SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After racking up the frequent flier miles with its last eight games on the road, the Sacramento State baseball team returns home for an extended six-game homestand beginning with a pair of midweek games against local rivals Nevada and Fresno State to kick off the week at John Smith Field.

The Hornets and Wolf Pack meet for the first time this season on Monday (April 6) before the Bulldogs make a return trip to Sacramento on Tuesday (April 7). Both games are scheduled for a 6 p.m first pitch and will be streamed live on the ESPN+ platform.

PLAY BALL!
WHAT: Nevada (17-10, 6-3 Mountain West) at Sacramento State (12-20, 1-2 WAC) 
WHEN: Monday, April 6, 2026
TIME: 6 PM PT
WHERE: Sacramento, Calif.
STADIUM: John Smith Field
WATCH: ESPN+
STATS: HornetSports.com
TICKETS: HornetSports.com

WHAT: Fresno State (9-19-1, 1-7-1 Mountain West) at Sacramento State (12-20, 1-2 WAC) 
WHEN: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
TIME: 6 PM PT
WHERE: Sacramento, Calif.
STADIUM: John Smith Field
WATCH: ESPN+
STATS: HornetSports.com
TICKETS: HornetSports.com

GAME NOTES: Nevada | Fresno State | Western Athletic Conference

ABOUT THE WOLF PACK
• Nevada enters the week with a 17-10 overall record and a 6-3 mark in Mountain West Conference play
• Coming off a bye in their Mountain West Conference schedule, the Wolf Pack split a pair of single games last week, falling at Gonzaga by a 7-2 score on Monday (March 30) and defeating Simpson University at home by an 18-7 score in seven innings on Thursday (April 2)
• Nevada improved to 10-2 at home with the win over the Redhawks
• Prior to that, the Wolf Pack took a conference series from league rival Washington State on March 27-29, winning the final two games after dropping the opener
• Senior utility Jayce Dobie is the team's leading hitter at .377 on the year to go with a 1.013 OPS, scoring 23 runs, slugging 11 doubles, and driving in 25 runs
• Four Wolf Pack regulars are batting better than .300 on the season, helping the team hit a combined .320 on the year with 41 home runs and 108 extra-base hits
• As a staff, Nevada pitchers combine for a 7.30 ERA and a .306 average against, striking out 222 against 130 walks in 231.2 innings

SERIES NOTES
• Nevada leads the all-time series with Sacramento State by a 100-84-2 count, including a 61-34 edge in the series as Division I rivals
• The Wolf Pack have won the last four head-to-head meetings with the Hornets including sweeping a trio of midweek contests last season: 8-5 and 6-4 at John Smith Field and a 12-6 decision in Reno
• Prior to that, Sacramento State had won four straight in the series — and eight in the previous 12
• Of the Hornets' 84 wins in the series, 53 of those have come at home as they lead the series with Nevada in Northern California by a 53-45-2 count
• However, the Wolf Pack has won the last three games in Sacramento — all coming during their current overall winning streak
• Sacramento State's last win at home in the series with Nevada was a 21-9 rout on March 19, 2024 — the last in a stretch of three straight wins at home in the series
• The series between the two schools dates back to the 1954 season as the Hornets were 15-0-1 against the Wolf Pack in the first 16 meetings until Nevada got off the schneid with a 10-9 win in 1962
• Previously, the two schools were conference rivals in both the Big West Conference (1997-00) and Western Athletic Conference (2006-12)

ABOUT THE BULLDOGS
• Fresno State enters the week with a 9-19-1 overall record and a 1-7-1 mark in the Mountain West Conference
• The Bulldogs are coming off a conference series loss to league newcomer Grand Canyon as the 'Lopes (former conference rivals of the Hornets in the WAC) took 2-of-3 from Fresno State in the Central Valley
• The road has not been kind to the Bulldogs as they have posted a 2-9-1 mark away from Beiden Field this year, going winless in their last nine (0-8-1) dating back to an 11-8 win at Stanford back on March 1 to complete a series win over the Cardinal
• Fresno State's lone tie on the season was an 18-18 slugfest in 11 innings at New Mexico back on March 29 that was cut short due to a travel curfew
• Freshman infielder Brady Hewitt is the team's leading hitter, batting .347 on the year with a 1.005 OPS, scoring 23 runs, slugging 10 doubles, and walking 19 times
• He is one of five Bulldog batters to hit better than .300 on the year as Fresno State is hitting .285 as a team with 23 home runs and 92 extra-base hits
• As a staff, Bulldog pitchers sport a 6.86 ERA and a .299 average against while striking out 194 against 142 walks over 254.2 innings

