March 29, 2006
LAS VEGAS -
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On Deck: After a short three-game stint at home, the Rebels become road warriors for the fourth straight weekend. UNLV travels to Utah for four games to open up Mountain West Conference play with contests on this week. Up first will be a stop in Provo to face the BYU Cougars on Thursday at 4 pm PST. The Rebels will then travel north for a two-game set Friday against the Utah Utes at noon PST. Last year, this road trip occurred in the fourth weekend of league play. UNLV swept both games at Utah and split at BYU.
The Opponents: BYU Cougars (18-10): After playing 28 games away from Gail Miller Field, the Cougars open up the home portion of their schedule this week with conference doubleheaders against UNLV (Thursday) and San Diego State (Friday). BYU is riding a three-game losing streak into conference play. The Cougars lost 4 of 5 games played in the state of Oregon last weekend.
~UNLV All-Time vs. BYU: Rebels trail 19-9.
~Last meeting: May 14, 2005 - BYU 2, UNLV 0 (MWC Championship)
Utah Utes (18-10): The Utes played their first games at home this past weekend (March 24-26) and swept all three games (Utah Valley State, Portland State and Harvard). The Utes were to play Utah State on the 29th, but rains forced the cancellation of that contest. Utah opens up league play this weekend with doubleheaders against UNLV and San Diego State.
~UNLV All-Time vs. UU: Rebels trail 30-23.
~Last meeting: April 22, 2005 - UNLV 7, Utah 1 (Salt Lake City)
The Last Time Out: The Rebels hosted a rare non-conference series against the Missouri Tigers. The last three-game set UNLV had played against an opponent occurred in 2000 (March 24-26), when the Sun Devils of Arizona State swept the Rebels in Tempe.
UNLV took the three-game series two games to one. Unfortunately, Missouri won game one and thus extended the Rebels' losing streak to 10 games (tied for the third-longest in program history).
Missouri took game one with a score of 6-4. UNLV spotted the Tigers a 4-0 lead, but pulled within one after five. The Tigers added two more in the fifth. The Rebels attempted a seventh inning rally, but only managed to plate one runner.
In the night cap of Monday's doubleheader, UNLV took a 2-0 lead only to see Mizzou even it at 2-2 after the Tigers' half of the third. UNLV scored three runs in the third and four in the fifth to extend the lead to 9-2. The Tigers pulled within four with three runs in the fifth and then added one more in the seventh. UNLV prevailed 9-6.
On Tuesday, steady rains and lightning pushed the start time back 45-minutes, but the Rebel offense was delayed even longer. Missouri held a 4-0 lead through three innings of play, but watched UNLV even things up at 4-4 in the bottom of the fourth. Rains halted the game for 15-minutes during UNLV's at-bat in the fifth, but the offense came out after the break and scored three in the frame and four more in the sixth for the final 11-4 margin.
