April 11, 2014
RENO, Nev. - The San Diego State offense was held to five hits and starting pitcher Bubba Derby suffered his first loss of the season as the Aztecs were defeated by Nevada, 4-2, at Peccole Park in Reno Friday night. The loss ended a four-game win streak for SDSU which saw its record fall to 25-9 overall and 10-6 in the Mountain West Conference.
The Aztecs were limited to one hit over the first six innings by Wolf Pack starter Barry Timko. The junior left-hander went six-plus innings allowing just a pair of singles with two walks and a pair of strikeouts. He would be credited with the victory to improve to 4-1 on the season.
Nevada (17-14, 9-7 MW) opened the scoring with a run in the third on a solo homer by Kyle Hunt and made it 3-0 one inning later, pushing across two runs on three hits including a solo home run by Jordan Devencenzi. The Wolf Pack added a fourth run to their total off Derby in the fifth on its third homer of the game, this one by Kewby Meyer.
Derby would end his night after 6.2 innings pitched during which he allowed the four runs on six hits with two walks and three strikeouts. The loss dropped his season mark to 5-1.
The Aztec finally got on the board in the top of the seventh as they cut Nevada's lead to 4-2. The two runs came on Ty France's RBI double that followed a walk to Tim Zier and an RBI ground out by Brad Haynal to score France, who had gone to third on a Seby Zavala single.
That would conclude the scoring in the contest as a pair of Wolf Pack relievers shut out the visitors the rest of the way. Closer Adam Whitt tossed the final 1.1 innings to record his seventh save.
Greg Allen and Zavala had two this apiece to account for four of SDSU's hits on the night.
San Diego State and Nevada will continue their weekend series on Saturday, Apr. 12, when the square off for a game set to get underway at 2:00 p.m. in Reno.