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BASEBALL: LOUISIANA TECH (22-10, 12-6) AT NEVADA (25-21, 9-6)

When: Tonight (6 p.m.), Saturday (6 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.)

Where: Peccole Park

TV/Radio: None/630 AM (pregame 15 minutes before first pitch

Coaches: Gary Powers (Nevada) 751-590-4; Wade Simoneaux (Louisiana Tech) 120-153-1

Pitching rotation: Tonight - Nevada's Ryan Rodriguez (6-5, 3.10) vs. Luke Burnett (4-6, 3.98); Saturday - Nevada's Rod Scurry (1-5, 5.64) vs. Ryan Rupert (4-1, 6.83); Sunday - Nevada's Kyle Howe (2-3, 4.62) vs. Dylan Moseley (7-4, 2.92)

Probable starters: LA. TECH - C Matt Combs (.179, HR, 8 RBI) or Drew Thomas (.135, 4 RBI); 1B Albie Goulder (.331, 12 HR, 45 RBI); 2B Drew Bunting (.447, 16 RBI); SS Dennis Winn (.347, 8 HR, 24 RBI); 3B Courtney Jones (.333, 10 HR, 39 RBI); LF Brandon Hudson (.366, 3 HR, 3 RBI); CF Brian Rike (.357, 20 HR, 61 RBI); RF Jericho Jones (.319, 4 HR, 30 RBI); DH Patrick Thomas (.358, HR, 23 RBI) or Adam Cobb (.293, 3 HR, 28 RBI). NEVADA - C Konrad Schmidt (.377, 6 HR, 37 RBI); 1B Shaun Kort (.377, 5 HR, 37 RBI); 2B David Ciarlo (.254, 3 HR, 26 RBI); SS Chris Siewert (.295, 2 HR, 27 RBI); 3B Jason Rodriguez (.278, 13 RBI); LF Terry Walsh (.380, 4 HR, 22 RBI); CF Jason Sadoian (.294, 9 RBI) or Nick Sansone (.238, 13 RBI); RF Matt Suleski (.342. 13 RBI); DH Baker Krukow (.307, HR, 14 RBI).

Game notes: Schmidt has a five-game hot streak going, Walsh is at four and Sadoian is at three ... Twelve of Nevada's 25 wins have been earned in relief ... Seven hitters - Kort (.400, 3 RBI), Siewert (.471, 8 RBI), Rodriguez (.333, RBI), Schmidt (.444, 3 RBI), Walsh (.444), Sadoian (.333, RBI) and Mike Hale (.375, 2 RBI) - have hit higher than. 300 over the past five games ... Powers got his 750th win last weekend against Sac State ... Tech has the WAC's only winning road record at 10-7 this year ... Tech catcher Matt Combs was a perfect 4-for-4 in throwing out runners trying to steal last week ... Tech is the most prolific offensive team in the conference with 400 runs to its credit ... Dennis Rike is having a tremendous season. He leads the WAC in runs scored (68), RBI (61), home runs (20), total bases (141) and slugging percentage (.762), and is third stolen bases (16) ... Luke Burnett leads the WAC in strikeouts (90).