RENO, Nev. – In his first at-bat of the game, Nevada third baseman Tyler Bosetti connected on his Mountain West-leading 11^th home run of the season, which gives him a home run in nine consecutive games, setting a new NCAA record.
 
Bosetti, who tied the original record of eight games on Sunday, broke the record previously held by Duke's Ryan Jackson in 1994, and Georgia Tech's Andy Bruce in 1991. The Vacaville, Calif. native now has 11 home runs on the season, which leads the team and the Mountain West, and has hit 10 of those long balls in his last nine games. Bosetti went 4-for-5 in today's game, with a home run, a double, three RBI and two runs scored. During this nine-game home run streak, Bosetti is batting .442 with 10 home runs, two doubles, two triples, 19 hits, 21 RBI and 20 runs scored.
 
As for the game itself, Arizona State won a slugfest by the final score of 14-11, snapping the Wolf Pack's eight-game win streak. In total there were eight home runs hit in the contest, four by each team. Bosetti recorded one of the four for the Pack, along with Dillan Shrum, Matt Clayton and Landon Wallace, the first of his collegiate career.
 
Two big innings for the Sun Devils doomed the Wolf Pack in the end as ASU posted a five-run top of the first and a five-run sixth. Prior to the sixth inning Nevada fought back from a 5-0 hole after the first half inning and chipped away at the deficit inning by inning. Bosetti and Shrum's home runs in the bottom half of the first got Nevada on the board and trimmed the deficit to three. Arizona State plated one more in the second inning, before a three-run second brought the Wolf Pack within one.
 
Nevada tied the ball game in an unconventional way in the bottom of the third as Anthony Flores was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, forcing in the game-tying run. The Pack grabbed its first and only lead of the game on a Clayton home run in the fifth, a solo shot to left that put Nevada ahead, 7-6. The next half inning though the Sun Devils erupted for five runs and tacked on three more runs in the eighth to take a 14-7 lead. Nevada did not go away quietly though, scoring four runs in the bottom half of the eighth to cut the deficit to three. Needing a three-run rally in the ninth, the Pack got one runner on but ASU's Will Levine kept the runner on at first to seal the win for the Sun Devils.
 
UP NEXT
Nevada will return to Mountain West play this weekend with a three-game series at Fresno State. The Wolf Pack and Bulldogs will play a doubleheader on Saturday, followed by a single game on Sunday. Nevada is in search of its ninth conference win in a row.
 
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