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The University of Utah Athletics
Thursday, February 23
Surprise, Ariz.
5:00 PM
University of Utah
vs
Ohio State
Utah Baseball Travels to Arizona for Nebraska and Ohio State
2/20/2017 5:39 PM | Baseball
Probable Starters
Thursday vs. Ohio State: Utah's Jacon Rebar (Fr./LHP) vs. Ohio State's Adam Niemeyer (Jr./RHP)
Friday vs. Nebraska: Utah's Jayson Rose (Jr./RHP) vs. Nebraska TBD
Saturday vs. Ohio State: Utah's Riley Ottesen (So./RHP) vs. Ohio State's Ryan Feltner (So./RHP)
Sunday vs. Nebraska: Utah's Josh Lapiana (Jr./LHP) vs. Nebraska TBD
SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah baseball team travels to Surprise, Arizona for the Pac-12/Big 10 Challenge, featuring games against Ohio State and Nebraska.
The Utes open the weekend against Ohio State on Thursday, Feb. 23 and continues on Friday against Nebraska. Utah again faces Ohio State on Saturday, Feb. 25. The Utes close the weekend against Nebraska on Sunday, Feb. 26 Games will be held at Surprise Stadium.
Live stats are available for each game with audio available for games against Nebraska. No live video stream is available.
The Utes went 2-1 over the opening weekend, rallying to win the final two games of the series after dropping game one. Standouts over the opening weekend included Dallas Carroll, who hit .667 for the weekend with eight hits, three doubles and three RBI, as well as Chandler Anderson, who hit .615 with eight hits, two doubles and four RBI. On the mound, Jacob Rebar earned the win in relief in his collegiate debut in game two with nine strikeouts, while Josh Lapiana also earned a win in game three with five strikeouts.
"It was a typical opening weekend," Utah head coach Bill Kinneberg said. "We have a little rust in some areas. Overall it was a pretty good weekend, winning two games on the road. It was nice to see some guys swing the bat as well as they did. Some guys really struggled though, and we'll see much better pitching this week so that will be a little more of a challenge. We had some good pitching performances and some average pitching performances, which is to be expected the first week. Rebar was a real force for us, but I'd like to see our pitchers have a better percentage of strikes and get ahead of hitters. Defensively, we held our own. There were a lot of positives, but there are definitely things we need to work on and shore up."
Ohio State went 2-2 during its opening weekend with wins against Kansas State and Delaware and losses to Pittsburgh and Kansas State.
Nebraska went 1-1 last weekend against UC Riverside with two games of the series being rained out.
Thursday vs. Ohio State: Utah's Jacon Rebar (Fr./LHP) vs. Ohio State's Adam Niemeyer (Jr./RHP)
Friday vs. Nebraska: Utah's Jayson Rose (Jr./RHP) vs. Nebraska TBD
Saturday vs. Ohio State: Utah's Riley Ottesen (So./RHP) vs. Ohio State's Ryan Feltner (So./RHP)
Sunday vs. Nebraska: Utah's Josh Lapiana (Jr./LHP) vs. Nebraska TBD
SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah baseball team travels to Surprise, Arizona for the Pac-12/Big 10 Challenge, featuring games against Ohio State and Nebraska.
The Utes open the weekend against Ohio State on Thursday, Feb. 23 and continues on Friday against Nebraska. Utah again faces Ohio State on Saturday, Feb. 25. The Utes close the weekend against Nebraska on Sunday, Feb. 26 Games will be held at Surprise Stadium.
Live stats are available for each game with audio available for games against Nebraska. No live video stream is available.
The Utes went 2-1 over the opening weekend, rallying to win the final two games of the series after dropping game one. Standouts over the opening weekend included Dallas Carroll, who hit .667 for the weekend with eight hits, three doubles and three RBI, as well as Chandler Anderson, who hit .615 with eight hits, two doubles and four RBI. On the mound, Jacob Rebar earned the win in relief in his collegiate debut in game two with nine strikeouts, while Josh Lapiana also earned a win in game three with five strikeouts.
"It was a typical opening weekend," Utah head coach Bill Kinneberg said. "We have a little rust in some areas. Overall it was a pretty good weekend, winning two games on the road. It was nice to see some guys swing the bat as well as they did. Some guys really struggled though, and we'll see much better pitching this week so that will be a little more of a challenge. We had some good pitching performances and some average pitching performances, which is to be expected the first week. Rebar was a real force for us, but I'd like to see our pitchers have a better percentage of strikes and get ahead of hitters. Defensively, we held our own. There were a lot of positives, but there are definitely things we need to work on and shore up."
Ohio State went 2-2 during its opening weekend with wins against Kansas State and Delaware and losses to Pittsburgh and Kansas State.
Nebraska went 1-1 last weekend against UC Riverside with two games of the series being rained out.
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