5
Winner Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 17-11, 16-4 RMAC
0
Fort Lewis College FLC 10-26, 5-18 RMAC
Winner
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM
17-11, 16-4 RMAC
5
Final
0
Fort Lewis College FLC
10-26, 5-18 RMAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 5 11 0
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

W: Marchando, Sydney (9-3) L: Kelly Decker (1-10)

4
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 17-12, 16-5 RMAC
5
Winner UCCS UCCS 16-18, 12-10 RMAC
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM
17-12, 16-5 RMAC
4
Final
5
UCCS UCCS
16-18, 12-10 RMAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 7 2
UCCS UCCS 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 14 4

W: Taylor Reidhead (7-7) L: Redding, Kylie (0-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | by Tim Flynn

Orediggers Blank Fort Lewis, Fall In Extras To UCCS

GAME 1 - MINES 5, FORT LEWIS 0
Colorado School of Mines shut out Fort Lewis for the second consecutive day, this time thanks to the arm of Sydney Marchando, as they opened the morning with a 5-0 victory.

Clara Larson went 4-for-4 with three RBI and Megan Dickson drove in a pair as the Orediggers generated 11 hits in support of a fine start by Marchando (9-3), who struck out seven and scattered only three hits in the victory.

Mines wasted no time in scoring as a bases-loaded walk by Dickson in the top of the first made it 1-0, but scoring chances after that went wanting as the Orediggers stranded seven base runners across the first four innings. The breakthrough came in the fifth as a Dickson single scored Larson, and Larson added insurance in the sixth with a bases-loaded double to make it 5-0.

Marchando did not allow a baserunner in scoring position after escaping a second-third jam in the first as she threw 99 pitches in the win. Kelly Decker (1-10) took the loss allowing all five runs off 11 hits.
 

GAME 2 - UCCS 5, MINES 4 (9 inn.)
Lexi Anderson's walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth capped a UCCS rally as they won 5-4 in the final game of the pod series.

Mines led 3-1 in the seventh and 4-3 in the eighth, but the Mountain Lions came back each time to tie the game before winning it in the ninth. 

The Orediggers led 3-1 heading into the seventh after receiving a Kara Jones RBI double in the first, Katie Leiker's home run in the third, and Boston Ludlow's run off an error in the fifth. UCCS pitcher Taylor Reidhead hit a two-run home run in the seventh, however, to send the game to extras.

Mines wasted no time in the eighth as Ludlow led off with a triple and then scored on a throwing error to lead 4-3, but Melissa Martinek doubled in Bryn Horton in the bottom half to make it 4-4. In the ninth, Mines stranded Kendall Murphy on second after her leadoff walk, and UCCS strung together back-to-back two-out hits in the bottom half to win it on Anderson's single up the middle to plate Payton Romines.

Reidhead (7-7) threw 163 pitches to earn the win for UCCS with 10 strikeouts, allowing three earned. Claire Stringfellow allowed four runs through 7.1 innings of work in a no-decision, with Kylie Redding (0-2) entering in the eighth and settling the game before taking the loss in the ninth.
 

SERIES NOTES
- Sunday's games were played in Aztec, N.M. to avoid snow in Durango.
- Mines is now 17-12 overall and 16-5 in the RMAC.
- After going 3-8 in February, Mines was 14-4 in the month of March.
- Clara Larson led Mines at the plate for the weekend, slugging .941 and batting .471 with nine RBI, two home runs, and two doubles. She extended her hitting streak to 14 games before it was snapped in the finale vs. UCCS; that stands as the seventh-longest in Mines history.
- Larson's four-hit game vs. Fort Lewis was the second of her career and the second of the year by an Oredigger, joining Katie Leiker's day against Adams State on March 16.
- Kendall Murphy extended her reached-base streak to 28 games.
 

NEXT UP
Mines returns to the Front Range to visit Regis next weekend in an RMAC series.
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