In the seventh Arnold replaced Gaumnitz on the mound. She walked Breanna Egge to open the inning, then got the next three batters on infield grounders.

The two teams will play again today with the first pitch scheduled at 11 a.m. MDT. Cal State-Stanislaus must win one game to earn a berth in the College World Series. Dixie State must win two in the best-of-three series.

"We obviously didn't play a good game today," said Dixie State coach Beth Collett, whose team managed just four hits. "You get opportunities. If you don't capitalize, you don't win."

The Red Storm threatened in the second, third, sixth and seventh but couldn't get the key hits.

"They had some luck," Collett said of the Warriors. "Their bloop hits fell in and ours didn't. Four of their nine hits were bloops."

Collett said her team will have no trouble with motivation on Saturday.

"When the World Series is on the line, we'll do better," she said.

UTAH VALLEY

BASEBALL: Six runs over the first three innings held up as Hawai'i topped Utah Valley on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series at Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Goose Kallunki drove in both runs for the Wolverines (16-34). Jace Brinkerhoff, who scored both UVU runs, also had two hits, upping his season total to 91.

The Rainbows (30-22) scored two runs in each of the first three frames to jump out to a 6-0 lead. After two in the first, Greg Garcia hit one of three Rainbow doubles to drive in two runs in in the second.

Christian Johnson doubled in the third to score Kolten Wong to make it 5-0. Johnson then came in on a two-out base hit to center from Kevin Fujii.

Utah Valley got on the board in the fourth when Brinkerhoff singled with one out and later came in to score on a two-out single by Kallunki.

The second Wolverine run came in the sixth, on Kallunki's second hit of the day, a single up the middle to plate Brinkerhoff.

Wong capped the scoring in the eighth with a solo home run to right, his 11th of the season.

UVU was stymied for most of the night by UH starter Jayson Kramer, who improved to 5-4 with the win. Kramer struck out seven over eight innings, allowing one earned run on seven hits. Aside from his strikeouts, he retired 17 of 18 Wolverine batters via groundout.