UVU also had six current freshmen competing in the U20 Freestyle tournament on Saturday, with Zyon Trujillo’s (74kg) four wins leading the way. All eight wrestlers were representing the Brunson Utah Valley Regional Training Center.

Evans (65kg) opened Saturday with a big 10-6 win over 2023 World Champion, two-time world medalist, and two-time NCAA Champion, Vitali Arujau, who competed collegiately at Cornell. Evans led 4-3 after three minutes and stretched it to 10-4 before Arujau closed the gap with two late points.

That win, followed by a medical forfeit from Jesse Mendez, catapulted Evans into the consolation finals against his former Penn State teammate Beau Bartlett for third place. Bartlett built a 4-2 lead at the midway point and pulled away late to clinch bronze, leaving Evans with a fourth-place finish.

After three wins in the 70kg bracket on Friday, Scott lost a heartbreaker to Virginia Tech commit Melvin Miller at the last second before in his first match. A first-year assistant coach for Adam Hall, Scott rebounded with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Jaivon Jones, an NCAA qualifier out of Little Rock this past season.

On Friday, UVU freshman Layne Kleimann and 2025 All-American Terrell Barraclough both went 3-2 in the senior freestyle tournament.

After splitting his first two matches, Trujillo ran off three straight wins, two by technical fall, capped by a 4-3 decision over Bellarmine wrestler Nick Piontkowski. He came up just short in the consolation sub-round of 16 to Army commit Conner Doherty, 9-7.

Also collecting multiple wins in the U20 tournament were Ian Fritz  (70kg), who won three matches, and Keegan Goeas (74kg), who went 2-2. Jake Castagneto (57kg) and Jason Worthley (70kg) both picked up one win.

Baseball drops final game at Tarleton State

Utah Valley surrendered seven runs in the bottom of the eighth inning against Tarleton State, losing Game 3 of their series 13-9 on Sunday at Tarleton Baseball Complex.

UVU dropped all three games in Texas, losing 12-2 (in seven innings) on Friday and 8-2 on Saturday.

On Sunday, the Wolverines scored seven runs in the third and took a 9-6 lead into the eighth. But the homestanding Texans, scoring three runs on a bases-loaded single from Sergio Guerra that included a UVU error for the four-run lead.

The Wolverines got a two-out single from Mason Hamlin with two outs in the top of the ninth but Jimmy DeAndra struck out for the final out of the game.

Brody Block blasted a three-run homer, his second dinger of the season to highlight the big third inning for the Wolverines. Block finished with four RBI for UVU and Hamlin hit a solo home run in the fifth.

The Wolverines (15-28 overall, 1-8 WAC) return to WAC play on Friday, hosting Cal Baptist at UCCU Ballpark to begin a three-game series.