Nevada 8, New Mexico 6
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Albuquerque, N.M. - Santa Ana Star Field

WP - Morgan White (4-3)
LP - Justin Still (0-1)
SV - Kolby Kmetko (8)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M - JR Freethy's two-run homer in the ninth capped his three-RBI day Saturday and lifted Nevada to an 8-6 victory over New Mexico at Santa Ana Star Field.

The homer bookended Freethy's productive day, as he opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the first.

Nevada (20-29, 10-16 MW) will go for the series win, and a chance to take three of four in Albuquerque, in Sunday's 11 a.m. finale.

Saturday, the Wolf Pack got out to a 3-0 lead, as Jake Harvey's sacrifice fly and a Nolan Wilson RBI double in the second added to the first-inning tally.

New Mexico (25-21, 12-14 MW) answered with five-straight runs, four coming in the third, to take a 5-3 lead. Jeffrey David had an RBI triple while Dylan Ditzenberger and Reed Spenrath added RBI singles.

But Nevada starter Jason Doktorczyk would settle in after that third frame. Doktorczyk, despite a no-decision, went 7.1 innings and struck out seven while allowing eight hits and six runs.

Kyle Becker started the Pack comeback with his first collegiate homer in the fourth, a solo shot which made it 5-4. Wilson, who went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs on the night, knocked in Harvey with a double, to tie it up in the seventh, and Henry Strmecki followed with a run-scoring, bases-loaded groundout that put Nevada in front, 6-5.

Becker went 2-for-3 with the solo homer and a walk, on the night.

Lenny Junior Ashby tied the game for the Lobos with a solo shot off of Doktorczyk in the eighth, then Morgan White came on in relief with a runner at first. White closed out the frame without further damage, then picked up his fourth win of the season after Freethy's go-ahead homer and Kolby Kmetko wrapping up the ninth for his eighth save of the campaign.

Justin Still fell to 0-1 with the loss, giving up Freethy's homer in the ninth.