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First-place Colorado Mesa took two from Colorado School of Mines on Sunday, winning 8-0 in the opener before coming back to win a 7-6 extra-innings thriller.

GAME 1 – Colorado Mesa 8, Mines 0 (6 inn.)
CMU's McKenzie Surface shut down the Oredigger bats as Mesa took the day's opener 8-0 in six innings.

Mines' six hits were all by different batters as Dani Valerio, Sonoma Toot, Boston Ludlow, Pua Fujinaga, Amanda Etcheverry, and Brielle Asato reached base. CMU's Makayla Kovac went 3-for-4 with two driven in, and Zoe Pakes had three RBI with a home run.

Mesa got on the board in the second with RBI singles from Kelly Mrofcza and Nicole Robinson. Pakes' three-run home run in the third made it 5-0, and Baylee Boren and Kovac drove in runs in the fourth before Kovac ended it in the sixth with her double to score Baylee Boren.

Mines combined three pitchers with Hallie Smith taking the loss allowing four earned. Melissa Kaiser threw two-thirds of an inning in relief and Maddie Rogers finished the game with 1.2 innings of three-hit ball. Surface struck out four and scattered six hits in the shutout.

GAME 2 – Colorado Mesa 7, Mines 6 (8 inn.)
Colorado Mesa walked-off with a three-run eighth inning after forcing extras in a 7-6 win to end the series.

Mines scored twice in the top of the eighth to lead 6-4, but the Mavs responded to stretch their win streak to 21 in a row.

The Orediggers took the in the top of the first when Ludlow's sac fly scored Paige Noehring, but Kovac drew a bases-load walk to tie at in the bottom half. Mines retook the lead in the fourth as Noehring's single scored Asato, and Kara Jones doubled in two runs later in the frame to lead 4-1.

Mesa came back to tie it in the sixth and force extras, but Jones' sac fly and Ludlow's single put the visitors ahead 6-4 in the top of the inning. The hosts didn't quit, though, plating runs on Courtney Robbins' double and Boren's ground-out to tie it before Kovac's infield single plated the winning run.

Hallie Smith (10-8) allowed five earned in the complete game. CMU combined two pitchers with Brooke Hodgson picking up the win to improve to 6-0.

Jones led Mines at the plate with three hits and three RBI, and Etcheverry also went 3-for-4.

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Mines returns home to host UCCS next weekend with Youth Day taking place Saturday and StrikeOut Cancer Day Sunday.