Dixie State used six extra-base hits, including three homers, coupled with a pair of solid pitching performances, to square its season-ending road series at California Baptist with a 9-4 victory on Friday night at Totman Stadium. 
 
A night after the Trailblazers (21-33/13-16 WAC) saw CBU jump out to a 3-0 second inning lead, they flipped the script on Friday night, striking for three two-out runs in the second to take control early.
 
With Tyler Hollow at first base following a one-out single, freshman shortstop Ethan He won an eight-pitch duel with CBU starter CJ Culpepper (L, 5-3) with his first collegiate home run, a rocket shot over the left field wall. 
 
Jagun Leavitt followed with a double down the first base line and he would come home five pitches later on a Shane Taylor RBI single. 
 
DSU kept its two-out magic going over the next three frames, scoring five two-out runs over that stretch to extend to a commanding 8-0 lead. Tyler Hollow made it a 4-0 game in the third when he just missed his fourth homer of the season, but he did leg out his first career triple, which chased home younger brother Kaden Hollow, who he reached on a lead-off walk. 
 
Dixie State followed that up with three more two-out runs in the fourth, the first coming on a Parker Schmidt homer to left. Then after two walks and at a hit batter loaded the bases, Tyler Hollow ripped a two-run single to right. 
 
Then in the fifth, Leavitt doubled to lead off the frame and would advance to third on a Taylor infield hit before scampering home on a double play ball. In all, the Trailblazers were 6-for-11 with seven walks and a hit batter with two outs over their first five offensive frames. 
 
The early run support bolstered a strong start for sophomore righthander Brett Porthan, who struck out three and held the Lancers to only one hit through his first four innings of work. 
 
CBU looked as if it had solved Porthan in the fifth when Ulises Caballero got his side on the board with a lead off solo homer, which was followed by an infield hit and a double that put two more Lancers into scoring position with no outs. 
 
However the sophomore escaped the jam with no further damage as he sandwiched two flyouts to right field around a strikeout.
 
The Trailblazers quickly got that run back in the sixth when Tyson Fisher drove the second pitch of the inning over the right field wall for his team-leading 10^th homer of the season. 
 
CBU finally got to Porthan in the sixth as the first four Lancers reached, two of whom scored, which cut the lead to 9-3 and spelled the end of the day for the Blazer starter. 
 
DSU reliever Ryan Hardman came and was greeted by a Shayne Simpson single that loaded the bases. However that would be it for the Lancers as Harrison Spohn lined into a unassisted double play to Taylor at third, and Hardman got Russell Stevenson to fly out to Fisher in right to end the threat. 
 
Hardman went the rest of the way for DSU, limiting the Lancers to one run and four hits with four strikeouts over four innings of relief to earn his fourth save of the season.  
 
All nine Trailblazers in the line-up reached base safely, eight of which with base hits, led by Tyler Hollow who finished the night 3-for-5 with three RBI. Leavitt and Taylor also collected two hits as DSU outhit the Lancers 12-10.
 
Though Kaden Hollow was the lone Blazer batter not to record a hit in the game, he did tie a DSU NCAA-era record by drawing four walks as he finished 0-for-1 at the plate with two runs scored. 
 
Meanwhile, Fisher's long ball in the sixth marked the third-straight game that the junior outfielder had homered, and he became the just the eighth different player in the program's NCAA era to hit at least 10 home runs in a season (t-eighth on DSU's single season list). 
 
In addition, Fisher's homer was the 31^st of his career, which vaulted him into a tie for second place on DSU's career home run list (31 - Drew Oldfield, 2009-10), and moved to within one of tying former teammate Jake Engel (32; 2017-21) for the DSU career home run record.  
 
Porthan (W, 7-4) pitched five innings complete, striking out four while scattering three runs and six hits to pick up his seventh win in his final start of the season.  
 
DSU will play for the series victory in the Blazers' 2022 season finale on Saturday beginning at 12 noon (PT).