ST. GEORGE, Utah – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team completed the doubleheader sweep of the Dixie State University Trailblazers with an 18-1 victory in seven innings in game two on Saturday at Bruce Hurst Field.
 
The Vaqueros (11-8, 4-3 WAC) won game one 13-3.
 
Junior Vela alum RJ Ochoa hit his first-career home run as part of a 3-for-5, two-RBI, two-run game.
 
Ochoa started the third inning with a solo shot off of Ben Hart (0-3) and capped the inning with an RBI-single. In-between, junior Freddy Rojas Jr. homered for the third-straight game, hitting his second-career grand slam, and graduate student Elijah Alexander hit an RBI-single.
 
Junior Angel De La Cruz added an RBI-single in the fourth and then graduate student Andy Atwood came up with an RBI-single in the fifth to put the Vaqueros up 9-1.
 
The Vaqueros plated nine more runs in the seventh on a two-run double by graduate student Conrado Diaz, a two-run single by De La Cruz, an RBI-double by senior Jacob Hirsh, a two-run single by junior Darian Luper and a two-run home run by freshman Spencer Serven.
 
Postbaccalaureate student Christian Sepulveda posted his second-straight three-hit game, stealing a base and scoring twice. Luper, De La Cruz, Diaz and graduate student Coleman Grubbs all finished with two hits. Diaz scored three times. Luper, De la Cruz and Grubbs all scored twice each. The Vaqueros finished with 20 hits.
 
That made a winner of sophomore Colten Davis (4-0), who pitched a career-high 6.0 innings, striking out five while allowing one run on four hits and two walks.
 
The Trailblazers (3-12, 2-5 WAC) scored their run in the first on a home run by Hank Dodson.
 
UTRGV and Dixie State close out this four-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m. Fans can watch for free online at WACDigitalNetwork.com.

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