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Nevada at Nebraska for final non-conference series

Series starts Thursday at 4:35 p.m. PT

This Week's Opponents: Mountain West-leading Nevada takes a break from conference play traveling to Nebraska (17-22) to play a three-game series with the Cornhuskers  ...  The all-time series is tied at 2-2 with the Wolf Pack winning the last match-up 13-6 on March 15, 1994 in a tournament played in Fresno, Calif.  ...  In the 1994 season Nevada posted a school record with 41 wins and finished the year with a record of 41-15, captured the Big West title and earned an automatic trip to the NCAA regional  ...  Nebraska (17-22, 4-9 Big Ten) The Cornhuskers have lost five of their last six games and are 3-7 in the last 10 games  ...  Nebraska is 7-9 at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park this season  ...  As a team they are batting .264, boast an ERA of 5.45 and a fielding percentage of .966  ...  First baseman Scott Schreiber tops the team and ranks third in the Big Ten with a .391 batting average  ...  Schreiber is second in the conference with 14 home runs, second with 44 runs scored, second with a .733 slugging percentage and fifth with 38 RBI  ...  Jesse Wilkening is second on the team with a .336 average, six home runs, and tops the squad with 43 RBI which is third in the Big Ten ...  Matt Waldron tops the team with a 4-2 record and has an ERA of 3.80 in his eight starts and 13 appearances  ...  Matt Warren is 3-3 with a 6.00 ERA in nine starts and 10 total appearances  ...  Luis Alvarado (2-5) has a team-high 55 strikeouts that ranks sixth in the Big Ten in 10 starts  ...  Jake Hohensee is fourth in the Big Ten with seven saves and has an ERA of 0.63.

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Sacramento State (22-17, 9-3 WAC) is at UT Rio Grande Valley for a three-game Western Athletic Conference series before taking on the Wolf Pack ...  The first meeting scheduled with Nevada this season was washed away because of rain ...  The Hornets are currently second in the WAC standings at 9-3 ...  The Hornets are batting .243 on the season and have a 3.80 team ERA ...  They have won three in a row ...  Matt Smith tops the team with a .331 batting average while Steven Moretto has a team-high 30 RBI  ...  James Outman and PJ Floyd lead the squad with seven home runs each  ...  Austin Root (6-3, 2.64) has  team-high six wins while Parker Brahms (4-3, 1.77 ERA) and Alex Dentonie (4-3, 5.14 ERA) have four each ...  Tanner Dalton has seven of the Hornets nine saves on the season.

Team Notes: Nevada is alone atop the MW standings at 14-6 after seven weeks of conference play  ...  The Pack had won all six of its MW series this season and eight in row dating back to last season until dropping a doubleheader at Air Force on Sunday in a weather shortened series   ...  At 21-16 the Pack has won two more games this season then last year when they went 19-36  ...  The 14-6 MW start is the second best after 20 games in six seasons in the conference  ...  Nevada swept two MW series this season at home vs. New Mexico and SJSU  ...  Nevada has double figure hits in five of its last seven games including a season-high 19 in the 15-2 April 13 win over New Mexico  ... In eight of the last 12 games,  the Pack has double figure hits  ...  Nevada is fifth in hitting (.293), second in ERA (4.44) and sixth in fielding (.966) in the MW ...  In MW play the Pack tops the conference batting .338, is second with a 5.08 ERA and ranks seventh in fielding (.964)  ...  Nationally the team is 41st in hitting and 55th in slugging percentage (.429)  ...  Nevada is 5-6 in one-run games and 1-3 in extra innings  ...  The Pack hit three home runs in the fourth inning in game 2 at Oregon State - Fennell, Weston Hatten, and Marco Valenzuela ...  The last time the Pack hit three home runs in an inning was May 29, 2005 when Ben Mummy, Shawn Scobee, and Baker Krukow went back-to-back-to-back in the first inning in a 20-7 win over Fresno State that was former head coach Gary Powers 700th victory at Nevada  ...  It was the second time the Pack hit three home runs in a game this season with the first being at New Mexico on March 4  ...  Nevada players have been hit by pitch 64 times this season which leads the MW and  ranks 17th nationally  ...  The Pack ranks 22nd averaging 2.16 doubles per game and 80 total doubles is 33rd nationally  ...  The Pack's .41 triples per game is 10th and 15 triples is 12th in the country  ...  Nevada pitchers are walking 3.34 batters per nine innings which is 37th fewest in NCAA I ...  Nevada pitchers have tossed three shutouts, two were combined, to rank 54th among NCAA I teams  ...  In double plays the Pack is 13th averaging 1.03 per game and 22nd with 38 overall in the country  ...  Nevada had a season-high 18 runs in the 18-12 game 3 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 leads the team in 12 categories; batting average (.381), slugging percentage (.554), on base percentage (.463), runs scored (31), hits (53), RBI (33), total bases (77), walks (21), stolen bases (7), at bats (139), multiple hit games (17) and multiple RBI games (9)  ...  Fennell April 4 MW Player of the Week after batting .500 with six RBI as the Pack won two-of-three games from intrastate rival UNLV  ...  Nationally Fennell is 39th batting .381 and his 1.51 hits per game 40th  ...  Weston Hatten is the only Pack player to play in all 37games this season  ... Four of Hatten's starts came on the mound and he batted for himself in two of those games  ...  Shrum and Fennell both have a  team-high five hits in a game  ...  Shrum, Zamora, Echavia and Krzmarzick all have five RBI games this season which is tops on the team  ...  Fennell (.381,2nd), Krzmarzick (.355, 8th), Echavia (.343,12th), and Joshua Zamora (.342,13th) all rank in the top 15 in batting in the MW ...  Fennell (.463,2nd), Echavia (.442,5th) and Krzmarzick (.437,9th) are all in the top 10 in on base percentage in the MW ...  Dillan Shrum is 11th in NCAA I being hit by pitch .42 times per game and his 14 times being hit by pitch is 25th overall  ...  Shrum (14), Zamora (10) and Foster (8) are first, third and sixth in hit by pitch in the conference  ...  In MW play five Pack hitters are in the 10 in batting Zamora (.437,1st), Krzmarzick (.393,3rd), Echavia (.385,6th), Foster (.379,T7th) and Fennell (.376,10th)  ...  Hatten's 23 runs scored in MW play is tied for first  ...  Fennell's 32 hits is tied for second in MW play, Zamora (31,T4th), Echavia (30,6th), and Hatten (28,T9th) are also in the top 10  ...  Zamora blasted a grand slam in game 3 at Fresno State when he drove in a five runs.

