Dixie State gave homestanding BYU all it wanted and more on Tuesday night, but one big Cougar inning proved to the Trailblazers' undoing as they dropped a 3-2 non-conference road decision on Tuesday night at Miller Field. The loss evened DSU's overall home-and-home season series with the Cougars at 1-1, and moved the Blazers to 18-29 on the year.  
 
The Trailblazers (18-29) led 2-0 after six innings, though it was the first three innings that set really the tone for DSU in the early going. 
 
BYU (28-18) had multiple runners on the base paths in each of those early frames, but thanks to key defensive plays and clutch pitching from south paws Carston Herman and Ben Hart, the Trailblazers held the Cougars scoreless after three complete.
 
Herman hit BYU lead-off hitter Ozzie Pratt with the first pitch of the game, but after coming back to strike out the next batter, catcher Kaden Hollow threw out Pratt trying to steal second. Then after a two-out double and walk, Herman collected his second strikeout of the frame to escape the home first.
 
The Cougars threatened again in the second, loading the bases on Herman with two outs in the second, but Hart came on out of the Blazer pen and induced an inning-ending groundout. Then after BYU led off the third with a base hit, Hart got Ryan Sepede to ground into a 6-4-3 double play. 
 
BYU would get two more base runners on later in the frame, but Hart retired Joshua Cowden on strikes as the Cougars stranded seven total runners as the game headed to the fourth.
 
DSU capitalized in the fourth as Hollow led off the stanza with an opposite field double to left center. The catcher later advanced to third on a Will Chambers groundout and scored the game's first run on a Tyler Hollow groundout.
 
Hart then turned in DSU's first 1-2-3 inning, and he retired the first two hitters he faced in the fifth before Jimmy Borzone came on to get the final out the inning.
 
Dixie State plated its second run in the sixth, which started with Will Chambers getting plunked and a Tyler Hollow single. Then after a flyout and passed ball, Sean Keating chased home pinch runner Parker Schmidt with a one-out grounder to first. 
 
BYU, which was held to a sixth-inning single that was erased by DSU's second double play of the game, wrestled the lead away in the seventh on a one-out Brock Watkins three-run opposite field homer to right field. 
 
The Trailblazers had a chance to tie or take the lead with two on and one out in the eighth. Kaden Hollow singled to lead off the stanza, which was followed one batter later by Tyler Hollow's third hit of the game, which was also the senior's 200^th-career base hit. 
 
However DSU could not take advantage as Cougar reliever Nate Dahle came on and got Tyson Fisher and Sean Keating to flyout to end the threat. BYU closer Reid McLaughlin (S, 10) then came on the ninth and retired the Blazers in order to end the game. 
 
Tyler Hollow finished 3-for-4 with an RBI, and in the process joined former Trailblazer sluggers Drew McLaughlin (291; 2014-17) and Trey Kamachi (225; 2014-17) as the only three players in DSU's 200-hit club. 
 
Meanwhile Kaden Hollow, who threw out his WAC-leading 15^th potential base stealer in the first inning, collected with two hits and a run scored as Dixie State tallied seven hits on the night. The Trailblazers also turned three double plays in the game, while five pitchers combined for six strikeouts and limited BYU's offense to three runs and eight hits.
 
Dixie State will quickly head back to St. George to play host to in-state rival Utah in the Trailblazers' 2022 home finale. First pitch at Bruce Hurst Field is slated for 4 p.m.