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Air Force AF 16-20, 9-8 MW
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Winner Nevada NV 14-19, 5-11 MW
Air Force AF
16-20, 9-8 MW
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Final
16
Nevada NV
14-19, 5-11 MW
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Air Force AF 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 13 0
Nevada NV 1 0 5 4 2 2 0 2 X 16 21 1

W: Holliday, Dillon (1-1) L: Seungmin Shim (3-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Pack evens series with big comeback

Nevada 16, Air Force 8
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Reno, Nev. - Don Weir Field at Peccole Park
WP - Dillon Holliday (1-1)
LP - Seungmin Shim (3-3)
SV - None
RENO, Nev. - Nevada hit six home runs and pounded out a season-high 21 hits, and reliever Dillon Holliday grounded the Air Force offense over the final six innings as the Wolf Pack scored 15 unanswered runs to even the series with a 16-8 victory Saturday at Don Weir Field at Peccole Park.
Air Force (16-20, 9-8 MW) scored thrice in the first inning for the second day in a row, and rolled up eight runs through its first three times at bat, taking an 8-1 lead into the bottom half of the third.
The Nevada offense, which had gone seven up and seven down after Nolan Wilson's leadoff homer and Matt Clayton's double in the first, suddenly came alive against Falcon starter Doyle Gehring with one out in the third.
Wilson, who finished the day 4-for-5 with two RBIs, singled to snap Gehring's run. Clayton and JR Freethy followed with singles to load the bases, and the Pack broke through with Jesse Pierce's grand slam to left. Before Air Force could recover, Henry Strmecki made it back-to-back, homering down the line in left to make it a two-run game in the blink of an eye.
The Pack (14-19, 5-11 MW) did not let up. Justin Tiger's leadoff walk and a Wilson single in the fourth chased Gehring, and Clayton welcomed reliver Seungmin Shim with an RBI single bring the Pack within one at 8-7. Freethy then put the Pack up for good, slamming a three-run moonshot to left to make it 10-8.
Freethy's homer highlighted a banner Saturday for the top of the Pack order. The 1-2-3 hitters of Wilson, Clayton, and Freethy combined to go 11-for-16 with a double, two homers, and seven RBIs in the contest, with Wilson and Clayton each finishing with four hits.
Wilson and Freethy added RBIs on a sacrifice fly and a groundout, respectively, in the fifth, then Strmecki led off the sixth with his second solo shot of the game. Justin Tiger would add an RBI double in the frame to up the Pack lead to 14-8.
Dawson Martin capped the scoring with a two-run shot of his own in the eighth.
The shell-shocked Falcons never recovered, as Nevada reliever Dillon Holliday held Air Force to just three hits and struck out four over a scoreless final six innings. The outing earned Holliday his first win of the season.
Shim took the loss to fall to 3-3 on the year, charged with four runs on four hits over 1.1 innings. Gehring was touched for eight runs on nine hits over three-plus innings of work. Reliever Duke Benge went the final 3.2 innings for the Falcons, giving up four runs.
The teams return to Peccole Park for Sunday's rubber game, set for a 1:05 p.m. first pitch.
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