Darrell Fisherbaugh got the save with 2 1/3 scoreless innings, but was saved by third baseman Schafer Magana, who snagged two line drives.

"This one was a nail-biter," UH designated hitter Nate Thurber said. "I thought we had a cushion with that 7-4 lead, but it goes to show you can't let up on anybody in the WAC. But we buckled down, played defense and got it done."

The Wolf Pack (20-19, 9-8) had Jacob Butler on first after a one-out walk in the ninth when, with the runner going, Ben Mummy drilled a 3-2 pitch at Magana. He leaped to make the catch and fired to first to complete the game-ending double play, drawing a roar from the 1,898 at Les Murakami Stadium.

"They were hit pretty hard," Magana said of the liners. "The last one, especially, it was curving."

Fisherbaugh knows the Wolf Pack are a good-hitting team, as evident by their 12 hits.

"It's nerve-wracking," he said. "But you know they're going to hit the ball, put it in play. You just want them to hit it at somebody, like they hit at Schafer a couple times. Luckily."

Thurber's one out, two-run homer to left center in the bottom of the fifth put UH ahead 5-4.

"He backed me up with two fastballs every (previous) at-bat," Thurber said. "I figured he was going with that because the two previous at-bats, he blew it by me. It felt good (to homer)."

At the time, the stadium's flags were limp, meaning there was no wind to hold up his drive.

Steven Wright (4-3) gave up two runs on five hits with three strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings in relief of starter Colby Summer. Summer went just three innings, allowing four runs on six hits and a walk with two strikeouts.

"Colby just didn't have it," UH coach Mike Trapasso said. "He didn't have command. He was saying he didn't have a good feel today."

Wright held the Wolf Pack scoreless for 3 1/3 innings. But with one out in the seventh, Brett Hayes singled and Butler's ground-rule double to right-center set up Mummy's two-run double that pulled Nevada to 7-6. After Baker Krukow flied to right for the second out, Wright was lifted for Fisherbaugh.

Fisherbaugh hit Shawn Scobee, and a passed ball moved the runners into scoring position. But Eric Newman hit a scorching liner that was snagged by Magana for the third out.

Trapasso said he determined that Krukow was going to be Wright's final batter.

"Steve was getting tired and getting balls up (in the strike zone)," Trapasso said. "He just wouldn't have been as good a fit for Scobee as a fresh Fish (Fisherbaugh)."

The Wolf Pack staked starter Ryan Rodriguez (8-4) to a 2-0 lead on a first-inning RBI single by Mummy and a second-inning RBI single by Robert Marcial.

The Rainbows tied it in the bottom of the second on a two-run triple to right by Esteban Lopez on a fly tailing away from right fielder Scobee, who tried to make a sliding catch, but the ball went off his glove and rolled to the wall.

Scobee's two-run homer on a 2-0 offering from Summer put the Wolf Pack ahead 4-2. But UH got a run back in the bottom of the frame on Magana's RBI single.

After Thurber's two-run shot in the fifth, the Rainbows added insurance runs in the sixth on a wild pitch and run-scoring double by Erik Ammon.