Nevada 8, San Diego State 2
Saturday, March 9, 2024
San Diego, Calif. - Tony Gwynn Stadium

WP: Theo Millas (1-0)
LP: Omar Serrano (1-1)
SV: Casey Burfield (1)

SAN DIEGO - Theo Millas was solid in his second start, and Taylor Holder had three hits and two RBIs to help Nevada bring its six-game slide to a halt with an 8-2 win at San Diego State.

The Wolf Pack (5-7, 1-1 MW) will go for the series win in Sunday's rubber game, set for a 1 p.m. first pitch.

Holder came up just a home run shy of the cycle, going 3-for-4 and scoring twice. JR Freethy also had a multi-hit game, going 2-for-5 with a double, RBI, and two runs scored.

Saturday, Millas was staked to a 3-0 lead early, as Nevada scored twice in the second inning and once more in the third. Nevada capitalized on a one-out error in the second, as Holder's two-out triple drove in Nolan Wilson with the opening run, and Holder himself came across on Jackson Waller's line drive into center.

JR Freethy led off the third with a double and came in right away on Jesse Pierce's double to left.

Millas, making his first weekend start of the season, struck out six and allowed just a run on six hits. San Diego State got a run in the third on a two-out Shaun Montoya single, but Millas got a fielder's choice to leave two runners on.

Millas would again escape a jam in the fourth. The Aztecs (5-9, 2-3 MW) got back-to-back two-out singles, and a walk to Sipe loaded the bases. But Millas buckled down, getting Xavier Gonzalez swinging to slam the door.

Holder's RBI double and a run-scoring single from Michael Ball upped the lead to 5-1 in the top of the sixth.

Casey Burfield came on for Millas to start the sixth, and got out of a two-on, two-out jam of his own. A Wolf Pack error extended the inning, and, with runners at second and third, Burfield got Sipe swinging to end the threat.

Burfield would be credited with the save, working the final four innings for the Wolf Pack. He allowed just an unearned run on five hits with four strikeouts.