Noehring Collects 200th Hit, Mines Rolls At UCCS

3/12/2017 2:26:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 COLORADO SPRINGS - Paige Noehring collected her 200th career hit as Colorado School of Mines swept the Sunday doubleheader to win its series at UCCS.

The Orediggers (13-5, 10-2 RMAC) won by scores of 10-4 and 7-3, slugging four home runs to win their third consecutive RMAC series. 

Noehring became the sixth player in program history to reach 200 hits. The senior centerfielder smacking it as a lead-off single to start game two.

Boston Ludlow had a monster day, going 5-for-6 at the plate with three runs scored and a pair of doubles and two hit-by-pitches; Clara Larson hit two home runs to drive in three on a 4-for-8 afternoon, while Sonoma Toot had 4 RBI going 3-for-6.

GAME 1- Mines 10, UCCS 4
Home runs by Clara Larson and Sonoma Toot led Mines as they cruised 10-4 in Sunday's opener.

Paige Noehring drove in three and Boston Ludlow went 3-for-3 as the Mines bats produced 12 hits to score their 10 runs. Maddie Rogers (3-1) went six innings to pick up the win.

Larson got Mines off to a great start with her fifth home run of the year in the first, scoring Noehring, but UCCS scored three runs in the second to take a 3-2 lead.

That lead went away when Toot's lead-off home run in the fourth sparked a five-run rally, with Taylor Klauser collecting her first career RBI before Noehring smacked a bases-loaded double to make it a 7-3 game. Klauer drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth, and Mines tacked on two more in the sixth as Toot generated a sacrifice fly to score Dani Valerio and Ludlow doubled in Larson.

Claire Stringfellow pitched the final inning in a non-save situation, getting a popup and a double play by Pua Fujinaga to Ludlow to get out of an inherited two-on, no-out jam.

GAME TWO - Mines 7, UCCS 3
Paige Noehring notched her 200th career hit as the Orediggers won the series with a 7-3 victory.

Noehring led off the game with a single up the middle for her 200th, and more importantly it started a two-run rally as she moved over to third on Clara Larson's single and scored on a wild pitch; Larson then scored on Sonoma Toot's sac fly to lead 2-0.

UCCS pulled a run back on Martinek's home run in the bottom of the first, but the Orediggers got things going in the middle innings. Loren Dempsey doubled in Boston Ludlow in the second to make it 3-1, and Pua Fujinaga homered to left center to score two more in the fourth. Larson jacked her second home run of the day in the fifth, a solo shot, to make it 6-1 before UCCS' Hoffman answered with a solo bomb in the fifth to make it 6-2 Mines.

Toot's single to score Stefanie Brunello in the sixth set it at 7-2 with a seventh-inning run by the Mountain Lions proving academic.

Hallie Smith (5-2) went the distance, striking out four and allowing three earned to pick up the win

NEXT UP
Mines visits Black Hills State for four games next Saturday and Sunday.
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