Box Score: UNLV 10, Boise State 5
Box Score: UNLV 10, Boise State 9

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV softball team (19-20 overall, 5-6 Mountain West) were triumphant in both contests of Tuesday's doubleheader against the Boise State Broncos (8-30, 0-8) at Eller Media Stadium. UNLV, who has won four straight in Mountain West play, fell behind in each affair, but came away with a decisive 10-5 victory in the first game before it needed a seventh-inning rally for a 10-9 win in the nightcap.

The Scarlet & Gray hit .375 as a team and a total of eight players notch at least one hit on the day. More impressively, six players scattered a minimum of three hits with Samantha Juarez, who had the walk-off single in game two, leading the way with four. Janine Petmecky, Fahren Glackin, Emily Haslinger, Alyssa Cordova and Garie Blando were in the exclusive club with Juarez after each recorded three hits.

Blando was responsible for 10 of UNLV's 20 combined runs with six tallies and four RBI. Haslinger had a hand in eight of the runs with six RBI and two runs scored.

In game one, the Broncos were gifted five runs in the their first at-bat when Morgan Ettinger (8-8) was a bit erratic in the circle. The Rebel hurler walked the first batter she faced - Shaelee Pearson - and plunked the next three. Hailey Torrez, who was the last of the trio to get hit by a pitch, was credited with an RBI when Pearson scored. Devon Bridges followed Torrez to the plate and promptly hit Ettinger's 3-2 offering to center field for a grand slam.

Ettinger settled down after Bridges' homer and struck out the next two batters she faced to get out of the inning. She carried that momentum throughout the contest and struck out nine batters - a career high - and only allowed three more hits.

The Rebel offense cut the deficit to one run with four tallies in the first primarily from the usage of the long ball. Blando led off the home half of the first with a solo home run off of Rachel Rodriguez (3-16). Glackin followed Blando with a single to center before Juarez and Haslinger notched back-to-back home runs to cap the four-run stanza.

UNLV was able to score its next four runs with the assistance of Bronco miscues. The Rebels evened the score at 5-all in the second and took the lead for good in the third when a sacrifice bunt by Brooke Stover featured a throwing and fielding error in succession.

In the fourth, Glackin and Juarez reached off a walk and a throwing error, respectively. The duo scored two batters later when a rundown went sideways and Torrez' throw to third bounded into left field. Cordova stepped into the box one batter later and crushed a solo homer to left.

Blando went deep, once more, to cap the contest's scoring with a solo blast to right-center.

Rodriguez was tagged with the loss after failing to record an out in the first inning of her start. She gave up four runs off of four hits. Her successor, Nicole Wilson, didn't fair as well, as UNLV scored six (one earned) off of four hits against her.

Game two started quietly with BSU scoring one run in both the first and second innings, while UNLV got one of its own in the bottom of the first when Haslinger was credited with an RBI when she put a sacrifice bunt into play.

The Broncos pushed their lead to three runs at 4-1 with two scores in the fourth off a two-run single by Sara Ketelsleger.

That cushion was short-lived, as the Rebels countered with five runs in the bottom of the fourth. Jade Yadao-Valdez and Janine Petmecky began the rally with consecutive singles before Emilie Valadez sacrificed them into scoring position. Blando then singled home Yadao-Valdez before Glackin, who walked, joined her and Petmecky on the base paths. With the bags juiced, Haslinger hit a grand slam to give UNLV a 6-4 lead.

The visitors from Idaho's capital city pulled even in the fifth with two runs and then jumped ahead by three in the sixth.

Down to their last at-bat, UNLV rallied with four runs in the seventh off of four hits and help from a throwing error. Cordova led off with a double to center and later came home off an RBI single by Petmecky, who later moved up to second after the miscue. Francesca Foti was called upon as a pinch-hitter and she struck out, but reached first when the ball got past Torrez. With runners on the corners, Blando hit a grounder to short that forced Foti out at second base, but allowed Petmecky to score. Glackin and Juarez then teamed up with an RBI double and an RBI single, respectively for the win.

Kwyn Cooper (7-3) picked up the win for UNLV in only 1.1 innings of relief. Cooper kept the Broncos off the scoreboard, but gave up two hits and one walk. Sydney Mundell and Petmecky combined to throw 5.2 innings and gave up nine runs (eight earned) off of eight hits. They walked eight against four strikeouts.

The Rebels and Broncos close out their midweek series Wednesday with game three scheduled for 12:00 pm at Eller Media Stadium.

NOTES: Since game one of last weekend's Utah State series (April 2), UNLV has scored a total of 42 runs off of 48 hits ... Those 42 runs are the most by a Rebel squad in a five-game stretch since the 2014 edition scored 52 in that span from April 17-22 ... Those 48 hits are the most by a Rebel squad in a five-game stretch since the 2014 edition had 73 in that same time frame ... UNLV hit back-to-back home runs in consecutive games with Glackin and Juarez achieving the feat last Saturday (April 4) versus Utah State and Juarez and Haslinger doing the same in game one against Boise State ... With that home run, Haslinger has 25 career four-base hits and sits in ninth place in UNLV's record book ... Juarez moved into a tie for 10th place with Morgan Bostwick (2002-05) and Mary Gerstner (1987-88) for hit-by-pitch in a career with her 13th.