SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Utah baseball team earned a 6-3 victory over No. 12 Arizona State while also winning head coach
Bill Kinneberg's 600
th career victory as a head coach on Saturday, April 20 at Smith's Ballpark.
Utah had a great start scoring three runs in the first eventually stretching it out to 5-0 to hold on for their 12
th win of the season and Kinneberg's 600
th.
Right fielder
Erick Migueles and starting pitcher
Joshua Tedeschi had great days as Migueles went 2-4 with two home runs and four RBI and Tedeschi pitched 7.1 innings giving up two runs on seven hits.
The Utes couldn't have had a better start as
Oliver Dunn and
Rykker Tom both singled and Migueles hit his first homer to put the Utes up 3-0 before Arizona State could record an out.
The Utes tacked on two more runs to their lead with an RBI from
Isaac Deveaux to score
Shea Kramer in the third and then Dunn got an RBI in the fifth to score Deveaux.
Tedeschi was working early only giving up two hits through six innings.
The Sun Devils, one of the best hitting teams in the NCAA, got their bats going in the seventh, but Tedeschi limited them to only two runs on four hits.
Migueles added an insurance run for Utah with his second homer of the day into the wind over right field for the victory.
Zac McCleve came in and got his third save of the season after pitching 1.2 innings to close out the 6-3 victory for the Utes.
Dunn led the Utes going 3-5 with one RBI, but Utah had their bats working as every player had a hit and five players had multiple hits in the game. In all, Utah totaled 15 hits agaisnt the Sun Devils.
Now, Utah will be set to play at Utah Valley on Tuesday, April 23 in Orem, Utah at 6 p.m.