Nevada 7, CSU Bakersfield 4
Friday, Feb. 21, 2025
Reno, Nev. - Don Weir Field at Peccole Park

WP: Peyton Fosher (1-1)
LP: Jack Leary (0-2)
SV: Ethan O'Neal (1)

RENO, Nev. - Nevada Baseball got its 2025 home campaign off to a winning start Friday, defeating CSU Bakersfield, 7-4.

Jake Harvey drove in three runs, two coming on sacrifice flies and the last on a seventh-inning double into the right-field corner which closed the game's scoring.

Peyton Fosher struck out seven over 6.2 innings, allowing four runs on seven hits. The Wolf Pack bullpen was nails, as Caedon Kottinger struck out one in an inning and a third, and Ethan O'Neal worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his first save of the season.

Trailing 2-1, Nevada (2-3) took control of the game with five runs over the fourth and fifth innings. The first of Harvey's two sacrifice flies plated Jayce Dobie to tie it up, then, after a walk to Michael Ball, Sean Yamaguchi lined a single up the middle to score Harvey for the 3-2 lead.

After the Roadrunners (1-4) tied it up in their half of the fifth on Elijah Pelayo's RBI single, the Pack answered with three in the bott half to build a cushion.

Taylor Holder was hit by a pitch to lead it off, and Billy Ham's single to right put runners at the corners. Dobie singled the right-center to plate Holder with the go-ahead run, then Ham came across ion Junhyuk Kwon's sacrifice fly, giving the Wolf Pack a 5-3 lead. After Donovan Ratfield walked, and he and Dobie advanced on a balk by Alex Urias-Calvillo, Harvey hit his second sacrifice fly to up the Pack lead to 6-3.

Roadrunner reliever Jack Leary, who faced Holder and Ham, took his second loss of the season, charged with two runs on two hits over two-thirds of an inning.

Yamaguchi led the Pack with two hits on the night, while for CSU Bakersfield Pelayo was one of four batters with two hits.

The teams return to Peccole for the second game of the series Saturday, set for a 2:05 p.m. start.