Dixie State campus Briefs

BASEBALL: The Dixie State baseball team closed out the 2010 regular season by splitting a doubleheader against Mesa State College on Wednesday at Suplizio Field in Grand Junction, Colo. Justin Prodan went the distance in Dixie State's 7-2 victory in the opener. The Storm could not stop the Mavericks' offense in the nightcap, blowing an eight-run lead to drop the series finale on a walk-off hit, 12-11.

Dixie State finishes their 50-game schedule with a 31-19 record — the second consecutive season the Red Storm has surpassed the 30-win mark.

Prodan (8-4) tossed his eighth complete game to claim the top spot in the DSC Division-II record books, besting the previous mark of seven by Chad Povich in 2007. The junior allowed two runs on nine hits while striking out six.

Drew Oldfield and Judd Jensen each blasted solo homers. The duo joined Brett Adams and Quinn Boyer with multi-hit games. The Storm swatted 10 hits handing Mesa starter Derek Riley the loss.

In the finale, Dixie State jumped out to an 11-3 lead via the extra-base hit. Oldfield and Adams slugged back-to-back home runs in a three-run fourth inning. Boyer cleared the bases with a double in the 5th. In his last collegiate at-bat, Adams lined his second homer of the game to left field.

Mesa State chipped away the eight-run cushion with four runs in the sixth and capped off the comeback with five more tallies in the seventh. Erik Nordine brought home the game-winner with a single to right field, scoring pinch-runner Peter Arakawa from second.

Payton Rentmeister (3-2) took the hard-luck loss in relief. Starting pitcher Preston Grimes allowed seven runs on 11 hits in 52/3 innings while fanning six.

Adams tops the end-of-season stat column for Dixie State in batting average (.423), home runs (17), runs batted in (64), doubles (14) and walks (29). Oldfield finished second in HR (12) and RBIs (49). Boyer finished second in the batting average race at a .386 clip. As a whole, Dixie State batted .322 as a team with 46 home runs and 306 RBIs.

On the pitching side, four DSC hurlers ended the season with ERA's at 4.00 or better — Rentmeister (3.05), Troy Hunter (3.30), Prodan (3.61) and Lane Kirby (4.00). Prodan led all pitchers with eight wins and 77 strikeouts while Todd Morlock secured nine of 13 saves. The staff ended with a combined 4.78 ERA striking out 252 batters in 356 innings.

MEN'S BASKETBALL: Dixie State College men's basketball coach Jon Judkins announced the six student-athletes have signed national letters of intent to attend Dixie State College and play for the Red Storm in 2010-2011.