RENO, Nev. – The Nevada baseball team continued its winning ways after a 12-2 victory over San Jose State in seven innings on Sunday to close the regular season.
 
With Sunday's win the Wolf Pack earned its 15^th consecutive victory in Mountain West play and its fourth consecutive conference series sweep. Nevada finished the regular season with a 25-18 overall record and a 22-9 mark in league action. The Wolf Pack clinched its third Mountain West title on Friday and will now head to NCAA Regionals later this week for the first time since 2000.
 
In Sunday's game it took a few innings for the Pack offense to spark to life, but when it did it did damage quick. The Spartans got on the board first in the game, scoring one of its two runs in the third off of a single to left center. Heading into the fourth inning the Pack had just two hits in the contest, but the bats woke up in a big way as the team plated seven runs in the inning. Nevada got its first run the old fashioned way, with a bases loaded walk drawn by Jacob Stinson. With one down in the inning, the Pack got another run across without needing a hit as Matt Clayton scored from third on a wild pitch. After Peter Mendazona drew a walk that loaded the bases once again, Tyler Bosetti stepped in and cleared them with his 22^nd double of the season that put Nevada ahead 5-1. The Pack got its sixth and seventh runs of the fourth inning on Dillan Shrum's two RBI double, his first of two extra base hits in the game.
 
The big innings weren't done yet for the Pack as it scored five more in the fifth to go up 12-1 and put the mercy rule in effect. During the fifth Nevada got an RBI double from Marco Valenzuela and a Shrum home run that plated two. Shrum was incredible all weekend long as that marked his sixth home run of the four-game series and his 14^th RBI. The Spartans picked up one run in the top of the seventh but it was not enough to keep the game going and the Pack sealed its 10-run win in seven innings.
 
Shrum, Mendazona and Dario Gomez combined for nine of the Pack's 13 hits in the game as they each recorded three. Nevada used three arms to get through the seven inning affair with freshman Cam Walty picking up his fifth win of the season. Russell Hicks and Ben Purcell tag teamed the relief effort to throw the remaining three innings.
 
UP NEXT
Nevada will wait to see where it's headed in the upcoming NCAA Regionals with the selection show set for Monday morning at 9 a.m. PT on ESPN2.
 
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