Silverado High School graduate Amanda Bingson, who first took up the event as a freshman at UNLV and holds the American record, will be favored to secure her second consecutive Olympic berth Wednesday.
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Greg Maddux has always served as his son Chase’s unofficial pitching coach. Next season, the Baseball Hall of Famer might formally tutor his son — an incoming UNLV sophomore — as the Rebels’ pitching coach.
UNLV high jumper Kaysee Pilgrim will be one of 12 trying to make the three-person American team for the Rio Olympics, a group led by Bishop Gorman High School graduate Vashti Cunningham.
UNLV will have to rebuild its pitching staff next season after losing its top three starters and closer to the big leagues.
The 1998 NCAA men’s golf champions held off Clemson and won by three shots to produce UNLV’s other national team championship, joining the 1990 men’s basketball team. The golf team will be honored Friday with its induction into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame.
With no guaranteed money game on UNLV’s 2016 football schedule and men’s basketball ticket sales down 5 percent from last year at this time, the school is projected to have a budget deficit of $1.5 million to $3 million in 2016-17.
Less than a week after UNLV finished its baseball season under Stan Stolte — who became acting head coach Dec. 18 when Tim Chambers resigned following his arrest for driving under the influence — the school hired Stolte as head coach.
San Diego State scored 11 unanswered runs, including nine in the eighth inning, to take a 16-5 lead over UNLV en route to a 18-8 victory that eliminated the Rebels from the Mountain West Championship on Thursday in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Nic Ready went 4-for-6 with a grand slam and totaled six RBIs to lead Air Force to a 15-7 rout of UNLV in a first-round game of the Mountain West Championship on Wednesday in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Rebels junior pitcher D.J. Myers and sophomore left fielder Payton Squier were named first team all-conference while Isbel and junior relief pitcher Ben Wright earned second team all-MW honors.
UNLV left fielder Payton Squier finished the regular season with a .383 batting average that is the highest by a Rebels starter since 2004, when Eric Nielsen hit .402.
Cooper Esmay’s two home runs weren’t enough to rally UNLV to victory Saturday, as UNR held on for a 9-7 win over the Rebels in a Mountain West baseball regular-season finale in Reno.
UNR’s offensive surge in the sixth inning led to an 8-1 victory over UNLV on Friday to even the final series of the regular season at one game each.
A.J. VanMeetren had three hits and three RBIs to back D.J. Myers’ strong eight-inning pitching performance and lead UNLV to a 7-1 win over UNR in a Mountain West baseball game Thursday in Reno.
The No. 25-ranked UNLV men’s golf team shot a final-round 6-under-par 282 on Wednesday and finished sixth at the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, one spot out of advancing to the national finals.
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