7
Winner Colorado Mines CSM 1-3
0
Newman NU 2-8
Winner
Colorado Mines CSM
1-3
7
Final
0
Newman NU
2-8
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Colorado Mines CSM 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 7 9 2
Newman NU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2

W: Stringfellow, Claire (1-1) L: Jensen Cromer (0-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | by Tim Flynn

Mines Shuts Out Newman For First Win

WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Colorado School of Mines picked up its first win of the season as it combined three pitchers to shutout Newman 7-0 at the Midwestern State Round Robin.

Freshman Claire Stringfellow picked up her first career win in the circle as Katie Leiker, Kara Jones, and Pua Fujinaga each drove in a pair of runs. Mines allowed only three hits in the game while generating nine and taking advantage of a pair of Newman errors.

Maddie Rogers got the start and pitched two innings of two-hit ball, departing after facing one batter in the third. Stringfellow then tossed 4.0 terrific frames allowing only one hit with two strikeouts, at one point retiring six in a row as she faced two over her minimum. Hallie Smith had a 1-2-3 seventh to close it out.

Meanwhile, the Mines bats backed up their pitchers. Mines got going in the fourth with Clara Larson's RBI single to plate Brielle Asato, and Leiker and Jones drove in runs in the sixth to make it 3-0. The Orediggers struck for four in the top of the seventh to seal it, with Fujinaga's two-run single starting the rally before Leiker and Jones again went back-to-back for RBIs.

NOTABLES
- It is believed to be the first time in program history that Mines had three pitchers combine for a shutout.
- Asato, Larson, and Leiker each went 2-for-4 at the plate. Asato and Sonoma Toot each scored a pair of runs.
- Freshman Taylor Klauser made her first career appearance as a pinch runner in the seventh, scoring off Leiker's single.
- Jenson Cromer (0-3) went 6.1 innings in the start and allowed five earned with five strikeouts for Newman. Leah Graham allowed the final run in working the final two outs of the seventh.
- Leiker returns from Texas as Mines' plate leader after going 7-for-14 for 5 RBI and slugging .571 in Mines' four games. Asato hit .455 for the tournament and Larson had a great debut weekend with a .400/.400/.533 slash line.
- Stringfellow improved to 1-1. In 9.0 IP this weekend she had a staff-best 1.00 ERA and .103 opposing batting average.

NEXT UP
Mines will head to California to face Cal Baptist (Feb. 18) and Concordia Irvine (Feb. 20) for doubleheaders.
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