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Kort's 58 Career Doubles Ranks 14th in WAC History:  Senior first baseman Shaun Kort ranks in the top 10 in six offensive categories in Nevada history and now has moved into the Western Athletic Conference career record book.  Kort's 58 doubles is tied with Gary Cooper(BYU, 1983-86) for 14th in WAC history.  Next on the list is Travis Young(NM, 1994-97) and Damon Thames(Rice,1998-99) with 60.  One more RBI will give him 195 which will tie Randy Oyama(Hawai'i, 1984-88) and Vern Mullins(Air Force, 1991-94) for 15th all-time in the WAC.  BYU's Kenny Clayton(1977-81) is 14th with 197.

Pack to Play Aces In Exhibition Contest:  The Reno Aces Baseball Club and the University of Nevada baseball team will play an exhibition game at 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6 at Aces Ballpark, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the University of Nevada Dugout Club.  Tickets for this special event are available at the Aces Ballpark Box Office or by calling (775) 334-7000. Ticket prices will be $13 for adults and $7 for children.

TEAM:  Nevada's 37 stolen bases leads the WAC and is more than twice as many Louisiana Tech who has 18...Nevada's series with UCI this weekend marks the start of a season-high 8-game homestand...Head coach Gary Powers is in his 28th season and is the longest tenured coach in the history of Nevada athletics...Powers won his 800th game at Nevada last season when the Pack defeated Oregon 2-1 on March 15, 2009...Powers is four games from coaching his 1500th at Nevada...Nevada ranks fourth in hitting (.292), fifth in pitching (5.75 ERA) and third in fielding (.961) in the WAC...Nevada opened the season with eight in a row on the road and posted a 5-3 mark...15 of the Pack's first 21 games will be played away from Reno...Nevada was picked to finish 6th in the preseason coaches poll.

AT THE PLATE:  DH/P-Brock Stassi was named WAC Hitter and Collegebaseballinsider.com West Region Player of the Week for Feb. 15-21 after he hit .818 (9-for-11) with 6 runs scored, a double, 2 home runs and 5 RBI...Stassi leads the WAC in on base percentage (.532)... Stassi started at DH and pitcher for the first time in a game at CSUB(3/13)...Stassi's first hit of 2009 and 2010 were home runs...SS-Kevin Rodland, CF-Westley Moss and 1B-Shaun Kort have started all 20 games this season...Rodland and Moss have hit 1, 2 in the lineup in all 20 games...Moss (12-of-15) and Rodland(10-of-11) rank first and second in the WAC with 12 and 10 stolen bases respectively while Kort is tied for sixth with four...Barnett and Kort are the top 2 RBI producers for the Pack with 23 and 22 respectively...IF/OF-Nick Leid has started 15 games, 4 at second base, 3 in left field and 8 at third base...Leid hit .419(13-for-31) with 9 runs scored, 8 RBI, 5 doubles and a home run during a 8-game hit streak which is tied with Moss for the longest of the season...Moss hit .588(20-for-34) with 9 runs scored, a home run and 5 RBI during his 8-game hit streak...Kort(.662), Stassi(.633) and Barnett(.618) are 6th, 7th and 9th in the WAC in slugging percentage...Rodland has been hit by pitch 8 times and Stassi 7 which rank first and second in the WAC... 3B-Garrett Yrigoyen has started 9 games at third base...Moss hit his first home run at any level of baseball in game 2 at Pacific (2/26)...OF-Ronnie Mitchell was 3-for-5, with two doubles in his first collegiate start in right field in the final game of the Pacific series...Mitchell has taken over as the left hand hitting right fielder in his first season at Nevada...Sophomore  Joe Kohan has started 9 games at second base and freshman Cullen Mahoney  7...C-Michael Turay has started 14 games behind the plate...2009 1st-team All-WAC DH-Nick Melino collected his first hit of the season in game 2 vs. UCA as a pinch hitter and drove in his first run with a homer vs. Sonoma State...OF-Brett Hart was 4-for-4 with 3 RBI in his first start of the year at Santa Clara(2/20).

ON THE MOUND:  LHP-Brock Stassi leads the Pack with 3 wins which is tied for second in the WAC...Stassi struck out a career-high 11 in a 1-0 victory at CSUB(3/13) tossing 7 shutout innings...Stassi pitched his first complete game for Nevada at Oregon(3/20, 7-inning game) last weekend, but and suffered the loss...RHP-Jeremy Cole(1.80ERA) and Stassi(2.64ERA) rank 3rd and 4th in the WAC in ERA...Cole(.211) and Stassi(.269) are 3rd and 10th respectively in opponent batting average in the conference...Cole is scheduled to make his first career start for Nevada on Saturday vs. UCI...Garcia missed his last start at CSUB due to a sore arm and pitched just one inning at Oregon, allowing 2 unearned runs suffering the loss, but is scheduled to start Friday vs. UCI...RHP-Beau Witsoe did not work in the weekend rotation for the first time at Oregon...Witsoe is second the team with 2 wins...Cole and RHP-Tyler Graham lead the team with 2 saves which is also tied for third in the WAC...Twice Graham has recorded two inning saves this season at Santa Clara (2/19) and at UC Davis (3/1) not allowing a runner to reach base in either outing...Graham made his first start of the season at Oregon and was tagged with the loss...Graham has suffered losses in each of his last three appearances...Cole's saves have also been longer outings, 3 innings at Santa Clara(2/20) and two innings at CSUB(3/13)...Stassi is fourth in the WAC with 30.2 innings pitched...Garcia earned the win at Pacific allowing one run on five hits and struck out seven which is one off his career high...RHP-Jayson McClaren leads the team 8 appearances...RHP-Rickey Denham made his fourth start of the season at Oregon and lost which dropped him to 0-2...Three of the Nevada's four pitchers that had Tommy John Surgery last season have pitched Bryan Suarez, Tyler Rogstad and Anthony Fagan while Daniel Tinlin is expected to miss all of 2010...Seven different pitchers have earned wins this year...Pack pitchers have allowed 15-of-40(38%) of inherited runners to score.