March 27, 2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Utah Valley scored three times in the first and Blake Krahenbuhl lasted into the ninth to help the Wolverines split a Sunday doubleheader and take two of three from Sac State with a 4-1 win.
Krahenbuhl pitched 8.1 innings and allowed five hits and Josh Swenson came on to get the final two outs to earn his second save. Sunday's win in the finale, combined with Friday's 6-0 three-hitter, gave the Wolverines (6-13) the series win.The Hornet (6-18) won Sunday's first game 6-3.
In the first inning, Willie Pratt walked, Cole McWhorter doubled and Chris Benson singled to bring both runners home. Benson later scored in the inning on a wild pitch. The Hornets got a run in the bottom of the first on sac fly to make it 3-1.
The Wolverines scored again in the fifth to take a 4-1 lead. Billy Burgess singled with one out and moved to third on an Austin Heaps base hit. Goose Kallunki's RBI fielder's choice then brought home Burgess.
The Hornets brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth but Swenson got Kirby Young to foul out to Jason Zundel in left to end the game.
Four different UVU players had two hits in the win, accounting for eight of the team's nine hits.
In Sunday's first game, UVU began the game with a base hit from Pratt and a two-run home run from McWhorter to lead 2-0 after just two hitters.
Sac State came back with five unanswered runs, getting one in the second, two in the third and one each in both the fourth and fifth.
The Wolverines threatened in the seventh, loading the bases with nobody out down three runs, but were limited to just one run in the inning on an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of Kai Hatch.
McWhorter had two hits to lead UVU while A.J. Nunez finished with three hits to pace the Hornets.
Utah Valley is now scheduled to play at Utah on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Spring Mobile Ballpark in Salt Lake City before heading to Reno for three games at Nevada beginning Friday.
