Utah Tech used strong pitching and timely hitting to clinch its second WAC series win of the season in a 7-3 victory over Seattle U in the rubber game of the three-game weekend set on Sunday afternoon at Bruce Hurst Field.
 
The Trailblazers (19-26/5-13 WAC) never trailed, though they did have an early chance for runs in home first when with one runner on and two outs, Hunter Katschke belted a long opposite field fly ball to right.
 
However Redhawk outfielder Jared Stevenson scaled the wall and rob Katschke of his possible 11^th home run of the season to keep the game scoreless.
 
Utah Tech did manage to break through in the third with a Petey Soto Jr. RBI-single, and followed that with two more runs in each of the next two offensive frames to extend to a 5-0 lead after five innings complete.
 
Andrew Pyle drove in a run on one of his team-high three hits with one out in the fourth, while Ethan Royal beat out a safety squeeze bunt one pitch later to push across another run.
 
The Blazers struck for a pair of runs with two outs in fifth, both of which came on Finnegan Stewart's fourth homer of the season. 
 
The early run support bolstered a solid pitching performance from junior righthander Dakoda West (W, 2-6), who retired 15 of the first 16 Redhawks he faced, including 14-straight after a one-out first inning single.
 
Seattle U (16-29/5-13 WAC) managed to spoil a possible Blazer shutout bid in the sixth when after a lead-off walk, Tervell Johnson belted a two-run homer of his own to cut the Utah Tech lead to 5-2.
 
The Redhawks would get two more runners on the base paths later in the stanza, but West was able to get Seattle U infielder Vincente Feliciano to roll into an inning ending double play to end the threat.
 
Utah Tech got those two runs back in the home sixth on a Kace Naone run-scoring flyout and a wild pitch, while junior reliever Ethan Gardner (S, 1) limited Seattle U to one run and three total base runners from the seventh inning on to close out the series win. 
 
The Trailblazers rapped out 12 hits on Sunday, with Stewart, Royal and Ryan Kroepel each collecting two hits apiece to complement Pyle's second three-hit game of the season.
 
Meanwhile sophomore second baseman Kyle McDaniel, who has now hit safely in 15 of his last 16 games overall, extended his Division I-era school record on-base streak to 31-straight games on a walk and a one-out infield single in the sixth.
 
McDaniel current streak pulled him into a tie with former All-American outfielder Jake Engel (2017-21) for the fifth-longest, on-base streak in Utah Tech's NCAA era overall. 
 
West fanned three and held the Redhawks to only two total hits over six innings complete to earn his second win of the season. 
 
Utah Tech will turn around and make the short trip down Interstate 15 for a Tuesday night road match-up at UNLV. First pitch at Earl E. Wilson Stadium in Las Vegas is set for 7:05 p.m. (MT). The game was originally scheduled for Monday, May 5, but forecasted rain in Las Vegas and poor field conditions led to the game being moved to Tuesday.