SALT LAKE CITY (AP) After dropping a heartbreaker to Florida in the season opener, Cameron Rising said Utah didn’t want to leave anything to chance against Southern Utah. “The game plan was just to come out and dominate,” Rising said.
Alex Smith said he “definitely” plans to return to Utah a lot now that he is retired, and joked that he has forgiven J.J. Watt, but his 8-year-old son “still holds a grudge.”
LEADING OFF
Utah continues its seven-game homestand with its third Pac-12 home series of 2021, and will have one more to conclude the regular season, May 13-15 vs. Oregon State.
The Utes have one other non-conference game remaining on the schedule: May 4 against Weber State (rescheduled from April 16 because of weather).
Second-ranked UCLA is the highest-ranked team to visit Salt Lake City since March 31, 2019 when Utah hosted No. 2 Oklahoma for a doubleheader.
UCLA also was ranked No. 2 the last time the two teams met in a series, April 26-28, 2019, at UCLA.
The Utes are 17-2 against non-Pac-12 opponents in 2021
Fifteen of Utah s 42 games this season have come against Pac-12 opponents ranked in the Top 15 in the nation.
Apr 8, 2021
The road trip continues for the Utah Softball team, fresh off three wins on Tuesday and Wednesday in St. George, Utah, as the Utes move on to Berkeley, Calif., for a four-game series beginning Friday at 4 p.m. MT against the Cal Bears. Saturday s doubleheader begins at 1 p.m. and Sunday s series finale is set for 1 p.m. The first two games of the series will be televised on Pac-12 Networks and the final two will be available on the Pac-12 Now app.
Utah (15-15; 1-8 Pac-12) earned two wins over Dixie State on Tuesday and Wednesday, and capped the visit to St. George with a 7-5 win over Southern Utah Wednesday evening. Cal (13-11; 1-15 Pac-12) defeated St. Mary s 6-1 on Tuesday in the lead-up to this weekend s series.