LAS VEGAS, Nev. – In Sunday's series finale against UNLV, the Nevada baseball team bounced back to avoid a sweep with a 6-1 victory to earn its first Mountain West win of the young season.
 
Sunday's starter for the Wolf Pack (4-3, 1-2 MW), Owen Sharts, along with reliever Shane Gustafson combined to throw a 1-run, 3-hit gem on the mound. In his second start of the season, Sharts tossed 6.0 innings allowing just one earned run on two hits and tied his season-high of seven strikeouts to earn his first win of 2021. He did not allow a hit until the bottom of the fifth. Gustafson relieved Sharts in the seventh and pitched the final three innings giving up just one hit with five strikeouts.
 
Offensively for the Wolf Pack the bats started heating up in the top of the third. With one out in the inning, Joshua Zamora doubled to right center and Tyler Bosetti followed that up with a walk to put two runners on for Dillan Shrum. Shrum then picked up RBIs three and four on the year with a double that drove in Zamora and Bosetti for the first runs of the ball game. Nevada plated another run in the fourth as Marco Valenzuela used a productive groundout to score Anthony Flores from third and put the Pack up 3-0.
 
After the Rebels (2-1, 2-1 MW) scored their lone run of the game in the bottom of the sixth, Nevada was looking for a few insurance runs as the game drew closer to its end. The Wolf Pack got just what it was looking for in the eighth and ninth innings, scoring three runs between those two frames to stake a 6-1 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth. In the eighth back-to-back singles from Bosetti and Shrum, followed by a sacrifice bunt from Dario Gomez, put two runners in scoring position with just one out. Today's designated hitter Logan Douglas then stepped to the plate and lined a single to center to score both runs. Nevada got its final run of the game in the ninth after Bosetti drove in Jacob Stinson from second on a single to center.
 
Trailing by five runs in their half of the ninth, the Rebels made a little bit of noise in that inning after a leadoff double. That runner advanced to third on the next play with just one out, but Gustafson sent the next two batters down on strikes to end the game.
 
Bosetti and Stinson both recorded three-hit games, the fourth multi-hit game of the season for Stinson. Shrum and Douglas tied for the team-lead with two RBI each.
 
Up next, Nevada will play a single game at Arizona State this Tuesday, with first pitch scheduled for 12:05 p.m. PT.