Dixie State won its 300^th game as an NCAA Division II program in the nightcap of a Pacific West Conference doubleheader at Holy Names Friday afternoon in Alameda, Calif. HNU snapped the Storm's five-game winning streak by rallying to take the opener, 5-3, while sophomore righthander Dylan File (St. George, Utah/Desert Hills HS) hurled a three-hit shutout to lead DSU to a 3-0 win in the second game.

DSU (19-6/7-4 PacWest) opened game one with three-straight base hits as Tanner Morache (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/Surrey HS) reached on a lead-off double, followed by a Drew McLaughlin (Scottsdale, Ariz./Desert Mountain HS) bunt single and an RBI-single from Trey Kamachi (Kapolei, Hawai'i/Kapolei HS) to bring home Morache with the game's first run. Samuel Hall (Ogden, Utah/Bonneville HS) then drove home McLaughlin on a sacrifice fly to stake DSU to a 2-0 lead.

Storm starter Chance Abrath (Salt Lake City, Utah/West HS) (L, 1-2) breezed through his first time through the HNU lineup as the senior righthander limited the Hawks to just one hit through his first three innings of work. However Holy Names (5-19/3-8 PacWest) solved Abrath in the fourth as the Hawks scored twice to tie the game at 2-2, then erupted for three more runs in the fifth thanks to four hits to bolt out to a 5-2 advantage.

DSU came back with a two-out rally in the sixth as Hall legged out a double and would come home on consecutive wild pitches to pull DSU to within 5-3. Cam Gust (Riverton, Utah/Riverton HS) and Reece Lucero (Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva HS) followed with back-to-back singles to bring up Miles Bice (Henderson, Nev./Coronado HS) representing the go-ahead run, but Hawk reliever Trent Carrier (S, 1) induced an inning-ending groundout the end DSU's threat. Carrier then went on to retire the final nine Storm hitters he faced in order to close out the game.

Dixie State outhit the Hawks 8-7, marking the first time this season DSU had dropped a decision when outhitting an opponent. Morache picked up two safeties to lead the Storm offensively. Abrath scattered seven hits and five runs in his seven innings pitched with four strikeouts.

In game two, DSU tallied a first inning run on a Ryan Rodriguez (Folsom, Calif./Vista Del Lago HS) one-out RBI-single to take a 1-0 lead. The Storm pushed the lead to 3-0 in the fourth frame when Bryce Feist (Emmett, Idaho/Rocky Mountain HS) outdueled HNU pitcher Jayse Bannister (L, 1-4) in a 16-pitch at-bat to drive home Hall, who singled to lead off the frame. Feist, who fouled off eight-straight pitches at one point, then came around to score on a Jake Davison (Taylorsville, Utah/Taylorsville HS) double to left field later in the stanza.

Meanwhile File (W, 3-0) was simply dominant as he set down the first nine Hawks he faced before giving up a lead-off hit in the HNU fourth. File faced just two over the minimum and struck out a career-high nine with no walks in a seven-inning complete-game effort. The victory was also File's second on DSU's current road as he picked up the win in the series opener at Academy of Art (W, 6-3) last Monday.

Dixie State finished with nine hits in game two, including two hits apiece for McLaughlin, Rodriguez and Hall.

Dixie State concludes its eight-game road trip with the series finale at HNU Saturday at 11 a.m. (PT).

NOTES: Dixie State is now 300-174 in nine-plus seasons of NCAA Division II play ... File posted DSU's first complete game of the season and it was his second-career CG win (9-1 vs. AAU; March 27, 2005) ... the seven-inning complete-game shut out was also the program's first since John Conquy (Las Vegas, NV/Durango) no-hit Fresno Pacific on the road last season (1-0; April 3, 2015).