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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, March 25, 2013 9 vS TH Utes pick up 2 of 3 at Stanford PRIT BASEBALL Chad Mobley STAFF WRITER Utah made a strong campaign for Pac-12 legitimacy this weekend at Stanford (n-7), taking two of three games from the No. 17 team in the country. The Utes capitalized on strong starting pitching from their staff and success at the plate to notch wins number one and two in conference play. The Utes clinched the series with a 7-5 victory behind a dominant pitching performance from freshman Dalton Carroll. Through 6.1 innings of work, Carroll mystified the Stanford lineup. He allowed only five hits and one run as the Utes offense built a 7-1 on 14 hits, including a three-run shot from Trey Nielsen in the fifth. "For the first seven innings, we probably played the best baseball that we've played all the way around," said Utah head coach Bill Kinneberg. "Dalton [Carroll] was terrific, and although we took a blow in the eighth inning we held on and won as a team." Chase Rezac took over pitching duties in the eighth and struggled to get outs. The Cardinal manufactured four runs on three hits and a walk before Rezac could retire a batter. Josh Chapman quickly replaced Rezac when Stanford looked to make a comeback and slammed the door on their effort. Chapman tallied his second save on the season in two innings of work. "It was huge to win on Sunday on the road," Kinneberg said. Saturday's win on the road was another landmark victory for Utah. It took io innings, but the Utes were able to notch their first Pac-12 win. Strong starting pitching again kept the Utes on track for success. Joe Pond shut out the Cardinal through six before finally allowing two runs to sneak across in the seventh. "That was big for us. We're still not where we want to be yet," Kinneberg said. "We had a lot of opportunities to score runs and we're just not getting the key hit yet." Despite getting the U deep into the game and into a position to win, Luke West recorded his first win of the season by closing out strong. "It was big for Luke to throw four innings and get the win," Kinneberg said. "I can't say enough about his effort today." Stanford took the first game of the series behind its ace and number-eight pick of the 2012 MLB Draft, Mark Appel. He fanned II Utes through eight innings for his fourth consecutive game with double digit K's. However, it wasn't his best outing as he gave up his first four-bagger of 2013 to freshman AJ Young in the second. It was the last time the Utes would have the lead as the Cardinal put up three in the bottom of the frame. Utah attempted to climb back in the ninth by stringing together hits and plating two runs, but eventually fell 6-4. Utah returns home to Salt Lake City to BYU on Tuesday at 6 p.m. c.mobley@chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @Chad_Mobley WNIT Continued from page 8 [-)rPkin real news in real time dail uta chronicle • COM Arlay i ,coilcoriii;i n0alno dcal ERIN BURNS/The Daily Utah Chronicle 7 tw ateAE. co-rniThe,Chro-ny University MEDIA SALES GROUP j17Tm THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 6 7 9 3 7 9 8 4 7 1 8 SLIT ADAM ORBIT CA INE NOAH LONE ACME LUTE TBONE GOBBLERSKNOB L U O P I A T E UTEA ABUT TON J E E Z CAGES TWO GALS TRILL DAIS APT CEELO SECT BA I TANDSWI TCH E N C I N O MAO CONTROLGROUP ABATE IOWA AL SO PO LA R LILT TIED EXECS EL SE END 4 m 5 2 6 1 2013 ORGANICK ANSWER TO TODAY'S PUZZLE c' ' 7 5 3 6 8 5 4 9 4 5 9 7 1 1 8 3 IV SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 10 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ['for ) o Follow us on Twitter! 2 8 7 hamsters.write letters q ,..,-, West. The postseason feels equal at this point." San Diego made it to its conference tournament championship game and only lost back-toback games once this season. "We can't take them for granted no matter what conference they're in," Rodriguez said. The Toreros aren't the only streaking team that will play tonight. The Utes have won eight of their past II games, and things are starting to finally click between the players deep into the season. "We're re-committed to playing together and relying on each other," Messer said. "Every game is important to us, and everyone needs to do their job and contribute." Rodriguez said the team chemistry has been the best it's been all season, and when they collaborate on the court, the W's come as a result. Another catalyst for the recent success is Michelle Plouffe. She has nine double-doubles this year and moved into ninth place on Utah's all-time scoring list last game with 1,466 career points. She has led the team in scoring in nine of their past 13 games. Game tip-off is at 7 p.m. m.smith@chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @smithmichael8 IF I WERE A REAL cAT, I'D TORTURE YOU FoR SPORT AND KILL YoU FoR FUN. C LECTURE SERIES Peter Neumann PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST // SRI INTERNATIONAL "A Personal History of Layered Trustworthiness" facebook.com/PCSTcomics © Doug Bratton 2013 Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:15pm reception - 1705 Marriott Library 7:00pm lecture - 220 Skaggs Biology Research Building Free and open to public www.cs.utah.edu/events/organick/2013/ hz. . r „.. a."‘ , , ,a4243_0014es • Braden Anderson connects with a pitch March 19. Anderson went 4-for-4 during Utah's 7-5 win over Stanford on Sunday. " "Ire. ,. , more special that we get to come home and play again." The home-court advantage will be welcome against a tough Toreros squad. San Diego (239, 12-4 WCC) defeated Hawaii in the first round and comes to Salt Lake City on a mission. The team lost in the Final Four of the WNIT last season, and it has every intention of making it back this year. "San Diego is a really good basketball team," Levrets said. "It's nice when you're going to play anybody to be at home, but when you're playing a good team, it's even better to be at home." The Toreros are led by All Big-West guard Amy Kame. She averages more than 15 points per game and has led San Diego to wins in 14 of its last 17 games. Even though the Toreros are in what is considered a weaker conference, the Utes aren't changing their playing style, although they're done competing with Pac-12 opponents. "Anybody can upset anybody," Messer said. "We don't really look at it like they're in the Big larly w • |
