Maddux pitches baseball team past Utah for fifth straight win

Chase Maddux pitched five strong innings to lead UNLV to a 3-1 victory over Utah in a nonconference baseball game Monday at Wilson Stadium.

Maddux (2-2) held the Utes (1-14) to one unearned run on four hits and no walks as the 21st-ranked Rebels (16-2) won their fifth straight and are off to the best 18-game start in program history.

Jack-thomas Wold hit a two-out RBI single in the second inning, doubled to set up the goahead run in the fourth and drew two walks for UNLV, which held an 11-8 edge in hits.

Dillon Johnson went 4-for-5 with a double, Grant Robbins went 2-for-3, and each scored for the Rebels.

Women’s golf: At Boulder City, freshman Polly Mack fired a 3-under-par 141 over two rounds to top the leaderboard by one stroke, helping the Rebels to a 35-stroke lead at 3-under 573 in the three-round, nine-team Jackrabbit Invitational at Boulder Creek Golf Club. Mackenzie Raim (143) and Nastasia Kossacky (144) are alone in third and fourth.