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RENO, Nev.—The Reno Aces and the University of Nevada baseball team will renew their annual exhibition contest at 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3 at Aces Ballpark, with proceeds once again benefiting the Nevada Dugout Club, the entities jointly announced today.

The 2012 exhibition will mark the third-straight exhibition contest between Reno’s Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the NCAA Division I Wolf Pack. The Aces defeated Nevada 9-3 last season, on the heels of an 11-1 victory in the inaugural game in 2010.

In each of the last two seasons, the Aces have made a $15,000 donation to the University of Nevada Dugout Club, an organization that serves as the main fundraising body of the University of Nevada baseball team.

The game will serve as the final tune-up for the Aces before opening the 2012 season on April 5, while Nevada’s student-athletes will have the opportunity to compete against some of professional baseball’s top prospects at the Triple-A level.

Once again this season, the game will be played in an exhibition format, with Aces pitchers and catchers playing for both squads. All players will use wood bats, and the contest will last between seven and nine innings, depending on the status of the Aces pitching staff. Utilizing the traditional Minor League Spring Training format, pitchers will be placed on a pitch count, and should a pitcher reach his limit, the game will immediately proceed to the next half inning.

Tickets for the game are $14 for adults, $10 for college students and $7 for children 12 and younger and seniors 62 and older. Aces season-ticket holders will have the chance to purchase tickets at a discounted rate of $10, and will be eligible for an exclusive presale opportunity. Tickets may be purchased online at www.RenoAces.com beginning Monday, March 20 and at the Reno Aces Ticket Office on Saturday, March 10.

The Aces begin their defense of the Pacific North Division Championship on Thursday, April 5 at Aces Ballpark. All full and partial Aces season tickets are available now by calling (775) 334-4700. For up-to-date news and notes throughout the offseason, visit www.RenoAces.com, follow the club on Twitter (@aceball) or like the team on Facebook.

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Two junior college transfers and two prep products have enrolled in classes this semester at the University of Nevada, the Wolf Pack football program announced today.

Defensive backs Nigel Haikins and Markus Smith, both juniors, join the Wolf Pack from the junior college ranks while Reggie Coates and Andrew Main previously signed National Letters of Intent with Nevada in 2011 and delayed enrollment until the spring semester.

Haikins is 5-10 and 205 pounds and comes to Nevada from Diablo Valley College in the Bay Area. Smith is 6-1, 185 and joins the Pack from Riverside (Calif.) Community College.

Coates (Crespi HS; Canoga Park, Calif.) is a 6-1, 240-pound freshman defensive end while Main (Los Alamitos HS; Los Alamitos, Calif.) is a 6-3, 270-pound freshman offensive lineman.

More information on the players will be available along with the rest of the 2012 signing class, which will be announced Feb. 1

RENO, Nev. – The University of Nevada has completed its 2012 non-conference football schedule with the addition of a home game against the University of South Florida, a member of the Big East Conference, the school announced Tuesday. The matchup is part of a two-game series between the teams as Nevada will play at South Florida in 2015.

Nevada will travel to face California on Sept. 1 to open the season and the Wolf Pack will then come home to Mackay Stadium to play host to South Florida (Sept. and Northwestern State (Sept. 15). After a bye week, Nevada will play at Texas State (Sept. 29) before beginning the Pack’s first ever Mountain West slate.

“USF has an outstanding football team that will present us with some unique challenges,” Nevada coach Chris Ault said. “They are well coached and have some quality players.  This is a game our fans won’t want to miss.”

This marks the sixth time since 2005 that Nevada has played host to a BCS conference school. Nevada has four wins against BCS school since the inception of the series in 1998.

This will be the first meeting between Nevada and USF. The Bulls went 5-7 in 2011 — their first non-winning season since 2004 — and are 13-12 under head coach Skip Holtz, who will be entering his third season in 2012.

“Nevada offers a difficult test for us,” Holtz said. “Offensively, they’ve been very productive under Coach Ault and they’ve had a lot of success as a team over the last few years. Going on the road and playing in a tough environment early in the season will give us an opportunity to see where we are and could help us as we move deeper into the schedule.”

The trip to Reno in 2012 will mark the third time in USF program history that it will play west of the Rocky Mountains. The Bulls traveled to San Diego to take on San Diego St. in 1999 and they also visited Utah in 2001.

The Mountain West portion of the schedule will be released in the coming months. Nevada will have four home games in league play as Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Wyoming will come to Mackay Stadium. The Wolf Pack’s conference road games will be against Air Force, Hawaii, New Mexico and UNLV.

