UNLV rally falls short in baseball loss to UNR

UNR broke a tie by scoring twice in the fifth inning and once in the sixth and held on to defeat intrastate rival UNLV 7-6 on Friday in the first game of a three-game series at Wilson Field.

The Rebels (22-11, 7-6 Mountain West) scored twice in the ninth but left runners on first and second to end the game.

Patrick Armstrong had three hits and three RBIs for UNLV, and Brandon Bayardi homered and doubled, walked twice and drove in two runs. Matt McCallister also had two hits.

Also: Amanda Oliveto pitched a four-hitter to lead UNLV to an 8-0 softball victory over New Mexico at Eller Media Stadium.

Stefany Valentino and Tayler Van Acker had two hits apiece for the Rebels (17-22, 3-4 MW).

The UNLV men’s tennis team lost at home for only the second time in 14 matches this season, falling to Boise State 5-2 at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.

The Rebels (15-6, 3-2 Mountain West) got doubles victories from Johannes Markel and Tamas Batyi and Carlos Di Laura and Gilad Berman to take a 1-0 lead, then lost five of six in singles. UNLV’s Ace Matias lost for the first time this season in conference play, to 33rd-ranked Andrew Bettles 7-5, 6-2 at No. 1 singles. Batyi was the Rebels’ only singles winner.

The UNLV women’s golf team is 15th after the first round of the ASU Invitational in Tempe, Ariz.

The Rebels shot 17-over-par 305, 26 strokes behind leader UCLA. Duke (280) is second and Southern California (283) third.

UNLV junior Demi Mak (par 72) is tied for 27th, five shots off the lead. Sophomore Dana Finkelstein (75), junior Katerina Prorokova (76) and sophomore Marguerite Swearingen (82) completed the Rebels’ scoring.

UNLV’s Ayana Gales is second and Taylar Mills third after the first day of competition in the heptathlon at the Randall Cunningham Collegiate Invitational and Sheila Tarr-Smith Multis at Myron Partridge Stadium.

The College of Southern Nevada defeated Salt Lake 7-3 and 3-0 in a Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader at Morse Stadium. The Coyotes improved to 30-9 overall and 18-4 in the SWAC.