“Our guys played hard today. Tip your hat to Utah Tech as they made a few more pitches, a few more swings, and a few more plays than we did,” said UVU head coach Eddie Smith.

Daniel Dickinson went 2-for-5 with a leadoff home run in the first to move his reached-base streak to 30 games. His first-inning shot gave UVU an early 1-0 lead, and it is the fifth homer of the season for the freshman.

But the Trailblazers roared in front in the next three innings, tallying six runs.

The Wolverines looked for a comeback in the fifth inning as Calyn Halvorson doubled off the center field wall, and Garrett Broussard singled to put runners on the corners. Dickinson brought home a run on a single through the left side of the infield to make it 6-2. UVU stranded a pair of runners in the inning.

Casey Anderson (2-1) got the start for the Wolverines and took the loss. He struck out six Trailblazers in his 3.2 inning outing. He gave way to former Utah Tech hurler Ethan Fowlks who came in to go two innings, including an inning where he struck out the side.

Mitch Mueller made a brief appearance working 0.1 inning and recording a strikeout, and Nick Sims wrapped up the game with 2.0 innings, allowing one hit, and striking out three.

The Wolverines return home for a seven-game homestand. It will start on Friday, May 5, with three games against Stephen F. Austin before UVU welcomes New Mexico State to Orem on May. 12 for the final meeting before the Aggies move to Conference USA. Utah will visit in May. 16 to wrap up the home schedule.

The Wolverines return home for a seven-game homestand. It will start on Friday, May 5, with three games against Stephen F. Austin before UVU welcomes New Mexico State to Orem on May. 12 for the final meeting before the Aggies move to Conference USA.

Utah will visit on May. 16 to wrap up the home schedule for UVU.

Wolverine softball can’t stay with No. 10 Washington

Utah Valley fell to the No. 10 Washington Huskies 9-1 on Sunday at Husky Softball Stadium in Seattle.

Jaeden Barajas and Rylee Thorpe each went 1-for-3 for the Wolverines. Megan Gibbs brought home the lone Wolverine run with a bases-loaded walk in the third.

UW scored in all five innings, but Utah Valley was able to hold the Huskies to just three extra-base hits on the afternoon.

Utah Valley loaded the bases in the third with two outs to bring home their lone run. Barajas and Thorpe hit back-to-back singles through the left side, then Shepherd reached on an error by the second baseman. Gibbs drew a bases-loaded walk to bring home Barajas, then Angelique Mann grounded out sharply to third.

UW clinched the run rule victory with a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the fifth.

The Wolverines will head south on I-15 to St. George this coming weekend to take on the WAC-leading Utah Tech Trailblazers in the Old Hammer Rivalry. Due to graduation festivities taking place around the Utah Tech campus, the schedule has been altered from what was originally announced before the season. Friday will be a single game at 12 p.m. MDT, with a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 12 p.m. MDT. All three games will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

UVU track breaks three more school records

Utah Valley University finished up the weekend at Idaho State’s Bengal Invitational on Saturday, where three school records fell. The records were all broken on Friday, with Saturday seeing a number of personal records and top 10 movements in the school record book. Noah Peterson set a new top mark in the pole vault with a height of 5.16 meters, while Everlyn Kemboi and Joel Mendez both set new 1,500-meter records on Friday.

After altitude adjustment, Kemboi’s winning time of 4:12.71 leads the WAC, ranks 19th in the country, and is eighth in the west. Mendez set the record with a time of 3:45.95, which ranks fourth in the WAC this season.

Kelsi Oldroyd, who broke her own school long jump record last week, won the event on Saturday with her best jump of 5.88 meters while Paige Young (5.71) was third and Krista Farley (5.63) placed fourth. Maggie Zwahlen took first place in Friday’s 10,000-meter race with a time of 35:55.38. In the men’s 5,000, Mendez took second as his time of 14:22.41 puts him at No. 8 in UVU’s top 10. The women’s 4×100 team of Farley, Amy Ballard, Anna Johnson, and Quincy Bonds moved into the 10th spot in the program records books with a time of 46.36 seconds.