Nevada at Fresno State
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Fresno, Calif. - Pete Beiden Field at Bennett Stadium

Game 1 - Fresno State 15, Nevada 12
WP: Drew Townson (2-0)
LP: Peyton Fosher (1-2)
SV: JT Guerrero (1)

Game 2 - Nevada 9, Fresno State 3
WP: Alessandro Castro (2-2)
LP: Aidan Cremarosa (2-3)
SV: Logan Saloman (1)

FRESNO, Calif. - The opening weekend series of Mountain West play between Nevada and Fresno State will go to a rubber game after the teams split Saturday's doubleheader.

First pitch for Sunday's rubber game is set for 1:05 p.m. The teams split Saturday's results, with Fresno State (7-11, 1-1 MW) taking the opener, 15-12, behind an 11-run fifth inning, before Nevada (11-7, 1-1 MW) rebounded for a 9-3 win in the nightcap.

Nevada hit seven home runs on the day, with five coming in the opener. Jackson Waller hit both in the nightcap, while Jayce Dobie, who had a two-run homer in the first game, led the Wolf Pack with five hits on the day.

Game 1 - Fresno State 15, Nevada 12
Nevada hit five home runs in Saturday's opener, but the long balls were undone by one Fresno State inning. The Bulldogs scored 11 runs on nine hits and one Wolf Pack error in the fifth, turning a 7-2 deficit into a 13-7 lead, then held off a late Wolf Pack rally.

Billy Ham opened the scoring with a solo shot in the second, then Sean Yamaguchi began his 3-for-4 day with the first of his two doubles, this one driving in Jayce Dobie. Yamaguchi then delivered the big shot in a five-run Wolf Pack third, smashing a three-run homer which was followed up by Jacob Doyle's solo shot to put the Pack ahead, 7-1.

Nevada starter Peyton Fosher was working well until the fifth, holding the Bulldogs to two runs and holding a 7-2 lead. But a leadoff single for Fresno State and a Wolf Pack error put two on to start the frame.

After wild pitch moved the runners each up a bag, Cayden Munster grounded out to score Sky Collins for the first run. Murf Gray and Bobby Blandford followed with RBI extra-base hits, then consecutive singles from Justin Stransky and Griffen Sotomayor, the former an RBI single, made it 7-6 and spelled the end of the day for Fosher.

Dominic Desch came on, but fared no better. He loaded the bases by hitting Cam Schneider, then gave up an RBI single to Lee Treviño and hit Collins to force in the go-ahead run before Eddie Saldivar cleared the bases with a double to right-center. Another Gray RBI double and Blandford RBI single wrapped the scoring for the Bulldogs, putting the Pack into a 13-7 hole.

But Nevada fought back, scoring thrice in the sixth on Junhyuk Kwon's solo shot and a two-run homer from Jayce Dobie, cutting the deficit to three at 13-10. Jackson Waller's RBI single in the seventh made it 13-11, but Blandford answered in the bottom half with another RBI single. The teams traded a run each the rest of the way, before JT Guerrero finished the ninth for the save for the Bulldogs.

Fosher fell to 1-2 with the loss for Nevada, charged with eight runs (seven earned) on 10 hits over 4.1 innings. Drew Townson got the win in relief for Fresno State.

Yamaguchi was 3-for-4 with a homer, two doubles, and four RBIs to lead the Pack, while Kwon homered and doubled while going 3-for-5. Dobie, with three RBIs, led a quartet of Wolf Pack batters who had two hits in the contest.

Gray and Blandford, with three RBIs apiece, led four Bulldog batters with three hits each. Fresno State would set a program single-game record with nine doubles in the contest.

Game 2 - Nevada 9, Fresno State 3
Jackson Waller hit two homers and Alessandro Castro turned in another solid outing to help Nevada take the nightcap, 9-3.

Waller got the scoring started with a three-run shot in the third, then added a solo shot in the fifth as Nevada recovered from the Bulldogs tying it up at 3-3 in the bottom of the third.

Castro shook off the three-run third, going six innings and striking out seven while giving up just five hits. After giving up a leadoff double in the fourth, Castro buckled down and retired the next six Bulldog batters, then got out of a two-on, one-out jam in the sixth by getting Schneider to ground into a double play.

Michael Ball, who started that inning-ending double play, helped widen the Wolf Pack lead in the eighth, lining a two-run triple to right-center before coming across on Kwon's sacrifice fly.

Waller went 2-for-5 with the two homers and four RBIs, leading three Wolf Pack batters with two hits apiece.

Logan Saloman, who came on in the seventh with the Pack ahead by three, worked the final three innings for his first save.