OREM, Utah — It was a game that featured several big hits from both sides, but Seattle University got the last crushing blow to win 9-6 over Utah Valley University and take the rubber match, winning the WAC series on Saturday afternoon. The big blow was a rare, inside-the-park home run with two on and two outs in the top of the seventh inning from Stephanie Merwin.
 
The Wolverines (15-19, 3-6) trailed by as much as four runs but clawed back and eventually tied the game at 6-6 in the bottom of the sixth. But in the seventh, the Redhawks (17-16, 4-2) got a leadoff single and a one-out walk before Merwin's heroics. With a full count and two down, Merwin hit a high fly ball to deep center near the top of the wall and eventually beat the relay throw home. Merwin finished with four RBIs in the game.
 
Linnah Rebolledo was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and Madison Carr also went 3-for-4 for Utah Valley. Rien Milliken homered in the fifth inning for her team-high sixth home run of the year.
 
The Wolverines trailed 2-0 after a two-out home run from Bailey Thompson in the top of the first, and Seattle U extended it to a 4-0 with a RBI base hits from Merwin and Mekenzie Madokoro in the fourth.
 
UVU got some key two-out hitting of its own in the fourth to chip away at the deficit. Carr singled home Basia Query following a tough battle with Redhawks' starter Stephanie Madrigal to get the Wolverines on the board. Later in the inning with two down and two in scoring position, Rebolledo singled to right-center to make it a 4-3 game.
 
Seattle U got one of those runs back in the top of the fifth, on Carly Nance two-out, RBI double. After Milliken's leadoff home run in the bottom of the inning, again the Redhawks responded when Olivia Viggiano's infield single scored Madokoro to push the lead back to two runs, 6-4.
 
In the bottom of the sixth, Jade Miller reached on a bunt single and moved to second on a throwing error with one out. Miller then scored with Rebolledo tripled off the wall in right-center and Siena Sandoval delivered the game-tying hit, a double into the corner in left. UVU loaded the bases after a pair of walks and Carr was locked in another battle, this time with Shi Smith, but her liner was snagged by Alyson Matriotti at third to preserve the tie. That set up Merwin's game-winning home run in the seventh.
 
Utah Valley finished with 13 hits while Seattle U had 10. Miller joined Carr and Rebolledo with multi-hit games, finishing 2-for-4.
 
The Wolverines will now play a midweek game on Wednesday at BYU at 6 p.m. MT before returning to WAC play against Dixie State in the Old Hammer Rivalry in a series that begins Friday in Orem.