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It turns out the bite of a wolf is mightier than the sting of a yellow jacket. University of Nevada mascot “Wolfie Jr.” is howling in celebration after capping off an undefeated season by knocking off Georgia Tech’s “Buzz” in the championship of the 10th annual Capital One Mascot Challenge. With the win he gets his claws on the $20,000 prize for his school’s mascot program.

A first-time participant, “Wolfie Jr.” had an undefeated regular season, scrapping past other irritable beasts including ferocious tigers, terrifying beavers and freaky-looking frogs. After advancing to the playoffs and making it through two rounds of single-elimination he entered the championship match against “Buzz” of Georgia Tech. Fans cast votes at www.CapitalOneBowl.com, on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/MascotChallenge and via text voting throughout the 16-week program. Both mascots making the finals had an undefeated record and boasted some of the highest vote totals to date, making it one of the most anticipated match-ups ever in the animal kingdom.

“We are proud of what our students and community accomplished for `Wolfie Jr.’ and the University of Nevada,” said Dr. Marc Johnson, president of the University of Nevada. “Our campus has an extraordinary amount of spirit and pride and we’re pleased to showcase it on a national level.”

A record 45 million votes were cast during the season-long competition.

“This year’s competition was intense and each Mascot and school put up a ferocious fight,” said Marc Mentry, Senior Vice President of Advertising and Sponsorships at Capital One. “In the end, `Wolfie Jr.’ proved to be too tough.”

The entire 2011 Capital One All-America Mascot Team included:

Wilbur T. Wildcat of University of Arizona
Sparty of Michigan State University
Aubie of Auburn University
Mike the Tiger of Louisiana State University
Testudo of the University of Maryland
Wolfie Jr. of the University of Nevada
Hairy Dawg of the University of Georgia
Boomer of the University of Oklahoma
Brutus Buckeye of The Ohio State University
Big Blue of Old Dominion University
The Duck of the University of Oregon
Benny Beaver of Oregon State University
Buzz of Georgia Tech
SuperFrog of TCU
Cy of Iowa State
Big Red of Western Kentucky University

For school mascots who are not on the All-America team, the Capital One Mascot Challenge also includes an annual “write-in” campaign at the program web site, www.CapitalOneBowl.com. The write-in winner this year is “Herbie Husker” of the University of Nebraska, who formerly won the 2005 Capital One Mascot Challenge title. He earns $1,000 toward the University of Nebraska mascot program and a position on the 2012 Capital One All-America Mascot Team, pending an official nomination from his school. Nebraska earned an invitation to the Capital One Bowl game and “Herbie Husker” will be in attendance in Orlando to cheer on his team and meet national champion, “Wolfie Jr.”

“Wolfie Jr.” is joining an elite group of mascots that have held the Capital One National Mascot of the Year title over the past 10 years. Past winners include: “Monty” of University of Montana (2002, 2004), “Cocky” of University of South Carolina (2003), “Herbie Husker” of University of Nebraska (2005), “Butch T. Cougar” of Washington State University (2006), “Zippy” of University of Akron (2007), “Cy” of Iowa State University (2008), “Bearcat” of University of Cincinnati (2009) and defending champion “Big Blue” of Old Dominion University (2010). Throughout the college football season, fans have enjoyed viewing custom videos created for each mascot portraying their entertaining back stories. Fans can continue watching these videos at: www.CapitalOneBowl.com and www.Facebook.com/MascotChallenge.

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The Nevada Fight Song

HAIL to our sturdy team, loyal and true,
MARCH, march on down the field oh Silver and Blue!

We’ll give a long cheer for NEVADA’s team,
See them break through again,
Fighting for our own U of N to victory.

N – E – V – A – D – A
NEVADA!

The Law of the Jungle

“The Law of the Jungle” is a poem from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. It is recited before each home football and basketball game in a chant led by the student section.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back –
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

The chorus is followed by a wolf’s howl played over the stadium sound system and echoed throughout the venue by the fans in attendance.

The Blue Crew

One of Nevada’s youngest traditions, the Blue Crew was a student booster organization that debuted in the 2003-04 academic year. The crew was started as a way to bring out the spirit of the Silver and Blue in current students. As many of the teams began to claim, or re-claim for some, success and glory, it become necessary for the students to organize under a single banner to show their undying support for the Pack.

The Blue Crew gets bonuses, as in a frequent flyer program. Each member presents an ID and garners points for coming to events. They get free Blue Crew T-shirts from Pepsi (the university’s soft drink supplier) and swipe cards for discounts at area stores.

Painting the “N”

Hillside letters are a common site in the Western U.S. and on the side of Peavine Peak proudly sits the “N” of Nevada. Every fall during the football season, a group of avid supporters and student make the trek up the hill to add a fresh coat of paint to the “N.”

