Utah Tech picked up its second WAC series win of the season thanks to a sweep of New Mexico State in a Saturday doubleheader at Karl Brooks Field. The Trailblazers (20-10/5-1 WAC) rallied past the Aggies to claim game one, 5-4, then rode a solid pitching performance from Kate Dolinski to clinch the series win with a 4-1 triumph in the nightcap.
 
In the opener, the Aggies (13-13/2-4 WAC) broke the seal in a scoreless game with a two-out, three-run Riley Carley home run in the third inning. 
 
Utah Tech used the long ball to get back into the game in the home fourth, when after Hannah Hughbanks doubled to lead off the frame, LB Kahahawai-Kekona clubbed her first collegiate home run over the left field fence to make it a 3-2 game.
 
The Trailblazers would pull even three batters later when Marisa Rubio tripled to right field to chase home pinch runner Brooklyn Dowdle carrying the tying run. 
 
The game remained tied until the sixth when NM State pulled ahead on a run-scoring groundout.

Utah Tech answered in its half of the frame with a two-out, two-run Carly Eldredge homer that gave the Blazers' their first lead of the game. Sophomore hurler Attlyn Johnston (W, 7-3) made that lead stand as she retired the Aggies in order in the seventh to close out the win. 
 
The Trailblazers collected eight hits in the opener, with Hughbanks accounting for three of those safeties. Johnston struck out a career-high 11 and scattered four runs and nine hits over seven innings to earn her seventh win of the season. 
 
Utah Tech led wire-to-wire in the series finale, striking for two first-inning runs thanks a Kahahawai-Kekona two-out single.
 
Then after NM State cut the Blazer lead in half with a run in the fourth, the Trailblazers plated two more runs in the sixth on a Lauren Almeida lead-off homer and a Madisen Duryea pinch hit RBI-single.
 
The run support was more than enough for Dolinski (W, 5-1), as the fifth-year season fanned a career-high nine and surrendered only the one run and five hits in seven-innings complete in her finest outing of the season.
 
Utah Tech returns to action this Monday afternoon with a non-conference home date against in-state foe BYU. First pitch is set for 4 p.m.