RENO — The Nevada baseball team is headed to Stanford as a No. 3 seed for NCAA Regionals. The Wolf Pack (25-18) will face the No. 2 seed UC Irvine (40-16) on Friday at 6 p.m.
Regional host Stanford (33-14) is the top seed and will play fourth-seeded North Dakota State (41-17) on Friday at 1 p.m.
Both games will be available on ESPN3.
This will be the Wolf Pack’s fifth overall trip to NCAA Regionals and its first since 2000. Nevada’s went to regionals in 2000, 1999, 1997 and 1994.
The Pack also has a history of playing in the Stanford Regional as its last two trips to regionals in 2000 and 1999 were held in Stanford.
Nevada finished the regular season with a 25-18 overall record and a 22-9 mark in Mountain West play. The Wolf Pack clinched its spot in NCAA Regionals after winning its third Mountain West regular season title on Friday evening.
The Silver & Blue is red hot heading into regionals as it finished the regular season winning 15 consecutive conference games dating back to April 24.
