Utah Tech mounted a furious ninth-inning rally, but the Trailblazers were felled by two big Seattle U offensive frame, in a 7-5 decision in the middle game of their final home series of the 2023 season on Saturday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field. 
 
The two teams were locked in an old-fashioned pitcher's duel through the first four innings, with Blazer lefthander Carston Herman matching Redhawk ace Nestor German pitch for pitch in the early going.
 
The sophomore southpaw struck out five and scattered one run and four hits over his first four innings. However the Redhawks (19-28/15-11 WAC) would solve Herman in the fifth, striking for four runs on four hits and one crucial Trailblazer error, to bolt to a 5-0 advantage.
 
Meanwhile, German struck out the side in the first and recorded five of his seven punch outs overall in four innings of two-hit baseball. 
 
Utah Tech (12-36/7-19 WAC) managed to get one of those runs back in the home fifth when Parker Schmidt cashed in consecutive two-out German walks with a double to right center to chase home Karson Irvin carrying the Blazers' first tally. 
 
Seattle U would stretch its lead to 7-1 with a pair of runs in the seventh, while German and Redhawk reliever Cameron Dayton combined to limit the Trailblazers to just two hits over the next three innings.
 
In the Trailblazer ninth, Tyson Fisher reached on a one-out single and Cayden Clark drew a two-out Dayton walk.
 
Garrett Cutting then stepped up and skied a 2-0 Dayton pitch to right field, where the ball got caught in a stiff left-to-right wind that managed to carry it all the way over the wall for a three-run home run to cut the deficit in half at 7-4.
 
The Blazers kept the rally alive when Schmidt reached on a throwing error and scored two pitches later on a double to deep center field off the bat of Mathew Ivancich, which brought up the potential tying run.
 
Unfortunately that would be as close as the Trailblazers would get as Dayton snuffed out the rally with a strikeout to end the game. 
 
Utah Tech rapped out eight hits on the day, with Fisher collecting two of those safeties after entering the game as a pinch hitter in the sixth. 
 
Fisher, who became UT's career leader in games played in Friday night's series opener, moved into solo first place on the program's career total bases list (373). Meanwhile his ninth inning single made the senior the fourth player in Utah Tech's NCAA era to record 200 career base hits. 
 
Utah Tech will look to salvage the final game of the series in its 2023 home finale on Senior Day Sunday beginning at 12 noon.