SALT LAKE CITY – Thanks to contributions from all throughout the club, the Utah Baseball team closed out the regular season home schedule with an 11-4 win over Utah Tech on Tuesday at Smith’s Ballpark.
The Utes improved to 32-18 with the victory; now securing the third-most wins for a season in program history.
Payton Riske (2-0) picked up the win on the mound with five innings of relief, surrendering just one run on two hits and a walk, striking out five along the way. He came on in the third inning for starter Jaden Harris, before Micah Ashman and Jackson Elder tossed the eighth and ninth innings, respectively.
It was a solid outing for Riske and his longest as a Ute, while also setting a career-high with his five strikeouts. His only two hits allowed were a third-inning single followed up by a leadoff double in the fourth. From there, he retired nine in a row and struck out his final batter in the seventh inning.
Every starter in the Utah batting order had a hit, led by Hunter Antillon’s 3-for-4 performance with two doubles and three RBI. Five other Utes had multi-hit performances while Kai Roberts, Drake Digiorno and Kaden Carpenter each scored three runs. Roberts, Karson Bodily and TJ Clarkson all doubled in the game as well.
Roberts stole two bases, extending his program-record to 63 career swipes as well as 30 this season—the latter both a Utah record and leading the Pac-12 this year.
The Utes answered a pair of early Utah Tech runs with a two-spot in the first…
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