Box Score

RENO, Nev. (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV baseball team (24-29 overall, 14-15 Mountain West) suffered an 8-1 setback to the Nevada, Reno Wolf Pack (32-22, 19-10 MW) in less than ideal conditions Friday night at Peccole Park. The game, which was delayed by 20 minutes due to rain, was played in temperatures that hovered around 40 degrees, but felt much colder.

UNLV and UNR close out their three-game, MW series at 1:00 pm Saturday. The Rebels will send Dean Kremer (4-4, 4.31 ERA) to the mound against the Wolf Pack's Trenton Brooks (4-5, 6-05 ERA). Additionally, the contest has implications to which program will claim the three points associated with the sport towards the Governor's Series presented by NV Energy and Barrick Gold. Currently, the squad from up north holds a 4-1 edge with Saturday's game still in the balance and potential meetings at next week's Conference tournament in Albuquerque, N.M.

The Wolf Pack struck first with a run in the second off a sacrifice fly by Jordan Pearce that plated Cole Krzmarzick who had led off the frame with a double off UNLV starter Kenny Oakley (4-8).

The contest remained a 1-0 affair until the home half of the sixth when the Wolf Pack strung together a seven-run inning with the help of six hits and three walks against a trio of Scarlet & Gray hurlers. Krzmarzick and Pearce got the scoring started against UNLV reliever Cody Roper with a two-run double and a three-run home run, respectively. Kaleb Foster factored in the final two runs after he knocked a run home with a triple and then later scored off a wild pitch thrown by Tevita Gerber.

"Oakley pitched great in extremely tough circumstances," said head coach Stan Stolte. "It was a great ball game until the bottom of the sixth when the bullpen couldn't throw strikes, and then a long, lazy fly ball was carried out by the wind. Their pitchers did a great job of attacking us and we didn't put many good AB's together. Our hitters didn't handle the cold weather as well as they needed to."

UNLV pushed its only run across in the top of the ninth off an RBI single by Max Smith. A.J. VanMeetren scored on the base hit after he reached via a one-out single and advanced to second off a groundout. Nick Rodriguez and Cody Howard followed Smith with singles of their own to load the bases, but UNR's centerfielder T.J. Friedl ended the game with a sliding catch off a liner by Kyle Isbel.

The Rebels left a total of nine runners on base throughout the affair, six of which were in scoring position. Additionally, they left the bases loaded in the third and ninth. The Wolf Pack, on the other hand, stranded eight with six of those at either second or third base.

Trevor Charpie improved to 5-3 on the year after throwing the initial five innings for UNR. Charpie struck out four against three walks and two hits. He gave way to Sam Held who tossed three scoreless frames. Charlie Brooks entered the game in the ninth and allowed the only run off of four hits.

Oakley was tagged with the loss after he gave up two runs off of five hits in five innings. He struck out two and walked one. Roper took the brunt of the sixth-inning offensive, allowing six runs off of four hits. Gerber threw the final 2.2 innings and did not allow a run despite giving up three hits, walking two and striking out one.