Utah at Utah Valley
Tuesday, May 5Â |Â 6 p.m. MT
Orem, Utah | Brent Brown Ballpark
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OREM, Utah -- Utah Valley University hosts Utah in the final home game of the 2015 season on Tuesday at 6 p.m. MT at Brent Brown Ballpark. The Wolverines are 9-9 at home this season.
Utah Valley took two of three from New Mexico State over the weekend, winning the rubber match and the series finale in come-from-behind fashion. A six-run sixth inning for the Aggies put the Wolverines in a five-run hole, but UVU was able to chip away before a three-run eighth helped earn a series win. In the eighth inning
Spencer Gothberg walked with the bases loaded to tie the game and
Palmer Page followed him with a two-run double that drove in the winning runs.
Kyle Valgardson pitched the final 4.0 innings and earned the win. He retired the final 10 New Mexico State hitters of the game two days after picking up a save in the series opener, a 6-5 Wolverine win.
Utah knocked of No. 13 USC on Sunday, 8-5, on a 10th-inning walk-off home run from Biss Larsen. The Utes (15-27) trailed 5-4 entering the bottom of the ninth before Dallas Carroll drove in the game-tying run to force the extra frame. Utah is 7-14 in the Pac-12 and travels to Oregon State this coming weekend.
The Utes won the only prior meeting against Utah Valley, 9-3, on March 17 in Salt Lake City. An originally scheduled April 14 game at Smith's Ballpark was cancelled due to rain. In its earlier win, Utah did all of its offensive damange in the middle innings, scoring five in the fourth and two more in the fifth. For the Wolverines,
Kade Andrus had two of the team's five hits -- including a two-run home run -- and drove in all three runs.
Utah Valley plays its final six games in WAC play all on the road starting Friday at North Dakota. Next week the Wolverines travel to Texas-Pan American to wrap up the regular season. UVU is in sixth in the league standings at 11-10, with North Dakota, Sacramento State and Northern Colorado all 12-9 and one game in front of UVU. Utah Valley's magic number to clinch a spot in the WAC Tournament is one, with one win or one New Mexico State loss over the final six games assuring the Wolverines a spot in Mesa.
