HENDERSON, Nevada – Utah Valley University rallied twice in its final at-bat but came up short both times, falling 7-6 to Georgetown and 5-3 to Fordham on Saturday at Stephanie Lynn Craig Complex in the Boyd Gaming Rebel Classic.
Game 1 vs Georgetown –
Basia Query went 4-for-4 and hit a two-run home run to get the Wolverines (3-6) within a run in the bottom of the seventh, but the Hoyas held on for the Saturday morning win.
Linnah Rebolledo doubled with one out in the seventh and came in when Query left the ballpark to left-center. She finished with three RBIs in the game.
Georgetown got a pair of home runs in a three-run first inning and, after
Kaylee Bott got UVU on the board in the bottom of the second with a sacrifice fly, added another to lead 4-1 in the third.
The Wolverines answered with a three-run, two-out rally, starting by a
Peyton Angulo double.
Lyndsay Steverson drove her with a base hit before Rebolledo and Query hit back-to-back doubles to tie the game at 4-4.
The Hoyas got all three runs back in the fourth, one on a bases-loaded walk and two more when Sarah Bennett singled up the middle.
Rebolledo scored three times and doubled twice in the ballgame while
Abby Doughty and Angulo had two-hit games.
Game 2 vs Fordham – A pitcher's duel early, Fordham took a 1-0 lead with a solo home run by Molly Roark in the third. The score stayed that way until the fifth, when
Brianna Moeller lifted a well-placed ball down the line in right that went for a triple and gave the Wolverines a 2-1 lead, driving in both
Abby Doughty and
Abbie Tuttle.
The Rams (4-4) scored four times in the bottom of the sixth with three different players driving in runs.
In the top of the seventh, Utah Valley threatened with a runner on and two outs. Doughty singled, moving pinch-runner
Peyton Prigge to second. Moeller worked the count to 2-2 before getting hit by a pitch to load the bases and Angulo followed with another long plate appearance before eventually walking to on a 3-2 pitch to force in Prigge. That's as close as the Wolverines would get though.
Utah Valley closes out the weekend on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. PT/9 a.m. MT against Miami (OH) at the Craig Complex in Henderson.
