On the fourth Sunday of every month, Matt LaGrone sheds his basketball uniform and sometimes dons the jerseys of former National Football League players. However, instead of watching or playing the game in his gear, he preaches to an audience fixed on his every word.

With the 9-7 score favoring Nevada in Saturday night’s fifth game against San Jose State, senior Teal Ericson yelled to her teammates, “This is where we fight.” The Wolf Pack went 2-1 in its second-to-last week of regular season play, and as the seniors played their last two career home games, fighting was a common theme for the week.

During last season’s 58-49 loss to UNLV, Demarshay Johnson remembers sitting on the bench and just wishing that he could be out on the court helping his team. He could see everything going wrong on the court, all of the little mistakes made by his team, unfolding right in front of him.

Nearly 500 fans were in attendance as children in costumes, from princesses to monsters, covered the Lawlor Events Center Friday afternoon to go trick-or-treating with the men’s and women’s basketball teams and the cheerleaders at the fourth annual Hoops and Treats.

After a season that was plagued by injury to some of its strongest runners, the Nevada cross country team worked its way to a second place finish at the Western Athletic Conference Championship Saturday in Logan, Utah.

Two key players from last year’s Western Athletic Conference championship squad left the team and former head coach Terri Patraw was fired three days before the season opener.

Since then, Nevada has struggled through a season that was supposed to build on last season’s success. In the last month, things have not gotten any easier as Nevada has lost two defenders for the rest of the season due to knee injuries.

Despite the return of All-WAC defender Randee Robinson, Nevada lost its third straight game on Friday after a 2-0 loss to Utah State at Mackay Stadium.

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The Wolf Pack went on the road to open up conference play this weekend, but returned home on a low after it lost to Hawaii 3-0 Friday night and San Jose State 2-1 Sunday afternoon.

The Nevada soccer team finished out a rivalry-filled weekend by dominating UNLV 3-0 Sunday afternoon at Mackay Stadium. Up to this point, the Wolf Pack was 0-4-1 against the Rebels in the all-time series record.

Men’s head golf coach Rich Merritt missed Nevada’s first two tournaments and will miss one more due to an NCAA violation committed earlier in the season.

The Wolf Pack soccer team added a much needed win Sunday afternoon as it beat UNLV 3-0. This is the first win Nevada has had in its all time series record with the Rebels.

When it comes time for the University of Nevada to play rival University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the outcome is generally a toss-up. The Wolf Pack has its winning streaks, as do the Rebels, but neither team has dominated a single sport indefinitely.

With two weeks of non-conference play left, the Wolf Pack fell to 1-5-1 at the UNLV Rebel Classic in Las Vegas this weekend.

The Wolf Pack was looking to come back to the Virginia Street Gym this weekend to improve its 2-2 record before heading to conference play Friday. Instead, the Wolf Pack left the tournament with uncertainty, going 1-2 in the AT&T invitational and fell to 3-4 overall.