PUEBLO, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines and CSU-Pueblo battled to a Saturday split to open their RMAC series.
Mines dropped the opener 8-3, but roared back with a 13-1 run-rule victory in the afternoon to split the doubleheader.
Boston Ludlow paced Mines at the plate going 4-for-6 with four RBI and three runs scored across the two games.
GAME ONE - CSU-Pueblo 8, Mines 3
CSU-Pueblo jumped out to an early 6-0 lead and never looked back as it won the series opener 8-3.
The Thunderwolves had 12 hits, scoring twice in the first and four times in the second to support K'Lee Kent's pitching performance. Mines got on the board with
Pua Fujinaga's sacrifice fly in the fourth, but CSU-Pueblo answered with one of their own in the fifth before
Boston Ludlow and
Sonoma Toot drove in runs in the sixth and seventh, respectively.
Toot and
Katie Leiker each recorded a pair of hits for Mines. Kent (3-7) struck out three and allowed two earned in the win.
Claire Stringfellow (7-3) took the loss, going 1.1 innings in the start as
Maddie Rogers threw the balance of the game.
GAME TWO - Mines 13, CSU-Pueblo 1 (5 inn.)
Mines' bats had a huge start to the game as Mines throttled the Thunderwolves 13-1 in a five-inning victory to end the day.
The Orediggers (20-12/17-9 RMAC) jumped out to a 10-0 lead after only two innings keyed by an eight-run second.
Hallie Smith earned her 10th win of the season as she allowed one run over five innings.
Paige Noehring got the scoring going with a double steal in the first before
Clara Larson doubled in
Kara Walling, giving Mines an early 2-0 advantage. In the second, Noehring and
Katie Leiker drove in two-run singles with
Kara Jones laying down a suicide squeeze to plate Leiker and
Boston Ludlow tripled in two more runs and scored on an error to blow the game open at 10-0.
Pueblo's lone run came in the bottom half of the second, but Mines piled on with three in the fourth, as
Sonoma Toot, Ludlow, and
Pua Fujinaga notched RBI base hits.
Seven different Orediggers tallied an RBI led by Ludlow's three and two each by Noehring and Leiker. Noehring, Larson, Ludlow, and Fujinaga had multi-hit games with Ludlow going 3-for-3 with three runs scored and as many RBI, coming up a home run short of the cycle.
Smith struck out one and allowed one run over five to improve to 10-5. CSU-Pueblo starter Lexie Martindale went 2.1 innings total, allowing six runs, with Shannon Lieber giving up six in 2.2 innings of work.
NEXT UP
Mines and CSU-Pueblo finish their series Sunday morning starting at 11 a.m.
