young, a freshman with the league's top 400 time.
BASEBALL: The final home series for New Mexico (24-19, 11-12) begins with a Friday doubleheader against Nevada (18-28, 8-15).
The two teams play Saturday and again Sunday in UNM's Senior Day. The Lobos will honor a total of 14 seniors on Mother's Day, after which mothers of players in attendance will throw out a collective first pitch to their sons.
Lobo Reed Spenrath crushed three more home runs last week, surpassing Air Force's Jay Thomason for the Mountain West lead with 18. Spenrath also leads the league in slugging at .789 and in RBIs with 59,
The Lobos enter the week in fifth place, two games behind fourth-place Fresno State, with seven league games to play.
New Mexico State plays its final Western Athletic Conference series of the season at Utah Valley beginning Friday.
On Wednesday, the Aggies (12-32) fell 7-6 in 10 innings at Utah (20-27-1) despite holding a 5-1 seventh-inning lead.
SOCCER: The UNM women announced three signees Thursday who will join the team for the fall season.
They are forward Nicole Anderson of San Diego, twin sister of fall recruit Allie Anderson; forward Margaux Clarke of Orinda, Calif., and the University of Washington; and defender/midfielder Brae Cole of Louisville, Colo., and Washington State.
