April 26, 2005
Final Stats
LAS VEGAS - Coming off of a weekend in which the Rebels scored at will in getting three wins, UNLV baseball was limited to just three runs on five hits in its 11-3 loss to UC Riverside on Tuesday night at Earl E. Wilson Stadium.
This past weekend the Rebels racked up 47 runs on 55 hits in sweeping New Mexico but UNLV's bats were held silent for much of the night against Jose Shaw and the UCR bullpen.
UNLV dropped to 20-23 on the year and remained 14-4 in the Mountain West Conference, tied with BYU for the lead league. UCR evened its overall record at 19-19. Shaw worked six innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out five to get the win and move his record to 2-3. Matt Wagner got the start for the Rebels and took the loss, giving up three runs in 2.0 innings of work as head coach Buddy Gouldsmith used seven different pitchers in the game.
UCR got off to a quick start, scoring three runs on two hits in the opening frame off of Wagner. Brett Bigler had a RBI double and Brian Steinmeyer added a run-scoring single in the rally.
UNLV responded in its half of the first, scoring two runs to pull within one. Zeke Parraz, who was named the MWC Player of the Week on Monday, continued his torrid streak with an RBI double that drove home JC Sibley. Chris Bonnell added a sacrifice fly to make it a 3-2 game after one.
After a scoreless second things unraveled in the top of the third for the Rebels due to a costly error.
Matt Luca came into pitch for the Rebels and he got two strike outs but also allowed two singles to put runners on first and second with two out. Luca then got Steinmeyer to hit a fly ball to Rebel leftfielder Matt Fry, who let it go through his glove for an error, allowing two runs to score. UCR then scored three more runs in the inning, for five total in the rally, all unearned, to go up 8-2.
That would be all that Shaw and the UCR bullpen would need. The Rebels mustered just four more hits the rest of the way as Marc Rzepczynski and Matt Millet combined to toss three scoreless innings when Shaw left in the sixth.
One of those four Rebel hits was a mammoth home run off the bat of Tyler Beranek, who drilled his third home run of the season over the scoreboard in left field to move UNLV to within 8-3. UCR added three more runs in the top of the seventh to cap the scoring.
UNLV will now hit the road for a nine-game, three-week road trip against MWC opponents that starts this Friday night against San Diego State in San Diego, Calif. The first pitch in the opener of the three-game series is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. (PT).
