Nevada 12, San José State 0
Friday, May 16, 2025
San Jose, Calif. - Excite Ballpark

WP: Alessandro Castro (5-3)
LP: David Thomas (1-5)

SAN JOSE - For the second-straight night, Nevada's pitching was lights out, carrying the Wolf Pack to a 12-0 win at San José State and clinching the program's fourth Mountain West regular season championship.

Nevada (33-20, 19-10 MW), previously Mountain West regular-season champs in 2015, 2018, and 2021, can secure the title outright with either a win in tomorrow's 1:05 p.m. finale or a Fresno State loss at New Mexico. Friday's win also clinched for the Pack the No. 1 seed at next week's Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championship in Mesa, Ariz. Nevada will begin play in the double-elimination portion of the tournament Thursday, May 22, at 1:05 p.m. from Sloan Park.

Alessandro Castro turned in a gem for the Wolf Pack Friday, going seven scoreless innings and scattering seven hits while striking out four in improving to 5-3. Logan Saloman struck out one and gave up just one hit over the final two innings to preserve the shutout.

Castro dueled Spartan starter David Thomas through four, each starter posting matching zeroes. But in the fifth, Nevada's bats woke up in a big way.

The Wolf Pack would end up sending 12 batters to the plate and putting up six runs in the top of the fifth to break things open. Jacob Doyle opened the scoring by driving in Jackson Waller with a single through the left side, then, three batters later, Sean Yamaguchi sent one opposite field and off the wall in right, scoring Taylor Holder and Jack Metcho to make it 3-0. Jayce Dobie followed with a two-run single, then Waller knocked his second single of the frame, this one driving in Dobie to make it 6-0.

Waller and Yamaguchi each had a team-best three hits on the night, with Yamaguchi driving in five runs and doubling thrice. Dobie went 2-for-5 with three RBIs, and Metcho tripled and scored three times in his own two-hit night.

Holder made it 7-0 with an RBI single in the sixth, then Yamaguchi and Dobie put it the game in the fridge with an RBI double and RBI single, respectively, in the eighth.

Thomas fell to 1-5 with the loss for San José State (25-28, 12-17 MW), charged with six runs on 10 hits over 4.2 innings.