OREM — The Utah Valley State baseball team scored at least one run in seven of its eight at-bats Friday en route to defeating visiting Northern Colorado 15-10.
The Bears (12-20) overcame a four-run deficit to tie the game at 10-10 in the sixth inning, but the Wolverines (11-25) responded with five unanswered runs to win going away.
In the bottom of the sixth, UVSC took the lead for good when Canyon Vance doubled home Eli Slesk and then scored on Dan Bulow's single to make it 12-10.
The Wolverines added a couple of insurance runs in the home half of the seventh. Derrick Thomas and Kade Boyer walked to lead off the inning. After Brad Hales laid down a textbook sacrifice bunt to move the runners to second and third, Nick Connor drove them both home with a double to the wall in right-center field.
Adam Openshaw capped Utah Valley's scoring in the bottom of the eighth with a towering solo home run to right field that bounced off the access road behind the fence and onto University Parkway.
Dan Guerrero (1-3) pitched the final 3 1/3 innings for UVSC without yielding a run to get the win.
Wolverine starting pitcher Kam Mickolio struggled with his control, walking four and hitting three batters in five innings of work.
Vance hit a solo home run in the second inning.
The two teams play a doubleheader today at Wolverine Field at 1 p.m.
BYU 4, WASHINGTON 2: At Seattle, Jesse Craig went the distance and Adrian Molina hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning in BYU's 4-2 win over Washington Friday.
"He threw 135 pitches. We don't like to have guys go that deep, but he said he felt strong," said BYU coach Vance Law on Craig's lengthy outing. "He still had some zip on his pitches late in the game, and we felt that he really had their hitters' number and had a pretty good idea how to pitch to these guys."
Molina's homer to left broke a 2-2 deadlock dating back to the fourth inning, when Kent Walton also hit a home run. Molina's long ball was his third of the year while Walton's was his second.
BYU has hit three home runs in the series compared to Washington's one. The Huskies are ranked third in the nation in home runs.
The Cougar centerfielder was perfect at the plate as he hit 4-for-4 while driving in two runs and scoring one