April 29, 2006
Final Stats
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - It took a little while for UNLV's offense to get going, but once it did Rebel baseball scored runs in bunches, beating Utah 12-5 in a Mountain West Conference game Saturday afternoon and Franklin Covey Stadium.
The Rebels scored a pair of runs in the fourth and then three more in the fifth for a 5-0 lead and then closed the game by scoring seven runs over the final three innings to collect the win. Chad Miller led the UNLV offense, going 3-4 with a home run and five RBI.
With the win UNLV improved to 18-26 overall and 5-10 in MWC play as the Rebels snapped a six-game road losing streak with the victory. Utah dropped to 22-19 on the year, 5-7 in league play.
UNLV starter Kevin Skogley (2-6) benefited from the offense but the lefty didn't need all the support, as he allowed just two runs, one earned, over seven innings of work to earn the win. He struck out a career-high eight batters and walked just one in snapping a personal four-game losing streak.
Utah actually got on the board first, pushing two runs across the plate in the bottom of the second inning on a Joe Mozeleski run-scoring single and then another on a Rebel error to grab a 2-0 lead.
That is how the game would stay until the fourth, when the Rebels knotted the score at two. Miller singled in the Rebels' first run of the game and then Zach Borba added an RBI single of his own to tie the game at two.
UNLV took the lead for good in its half of the fifth, when Chris Bonnell hit a single that scored two runs and then Miller followed with another RBI single, giving the Rebels a 5-2 lead. Miller then moved the Rebel lead to five runs in the seventh, hitting his team-leading ninth home run, a two-run shot to left field that made the score 7-2.
In the eighth inning Miller hit a sacrifice fly and Braden Walker hit a two-run home run and then in the eighth the Rebels scored two more times on RBI hits from Ryan Kowalski and CJ Lang. Utah scored three runs in the ninth to cap the scoring.
Bonnell went 2-3 with three runs scored and two RBI and Lang was 2-4 with an RBI and a run scored as well. No one on Utah had more than one hit on the afternoon.
UNLV wraps up its series with Utah on Sunday, with the first pitch scheduled for 12:00 p.m. (PDT) at Franklin Covey Stadium.
