UNLV’s baseball program improved its victory total by 15 over a year ago. But the Rebels are still searching for depth, and coach Stan Stolte said they are still two years from getting where he wants.
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Grant Fennell had a bases-clearing double and four RBIs, and UNR held off the UNLV baseball team 8-7 on Friday in Reno.
Riley Lupfer hit seven of Boise State’s 12 3-pointers and totaled a career-high 28 points to lead the Broncos to a 69-60 win over UNLV in the Lady Rebels’ Mountain West opener Saturday in Boise, Idaho.
Brad Gonzalez and Ida Schutte each placed 20th in the 500-yard freestyle to pace the UNLV men’s and women’s swimming teams Thursday on the second day of the Texas Invitational in Austin, Texas.
Sophie Cortes and Chidera Akubuilo were named to the Mountain West all-conference first and second women’s soccer teams, and Amanda Galbraith was named to the all-newcomer team.
UNLV officials have opted not to comment since unveiling the university’s new sports logo Wednesday, an apparent attempt to hope the initial furor by Rebels supporters dies down.
Desiree Reed-Francois has seven immediate priorities as she prepares to take over as UNLV’s athletic director on Thursday. She will begin with a staff meeting at 8:30 a.m. that day.
UNLV and the Thomas & Mack Center/Sam Boyd Stadium are putting in $3.7 million to nearly wipe out the athletic department’s deficit. That gives new athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois a fresh start as she takes over Thursday.
The UNLV women’s and men’s tennis teams lost by 4-0 scores Sunday in the Mountain West championship finals.
Harry Hall shot 2-under-par 68 and is tied for fourth place, helping UNLV tie for sixth after the first round of The Goodwin in Palo Alto, California.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s board of control voted Thursday to create a new 5A classification, which will go into effect when realignment occurs for the 2018-2019 school year.
The Rebels return 90 of their 91 singles victories from a year ago, when they won the Mountain West Tournament and finished in a three-way tie for second in the conference standings.
The Rebels are still a club program as they attempt to raise the funding to go Division I NCAA varsity, but they will move up from Division II to D-I in the American Collegiate Hockey Association beginning in 2017-18.
Jakob Amilon became just the second player in program history to win an ITA Regional.
The UNLV women’s soccer team posted its fourth win in five matches Friday with a 3-1 victory over host Wyoming, and the UNLV men downed visiting Cal State Bakersfield 3-1 in both teams’ Western Athletic Conference opener.
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