RENO, Nev. (UNLVRebels.com) – The UNLV baseball team concluded its stay in the northern portion of the Silver State with an 8-3 loss to the UNR Wolf Pack at Don Weir Field at Peccole Park Sunday.
 
The Mountain West contest was deadlocked at 2-all after the Rebels' fifth-inning at-bat; however, the host Wolf Pack (18-16 overall, 15-9 MW) broke the affair open with two runs in its half of the frame to double up the score, 4-2. After a scoreless sixth, UNR tacked on four insurance tallies over the seventh and eighth to increase its lead to six, 8-2, before UNLV (16-11 overall, 11-10 MW) scored the game's final run in the ninth.
 
For the second straight day, the Scarlet & Gray was paced by the duo of Brendan Brooks and Jack-Thomas Wold, who combined for three hits, three RBI and two runs. Brooks went 2-for-2, with a home run and three walks, with two runs and one RBI. Wold went 1-for-2, with a double and two walks, and two RBI.
 
 UNLV opened the scoring in the third with a bases-loaded walk issued to Wold after the first three batters – Rylan Charles (single), Brooks (walk) and Diego Alarcon (single) – reached base safely. UNR answered back in the fourth, in a similar fashion, as its first four batters recorded base hits – all singles – to push ahead by a run, 2-1.
 
The Rebels knotted the score in the fifth off a one-out solo homer from Brooks; however, the stalemate was short lived, as the Wolf Pack was able to load the bases with two outs before it got a pair of runs off an RBI single and a bases-loaded walk to lead by two, 4-2.
 
UNR upped its lead to three runs, 5-2, off a sacrifice fly in the seventh and to six, 8-2, off a three-run homer in the eighth. Brooks and Wold paired up for the game's final tally, as the former reached base off a single and later scored off a sacrifice fly by the latter.
 
NOTES:
-UNLV has now lost four straight contests after its season-best eight-game win streak.
-UNLV has now suffered four consecutive losses to UNR after initially claiming the first two games of the season in Las Vegas at Earl E. Wilson Stadium.
-Myles Denson had his 19-game reached-base and 18-game hit streaks come to an end Sunday after he went 0-for-4 at the plate. During his team-best streaks, Denson hit .414 (29-for-70) with seven multiple-hit games and had nine extra-base hits (five home runs and four doubles).
-Wold upped his hitting streak to 13 games. During this stretch, he is hitting .462 (24-for-52) with six multiple-hit games. Eleven of his 24 hits have gone for extra bases (seven homers and four doubles) and produced a .942 slugging percentage, while those hits and nine walks have resulted in a .532 on-base percentage. He's also added 18 runs and 15 RBI.
 
SILVER STATE SERIES: With weekend sweeps of UNLV in both baseball and softball, UNR claimed the three points associated with each sport in the Silver State Series presented by IBEW and Nevada Donor Network. To date, the Wolf Pack leads the annual Series by nine points, 24.0 to 15.0, with points for women's outdoor track & field and the APR left to be awarded.
 
UP NEXT: UNLV returns home to Las Vegas and Earl E. Wilson Stadium to host the San Diego State Aztecs next weekend (May 15-16). The three-game, two-day Mountain West series will begin with a doubleheader Saturday and conclude with a single contest Sunday, which will also be Senior Day for the Rebels' outgoing senior class. First pitch for both days is scheduled for 11:05 am.