LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV baseball continued its torrid stretch Wednesday afternoon, rolling past Western Michigan 16-1 in seven innings at Earl E. Wilson Stadium. With the win, the Scarlet & Gray extended its winning streak to five games.

HOW IT WENT DOWN: UNLV (7-2) struck first in the bottom of the first when Jonny Rodriguez lined a two-run single to left-center, scoring Marcos Rosales and Nin Burns II for a quick 2-0 lead. The Rebels blew the game open in the second, sending nine men to the plate and scoring five runs. Drew Barragan crushed a three-run homer to deep left, and Burns followed immediately with a solo shot as UNLV surged ahead 7-0.

Western Michigan (2-6) briefly got on the board in the third on an RBI single from Drew Howard, but the Rebels answered emphatically. In the bottom of the third, UNLV plated four more runs, highlighted by Jayden Hertel's RBI single and Reggie Bussey's RBI knock, along with aggressive baserunning that forced multiple errors. The inning pushed the lead to 11-1.

The Hustlin' Rebels kept piling on in the fourth, as Jack Salmon drove in a run with a single before Gavin Taylor ripped a two-run double into the left-center gap, extending the advantage to 14-1. UNLV added two more in the fifth, with Nicky Garritano drawing an RBI walk and Cooper Sheff lifting a sacrifice fly to center to cap the scoring at 16-1.

On the mound, UNLV pitching limited Western Michigan to just five hits. After the Broncos' lone run in the third, Rebel pitchers settled in, retiring the side cleanly in the sixth and working around traffic in the seventh to seal the run-rule victory.

QUOTABLE: "Good two days for us! Western Michigan ran out of pitching, but we did what we needed to do. Offensively, we didn't throw away many at-bats, played catch defensively for the most part and from a pitching standpoint, we threw strikes. It's a good group to coach. I think we have a tough team but we will find out now that we are going on the road to face a well coached quality opponent."
-Head Coach Stan Stolte

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:
- Barragan finished with three RBI, while Taylor and Rodriguez each drove in two.
- Barragan heads into the first road trip of the season with a team-high .469 batting average, 15 hits and 17 RBI
- Yates Bland was credited with his team-best second win of the season after going 5 innings with one earned run, no walks and four strikeouts.
- UNLV scored in five of the six innings they came to the plate.
- Every starter for the Hustlin' Rebels recorded at least one hit.