USU‑Eastern Avoids Sweep with 16-2 Run‑Rule Win in Trinidad Weekend

Utah State University Eastern’s baseball recap says the Eagles avoided a four‑game sweep in Trinidad with a 16‑2 run‑rule victory in game four, after a weekend series that was moved “because of the weather, the games were moved to Saturday and Sunday,” according to the USU‑Eastern assistant SID Jose Briseno’s Feb. 23 game recap. Briseno’s account places the series at Central Park in Trinidad and frames the late run as the decisive blow that kept USU‑Eastern from being swept.

Briseno’s recap credits several individual performances in the reported 16‑2 win: “Tyce Abbott hit a grand slam as part of a five‑RBI performance,” and Truman Duryea “toss[ed] a five‑inning, eight‑strikeout complete game.” The same story lists Peyton Adams as leading the Eagles “with a 2‑4 performance at the plate” in that game and notes Harley Vicchrilli “recorded seven strikeouts on the mound,” all cited in the Assistant SID’s Feb. 23 writeup.

Briseno’s wider game‑by‑game narrative describes a high‑scoring game two in which Trinidad plated 11 runs in the fourth and ultimately won 17‑16, while the Eagles amassed 16 hits, “including 10 extra‑base hits,” and Peyton Adams “went 4‑7 with two doubles and a homerun.” The recap also describes a Sunday game in which Trinidad hit a three‑run homer to tie the score at 8 and then “walked off the Eagles in the bottom of the eighth,” with Truman Duryea and Bentley Crook homering in that contest.

The on‑site box score extract published on USU‑Eastern’s official athletics pages presents a different result for one of the weekend games. That box score shows inning lines of Utah State Eastern 0,2,1,3,1,1,0,0 for eight runs and Trinidad 0,1,3,0,0,1,3,1 for nine runs, and the page explicitly reads “Winner TRINIDAD Trinidad State College.” The same extract assigns the decision “Win: G. Coyazo (1‑2)” and “Loss: Bauer, Gavin (1‑1),” and lists hit‑by‑pitch entries (Bauer, Gavin; Swensen, Makaio; D. Dekker; A. Rizo) along with passed ball totals “Burgess, Logan (2), K. Cherpusch (1).” Utah State Eastern’s pitching rows in the extract include Swensen, Makaio (3.0 IP) and Newman, Kade (4.0 IP) with a totals line consistent with an 8‑9 final on that box.

Those two official items conflict: Briseno’s USU‑Eastern recap reports a 16‑2 run‑rule win to salvage game four, while the box score extract on USU‑Eastern’s site shows Trinidad as a 9‑8 winner in the game with G. Coyazo credited with the victory. The materials reviewed do not reconcile which scoreline corresponds to which game in the four‑game weekend series; Briseno’s recap places the games at Central Park and is timestamped Feb. 23, 2026, and Trinidad’s schedule feed on Tsctrojans shows multiple meetings with Utah State Eastern earlier in February (Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 results listed as 4‑0, 9‑0, 19‑10 losses and a 14‑12 win).

To resolve the discrepancy, the definitive source will be the full game‑by‑game official box scores and play‑by‑play logs from each school’s athletics communications office or a neutral game log. For now, local fans at Central Park remember a weekend in Trinidad that produced both a walk‑off and, according to USU‑Eastern’s recap, a dramatic 16‑2 rally credited to Tyce Abbott and Truman Duryea; the athletics records on both programs will need to be reconciled to fix the official winners and pitching decisions.