LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV softball team (22-25 overall, 8-8 Mountain West) suffered an 11-3 loss in six innings of play to the San Jose State Spartans (32-15, 12-4) Friday night at Eller Media Stadium. The Rebels held an early 2-0 lead through two innings and sat deadlocked at 3-all through three before the Spartans managed to pull away with eight runs between the fourth and sixth.

The Scarlet & Gray got the scoring started in the home half of the second with the help of four singles. Janine Petmecky got the offensive started with an infield single before moving up a base off Jamie DePippo's sacrifice bunt. Brooke Stover then stepped up to the plate and laced a single up the middle for an RBI. Stover later scored off an RBI single by Glackin after she had moved around the base paths following a single by Jade Yadao-Valdez and a fielder's choice.

The visitors from the Bay Area countered in the third frame with five hits that produced three runs. Michelle Cox knocked in the first run with a single, while teammate Jessica Madrid's two-run single came one batter later.

Emily Haslinger brought the game to a standstill in the bottom of the third with a solo home run. Unfortunately, that tally was the last for UNLV's offense in the affair.

SJSU pulled away with a three-run fourth before it added five more insurance tallies - one in the fifth and four in the sixth. Cox led the squad with a 3-for-3 effort that produced three RBI and three runs. Madrid, who also had three RBI, and three other Spartans also notched a pair of hits apiece.

The Rebels and Spartans return to Eller Media Stadium Saturday for game two of the conference series. First pitch is slated for 1:00 pm.

NOTES: UNLV's Garie Blando led off the bottom of the first with a single that helped extend her season-best hitting streak to 17 games ... This streak marks the second time in her career that Blando has hit safely in 17 straight after she initially did so during the 2014 campaign.