The University of Nevada (15-9) baseball team begins a stretch of six road games with two nonconference games at No. 1 Oregon State (21-4) on Monday and Tuesday.
This Week's Opponents: Winners of four of its last five games Nevada (15-9, 9-3 MW) plays two games at No. 1 Oregon State (21-4, 6-3 Pac 12) on Monday and Tuesday in Corvalis, Ore. ... The Beavers dropped two of three games at Utah over the weekend snapping a streak of winning 14 consecutive Pacific 12 series ... OSU is 9-2 at home in Goss Stadium ... The Beavers are hitting .315 as a team and boast a 3.23 ERA ... OSU is 2-3 in its last five games and 6-4 in their last 10 ... Trevor Larnach is batting .366 with a team high 36 RBI and eight home runs ... Andy Armstrong has a hit in his last 13 games ... Nevada begins a three-game MW series at San José State starting Friday at Municipal Stadium in San Jose, Calif. ... The Spartans lost two of three games at Air Force last weekend and have dropped six of its last seven games ... The Pack swept SJSU earlier this season in Reno ... SJSU plays UC Davis Tuesday before hosting the Wolf Pack ... As a team the Spartans are batting .264 and have a team ERA of 6.27.
Team Notes: Nevada is first in the Mountain West with a 9-3 record ... The 9-3 start is tied with the 2015 Wolf Pack team, that won the conference title, for the best start after 12 games in six years in the MW ... Nevada's four-game win streak ended after its 7-3 loss to UNLV ... Twice this season Nevada has won a season-high four games ... The Pack has won four of its last five and 10 of its last 13 games ... Nevada players have been hit by pitch 39 times this season ... Nevada had season-highs with 18 runs and 18 hits in the 18-12 game three win at Fresno State ... Nevada had a streak of not allowing an earned run in 32 consecutive innings from Feb. 18-25, including shutouts at No. 13 Cal State Fullerton (2-0) and at Oral Roberts (3-0).
Position Player Notes: Senior
Grant Fennell tops the Wolf Pack with a .357 batting average ... Fennell is tied with Michael Echavia with nine multiple hit games and is tied with Echavia and
Weston Hatten with five multiple RBI games ...
Dillan Shrum tops the team with six multi RBI games ... Fennell's current four-game hit streak is the longest active streak on the team and his 12-game streak is the longest on the team this season ...
Daniel Perry (19) and Fennell (18) had the longest reached base streaks this season ... The longest active reach base streak is seven by
Cole Krzmarzick ... Hatten is the only player to play in and start all 24 games this season ... Krzmarzick batted .636 (7-for-11) with a double, four runs scored and three multi hit games in the Pack's four games last weekend ... Fennell hit .500 (5-for-10) with three runs scored, two doubles, six RBI and collected a hit in each game last week ... Fennell's four RBI in game 2 vs. UNLV tied his career high ... Catcher
Kaleb Foster batted .455 (5-for-11) with a run scored and drove three last week ... Freshman
Joshua Zamora tops the team with four home which includes a grand slam in game three at Fresno State when he drove in a five runs which is a team high this season ... Zamora has collected three hits in game which is the high for a Pack player a team best four times ...
Dillan Shrum has been hit by pitch 10 times ... Zamora holds the highest batting average in conference play on the team batting .514 ... Fennell and Echavia lead the team with 19 RBI while Shrum (18) and Hatten (17) are close behind ... All 19 of
Cole Krzmarzick's starts have come in center field and the Pack is 12-7 in those games ...
Jaylon McLaughlin (16) and
Tyler Bosetti (8) have split the starts at shortstop ... Fennell (7-of-10) tops the team with seven stolen bases while McLaughlin is second going 5-for-5.
Pitchers Notes:
Mark Nowaczewski (48.1) and
Jake Jackson (47.1) are one-two on the team and among the MW leaders in innings pitched ...
Jake Jackson leads the team with five wins and Nowaczewski has three ... Nowaczewski and Jackson have both pitched each weekend in the rotation ... The Pack is 5-2 when Jackson starts and 4-3 when Nowaczewski starts ... Nowaczewski is the only MW pitcher with shutout this season coming in a 3-0 win at Oral Roberts ... Jackson (Mar. 20) and Nowaczewski (Mar. 27) have been named the MW Pitcher of the Week in back-to-back weekends ... In the series at New Mexico Jackson earned the save in game one and the win in game three ... Jackson's 48 strikeouts leads the team and ranks among the MW leaders ... Jackson struckout 13 at Oral Roberts and 10 vs. UC Riverside ...
Keone Cabinian earned two saves last week vs. Santa Clara and in game two vs. UNLV ... Cabinian tops the team with four saves and
Ryan Anderson has three ...
Dalton Gomez pitched the first 11 innings of his Wolf Pack career without allowing an earned run ... Gomez tossed eight shutout innings at No. 13 Cal State Fullerton and combined with Anderson on the 2-0 shutout ...
Jake Jackson tossed eight shutout innings vs. UC Riverside and combined with Cabinian on a 3-0 shutout ... In addition to playing in the outfield Hatten has started two games on the mound ...
Jordan Jackson earned the win vs. Santa Clara on Tuesday retiring the only batter he faced and tossed two shutout innings in game 1 vs. UNLV to earn the victory ... Dalton Gomes (2-1) got the win in game 2 vs. UNLV recording the final out of the fifth inning ... Gomez and
Jordan Jackson are both 2-1 on the season ... Anderson (1-1),
Cooper Powell (1-2) and
Ty Hueckman (1-0) all have one win this season.
Last Time Out:
Nevada won its fourth Mountain West series of the season taking two-of-three from intrastate rival UNLV at home ... In game 1
Dillan Shrum's single scored pinch runner
Chase Grant in the ninth as the Pack won in walk-off fashion ... In game 2
Keaton Smith's diving play at second base combined with Shrum's stretch at first base ended the game as the UNLV runner at third base did not score on the game ending play ... Nevada scored the first two runs of game 3 but UNLV scored the next seven in the 7-3 victory ... In Tuesday's game with Santa Clara Nevada scored twice in the bottom of the eighth inning to break the 3-3 tie ... Shorstop
Tyler Bosetti tripled home the first run and scored on the play after an SCU error.
Up Next:
After the trip to Oregon State the Pack plays three games at San José State University and a single game at Saint Mary's College.
Follow the Pack
Radio: NBC Sports Radio 94.1FM/1450 AM
Online Audio: www.NevadaWolfPack.com/audio
Play by Play: John Ramey
Live stream:
at Oregon State: http://pac-12.com/live/oregon-state-university
at SJSU: NevadaWolfPack.TV
at SMC: TheW.tv
Live stats:
at Oregon State and SJSU: www.Nevadastats.com
at Saint Mary's: www.Nevadastats.com/nevadaroadstats
Twitter: @NevadaBaseball