SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Utah baseball team won its third game in a row after defeating Utah Valley in a midweek contest 11-5 at Smith’s Ballpark in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Utes had four players with multiple RBI led by Erick Migueles, who had three for the second game in a row. The others came from Briley Knight, Chandler Anderson and Matt Richardson, who each had two.

David Watson got the start for Utah and worked 4.0 innings and allowing no runs on four hits.

After both teams went scoreless in the first, Utah Valley threatened in the second, but Watson worked out of the bases-loaded jam with one out in the second to keep the Wolverines scoreless through two.

Utah took the lead in the bottom half of the second as Rykker Tom scored on a Chase Fernlund double and Richardson singled Fernlund home to go up 2-0.

In the next inning, Migueles hit his fourth homer of the season down the right field line on a 3-0 count to put the Utes up 4-0.

Utah was leading 7-0 before Utah Valley scored any runs, but they did plate four in the top of the sixth. The Utes responded with four more runs in the next two innings to put the game out of reach.

In all, Utah used four pitchers on the night as Zac McCleve came in to close things out in the ninth. It was the first career victory for Watson.

Every Utah batter tallied a hit against the Wolverines as the Utes finished with 12 on the evening.

The win gives Utah’s head coach Bill Kinneberg his 599^th career victory.

Utah will finish its seven game homestand this weekend by hosting Arizona State at Smith’s Ballpark beginning on Thursday, April 18 at 6 p.m.