BASE: DSC Doubled-Up by HPU

Sea Warriors extend PWC lead to four games

DSC celebrates Oldfield HR

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ST. GEORGE, UTAH – Dixie State College dropped two games on Monday to Hawaii Pacific University at Bruce Hurst Field. HPU came from behind to win the early game 5-3 and exploded for 17 hits en route to a 17-7 afternoon triumph.

The Red Storm (11-9, 6-6 PWC) fall four games back of the conference-leading Sea Warriors (15-4, 10-2 PWC) and will not get another crack in official conference play until they play in Oahu in April. HPU takes the four-game PWC series three games to one.

Colton Yack (South Jordan, UT/Bingham) and Drew Oldfield (Aurora, CO/Rangeview) each blasted solo home runs in the third inning of game one. DSC held the lead until the sixth when Quinn Boyer (Ogden, UT/Bonneville HS) lost a Baj Nooij fly ball in left leading to a double. Kale Sumner knocked in Nooij with a single to tie the game 3-3. In the seventh, Blake Amaral's RBI single scored the go-ahead run and Lester Akeo added an insurance RBI for the 5-3 final.

Payton Rentmeister (Riverton, UT/Riverton) allowed two runs in relief for the loss (1-1). Starter Preston Grimes (Taylorsville, UT/Taylorsville) received a no-decision after 5.2 innings of three run (two earned), six hit baseball. Yack and Tony Nelson (St. George. UT/Dixie) were the only Red Storm players notching multi-hit efforts.

In the later game, DSC took a 3-2 advantage into the third after a two-run Oldfield blast and a Yack RBI double. HPU responded with five runs in the third and seventh innings to cruise to the series-clinching win.

Alex Hesterly (Alpine, UT/Lone Peak) squandered seven runs on five hits in 2.1 innings in his third start (L, 1-1). Offensively, Boyer added three hits and two runs. Brett Adams (Sandy, UT/Alta) notched a pair of safeties including a solo homer in the seventh. Chas Brunke (Glendale, AZ/Cactus) swatted two hits from the nine spot in his first start of the season.

Dixie State battles Hawaii Pacific in a non-conference tilt on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 1:00pm.

Live radio coverage from Bruce Hurst Field begins at 12:50pm with the “Voice of the Red Storm” John Potter on Classical 91.3 FM and Network1Sports.com.

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