In its final regular season nonconference three-game series, the University of Utah baseball team (20-21, 9-12 Pac-12) fell short to UC Riverside (18-25, 4-11 BWC) dropping two of three games. The Utes took game one, 7-3, but dropped what could have been the series win with a 6-2 loss in game two and a 7-5 defeat in the finale.
Opening up the series on Thursday evening, Utah jumped out to an early lead, and it never looked back. Ellis Kelly hit a sacrifice fly to send Chandler Anderson home in the bottom of the second inning for the first run of the game.