Completed Event: Baseball versus No. 11 seed Kansas State on May 19, 2026 , Loss , 5, to, 9
Final Score
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The University of Utah Athletics
Utes Head to Vegas for UNLV
4/2/2009 12:00 AM | Baseball
April 2, 2009
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Projected Starters
Friday, April 3: Utah's Brian Budrow (Sr., RHP, 3-1) vs. UNLV's Jeff Urlab (Sr., LHP, 3-3)
Saturday, April 4: Utah's Andrew Wilding (Jr., RHP, 1-3) vs. UNLV's Tanner Peters (Fr., RHP, 3-2)
Sunday, April 5: Utah's Jordan Whatcott (Jr., RHP, 2-1) vs. UNLV's Andre Beresford (Fr., RHP, 1-2)
SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah baseball team is on a three-game winning streak and has one five of its last six games. The Utes take on UNLV in Las Vegas for their third conference series of the season, April 3-5.
In its last game, a six-run seventh inning lifted Utah (12-12) to a 9-6 victory over Utah Valley in Orem on Tuesday, March 31.
Down 6-3 in the seventh inning, Utah scored six runs to take a 9-6 lead. With Corey Shimada and Michael Beltran on base with one out, Nick Kuroczko walked to load the bases. C.J. Cron also walked to send the first run across the plate. After a pitching change, Austin Jones doubled to right center for two RBI and tie the game, 6-6. Cron would score on a wild pitch to give Utah the lead as Kevin Hussey walked. Tyler Yagi, returning from an injury, hit a double to deep left center to give the Utes a pair of insurance runs as Hussey and Jones scored.
Robert Chimpky and Greg Krause combined to pitch the eighth and ninth innings for Utah and preserve the lead. Each had a pair of strikeouts for the Utes. Chimpky earned his first win of the season while Krause picked up his second save of the year.
"It was nice to score those six runs to open it up in the seventh inning after some blown chances earlier in the game," head coach Bill Kinneberg said. "I didn't feel like we played very well today in any phase of the game - but you have to move on. We did score those six runs and Chimpky and Krause did a nice job to put up some zeros in the late innings."
The Rebels (13-15) got off to a strong start but have lost their last eight games and 12 of their last 14. UNLV has been particularly good at home, going 13-5 in their ballpark. The team is strong at the plate with a team .319 batting average, which ranks second in the conference. Senior J.J. Sferra leads the team with a .417 batting average and 45 hits.
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