GOLDEN – Colorado School of Mines softball posted 10 or more hits for the fifth straight outing, overcoming a season-high four errors with 13 runs on 14 hits in a 13-10 defeat of Black Hills State in the second game Friday at CSM Softball Field in Golden.

Junior Cassie Ford had a career-best five RBI and season-high tying three runs scored, going 2-for-4 with a tailing three-run triple down the right field line in the five-run first inning, before ripping a two-run double to the wall in left in the second.

Senior Courtney Derus recorded her fourth home run in six games and team-best fifth of the season in the fourth with a high, two-run shot to straightaway center to put Mines (7-6, 3-1 RMAC) in front, 9-3.

Derus finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs, extending her hitting streak to eight straight.

Senior Morgan Anderson ran her hitting streak to seven in a row with a 2-for-5 effort that included an RBI double along the rightfield line in the third.

Freshman Paige Noehring was 2-for-3 with two runs and senior Melissa Marshall 1-for-1 with one RBI, two runs and a career-high three walks.

Marshall owns a six-game hitting streak, while Noehring has reached safely in her last five with two or more hits each game.

Freshmen Jennifer Tippetts, Kara Walling and Rebecca Fallon accounted for five runs as Tippetts went 1-for-4 with an RBI single in the first; Walling hit 1-for-2 and scored twice, and Fallon was 1-for-1, delivering a pinch-hit two-run double in the sixth.

Freshman Angela Eickelman (1-1) came on in relief to earn her first collegiate win, working the final 4.1 innings with three strikeouts and no earned runs allowed on five hits and one walk.

Sophomore Kristen Prudhomme was credited with the no decision after giving up only three earned runs and six hits in 2.2 innings.

The Orediggers, winners of 26 straight at home dating back to last season, close the four-game series with Black Hills State (0-7, 0-2 RMAC) at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday.