Utah Tech extended its win season high win streak to six straight on the strength of a 10-3 road win at in-state rival BYU on Monday afternoon at Miller Field.

The victory was Utah Tech's first-ever win in Provo during its NCAA Division I era, and was the program's eighth victory against an NCAA "Power 5" conference opponent, and the second-ever victory against a current member of the Big 12 Conference. 

The Trailblazers (13-11) drew first blood with two first inning runs to jump out to an early advantage. Levi Randall started the game with a single, while Hunter Katschke was hit by a pitch and Kyle McDaniel walked to load the bases with no outs.

Finnegan Stewart then beat out a possible double-play ball to drive in Randall carrying the game's first run, which was followed by a sharp opposite field single off the bat of Aaron Perez to make it a 2-0 game.

BYU (11-8) clapped back with a run of its own in the second, but Utah Tech got that run back in the fourth when Katschke answered the first-inning beaning with his fourth home run of the season to extend the Blazer lead to 3-1. 

Utah Tech added another tally an inning later when Ryan Kroepel doubled off the wall in left center to bring Perez around to score after the Blazer first baseman reached on a one-out walk.

Meanwhile, junior southpaw Brock Roundy made that early lead stand as he fanned six and limited BYU to just one run and four hits over his first five innings of work.

The Cougars looked as if it had solved Roundy in the home sixth, starting the inning with a hit batter and a Bryker Hurdsman double. 

However the Blazer hurler limited BYU to only one run, retiring three of the next four Cougars he faced, two of whom on strikes to escape the jam with Utah Tech clinging to a 4-2 advantage.

Utah Tech turned things over its bullpen in the seventh, and after Cougar lead-off hitter Crew McChesney reached on a lead-off walk, freshman reliever Jackson Bell came back with a strikeout and induced an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play to end the threat and send the game to the eighth.

The Trailblazers then broke the game open in the eighth with five two-out insurance runs to extend to a commanding 9-2 advantage.

Perez collected his second and third RBI of the game with a single to right center. Then after a costly Cougar error and a hit batter loaded the bases, Ethan Royal drew a walk to force in another run. 

Petey Soto Jr. followed that with a two-run single as Utah Tech sent 10 batters to the plate in the stanza.

Perez, who pounded out a career-high four hits, closed out his big day with another RBI-single in the ninth. Meanwhile Bell (4 Ks) and Dakota Gray combined to hold BYU to only one hit and one run over the final three innings to close out the big road victory.

Paced by Perez's career day, Utah Tech pounded out 12 hits on the afternoon, with McDaniel and Kroepel each finishing with two hits apiece to complement their fellow infielder.

Roundy (W, 1-0) wound up with a career-high eight strikeouts in a season-long 6.0 innings of work.

Utah Tech now heads from northern Utah to southern California to open up its fifth season of Western Athletic Conference play this weekend in Riverside with a three-game road series at California Baptist.