Nevada Softball Outruns UNLV 13-6, Advances to Winner’s Bracket

Nevada speedster Madison Clark advances to second base on her first hit of the day against the Colorado State Rams in the first round of the MW Tournament in Reno, Nevada. | Nevada Softball on Twitter/X Game 2 of day two of the 2026 MW Softball Tournament was a rivalry matchup between third-seeded Nevada, the host of the event, and their hated in-state rivals, the UNLV Rebels, just a week after UNLV swept the Wolf Pack in Las Vegas. Nevada got their shortly-awaited revenge on their southern rivals, out-hitting the Rebels 18-9 in a 13-6 victory.

This began as a rematch of Game 1 of these teams’ regular season series, with MW Pitcher of the Year Lauren Fettic getting her third start against the Wolf Pack in the last seven days. On the other side, Tess Bumiller was called on to start for Nevada less than a day after she was knocked out of the starting lineup by an errant throw to the head during warmups. Bumiller certainly looked a bit shaken to start, hitting each of her first two batters in the bottom of the first.

She took a page out of Hailey McLean’s book for the rest of the inning, immediately getting the next three batters out to leave the first inning tied scoreless. The Wolf Pack got on the board first, with Haylee Engelbrecht and Talia Tretton hitting back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the second. Nevada got two on with one out, but Fettic forced an inning-ending double play to stop the Pack attack.

UNLV recorded their first two hits of the game in the bottom of the frame, then after the Wolf Pack recorded two outs on two pitches, the next pitch went off the bat of Bri Williams for a two-run double that put the Rebels up 2-1 at the end of the second. Back-to-back two-out doubles in the third by Katie Wetteland and Hannah Di Genova tied the game up at 2-2. Nevada continued the two-out rally with back-to-back walks, but a fantastic catch by Keyannah Chavez in deep left field on a potential three-run hit left the bases loaded for the Pack.