Dixie State collected its first win of the 2022 season in thrilling fashion with a 7-6 victory in 10 innings at Arizona State on Saturday night at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
 
Trailing 3-0 heading into the fourth, DSU (1-1) plated a single run in the fourth and tallied three more in the fifth to take its first lead in the series at 4-3. Will Chambers got the Blazers on the board with a two-out single to left to bring around Sean Keating, who singled to right two batters earlier.
 
Then in the fifth, Dixie State loaded the bases with one out and tied the game on consecutive wild pitches. Shane Taylor then spotted the Trailblazers their lead with a RBI-single to center.
 
Arizona State (1-1) wrestled the lead back with two runs in the sixth, but DSU pulled even with Taylor's second RBI of the night on a sacrifice flyout in the seventh.
 
Dixie State would load the bases to begin the eighth, though the Trailblazers could only muster one run in the frame to retake the lead at 6-5. After the Sun Devils recorded the first out, Keith Davis hit a bounding ball to shortstop, but the fleet-footed outfielder beat out the relay throw on the possible double-play chance, which allowed Kaden Hollow to plate the go-ahead run with two outs.
 
DSU would have another chance to break the game open in the ninth when the Trailblazers again loaded the bases with one out. However the Sun Devils escaped still down the only one run after recording the final two outs on the infield to end the Blazer threat.

ASU opened the home ninth with consecutive base hits to put runners on the corners with no outs.
 
DSU righthander Ryan Hardman (W, 1-0) came back to strike out Nate Baez for the first out. The sophomore hurler then thought he induced a game-ending double play off the bat of Sean McLain, but the Sun Devil infielder beat out the relay throw to first, which allowed Kai Murphy, who doubled to lead off the stanza, to score the tying run.
 
Hardman would dodge further damage when, after ASU loaded the bases with two outs, he struck out Kade Higgins to force extra innings.
 
Tyson Fisher singled down the third base line and scampered into second on a Sun Devil throwing error to lead off the DSU 10^th. Jack Walker then bunted Fisher over to third, and the junior outfielder would plate the go-ahead run on a Mathew Ivancich squeeze bunt single.
 
Hardman needed only four pitches to retire the Sun Devils in order in the 10^th to close out the victory.

Dixie State pounded out 12 hits in the win, with Taylor, Keating, Fisher and Jagun Leavitt each collecting two hits apiece. Hardman struck out four and surrendered one run and six hits over 4.2 innings of relief to earn his first win of the year. Sophomore Brett Porthan (ND) fanned five with no walks over 5.1 innings in his first start of the year, though he was touched up for five runs and six hits.
 
The Trailblazers will go for the series when in Sunday's series finale at 12:30 p.m. (MT).