{"id":325697,"date":"2026-05-21T04:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:24:17","slug":"utah-tech-sacramento-st-advance-on-day-one-of-the-2026-university-credit-union-wac-baseball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325697\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Tech, Sacramento St. Advance on Day One of The 2026 University Credit Union WAC Baseball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                MESA, Ariz. \u2013 The 34th edition of the University Credit Union WAC Baseball Tournament is underway. This is the 15th time the WAC post season tournament is being held at Hohokam Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 \u2013 No. 3 Utah Tech 4, No. 6 UT Arlington 0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/wacsports.com\/documents\/2026\/5\/20\/\/WACBSB26_G1_Box_Score.pdf?id=3285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a>)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUtah Tech secured a 4\u20130 victory over UT Arlington at Hohokam Stadium as the Trailblazers pitching staff delivered a standout performance, allowing only four hits and no runs over nine innings. With this win, Utah Tech advances to the next round of the tournament.\u00a0Tyler Ray stood out on the mound for Utah Tech, delivering an impressive performance with eight innings pitched, allowing four hits, and striking out three without conceding any runs. Ray credits his teammates for his performance. &#8220;Just getting ahead (in the count) and trusting my defense will make the plays behind me,&#8221; said Ray.\u00a0Hudson Manwaring\u00a0made a significant impact with his bat, securing two hits, including a double, and scoring a run. Also at the plate, Miller Durham contributed with two hits and an RBI, while also crossing home plate once. Ryan Kroepel\u00a0drew two walks while scoring a run, and pitched an inning of scoreless relief with one strikeout. UTU will play\u00a0Thursday against No. 2-seed California Baptist at 11 a.m MST.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 \u2013 No. 4 Sacramento State 9, No. 5 Abilene Christian 4\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/wacsports.com\/documents\/2026\/5\/20\/\/WACBSB26_G2_Box_Score.pdf?id=3286\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a>)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSacramento State won the second game of the tournament 9\u20134 over Abilene Christian with a strong offensive performance highlighted by 12 hits with six doubles.\u00a0Jace Jeremiah led the way for Sacramento State, blasting a home run with three RBIs and scoring two runs. Ryan Ellis\u00a0tied a school record with three doubles while adding\u00a0two RBIs. ACU&#8217;s Diego Cardenas hit his 25th home run of the season, matching Grayson Tatrow for the Wildcats single-season home run record.\u00a0Abilene Christian will play in an elimination game against UT Arlington at 7 pm MST. The Hornets will take on No. 1 Tarleton State at 3 pm MST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 (Elimination Game) \u2013 No. 6 UT Arlington vs No. 5 Abilene Christian<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSet to start at 7 pm MST on ESPN+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/catalog\/7f1dbf21-3e13-4690-8e09-602e3922370f\/western-athletic-conference#bucketId=29784&amp;sourceCollection=Browse_By_Top_Conferences\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(WATCH)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;WAC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; MESA, Ariz. \u2013 The 34th edition of the University Credit Union WAC Baseball Tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-325697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}