No. 25 Dixie State completed its sweep of a four-game Pacific West Conference series with Hawai'i Hilo with two more victories Tuesday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field. DSU (24-6/12-4 PacWest), which has won six-straight and 11 of its last 12 overall, rallied from a late deficit to claim a 4-3 win in 10 innings in first game of the doubleheader, while senior righthander Chance Abrath (Salt Lake City, Utah/West HS) fired a five-hit shutout to lead the Storm to a 4-0 win in the series finale.

In game one, Dixie State freshman starter Preston Hannay (Murray, Utah/Murray HS) (ND) held the Vulcans (4-21/3-19 PacWest) scoreless on three hits through his first six innings of work, and did not allow a UHH hit until the fifth inning. DSU's offense, which scored 31 runs in the first two games of the series Monday night, was also stifled through its first four frames, though the Storm had their chances with a pair of bases loaded situations in the first and third stanzas, but were turned away by Hilo starter David Moody (ND).

DSU broke through with a single run in the fifth thanks to senior shortstop Tanner Morache (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/Surrey HS), who doubled to lead off the frame and would score two batters later on a wild pitch. The Storm tacked on another run in the sixth when sophomore DH Cam Gust (Riverton, Utah/Riverton HS) took the first Moody pitch he saw over the right field wall for a lead-off home run to stake the Storm to a 2-0 advantage.

However the Vulcans would rally for three runs in the seventh, including a two-run double from Edison Sakata on a ball that just caught the chalk beyond the first base bag and bounded toward the wall, which gave UHH a 3-2 lead.

Dixie State came back with a two-out rally in the eighth as the Storm strung together three hits in the frame, capped by an RBI-single off the bat of catcher Reece Lucero (Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva HS) to knot the score at 3-3. In the DSU 10^th, junior centerfielder Jerome Hill II (Pittsburg, Calif./Pittsburg HS) reached on a lead-off single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Junior outfielder Miles Bice (Henderson, Nev./Coronado HS) then singled up the middle to drive home Hill II with the winning run to end the game.

Bice, Hill II and first baseman Samuel Hall (Ogden, Utah/Bonneville HS) each collected two hits as the Storm outhit the Vulcans 11-8. Senior reliever Spencer Greer (Woodinville, Wash./Woodinville HS) (W, 2-2) tossed two innings of one-hit relief with a pair of strikeouts to pick up his second win of the season. Hannay fanned three and scattered six hits and three runs with no walks in 6.2 innings.

In the nightcap the Storm plated an unearned run in the first thanks to a one-out Vulcan error and an RBI from Hill II, who was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. DSU added two more runs in the third on a Bryce Feist (Emmett, Idaho/Rocky Mountain HS) RBI-single and infield throwing error, and plated a late insurance run in the sixth thanks to a Drew McLaughlin (Scottsdale, Ariz./Desert Mountain HS) run-scoring single.

The run support was more than enough for Abrath (W, 2-2), who needed only 74 pitches to dispatch the Vulcans in seven innings. Abrath fanned three and did not walk a batter, while neither of the six total base runners he allowed in the game advanced past second base.

DSU finished with nine hits in the finale, including two-hit efforts for McLaughlin, Hall, Hill II and Feist. 

Dixie State wraps up its eight-game PacWest homestand with a four-game set vs. Fresno Pacific this weekend at Bruce Hurst Field. The Storm opens the series with a single game Thursday at 6 p.m., followed by a doubleheader Friday beginning at 4 p.m., with the series finale coming Saturday at 12 noon.

SERIES NOTES: Dixie State did not walk a batter in 17 innings of pitched on Tuesday and only issued five total walks in the series (35 IP) … DSU posted its fifth series win of the season and third four-game sweep overall ... Tanner Morache (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/Surrey HS) led off every inning he batted in (1-for-5) and extended his DSU career-best hitting streak to 18 games in Tuesday's opener, but was held hitless in the finale … Morache has hit safely in 27 of 30 games overall this season … Sam Hall also extended his hitting streak to 15 games with base hits in each game Tuesday … DSU has reached double figures in hits in 20 of 30 games this season … DSU outscored UHH in the series 39-14 … the shutout win in the finale was DSU's third of the year … DSU has scored at least one run in all 30 games this season.