The Fremont Cannon

The Fremont Cannon – one of college football’s largest and most expensive “trophies” – is now over 30 years old and is the prize sought after when two in-state rivals, The University of Nevada and UNLV, meet each fall in football.

Nevada’s two university football teams annually play for the right to house the mountain howitzer each season. Today’s cannon is a replica of a gun that accompanied Captain John C. Fremont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843-44.

The replica cannon was reconstructed in 1970 as the gift of the Nevada Mines Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation to the students of the two campuses of the University of Nevada. It was built from engineering and technical drawings from the military archives of the United States Army.

Bill Ireland, a 1952 Nevada alumnus who was UNLV’s first football coach, deserves credit for connecting athletics boosters on each end of the state with Howard Winn, Kennecott general manager in White Pine County. Ireland, a McGill native, was able to sell Winn on the idea along with Wolf Pack boosters such as Bill Parish, a 1945 alumnus who played for the Wolf Pack in the early 1940s.

“One of the things I sold Kennecott on was that if they supported it, this would truly become a statewide trophy, including the cow counties,” said Ireland, who coached baseball and football at Nevada before a distinguished career as head football coach and later athletic director at UNLV.

The Wolf Pack won the first game between the universities in 1969, but the Rebels were the first team to capture the cannon in 1970 by a score of 42-20. The winner is allowed to paint the cannon its school colors while it has possession of it.

“It’s the most symbolic “trophy” for winning a state championship in the country and as much a part of the football tradition as the game itself,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault said. “The Fremont Cannon is such a monumental trophy that we built a spot for it when we built Cashell Fieldhouse in the 1980’s.”

Today, the cannon resides in its “home” in the renovated Cashell Football Center. A special alcove was reserved for the cannon when renovations were completed a couple of years ago. More on the Fremont Cannon.

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The Wolf Pack

The Nevada Wolf Pack, one of only two teams nationally to use the designation (North Carolina State is the other, though they use Wolfpack as one word while Nevada uses two words with a capital ‘P’), has been using the Wolf Pack designation since at least the early 1920s.

Nevada’s first athletic teams in the late 1890s and early 1900s were referred to as the Sagebrushers or even the Sage Hens after Nevada’s state flowering plant, the sagebrush. There are references in print to the ‘Sage Warriors’, although none of these names were the official mascot of Nevada’s athletic teams.

In the 1921-22 athletic season, a local writer described the spirited play of a Nevada team as a ‘pack of wolves’. The name stuck and soon almost every reference to the athletic teams was the Nevada Wolves. In 1923, the students officially designated ‘Wolves’ as the school’s mascot.

Since all teams are a group of players, the word pack followed quickly. In 1928-29, the Nevada student handbook referred to the athletic teams as Wolf Pack and two school songs were adopted, entitled ‘The Wolf Pack’ and ‘Here Comes the Wolf Pack’.

The Nevada Fight Song

HAIL to our sturdy team, loyal and true,
MARCH, march on down the field oh Silver and Blue!

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Nevada To Face Southern Miss In Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl

HONOLULU, Hawai`i – The University of Nevada will make its third appearance in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl after accepting an invitation to play in the 2011 game, Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl Executive Director David A. K. Matlin announced. The Wolf Pack (7-5) will represent the Western Athletic Conference and will play Conference USA champion Southern Miss on Christmas Eve.

“On behalf of the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl Executive Committee and Sheraton Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, I am pleased to invite the University of Nevada Wolf Pack to the 10th annual Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl,” Matlin said. “Led by Hall of Fame coach Chris Ault, the Wolf Pack will spend their last season in the WAC with a postseason trip to Honolulu!”

“We are appreciative of the opportunity to play in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl and we’re excited to be able to showcase our university and represent Nevada on national television on Christmas Eve,” said Nevada Athletics Director Cary Groth.

Nevada finished in a tie for second in the WAC standings with a 5-2 conference mark. The Wolf Pack will be making a bowl appearance for the seventh consecutive year and third in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl since 2005. Nevada defeated Central Florida 49-48 in 2005 and lost to SMU 45-10 in 2009. Nevada will be competing in its 12th all-time bowl.

“One of the most memorable games in our history featured the University of Nevada defeating UC, 49-48 in overtime,” Matlin said. “With an exciting style of play, featuring the WAC’s leading receiver Rishard Matthews, Nevada will represent the WAC well.”
The Wolf Pack has the nation’s fifth-most potent offense, averaging 522.8 yards per game and also ranks eighth nationally in rushing offense at 251.8 yards per game. Matthews is among the nation’s leaders in receiving (91 rec., 1,364 yds.) and has seven 100-yard receiving games.

“The Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl is a class bowl and playing a nationally ranked Southern Miss team presents us with a great opportunity,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault said.

The Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Kickoff for the 2011 Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl is Saturday, Dec.  24 at 8 p.m. EST/3 p.m. HST, on ESPN from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. Tickets are available by calling 808-548-BOWL or online at www.sheratonhawaiibowl.com.

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RENO, Nev. – The University of Nevada will hold food drives to benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and needy families in the community at this weekend’s men’s basketball and football games.

Wolf Pack fans are encouraged to bring donations of non-perishable food to the men’s basketball game vs. Washington at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2 and the football game vs. Idaho at 1:05 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3. Food barrels will be available at the entrances at both Lawlor Events Center and Mackay Stadium.

Tickets are available for both games by visiting at the Lawlor Events Center ticket office, calling (775) 348-PACK (7225) or going online at www.NevadaWolfPack.com.

The Food Bank especially needs the following items: canned meats, fish and nuts, peanut butter, macaroni & cheese, powdered milk, baby formula and food, canned meals: stews, ravioli, chili and hearty soups, canned fruits and juices, canned vegetables, spaghetti sauce, dry cereal, oatmeal, rice and pasta.

The donations will be delivered to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada to distribute this holiday season.

The Food Bank of Northern Nevada is a regional food distribution and support system serving over 125 partner agencies in Northern Nevada and the Eastern Sierra. The Food Bank of Northern Nevada provides and supports programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs and Kids Cafe (dinner program), Kids Cafe Summer Meals program, Food Stamp Outreach and much more.

One in five children in Nevada live in a home where there is not enough food for three meals per day, and one in six people in Nevada needs to seek food assistance to make ends meet. Among clients who visit emergency food program sites, children are the most vulnerable to hunger; 46 percent of emergency food recipients are children under the age of 18. Last year the Food Bank of Northern Nevada provided over four million meals to low income seniors, children and families.

This week’s food drives are part of Nevada Athletics’ on-going partnership with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and the goal of creating “One Hunger-Free Community, One Pack.”

Wolf Pack student-athletes, coaches and staff will be participating in volunteer activities with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada throughout the year and started with a “Pack the Pack” Pay-it-Forward Party to put together snack packs for the Backpack Kids program in September. Other planned activities include volunteer nights at the food bank and other events, challenges and food drives at home games.

Last year, Wolf Pack fans stepped up to help the Food Bank raise funds to provide over 112,000 meals and collect 5,456 pounds of food in December and January as part of the football team’s participation in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.

For more information about the Wolf Pack or the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, please visit www.NevadaWolfPack.com or www.fbnn.org.

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Nevada (6-3, 4-0) vs. LA Tech (6-4, 4-1)

Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011   -  1:05 p.m. PT
Mackay Stadium   -   Reno, Nev.

RADIO:  Wolf Pack Radio Network (Flagship: ESPN Radio 94.5 FM/630 AM) with Ryan Radtke (PxP) and Chris Vargas (analyst). Pre-game show with the broadcast crew begins 90 minutes prior to kickoff.
TV: None. Live video/audio streaming at www.NevadaWolfPack.com
SERIES HISTORY: Nevada leads the all-time series 7-4 and the Pack has won the last six meetings.
LAST MEETING: The Wolf Pack clinched the 2010 WAC title with a 35-17 win in Ruston, La.

THE SKINNY
After exacting a wee bit of revenge last week against Hawaii, the Nevada football team gears up for a showdown between the top two teams in the WAC standings as Louisiana Tech comes to town on Saturday … A win will give Nevada at least a share of the WAC title … There is no television broadcast scheduled for this game … Nevada enters the game with a 16-game home winning streak at Mackay Stadium, which is tied for the second-longest in the country … The Wolf Pack has the reigning WAC Offensive Player of the Week in quarterback Cody Fajardo … The Wolf Pack is already bowl eligible for the seventh straight season … Nevada is the only team in the WAC that controls its own destiny in terms of winning an outright title … Nevada has won 10 straight WAC games overall (last loss at Hawaii in 2010) and 10 straight WAC home games (last loss vs. Boise State in 2008) … Nevada leads the WAC and is fifth nationally in total offense at 524.25 ypg … Nevada players lead the WAC in five different statistical categories … Nevada was picked third in the WAC in preseason voting by coaches and media, behind Hawaii and Fresno State … Nevada won the WAC Championship last year along with Boise State and Hawaii … Nevada returns 14 starters (6/7/1) from last year’s 13-1 team and 31 overall letterwinners (15/15/1) … Amongst the returners are four All-WAC players in 2010 in senior wideout Rishard Matthews, junior offensive lineman Chris Barker, senior linebacker James-Michael Johnson and senior cornerback Isaiah Frey.

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