Utah Tech dropped its fourth-straight, and its third extra-inning game of the season, after a hard-fought 6-5 loss in 10 innings to Stephen F. Austin in the final game of a three-game WAC series on Sunday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field.
 
The Blazers (7-18/2-4 WAC) trailed 4-0 through five complete after SFA plated one run in the fourth and three more in the fifth. Meanwhile, the Utah Tech offense only mustered two base hits off of Lumberjack starter Conner Woods (ND).
 
Utah Tech managed to solve Woods in the home sixth, striking for four two-out runs to knot the score at 4-4. After a Morgan Albrecht double put runners on second and third, Luke Jackson got the Trailblazers on the board with a check-swing single down the third base line that chased home Ethan He carrying UT's first run.
 
Shane Taylor then stepped up and just missed his second home run of the season as he drilled an opposite field double high off the left field wall to score two more runs and make it a 4-3 game. Taylor would come around to score the tying run two pitches later on a Lumberjack throwing error.
 
Utah Tech had a chance to win it in the bottom of the ninth as the Trailblazers loaded the bases on three walks, two of which were intentional passes, with the last coming with two outs in the frame. 
 
However the Blazers, who stranded 13 baserunners on the day, could not push across the game-winning run as Lumberjack reliever Garrett Gearner (W, 4-0) battled back from a 3-0 count to record an inning-ending strikeout to send the game to extra innings.
 
SFA (11-12/5-4 WAC) jumped back on top in the 10^th when Nolan Brown followed a Hunter Prescher one-out single with his second home run of the series to put his side up 6-4.
 
Utah Tech looked as if they had a chance to possibly tie or win the game in the home 10^th after Jackson was hit by a Gearner pitch to start the inning and scampered to third on an errant pick-off throw.
 
Jackson would eventually score on a Jack Walker fly out, though Gearner managed to retire the next three Blazers he faced after his error to end the game.  
 
The Trailblazers collected five hits on the day, but were held hitless from the seventh inning on.  
 
Utah Tech will play now play eight-straight, and 12 of its next 15 games, on the road, beginning next weekend in Riverside with a three-game WAC series at California Baptist.