Nevada 14, Northern Colorado 1 (8)
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Reno, Nev. - Don Weir Field at Peccole Park

WP: Dominic Desch (2-0)
LP: Jack Tuttle (1-1)

RENO, Nev. - In baseball, perhaps it's not possible to have "seen it all," but Sunday's 14-1, eight-inning Nevada win over Northern Colorado certainly qualifies for "but I have seen that" status.

The Wolf Pack (7-5) scored 14 runs and sent 18 batters to the plate in the eighth inning, overcoming a 5-1 deficit to take a walk-off victory via the 10-run mercy rule.

Nevada walked seven times, had two batters hit, had seven hits including four doubles, and capitalized on two Bear errors in the frame.

It had been a sluggish day for the Pack offense until the eighth. Nevada had managed just three hits over the first seven innings, and left the bases loaded in the sixth, down 3-1, before the Bears added what seemed to be a pair of insurance runs to go up 5-1 in the top of the seventh.

Walks to Junhyuk Kwon and Jayce Dobie opened the bottom of the eighth against Northern Colorado reliever Jack Tuttle. Billy Ham singled to plate Kwon to cut the deficit to three at 5-2, then three-straight doubles from Jacob Doyle, Jackson Waller, and Antonio Avila, with the latter driving in two runs, accounted for four runs as the Pack took the lead at 6-5.

Two batters later, Michael Ball lined an RBI single to left, making it 7-5 and chasing Tuttle. Neither of the next three Northern Colorado pitchers—Luke Moser, Lucas Stone, Aiden Gebhard—recorded an out the rest of the way, combining to give up two hits, five walks, and hit two batters.

With the bases loaded and the winning run on first, Doyle scored from third when Bear catcher Craig Kenny tried to pick Avila off at first, but made an errant throw. After Jake Harvey walked to reload the bases, Michael Ball forced in a run by being hit by a pitch, and the winning run came in next as Avila scored when Sean Yamaguchi's grounder went through the legs of Bear shortstop Brandon Sanchez.

Avila and Doyle each drove in three runs for the Wolf Pack, while Avila was one of three batters, along with Ham and Waller, with two hits.

Reliever Dominic Desch picked up his second win of the season, throwing the final two innings without giving up a run. Fellow reliever Ryan Oakes played a key role in the middle innings, striking out four over three scoreless frames in relief of Dobie.

Tuttle took the loss for Northern Colorado, falling to 1-1. Nine Bear pitchers combined to issue 12 walks and hit two Nevada batters on the day.

Nevada, winners of three of four in the series, hits the road for its final non-conference weekend of the regular season, traveling to San Francisco for three games next Friday-Sunday, March 7-9.