Box Score How It Happened
The Colorado School of Mines opened up a road series at Adams State with hard fought 9-7 victory at the ASU Baseball park on Friday, April 08.
Mines (19-10) got to a huge 9-3 lead before having to hold on against a formidable Grizzlies (15-19, 11-0).
After a pair of scoreless innings to start the game, Mines found the first run of the game in the top of third. With two outs, shortstop Daniel Ciraula got the rally going with he smacked a double into left field. Two pitches later, Logan Smith followed with his own double, into right field, to put the Orediggers up 1-0.
While ASU briefly took the lead in the bottom half of the third, Mines immediately responded with a four-run fourth inning followed by another two in the fifth to take over a 7-2 advantage they never relinquished.
The four runs in the fourth inning came on three straight at bats as Griffin Jones had an RBI single, followed by a two-RBI double from Jack Bevan and ended with a RBI base knock from Drew Burman. Cody Marvel then drove in a pair an inning later on a double followed by an ASU error.
Adams State got one of the runs back in the bottom of the fifth inning, but Logan Smith quickly erased that run and tacked on another in the sixth inning with a two-run jack.
Now up 9-2, Mines had to hold on as a hot hitting Grizzlies squad refused to be put away as they added a run in the sixth and three more in the eighth inning to get close the gap to 9-7. Fortunately, Brett Kovach came in and pitched a scoreless ninth inning to hold ASU right where they were.
Notables
- Mines was actually out-hit (18-11), but four ASU errors loomed large over the proceedings.
- Leading the offensive charge for the Orediggers was Logan Smith who finished 2-for-5 with three runs driven in. Of his two hits, one was a double and the second was a homerun.
- Driving in a pair of runs each was Cody Marvel and Jack Bevan.
- Griffin Jones joined both Smith and Marvel with two base hits each.
- The victory went to Tyler Thomas who surrendered four runs in 5.1 innings of work.
- Brett Kovach earned his third save of the season with a scoreless ninth inning.
