Dixie State dropped the final game of its four-game WAC series with California Baptist by a 14-8 count on Sunday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field. With the loss, the Trailblazers came away with a split of their series against their former Pacific West Conference rivals and fell to 11-22 overall, 9-11 in WAC play.

After surrendering a CBU first inning run, Dixie State answered with two runs in its first swings and plated another run in the second to take an early 3-1 lead. Tanner Harper got the Blazers on the scoreboard with a sharp single to left field to chase home Shane Taylor, who tripled to right center to lead off the DSU first.

Then after a Lane Pritchard infield hit, Kaden Hollow singled in Harper as DSU opened the frame with four-straight hits. DSU would pad its lead in the second when Mathew Ivancich scored on the back end of a double-steal attempt before Taylor was tagged out in a rundown.

The Lancers (21-11/13-3 WAC) got one of those runs back thanks to a Damon Keith home run in the CBU third, but Dixie State countered with more three runs in the home half of the stanza to extend to a 6-2 advantage.

The Blazers pounded out four hits in the rally, including a Jake Engel RBI-double, while Hollow, who singled ahead of the Engel two-bagger, scored on a wild pitch. Engel would cap the rally later in the frame when he came home on a Tyson Fisher fly out.

From there it was all CBU as the Lancers' offense tallied 12-unanswered runs on 16 hits from the fifth inning on. Meanwhile, three CBU relievers combined to limit Dixie State to just three hits between the fourth and eighth innings.

Dixie State broke the scoring drought in the ninth with a two-run Fisher homer, but the deficit proved to be too much as the Blazers had to settle for the series split.

The Trailblazers did collect 14 hits in the game, with Taylor and Hollow each finishing with three hits, while Fisher's three RBI were a season high.

Dixie State heads out on a four-game road swing this upcoming week, which begins with a return game at in-state foe BYU on Tuesday, April 20. First pitch is slated for 4 p.m., at Miller Park in Provo. The Blazers will then head to southern California for a quick three-game series at San Diego State on April 24-25.