GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines saw its season come to an end at the hands of MSU Denver as the Roadrunners won 10-4 in an elimination game at the RMAC Tournament at Colorado Mesa.

Clara Larson set the Mines career home runs record in the loss, producing all four of the Orediggers' runs with a three-run blast in the sixth and an RBI double in the seventh. Julia Heitz carried a no-hitter into the sixth for the Roadrunners, who advance to face Dixie State in an elimination game Saturday morning for the right to play Colorado Mesa for the championship.

MSU Denver built a 5-0 lead with runs in the second, third, and fifth. Ashlee Kim got things going with an RBI double in the second, and Laney Sheppard produced the next two runs with a third-inning double and fifth-inning single before Darby McGhee's squeeze bunt and an error in the fifth tacked on two more.

Larson's home run came in the sixth after Kendall Murphy walked and Katie Leiker singled to break up Heitz's no-hitter; Larson launched a no-doubter to left center to set the record and put Mines in business down 5-3.

The Roadrunners, however, shut the door in their half of the seventh with a five-run outburst on six hits. Abby Anderson's bases-loaded single got the rally going before Ari Valdez drove in two runs with a single and Ashlee Kim did the same on the next at-bat to lead 10-3. Mines didn't go quietly as Larson doubled in Dani Valerio in the bottom of the seventh, but the deficit was too much to make up as Heitz closed out the game.

Heitz (10-6) was terrific for MSU Denver in the early going, using her defense to hold Mines hitless through five innings as she tossed a complete game. Claire Stringfellow (12-9) went into the seventh for Mines, throwing 126 pitches and allowing eight runs with five strikeouts; Sydney Marchando and Maddie Rogers each got an out in the seventh.

NOTABLES
- The Orediggers end the season at 28-21 overall. It is Mines' third straight winning season and fourth straight 20+ win campaign.
- Larson, only a junior, surpassed Kaleigh Starr's record of 34 home runs set between 2007 and 2010. She has hit 10 or more longballs in each of her three seasons.
- Larson put together her fifth 4+ RBI game of the season.
- Mines ended up with six hits over the last two innings as Murphy, Megan Dickson, and Dani Valerio added to the total. Larson had two.
- The Mines senior class ends their careers with 108 wins and four postseason appearances, the most wins since the class of 2014.
- Katie Leiker finishes her Mines career with 194 hits, tied for seventh all-time. She ended the season on a six-game hit streak and had hits in 15 of the last 16 games. Her 126 career runs also ranks seventh, her 111 RBI are eighth, and her 34 stolen bases sixth all-time.
- Kara Jones' 47 career doubles ends up tied for third in Mines history with her former teammate Sonoma Toot.