Box Score IRVINE, CALIF. - The University of Nevada baseball team lost 7-1 at UC Irvine today. Senior Mark Joukoff started the game for the Wolf Pack and took the loss in his Nevada debut.
Joukoff gave up three runs in the first inning, but settled in and held the Anteaters to just two runs on four hits over the next three innings. Rickey Denham came into the game with runners on first and second and no outs, after Joukoff gave up back-to-back singles to start the fifth inning. Denham gave up one run and retired three of the next four batters to get out of the jam.
Jeremy Cole, Matt Gardner and Tim Culligan pitched the sixth, seventh and eighth inning respectively.
The Wolf Pack had runners in scoring position and threatened to score in the second, third and fourth inning, but plated its only run when Curtis Frisbie grounded into a fielder's choice in the top of the seventh.
Nevada travels to Loyola Marymount next weekend for their second three game road series of the year.
