Patrick Armstrong overcame a poor start to put himself in contention for Mountain West Player of the Year. He also leads UNLV into this week’s conference baseball tournament at Wilson Stadium.
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UNLV’s Dana Finkelstein had a hole-in-one during her opening round at the NCAA championships. But she had seven bogeys as well and finished with a 5-over-par 75.
The news hit John Richy like a fastball that missed its spot. Square in the heart. “There were no words, nothing you could really say,” Richy recalled. “It was so tough to hear. Devastating. Tragic.”
The UNLV men’s golf team shot a third-round 7-over-par 295, its lowest score of the tournament and second-lowest of the day, but finished ninth Saturday in the NCAA Sugar Grove Regional in Sugar Grove, Ill.
UNLV beat UNR 4-2 to sweep the three-game series. The victory also made the Rebels co-champions with New Mexico and gave them the No. 1 seed in next week’s Mountain West tournament,.
UNLV sophomore Auzsane Crowe-Carter won the women’s 800 meters Saturday at the Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Laramie, Wyo.
Looks as if UNLV is out of its hitting slump, and just in time. The Rebels batted around three times Friday, setting up a chance to not only go for the series sweep against UNR but also to win the Mountain West regular-season baseball title.
The UNLV men’s golf team struggled with wet and windy conditions in posting a 21-over-par 309 on Friday in the second round of the NCAA Sugar Grove Regional in Illinois.
Three Rebels scored a total of 10 points Friday, but UNLV is ninth at the women’s Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Laramie, Wyo.
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.
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.