April 19, 2015
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Nevada put together three big innings with the help of the home run as it defeated San Diego State, 16-4, Sunday afternoon at Tony Gwynn Stadium to complete a three-game sweep of the weekend series between the teams. The loss dropped the Aztecs' record to 27-14 overall and 14-7 in the Mountain West as they fell two games behind the Wolf Pack in second place in the league standings.
Nevada (31-9, 16-5 MW) opened the game with four runs in the top of the first to jump out to a quick 4-0 lead. A walk and single set the stage for a three-run home run by Kewby Meyer that landed on the roof of Peterson Gym in right field. An ensuing two-out walk and RBI double plated the fourth run of the frame.
Those runs came against Aztec starter Marcus Reyes, who would go just 3.1 innings in the contest. Along the way he surrendered eight runs on eight hits with three walks and three strikeouts as he would absorb the loss to fall to 5-2 on the season.
The Wolf Pack added five to its total in the top of the fourth with the big blow a grand slam by first baseman Austin Byler to make it a 9-0 contest. Nevada had three hits in the inning and was aided by a pair of walks.
One inning later the score became 15-0 as the Wolf Pack scored six times on seven hits. Included in that rally was a two-run home by Ryan Howell.
San Diego State, which was held to just one hit over the first five innings by Nevada starter Christian Stolo, finally got on the board with two runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Alan Trejo walked to open the inning and advanced to second on a single by Chase Calabuig. A wild pitch moved both runners up one base before Ty France's ground out to second scored Trejo from third. Calabuig would score on Seby Zavala's two-out RBI single to left.
Stolo would complete seven innings of work, surrendering the two runs on four hits with four walks and five strikeouts to pick up the win and up his season record to 4-1.
After the visitors added one more to their total in the ninth, SDSU scored twice in its final at bat courtesy of a single by Danny Sheehan, RBI double by Andrew Brown and run-scoring single by Justin Wylie.
Sheehan and Wylie finished the afternoon with two hits apiece as the duo account for four of the Aztecs' seven hits in the game.
San Diego State will now being a string of four consecutive road contests with a game at Cal State Northridge on Tuesday, April 21, at 3:00 p.m. at Matador Field in Northridge.