ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Nevada baseball team earned a doubleheader split against New Mexico on Saturday, falling 6-5 in 11 innings in game one, and earning a 9-7 win in game two.
 
Alejandro Murillo earned his first start of the season, and first start of his Division I career in game one on Saturday, and pitched extremely well. Murillo tossed 6.0 innings and surrendered just one earned run on six hits while striking out six in a no-decision. The Wolf Pack (7-9, 4-4 MW) took a two-run lead into both the bottom of the ninth and 10^th, but the Lobos (7-11, 5-6 MW) offense found a way to keep the game alive and extend it to 11 innings where they plated the winning run in the bottom half of that frame.
 
Game two was also a back and forth affair in the later innings as the Pack scored four runs in the eighth to take a 7-5 lead, but New Mexico again found late inning magic to tie the game at 7-7. In just his second at-bat of the season though in the top of the ninth, Brady Hormel singled up the middle scoring what would be the game-winning run.
 
Hormel was 2-for-2 on the day with three RBI as he drove in those two runs in game two and also produced an RBI single in the top of the 10^th in game one.
 
GAME 1
How It Happened
 
-The Wolf Pack scored first in the game, getting an RBI double from Tyler Bosetti in the top of the second that scored Landon Wallace.
-Nevada took a 3-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but an RBI single plated two runs to tie the game and send it into extra innings.
-Brady Hormel and Marco Valenzuela again put the Pack on top in the top of the 10^th as they each drove in a run to give Nevada a two-run lead.
-The Lobos got another two-RBI single in the bottom of the 10^th to tie the game once again, and recorded the game-winning single in the bottom half of the 11^th.
-It marked Nevada's second extra innings game of the season. The Pack is now 1-1 in extra-inning games.
-Alejandro Murillo earned his first start of the season and tossed 6.0 innings giving up just one run on six hits and striking out six.
 
GAME 2
How It Happened
 
-In a game that featured five lead changes the Pack came out on top of a 9-7 victory after plating the winning run in the top of the ninth.
-Neither team scored until the bottom of the fourth and after that there were only two more scoreless half innings in the game.
-The game was back and forth for much of the second half until the Pack scored four runs in the top of the eighth to take a 7-5 lead.
-In the eighth the Pack got RBIs from Dawson Martin, Anthony Flores and Joshua Zamora, and got some help with a wild pitch that scored Martin to give Nevada the lead.
-The Lobos evened things up yet again with two runs of their own in the bottom of the eighth.
-In just his second at-bat of the season, Brady Hormel drove in two Nevada runs in the top of the ninth to score what proved to be the game-winning runs.
-Shane Gustafson earned his second save of the season, shutting the door on New Mexico in the bottom of the ninth.
 
UP NEXT
Nevada and New Mexico will play the final game of the three-game series tomorrow with first pitch scheduled for 11 a.m. PT.
 
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