Game 13-15: Utah (6-6) at Arizona (10-6)
March 15-17
Tucson, Arizona | Hi Corbett Field
Arizona Stream
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Game 16: Utah (6-6) at Grand Canyon (6-9)
Monday, March 18
Phoenix, Arizona | Brazell Field
Grand Canyon Stream
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FIRST PITCH
Utah begins Pac-12 play at Arizona beginning on Friday, March 15.
The Utes come in with a 6-6 record and Arizona sits at 10-6. The Wildcats' offense has been clicking up to this point as they are in the top two in 13 offensive categories in the Pac-12 rankings.
Arizona will stream all three games for the weekend.
While they're in Arizona, Utah will stick around and play Grand Canyon on Monday, March 18 at 3 p.m. Grand Canyon is 6-9 on the season.
SERIES
Overall the series is tight with Arizona having a small edge leading 69-61-12, but Utah has had the upper hand lately winning the series four seasons in a row.
Last year at Smith's Ballpark, the Utes took two out of three games winning on Friday and Saturday.
Utah and Arizona played against each other the first time in 1952.
TOM HEATS UP AT THIRD
Rykker Tom went 3-4 against Gonzaga pushing his season average to .381. That's the second best average on the team.
He has reached base in all 11 games he's played in and has a hit in nine of the 11 games.
Tom is fourth on the team with seven RBI.
MIGUELES HAS STRONG START
Erick Migueles has been steady at the plate to start the season. He leads the team hitting .391 and is second on the team with 12 RBI.
He's had two hits in seven of the 12 games this season and came up with an RBI in eight of the 12 games this season.
Going back to last season, Migueles had had an RBI in 13 straight games up until the UNLV game this season.
MOELLER RETURNS TO LINEUP
After sitting out the 2018 season with Tommy John surgery,
Zack Moeller returned to the lineup as a catcher or designated hitter and is expected to be a boost not only for the offense, but also the defense behind the plate.
Since Utah beat San Diego, he is hitting .433 with 17 RBI and three home runs. Against UNLV, one of those home runs was his second career grand slam.
With that grand slam, Moeller had a career high six RBI against UNLV and then followed that up with six more RBI against Wright State.
He has currently had three hits in three straight games.
DUNN ALWAYS ON BASE
Second baseman
Oliver Dunn has had a great start to the season hitting .349. He is second in the Pac-12 Conference with eight doubles and is sixth in the conference in OB% at .525.
He leads the team scoring 17 runs.
The week Utah played at UNLV and in the LeClair Classic at East Carolina, he was on base non-stop. Dunn hit .500, scoring 11 runs and had nine walks. His slash for the weekend was .500/1.083/.727.
Dunn has also been a warrior on the field during his career, playing in 116 of the 118 games he's seen action in and has a career batting average of .291.
NEXT UP
Utah travels to No. 3 Stanford to take on the Cardinal for a three-game series beginning Friday, March 22.