April 25, 2006

Final Stats

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - UNLV baseball scored four runs in the fourth inning to grab a one-run lead but could not hold on in losing 6-4 to UC Riverside in a non-conference game Tuesday night at the Riverside Sports Complex.

The Rebels dropped to 17-25 on the year, with starter Ryan Tabor (2-4) taking the loss as he gave up five runs over 5.2 innings of work. UCR improved to 21-15 overall with Marc Rzepczynski (2-1) giving up four runs, none of them earned, in seven innings. Daniel Stange picked up the save, his ninth of the year.

Trailing 3-0 entering the top of the fourth, Keith Smith drew a one-out walk and then scored on back-to-back Highlander errors that put runners on second and third and made the score 3-1. Braden Walker and Chad Miller followed with run-scoring singles to tie the game and then Xavier Scruggs hit a run-scoring ground out that gave UNLV a 4-3 lead.

UCR knotted the game at four in the fifth inning, then took the lead for good in the sixth when Jaime Pedroza hit an RBI double that made the score 5-4. The Highlanders added an insurance run in the eighth on an RBI ground out by Aaron Grant.

Walker finished the game 2-4 with an RBI while Smith went 2-3 with a run scored as the Rebels had seven hits and one error in the game. UCR finished the night with nine hits and the two errors.

The Rebels remain on the road, traveling to the Beehive State for a three-game series against Utah with the first game getting underway Friday at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).