Kaden Carpenter added three RBIs, while Chipper Beck and Derek Houston each recorded two. California Baptist (36-11) was led by Chris Ramirez, who went 6-for-6 with a home run and two doubles.

Brody Block, Beck and Houston all finished with two hits in the game.

Utah Valley was powered early by home runs to keep pace with the Lancers. Katschke hit his 20th home run of the year to lead off the bottom of the first. The Wolverines later trailed 4-1 in the bottom of the third inning when DJ Massey and Katschke singled and moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt from Block. Carpenter then sent his 12th home run of the season over the wall to tie the game at 4-4.

The Lancers held the Wolverines scoreless until the bottom of the sixth. Beck was hit by a pitch and Mason Strong singled to left field, with the ball bouncing over the head of the left fielder to put runners in scoring position. Houston’s two-run double plated both runs to cut the CBU advantage to 10-6.

Utah Valley looked to rally in the bottom of the seventh inning when Katschke and Block reached to start the inning and advanced on a wild pitch. Beck’s two-run double scored both runners to make it 13-8.

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Utah Valley and California Baptist will wrap up their series on Sunday, May 3, at 12:05 p.m. MT. It will be the final meeting between the WAC foes before they move to The Big West on July 1, 2026.

UVU softball secures No. 4 seed in WAC Tournament

Amber Rodriguez had a four-hit day and Lily Riley tossed a complete game to lead Utah Valley to a 7-1 win over Southern Utah in the regular season finale on Saturday afternoon at Kathryn Berg Field.

With the win, the Wolverines have secured the No. 4 seed in next week’s WAC Tournament and will face the very same Thunderbirds on Wednesday in Stephenville, Texas at 2 p.m. MDT.

Riley’s win is her 15th of the season, the third-most in a single season in program history and the most in the WAC era. Riley trails only Tiffany Mills, who had 18 wins in 2012 and 17 in 2013.

For the second straight day, Utah Valley put up a five-spot on SUU’s Delaney Baker to open the scoring. The Wolverines broke the scoreless deadlock in the third with some ground attack, getting four run-scoring singles from Rodriguez, Payge Armendariz, Emma Haygood, and Megan Sterzer. Armendariz’s single scored two.

The Thunderbirds loaded the bases in the home half of the inning, but were only able to score one out of it. The Wolverines nearly got out of it unscathed, but were unable to turn what would’ve been an inning-ending double play.

Utah Valley tacked on two more via an RBI single by Britney Moreno and an RBI double by Rodriguez.

Riley capped off arguably her best performance of the conference season retiring the last 11 Thunderbirds she faced.

Utah Valley will now head to the campus of Tarleton State for the WAC Tournament, set to begin on Wednesday. The Wolverines will play their first game of the double-elimination tournament at 2 p.m. MDT, with all games airing live on ESPN+.