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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The UNO baseball team opened a four-game series at UNLV on Friday, falling 10-7 at Wilson Stadium. With the loss, the Mavericks drop to 10-23 on the year, while the Rebels improve to 15-18.

Sophomore Caleb Palensky finished 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs driven in, while senior Brandon Winkelmann went 2-for-2 with an RBI. Freshman Jared Patton added a 2-for-3 effort and scored twice.

For UNLV, Joey Swanner, Trent Cook, Trevor Kirk and Daniel Higa tallied two hits apiece, with Higa driving in three runs. The Mavericks still managed to outhit the Rebels, 13-11.

Zak  Qualls (4-2) earned the win, allowing four runs on 10 hits over 5.0 innings while striking out five and walking two. Senior Andrew Reck (1-4) took the loss, surrendering eight runs – six earned – off nine hits. Reck fanned four and walked three over his 6.2-inning outing. Zack Hartman was also credited with his fourth save of the year, striking out the side in the top of the ninth to close the game.

UNO took the first lead of the night in the second inning, with freshman Alex Mortensen reaching on an infield single and later scoring on sophomore Cody Brown's RBI single to go up 1-0.

UNLV then rallied for two runs in the bottom of the frame. Brandon Bayardi scored on an error and Kirk came  in when Casey Sato was hit by a pitch, pushing the home squad ahead 2-1.

The Rebels added another run in the third to stretch it to 3-1, as Mark Shannon led off with a single to left and came across on Bayardi's sacrifice fly to right.

Nebraska Omaha regained the lead at 4-3 in the fourth, sparked by junior Connor McCrite's leadoff triple to center. He was plated on Winkelmann's RBI infield single and Mortensen, who reached with a walk, knotted it at 3-3 on senior Brady Hohl's RBI single to left. Senior Colby McCord then drove in Patton, spotting the Mavs a 4-3 advantage.

In the fifth, UNLV chalked up two runs with a pair of hits. Cook's RBI double down the leftfield line scored Swanner, and Shannon came in on Bayardi's sacrifice fly to left, making it 5-4.

A five-run seventh inning from UNLV doomed UNO, as the Rebels tallied three hits and took advantage of a Maverick error. It was Higa's base-clearing double down the leftfield line that propelled UNLV to take a 10-4 lead.

The Mavericks managed three more runs in the eighth, helped by Palensky's two-run double to left that scored Brown and Patton. McCord added one more score on a passed ball, but it was not enough as UNLV fanned the final four Maverick batters of the game to capture the 10-7 win.

UNO returns to action against UNLV on Saturday, April 14 with a doubleheader at Wilson Stadium in Las Vegas, Nev. First pitch is set for 3:05 p.m. (CT), and links to live stats, live audio and live video will be available on OMavs.com.