Pack stays alive in San Diego with win over UNLV

RENO, Nev. (Nevada Athletics) – Backs towards the wall and enjoying for its season, Nevada answered the bell Friday, defeating arch-rival UNLV, 7-3, in a Mountain West Championship elimination recreation Friday at Tony Gwynn Stadium.

Kade Morris went 8.2 innings for the win, and Josh Zamora went deep twice, his fourth two-homer recreation of the season, because the Pack (29-25) jumped the Rebels early and made it maintain.

Nevada will play its second elimination recreation Saturday at 1:30 p.m., going through the loser of Friday night time’s winner’s bracket recreation between San José State and Air Pressure.- A win in Saturday’s opener would ship the Pack to that night’s first championship recreation, at 6 p.m.

Morris improved to 7-5 on the season, preserving the Rebels (36-22) off the board for the primary six innings, and permitting simply three runs on eight hits earlier than Tyler Cochran got here on to get the ultimate out for his sixth save.

Morris confronted the minimal into the fifth, and didn’t enable a UNLV baserunner previous first base till Austin Kryszczuk’s double to guide off the seventh. UNLV would halve the Pack lead with three runs within the body, with Eric Bigani’s two-out, two-run single making it 6-3.

However Morris would get Gianni Horvat to groundout to finish the body, then escaped a two-on, one-out state of affairs within the eighth. With Rebels at first and second and only one out, Morris bought Diego Alarcon swinging for the second out, and squashed the menace by flashing some leather-based, snagging Henry Zeisler’s comebacker and tossing to first for the third out.

The Nevada lineup offered on the spot assist for Morris Friday, scoring in every of the primary 4 innings to get the Pack out to a fast 4-0 lead. Mountain West stolen base chief Pat Caulfield goaded UNLV starter Josh Ibarra into an errant pickoff try within the first, advancing to 3rd, which allowed him to attain the opening run on Zamora’s RBI single.

The RBI single began a 3-for-4, three-RBI day on the plate for Zamora. He would hit a solo shot off the pole in left within the third, then present insurance coverage with a solo shot within the ninth, bringing his season house run whole to 16.

Ibarra would final simply 2.1 innings, giving up 4 runs (three earned) on six hits, and falling to 6-2 on the season.

Jacob Stinson, who had two hits on the day, set the desk properly Friday, scoring a pair of runs. First, Stinson got here all the best way round from first on Tyler Bosetti’s second-inning double, doubling the Pack result in 2-0. Within the fourth, Stinson made his approach to second earlier than scoring Nevada’s fourth run on Ryan Jackson’s RBI single to right-center.

These runs sandwiched Dario Gomez’s solo shot within the third inning, a laser beam that had the legs to clear the wall in left-center.

Caulfield would rating the Pack’s sixth run, making it 6-0 within the seventh, on Matt Clayton’s RBI groundout.

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