Trailing 14-1, BYU coach Vance Law turned the game over to its bench.

It was a pinch-hit parade.

Law's lineup card looked like it was a rough draft.

Then the most unlikeliest of things happened.

The score went from 14-1 to 14-4, to 14-8.

The scoreboard kept changing like the dollar signs at the gas pump.

Finally 14-10.

Are you telling Cougar fans there is a chance?

Nice story, too bad for BYU it wasn't didn't have a happy ending.

Southern Utah held off BYU 14-10 on Tuesday night in Provo to give the T'Birds a sweep of the two-game season series, the first sweep of Southern Utah over BYU in school history.

With bases loaded and two outs, BYU had the tying run at the plate, but Bowen's drive to deep right field was chased down at the warning track by Southern Utah outfielder Matt Sanford to end the game.

"I'm extremely pleased with the effort we got off the bench," Law said. "If we would have gotten that same effort from out starters, I think the game would have been turned around the opposite direction."

BYU trailed 14-4 heading into its last at-bat before the Cougars put a little suspense in an otherwise forgettable night for BYU.

Nacapoy doubled to start off the inning. Hermosillo singled to right and Bowen followed with an RBI single. Woahn drove in a run with a sharp single to left to make the score 14-6.

Andrew Law kept the inning going with a single up the middle. Thomas Bills singled to load the bases and Johnathan Cluff drew one of three basses loaded walks in the inning.

Bowen, who went 2-for-3 with RBI, nearly helped BYU complete a legendary comeback before flying out to end the game.

"If that ball drops and we get another hit we probably have a tie ball game," Law said. "Then who knows what could have happened. We're just not getting it done on the mound. We're not throwing strikes and when we do they're not in the right location."

Southern Utah got it going early. After BYU starter Daniel Welch, a freshman lefty from Lone Peak High School, pitched a scoreless first inning, the Thunderbirds got to him for three runs in the second.

Bucky Aona led off the inning by hitting a home run to right field, his first big fly of the season. The inning continued with an RBI double from Jacob Romney and an RBI single from Colby Ford.

The T'Birds came back for more in the third inning. Kelii'i Zablan singled and Mac Nelson walked. Aona reached base on an infield single.

BYU turned to its bullpen to try and put out the fire, but after reliever Justin Shutt got Chester Wilson to hit an infield popup, Joe Wright doubled and Brandon Johnson singled to put Southern Utah up 7-0.

If Cougar fans thought it couldn't get any worse, they were wrong. More runs were on the way for the T'Birds. Wilson doubled in two more in the fourth to go up 9-0.

BYU got on the board with a run in the fourth when Dan Vargas walked and scored on a two-out error. That was all the Cougars could get off of Southern Utah starter Ben Gollaher, who came into the game with a 14.54 ERA having pitched in just four innings.

"I didn't feel like our starting position players came ready to play," Law said. "We had guys going up against us who had ERA's of 10 or better and to not even have a sniff against them for four or five innings to me is inexcusable."

The Thundberbirds kept the pressure on with another run in the fifth and put the game away with four more runs in the sixth to go up 14-1.

Ford, a Mountain View High School product, singled in another run and Freitas singled in two to key the inning.

The win helped Southern Utah improve to 18-14 on the year, while BYU dropped to 15-21.

Aona went 4-for-4 for Southern Utah and Ford was 3-for-5. Bowen and Hermosillo were the only Cougars with two hits.

BYU will get back to conference play on Thursday when the Cougars will host TCU for a three-game series.