Pitchers Notes:
Mark Nowaczewski (63.1) and Jake Jackson (60.2) and are second and third in the MW in innings pitched  ...  Jake Jackson leads the team with six wins which is tied for first in the MW and Nowaczewski's four is tied for sixth  ...  The Pack is 7-3 when Jackson starts and 5-4 when Nowaczewski starts  ...  Nowaczewski is one of two MW pitchers with a shutout this season coming in a 3-0 win at Oral Roberts  ...  Jackson (Mar. 20), Nowaczewski (Mar. 27) and Weston Hatten (Apr. 11) were named the MW Pitcher of the Week  ...  In the series at New Mexico Jackson earned the save in game one and the win in game three  ...  Dalton Gomez is sixth in the MW with a 3.48 ERA, Jake Jackson ninth with a 3.71 ERA and Nowaczewski 11th at 3.84  ...  In MW play Nowaczewski's 3.89 ERA is sixth and Jackson's 5.45 ERA is 12th  ... In MW play Nowaczewski leads the conference with 41.2 innings pitched and Jackson is fourth (39.2)  ...  Jackson is tied for third in the MW with 60 strikeouts while his 32 in MW play is sixth  ...  Jackson struck out 13 at Oral Roberts and 10 vs. UC Riverside  ...  Keone Cabinian tops the team with seven saves and Ryan Anderson has three  ...  Cabinian's seven saves is tied for second in the MW and tied for the eighth best season in school history   ...  Cabinian's three saves in MW play is tied for second...  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 four games on the mound and appeared in three games out of the bullpen ...  Jordan Jackson has three wins coming in relief  ...  Dalton Gomez (2-1) got the win in game 2 vs. UNLV recording the final out of the fifth inning  ... Anderson (1-1), Cabinian (1-1), Cooper Powell (1-4), Grant Ford (1-0), Austin Dick and Ty Hueckman (1-0) all have one win this season.

Last Time Out: 
After winning a season-high four in a row for the third time this season, Nevada has lost its last three  ...  In a rain shortened series at Air Force that turned into a doubleheader the Pack lost 3-1 and 11-6 on Sunday  ... Tuesday Nevada fell 11-5 at home to Saint Mary's College as the Gaels won both midweek games from the Pack this season.
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Players Mentioned

Ryan Anderson

#22 Ryan Anderson

LHP
6' 6"
Sophomore
Austin Dick

#38 Austin Dick

RHP
6' 3"
Redshirt Senior
Grant Fennell

#5 Grant Fennell

UTL
6' 0"
Senior
Grant Ford

#12 Grant Ford

RHP
6' 1"
Sophomore
Weston Hatten

#21 Weston Hatten

OF
6' 4"
Redshirt Junior
Mark Nowaczewski

#24 Mark Nowaczewski

RHP
6' 4"
Redshirt Senior
Cooper Powell

#44 Cooper Powell

LHP
6' 1"
Redshirt Junior
Dillan Shrum

#25 Dillan Shrum

1B
6' 0"
Sophomore
Marco Valenzuela

#23 Marco Valenzuela

C
6' 1"
Sophomore
Keone Cabinian

#28 Keone Cabinian

RHP
6' 2"
Redshirt Senior

Players Mentioned

Ryan Anderson

#22 Ryan Anderson

6' 6"
Sophomore
LHP
Austin Dick

#38 Austin Dick

6' 3"
Redshirt Senior
RHP
Grant Fennell

#5 Grant Fennell

6' 0"
Senior
UTL
Grant Ford

#12 Grant Ford

6' 1"
Sophomore
RHP
Weston Hatten

#21 Weston Hatten

6' 4"
Redshirt Junior
OF
Mark Nowaczewski

#24 Mark Nowaczewski

6' 4"
Redshirt Senior
RHP
Cooper Powell

#44 Cooper Powell

6' 1"
Redshirt Junior
LHP
Dillan Shrum

#25 Dillan Shrum

6' 0"
Sophomore
1B
Marco Valenzuela

#23 Marco Valenzuela

6' 1"
Sophomore
C
Keone Cabinian

#28 Keone Cabinian

6' 2"
Redshirt Senior
RHP