SERIES NOTES
• One of the longest-running series in the history of the program, Tuesday marks the 182nd meeting between the Hornets and the Bulldogs according to available records
• In a series that dates all the way back to 1950, Fresno State holds a 140-40-1 overall record against Sacramento State, including a 62-24 lead in the series as Division I rivals
• The 181 meetings with the Bulldogs ranks fourth in terms of all-time meetings among Sacramento State opponents behind UC Davis (244), Pacific (191), and Nevada (186)
• The first recorded meeting between the two programs came on March 11, 1950, in Sacramento with the Bulldogs posting a 13-6 win in the opening game of a doubleheader that day and the Hornets answering with a 7-3 win in the nightcap
• Fresno State won the first meeting between the two schools this season, scoring two runs in the fourth inning and making it stand for a 2-0 win in Fresno back on March 3, holding the Hornets to just four hits
• Each of the last five head-to-head meetings have been decided by two runs or fewer — including three of those by a single run
• Of the Hornets' 40 wins in the series, 23 of those have come at home where they are 23-62-1 against the Bulldogs
• Sacramento State has won two of the last three meetings at John Smith Field with the Hornets posting an 8-6 win in 204 and a 4-3 victory in 2025
• Sacramento State and Fresno State were conference rivals in the Western Athletic Conference from 1993-96 (8-16 overall) and, again, from 2006-12 (6-28 overall)

CONFERENCE CALL
• Sacramento State has faced all nine of the Mountain West Conference's current baseball playing members, posting a combined 235-383-5 record
• Following Tuesday's game, the Hornets will have just one more game remaining against Mountain West opponents this year, traveling to Reno to take on Nevada on April 28 
• Not including games against the Mountain West's newest member in former WAC rival Grand Canyon, Sacramento State was 1-3 against the league in 2025, splitting with the Bulldogs and dropping a pair of midweek contests to Nevada
• The Hornets' 84 wins over Nevada are the most against any single Mountain West opponent in the program's history, followed by 48 against San Jose State and 40 against Fresno State

MIDWEEK MADNESS
• This week's contests are the eighth and ninth midweek games of the year for the Hornets, who are 3-4 in their previous seven this season
• Sacramento State has won three of its previous four, posting wins over Pacific (10-0 in seven innings on March 11) and San Francisco (8-3 on March 17) while splitting a pair at Kansas with an 11-1 loss on March 24 and a 7-4 win on March 25
• This week marks on the third and fourth midweek games at home this year as the Hornets are 1-1
• This year's three midweek wins already matches last year's total when Sacramento State was just 3-8 in 11 midweek contests
• Of the team's last 30 midweek games, a little less than half (14) have been decided by two runs or fewer, with 10 of those 14 decided by a single run

LOOKING AHEAD
• The Hornets return to Western Athletic Conference play this weekend, welcoming Utah Valley for a three-game series beginning Friday (April 10) and running through Sunday (April 12)
• First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday, 2 p.m. on Saturday, and Noon on Sunday
• All three games will be shown on the ESPN+ platform

HORNET SHORT HOPS
• Sacramento State is coming off a 1-2 weekend in St. George, Utah, dropping its WAC opening series at Utah Tech
• The Hornets salvaged a win in the series with a wild 13-11 victory on Sunday, hanging on after the Trailblazers scored seven runs in the final two innings and had the winning run on base before Sacramento State shut the door
• Three Hornet hitters are batting better than .300 in midweek games this year: senior Jace Jeremiah (.364), junior Erick Dessens (.355), and junior Jakob Poturnak (.333)
• As a team, Sacramento State is hitting .257 in seven midweek contests, while the pitching staff has limited opponents to a .240 average in those same seven contests
• Sophomore RHP Chase Sorlie has pitched in five of those seven games (making two starts), posting a 3.46 ERA in 13 innings, holding opponents to a .191 average and striking out eight against four walks
• Sacramento State's 38 hits last week against Utah Tech were the most in a three-game series this season and the most since the Hornets finished with 50 in a series win at Grand Canyon on May 2-4 last season
• Freshman outfielder Sam Harry is on a roll as of late, extending his team-best hitting streak to 11 consecutive games with hits in each of the contests at Utah Tech over the weekend
• The 11-game hitting streak is the third-longest by a Hornet this year, trailing only 12-game streaks by both Dessens and Poturnak earlier this year
• Harry has posted multiple hits in each of his last five games and in eight of the 11 games during his streak 
• During his streak, Harry is batting .525 (21-for-40) with 14 runs scored and six RBI, collecting four doubles and adding six walks while elevating his batting average by 96 points to .331 on the year
• Dessens was red-hot against the Trailblazers last week, hitting a team-high .643 (9-for-14) with four runs scored, a pair of home runs, and nine RBI while slugging 1.071 for the week and posting a .667 on-base percentage
• With the nine hits over the weekend, Dessens enters the week atop the WAC leaderboard with 49 while standing second in RBI (39), tied for sixth in home runs (8), and ninth in slugging (.582)
• In addition to his second three-hit game of the series, senior Luis Pimentel-Guerrero tied his Sacramento State career high with four RBI in the series finale — a mark originally set against Nevada on March 10 of last season and matched earlier this year against Saint Joseph's on Feb. 22 as part of a four-hit day
• Of Sacramento State's 20 defeats this year, 11 of those gave been by two runs or fewer, with seven of those by a single run
• The Hornets have scored 46 of their 187 runs this year in the 2nd inning
• Sacramento State scored six times in the second inning at Utah Tech in the series finale — the team's 15th "big inning" (four or more runs) this season and the seventh time the Hornets have had a "big inning" in the second inning