ON DECK
Utah Valley University plays its final non-conference game of the season on Tuesday at No. 18 BYU in the UCCU Crosstown Clash. The game begin at 6 p.m. at Miller Park in Provo, and will air on BYU TV. 

IN THE HOLE
The Wolverines wrap up the WAC regular season with a three-game series at Seattle U starting Thursday. UVU is seeking to clinch a berth in the WAC Tournament, which begins next week in Mesa, Arizona.

WAC UPDATE
With regular season champion Grand Canyon ineligible for the tournament due to its reclassification status, Utah Valley currently holds the No. 4 seed for next week's WAC Tournament. 

New Mexico State can share the regular season title with GCU and hosts CSU Bakersfield, needing a sweep to match the Lopes at 20-4. CSUB is 13-8 and will be the No. 2 seed in the tournament. Sac State and UVU are both 9-12 with the Hornets holding the tiebreaker for seeding purposes. Below those two are UT Rio Grande Valley, Northern Colorado, Seattle U, and Chicago State all at 7-14. Of those six teams, two will stay home for the tournament while four will join NM State and CSUB. 

LAST TIME OUT
Utah Valley dropped two of three to Grand Canyon University, falling 10-7 in 11 innings in the opener before Jake Mayer pitched a complete-game in a 9-2 Wolverine win in the middle game. The Lopes won the finale, 10-4, to finish their WAC season at 20-4 to earn at least a share of the regular season title. 

The series opener was the Wolverines' third extra-inning game of the season and their first loss of the three. In that game Trevor Howell had a career-high five hits while Trevor Peterson had four and the team had a season-high 22 hits, but UVU stranded a 19 runners. 

Mayer's complete game effort included seven strikeouts against just two runs on seven hits. It was the third complete game of the season for Mayer and the second time he's gone the distance and won. His prior complete-game win was a three-hit shutout on April 7 against Incarnate Word. 

Zac Willis went 3-for-4 with three RBIs in the game, and along with Howell and Peterson, went 7-for-15 (.467) in the series. Jackson Overlund batted .400 (6-for-15) with a home run, four doubles and three RBIs over the three-game set. 

ABOUT THE COUGARS
BYU has continued to stay hot, winning 12 of its last 13 with the only loss a one-run, 13-inning defeat against Utah on May 9 in Provo. The Cougars are 32-15 overall 20-4 in West Coast Conference play and have clinched at least a share of the regular season title with three games at second place Gonzaga this weekend. One win would give BYU their first outright league title. 

The Cougars, ranked No. 18 by Collegiate Baseball, are batting .328 as a team, which ranks fourth in the country. They are also third in the nation in scoring, averaging 8.8 runs per game. 

SERIES HISTORY AGAINST BYU
Utah Valley has lost three straight to the Cougars and is 9-24 all-time in the series. BYU won both prior games this season, both at Brent Brown Ballpark in Orem, by scores of 8-3 and 23-4. The Wolverines are 3-12 all-time at Miller Park in Provo.