Utah Tech University Athletics

Utah Tech reached the 30-win plateau for the first time in the program's brief NCAA Division I era on the strength of a 16-4 road victory at UT Arlington on Saturday afternoon at Clay Gould Ballpark.
 
After getting shut out in Friday night's series opener, the Trailblazers wasted little time getting the bats going on Saturday. 
 
Utah Tech (30-20/7-7 WAC) struck for a pair of first pair of first inning tallies thanks to a Miller Durham run-scoring safety squeeze and a Finnegan Stewart RBI-single.
 
The Trailblazers then broke the game open with a seven-run second inning to extend to a 9-0 lead. 
 
Utah Tech sent 11 batters to the plate in the frame and rapped out seven hits, including a pair of two-run singles from Kace Naone and Hudson Manwaring. 
 
And like they did in the opening stanza, the duo Durham and Stewart both collected their second runs batted in on the day as part of the rally. 
 
UT Arlington (17-28/6-8 WAC) clapped right back with three quick runs before the Blazers could record an out in the home third.
 
However senior righthander Dakoda West (W, 6-4) managed to right the ship as he went on to retire nine of the next 10 Mavericks he faced, including eight-straight, to send the game to the fifth inning with Utah Tech up by a 9-3 count.
 
The Trailblazer offense got those three runs back for its starter in the fifth, which included a two-out, two-run Stewart opposite single, to stretch the lead back to nine at 12-3. 
 
Utah Tech cruised on from there to halt its five-game WAC skid and even the weekend series.  
 
Eight of the nine Trailblazers in the starting lineup had at least one base hit as the Utah Tech finished with 18 hits on the afternoon.
 
Stewart tied his career highs with four hits and four RBI to help lead the Blazer effort. Meanwhile Manwaring posted his first four-hit day as a Trailblazer and drove in five runs, including a bases clearing three-run double in the ninth. 
 
Naone also collected two hits to go with his two RBI, while Ryan Kroepel, Petey Soto Jr. and Andrew Pyle pounded out two-hits apiece, with Pyle legging out his second triple of the season in the eighth inning.
 
West struck out seven in five innings complete to earn his sixth win of the season. Brock Roundy followed that with a scoreless sixth inning, and Easton Brooks (S, 2) tossed three innings of one-hit relief to earn his second save of the year.
 
Utah Tech will look to clinch the series win in the rubber game of the three-game WAC set on Sunday morning beginning at 10:05 a.m. (MT).