Six Trailblazers recorded at least two hits as Utah Tech baseball evened its final home WAC series of the 2025 season with a hard-fought 10-8 triumph over UT Arlington on Saturday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field. 
 
After surrendering a first inning Maverick run, Utah Tech (20-27/6-14 WAC) led off the home first with three-straight base hits to jump out on its way to 3-1 advantage.
 
Kyle McDaniel extended his Division I-era record on-base streak to 33-straight games with a lead-off single. Kace Naone then split the left center field gap with a double and Ryan Kroepel chased home McDaniel one pitch later with a single to left to tie the game at 1-1.
 
Hunter Katschke collected the first of his two RBI on the afternoon with a run-scoring ground out and he later scored the third run on a two-out passed ball.
 
UT Arlington (18-28/10-10 WAC) answered the Blazers' three-run rally with one of its own in the Maverick third, which included a two-run Tate Bethel that propelled the Mavericks to a 4-3 lead.
 
UTA tacked on another run in the fourth, but the Trailblazers countered with seven-unanswered runs over their next four offensive frames to open up a 10-5 lead. 
 
Naone pulled Utah Tech even at 5-5 with a two-run single with one out in the home fourth, then Katschke put the Blazers back on top with his team-leading 11^th homer of the season to begin the home fifth.
 
The Trailblazers tacked on three more runs in the sixth thanks to RBI singles from both Naone and Aaron Perez, and a bases loaded safety squeeze bunt laid down by Levi Randall. Kroepel then drove in his second run of the day with a two-out single after the stretch to stake his side with the five-run cushion. 
 
Meanwhile, junior reliever Tyler Ray and the Blazer defense managed to keep UTA at bay through the sixth and seventh innings. 
 
However the Mavericks would make things interesting with one out in the eighth thanks to a two-run Austin Phillips homer, followed two pitches later by a Cade Dodson solo blast, that trimmed the Utah Tech lead down to 10-8 and chased Ray from the game.
 
Then after another Maverick base hit and a hit batter brought the potential tying run to the plate, Kroepel (S, 6) was called upon to move from third base to the mound. 
 
Kroepel quickly fanned Bethel on three pitches for the second out, then got Xander McAfee to ground out to end the threat. The junior closer then got a double-play lineout to erase a lead-off single in the ninth, and worked around a two-out error to wrap up the Blazer win. 
 
Utah Tech rapped out 16 hits on the afternoon, led by Petey Soto Jr., who went 4-for-4 with three runs scored out of the ninth spot in the batting order.
 
Thanks in part to Soto Jr.'s career-high tying four hits turning the line-up over, the top five hitters in the Blazer line-up combined to go 11-for-21 at the plate with eight RBI and seven runs scored. 
 
Naone finished with three hits out of the two-hole in the line-up, while McDaniel, Kroepel, Katchske and Perez all collected two hits apiece. 
 
Junior lefthander Brock Roundy (W, 3-3) struck out two and scattered five runs and 10 hits over five innings complete to earn his first pitching decision in WAC play. 
 
Utah Tech will look to clinch the series win in its final home game of the season on Senior Day Sunday beginning at 12:05 p.m. (MT).