UNLV’s baseball team defeated UNR 8-1 to clinch at least second place in the Mountain West and a first-day bye in next week’s conference tournament.
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Sophomore Zane Thomas shot 3-over-par 75 to pace the UNLV men’s golf team Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Sugar Grove Regional in Illinois.
Freshman Kylee Vandenberg finished seventh in the heptathlon to earn two points for UNLV on Thursday at the Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Laramie, Wyo.
Nicholas Maruri knows his way around a doctor’s office almost as well as he does a golf course.
UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers was nowhere in sight, and for most of Tuesday night, neither was any semblance of an offense. Which really isn’t news because the Rebels’ hitters are mired in a funk that threatens to derail a promising season.
UNLV shortstop Garie Blando was voted the Mountain West Player of the Year by the league’s nine coaches.
UNLV coach Tim Chambers received the automatic four-game suspension of the baseball regular season for bumping an umpire. The Rebels play Arizona State Tuesday night and UNR on Thursday through Saturday.
UNLV junior Dana Finkelstein tied for second Saturday in the NCAA women’s golf Central Regional at Stillwater, Okla., to qualify for the national championships.
UNLV junior Dana Finkelstein shot 2-under par Friday to move into second place at the NCAA Central Regional in Stillwater, Okla.
UNLV struggled in its opening round of the NCAA women’s golf Central Regional Thursday, posting a 19-over-par 307 and standing in 14th place, 12 shots behind co-leaders Alabama and California in Stillwater, Okla.
The Rebels, who are coming off a third-place finish at last month’s Mountain West championships, will be the No. 5 seed at next week’s Sugar Grove, Ill., Regional where familiar foe California is the top seed.
Patrick Armstrong’s walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave UNLV a 2-1 baseball victory over James Madison on Saturday in Clemson, S.C.
Three UNLV golfers were names to the 10-man all-Mountain West team announced Thursday.
There is a time and place for contract discussions, and this isn’t it, not for a coach whose side has an opportunity to make the sort of history UNLV’s athletic department rarely enjoys from one of its leading sports.
UNLV dropped the opener of a seven-game road trip on Tuesday, falling to UC Riverside, 8-2.