The junior shortstop, who starred at Desert Oasis High School, hit .356 with 10 home runs and 36 RBIs this season and was named the Mountain West’s co-player of the year.
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UNLV received the sixth seed Wednesday for the Myrtle Beach men’s golf regional, an NCAA record 31st consecutive postseason appearance.
Freshman Duke Pahukoa hit a go-ahead RBI double in the 10th inning to rally UNLV past Fresno State 4-3 in both teams’ Mountain West baseball opener Friday in Fresno, California.
Richard Solberg and Jordan Sauer each won in singles and were part of two doubles victories Friday in helping UNLV top Weber State in the second of the Rebels’ two 4-1 nonconference men’s tennis triumphs.
Minyon Moore had 19 points and 10 assists to lead Southern California to an 86-72 win over UNLV in a nonconference women’s basketball game Saturday at Cox Pavilion.
One of the world’s longest surviving heart transplant recipients, former UNLV soccer star Simon Keith is hospitalized in San Diego and facing a second transplant.
The UNLV women’s basketball team was predicted to finish second in the Mountain West in the league’s preseason poll, the Lady Rebels’ highest projected finish since 2004-05.
Neither of UNLV’s soccer teams scored a goal Sunday, and both posted shutouts — with the men tying Cal State Bakersfield 0-0 at home and the women tying Air Force 0-0 on the road.
The UNLV women’s tennis team stayed perfect in Mountain West play with a 6-1 victory over San Jose State on Sunday at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.
UNLV senior Shintaro Ban was named the Mountain West men’s golfer of the week for the second straight week and for the third time this season.
Henderson native and ex-UNLV forward Danny Musovski was signed by Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes and then loaned to the team’s United Soccer League affiliate on Thursday.
Kyndal Phillips and Sofia Carnevale had top-10 finishes Friday to pace the UNLV men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams on the third day of the 14-team Texas Invitational in Austin, Texas.
UNLV brings back four starters from last year’s squad that posted a 22-11 overall record.
Brooke Rittman scored her third goal of the season in the 11th minute, and Air Force held on for a 1-0 victory over host UNLV in a Mountain West women’s soccer match Sunday.
The UNLV women’s soccer team lost 1-0 at Sacramento State on Friday, and UNLV’s men’s team fell 3-0 at New Mexico.
