RENO, Nev. (Nevada Athletics) – Nevada travels to San Diego for the 2022 Mountain West Baseball Championship, and a shot at an computerized bid into its second-straight NCAA Match, this week.

The Pack, the No. 2 seed on the four-team, double-elimination match, opens play Thursday at 1:30 p.m. towards No. 3 San José State. All video games will happen at Tony Gwynn Stadium on the campus of San Diego State.

All Nevada video games can be broadcast regionally in Reno on Nevada SportsNet, livestreamed on the Mountain West Community, and carried over the airwaves at 94.1 FM/1450 AM CBS Sports activities Radio. John Ramey and Jesse Kurtz can be on the livestream name, with Scott Galetti on the radio name.

NEVADA AT THE MW CHAMPIONSHIP

Nevada will play in its eighth Mountain West Championship this week, in search of its first match title.

The Pack is 9-14 all-time on the occasion, and has made the title recreation as soon as (2016). Since becoming a member of the convention in 2013, Nevada has appeared in each version of the championship match.

AGAINST THE FIELD

Nevada gained the season sequence towards every of the opposite three groups on this week’s match subject (UNLV, San José State, Air Pressure). The Pack went 4-2 towards each San José State and Air Pressure, getting a three-game dwelling sweep of every of the 2 groups, and took two of three from UNLV in Las Vegas in the one sequence between the groups this season.

In opposition to Thursday’s opponent, San José State, the Pack swept three video games at Peccole Park from March 11-13, outscoring the Spartans, 46-25. However San José State would take two of three within the Bay Space simply over a month later, sandwiching a 14-3 Nevada win with victories of 6-5 and 9-2.Over the six video games towards the Spartans, standout performers for Nevada included Landon Wallace (.476, 10-for-21, 11 RBIs), Pat Caulfield (.444, 12-for-27, six RBIs, six SB), and Josh Zamora (.360, 9-for-25, two HRs, six walks).

WHAT’S AT STAKE

Nevada will not be solely taking part in for its first Mountain West Championship crown this week, but additionally for the convention’s computerized bid to the NCAA Match. A berth into the NCAA Match could be the second in a row, and sixth total, for the Pack (1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2021).

NON-CONFERENCE PREPARED THE PACK

Nevada is headed into postseason play subsequent weekend as, arguably, the Mountain West’s most ready crew.

Via Might 22, the Pack has performed the sixth-most tough non-conference schedule within the nation, based on the NCAA’s non-conference strength-of-schedule rankings, and has a non-conference RPI of 40, tops within the Mountain West.

Nevada’s non-conference slate this season has included video games towards Oregon State (RPI 2), at Arizona (38), at UC Santa Barbara (39), at Grand Canyon (44), and at Arizona State (97).

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