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Winner Azusa Pacific APU 19-16, 14-7 PACWEST
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Dixie State DX-BASE 30-9, 18-7 PACWEST
Winner
Azusa Pacific APU
19-16, 14-7 PACWEST
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Final
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Dixie State DX-BASE
30-9, 18-7 PACWEST
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Azusa Pacific APU 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 6 11 0
Dixie State DX-BASE 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 2

W: Huthsing, Joe (7-1) L: Pope, A. (2-2) S: Sanford, Billy (2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Stephen Hinkel

Rally Equals Win

ST. GEORGE, Utah – Down early, the Cougars provided the necessary offense late.

Azusa Pacific continued its winning way as they rallied for a 6-4 win against Dixie State, the nation's 17th ranked team, in the first of a four-game series.

With the win the Cougars have won 10 of their last 13 games. Pablo O'Connor had two hits – both of which went for extra bases. The sophomore smashed a homerun and also had a double in the victory. Also getting two base knocks in the win was Mitch Dergazarian, Adrian Tovalin and Steven Garrett.

The Trailblazers (30-9, 18-7 PacWest) had seven hits through the first four innings but managed five in the last five innings as they couldn't push a run across the plate.

Dixie State put seven men on base in the first inning but only crossed the plate twice. The lone run scoring play came with two outs as Ryan Rodriguez drove home Trey Kamachi and Drew McLaughlin.

Cam Bennett singled home Garrett on the Cougars next offensive opportunity. The Trailblazers put single runs on the scoreboard with RBI singles from Hayes Hall and Tyler Moraches in the third and fourth innings respectively.

In the sixth inning the Cougars (19-16, 14-7) put an important dent in their deficit. After O'Connor hit the first pitch of the inning for a double, he scored four pitches later after a fielding error. Mario Morales completed the two-run inning with his first RBI of the season as he singled home Justin Gomez.

The Cougars completed their three-run comeback when O'Connor jacked his 11th homerun of the season with a two-run shot over the left field fence. Nursing a 5-4 lead, Azusa Pacific got an insurance run when Dergazarian scored in a wild pitch in the ninth inning.

Billy Sanford worked around a hit in the ninth inning as he picked up his second save of the season.

Not to go unnoticed was the workman-like effort of Joe Hutshing in his 10th start of the season. The righthander worked around 11 hits in 7.1 inning to earn his seventh win.

The two teams played a doubleheader tomorrow beginning at 3 p.m. (PDT) with the series wrapping up on Saturday.

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