Patrick Mathis had a home run and a double and scored twice for Texas in its 7-0 win over UNLV in a nonconference baseball game Sunday in Austin, Texas.
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You can never underestimate the spirit of sports, those intangibles that make certain athletes rise to the occasion when all seems lost in a season, when your bench has been reduced to the point your basketball coach spent part of his day before a conference game against your biggest rival glancing at the school’s football roster.
Zane Gurwitz and Bret Boswell each went 3-for-5 with two runs for No. 23 Texas in its 11-2 romp over UNLV in a nonconference baseball game Saturday in Austin, Texas.
The UNLV men’s golf team shot a final-round 1-over-par 289 and finished in sixth place in the John A. Burns Intercollegiate at Kauai’s Wailua Golf Course.
Andrew Yazdanbakhsh hit a one-out, full-count home run in the 12th inning to send UNLV to a season-opening 4-3 win over No. 23 Texas in a nonconference baseball game Friday in Austin, Texas.
The UNLV men’s golf team shot a second-round 3-under-par 285 for a two-round total of 5-over 581 in the John A. Burns Intercollegiate at Kauai’s Wailua Golf Course.
Coming off a year in which former UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers fell from grace and the team tumbled in the standings, the Rebels are determined to rise again this season.
The UNLV baseball team was predicted to finish fifth out of seven teams in the Mountain West’s preseason coaches poll, the league announced Tuesday.
When UNLV senior shortstop Garie Blando first arrived in Las Vegas, she didn’t envision herself earning Mountain West Player of the Year honors, as she did in 2014.
UNLV defender Bradley Kamdem was selected by the Colorado Rapids in the third round of Tuesday’s Major League Soccer SuperDraft.
The Review-Journal Sports will unveil some new features beginning this week. Those changes began in Sunday’s print edition with columnist Ron Kantowski debuting his Las Vegas Insider. He will report on the sports people that make up the city.
The UNLV women’s tennis program has seen its share of standouts over the years, but the Rebels have never before had a player with the pedigree of Carol Zi Yang.
The last time I saw Ken Johann, UNLV’s uber soccer booster, was at Johann Field — named for his son, Peter — on Oct. 18. The Rebels were playing Incarnate Word from Texas. Fellow humongous soccer supporter Tim McGarry, a former Rebels player who in recent years has continued what Johann started as a benefactor, asked if I had wandered over to say hello.
The end that most believed was inevitable for Tim Chambers became official Friday.