Dixie State completed the four-game sweep of its WAC and "Old Hammer Rivalry" series with in-state rival Utah Valley with a convincing 11-0 triumph in seven innings on Sunday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field. The series sweep, the first as a newly minted Division I program, moved the Trailblazers to 15-26 overall, 13-11 in WAC play.

Freshman righthander Ryan Hardman (W, 1-5) fired six innings of five-hit shutout baseball with a career-high tying five strikeouts to earn his first collegiate victory. Hardman retired 11 of the first 13 Wolverines (7-35/5-23 WAC) he faced, including four on strikes, while no UVU base runner advanced past second base on the freshman.

While Hardman and the DSU defense were doing their thing in the field, the Blazer offense scored all 11 runs from the third inning on. Dixie State got on the board with a Lane Pritchard RBI-single in the third, then struck for three more runs in the fourth to extend to a 4-0 advantage.

Tyson Fisher (5) started the rally with a towering solo home run that sailed well over the center field batter's eye, while Shane Taylor followed with a two-out, two-run double that stayed just inside the first base bag and bounded down the right field line.

Pritchard led off the DSU fifth with a triple and would scamper home on a Cade Spurlin fly out in the fifth, and Taylor followed with a sacrifice fly and RBI with the bases loaded in the sixth. However that play would be remembered more for UVU turning a rare triple play on the fly out as both DSU trailing base runners were tagged out trying to advance on the play.

Dixie State then put the game on ice with five runs in the home seventh thanks to a pair of two-run home runs, the first coming off the bat of Pritchard (4), who drilled a no-doubter over the right field wall after a Jake Engel lead-off single.

DSU would plate another run thanks to Wolverine error later in the frame and Mathew Ivancich ended the game with a "walk-off" two-run blast to right center, which invoked the conference's seven-inning run rule. The homer was Ivancich's second of the series, and of the season.

Pritchard finished a double shy of the cycle as the senior outfielder when 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored. Ivancich also collected three hits to go with his two RBI, while Taylor drove in three runs and had two safeties, as Dixie State pounded out 13 hits on the day.

Freshman hurler Dillon Holliday, who came on in the UVU seventh, struck out one and worked around a one-out double to help complete DSU's first Division I shutout win.

Dixie State will now head out for its final WAC road trip of the season next weekend, May 7-9, as the Trailblazers travel to Phoenix for a four-game series at former Pacific West Conference rival Grand Canyon.