Utah Tech closed out the final day of its Trailblazer Softball Invitational with a 6-5 victory over Idaho State on Monday morning at Karl Brooks Field. The Trailblazers won four of the five games they played over the weekend to improve to 13-6 on the season.
 
After spotting the Bengals (6-12) a 1-0 lead in the second, Utah Tech struck for single runs in the home second and third frames to take a 2-1 advantage. Madison Duryea tied the game with a two-out RBI double, which was followed an inning later with a one-out Carly Eldredge run-scoring single. 
 
ISU would tie the game in the fourth, taking advantage of two of the four Trailblazer errors in the game to push across a two-out run to knot the score at 2-2.
 
However Utah Tech returned the favor an inning later, when after a two-out Bengal miscue loaded the bases, Shea Clements unloaded them with her first home run of the season, a grand slam over the center field fence to make a 6-2 game.
 
Idaho State countered with a run in the sixth and two more in the seventh and had the tying run on second base with two outs, but UT hurler Kate Dolinski (W, 2-3) induced an Ava Brown groundout to end the game.
 
Duryea and Eldredge each had two hits as Utah Tech collected 11 hits on the day. Dolinski tied a career high with five strikeouts, and scattered three earned runs and 10 hits over seven innings to earn her second win of the season.  
 
Utah Tech will head back out on the road this weekend to play five games at the Fresno State Bulldog Classic in Fresno, Calif.