Big Fifth Inning Leads Utah Past Creighton

Sunday, February 22

San Diego, Calif. / Tony Gwynn Stadium

Noon

University of Utah

4-2

Creighton

2-4

Creighton

Utah

2/22/2026 3:45 PM | Baseball

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Utes use six-run fifth to take down Bluejays, 9-4

SAN DIEGO — The Utah baseball team used a six-run fifth inning to take down Creighton, 9-4, in the final game of the Tony Gwynn Legacy Tournament at Tony Gwynn Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Luke Jacobs and Daniel Arambula recorded three hits apiece to lead the Utes (4-2). Utah's bullpen arms of Ryan Kittredge, Dylan Gazaway and Dillon Fine delivered 8.1 innings of relief in the win, giving up just one run while scattering six hits.

After giving up three runs on two hits in the first, the Utes started to battle back. Utah got on the board in the second inning on a Bradley Navarro double down the right field line, scoring Cameron Gurney after he walked and advanced to second on a groundout.

Utah continued chipping away in the fourth, making the score, 3-2, when Jake Long drove in Arambula from second base with an RBI single. Jacobs kept the Utes' rally going in the fifth with a single to centerfield, scoring Jet Gilliam to knot the score at 3-3.

Gurney helped Utah put a crooked number on the scoreboard and take its first lead of the game as Jacobs raced home on Gurney's RBI single, making it 4-3 Utes.

Arambula laced a single to center, plating Nevan Noonan and after two Utes came across on a sacrifice fly and fielder's choice, Jacobs' second RBI single of the day gave Utah a five-run lead after five complete innings.

Creighton got a run back in the seventh, but Utah added another in the eighth on Long's sacrifice fly to reach the game's final score

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Utah returns to the field on Friday, Feb. 27 with a 5 p.m. MT first pitch at No. 21 UC Santa Barbara.

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