GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Gutsy pitching performances by Sydney Marchando and Claire Stringfellow combined with Clara Larson's five-RBI day guided Colorado School of Mines to a pair of wins at Colorado Mesa.

The Orediggers won 2-1 and 5-2 to take two from the Mavericks (14-6, 8-2 RMAC) on the road for the first time ever and dealt them their first home RMAC doubleheader loss since 2014.

Larson's five-RBI afternoon took her to 182 for her career to tie for the Mines program record as she was a combined 4-for-7.

GAME 1 - MINES 2, COLORADO MESA 1
Clara Larson had both Oredigger RBI, including the go-ahead home run to lead off the sixth, to support Sydney Marchando's complete-game, five-hit effort. Mines beat CMU in Grand Junction for the first time since 2010.

Marchando (5-3) retired the final seven batters she faced, working 1-2-3 sixth and seventh innings to seal the win. She had two strikeouts to no walks. Paige Adair (3-2) took the loss for the Mavericks, departing after Larson's home run in the sixth; Ellie Smith struck out four in two innings of scoreless relief. 

Renata Boyd led off the game with a single and scored on Larson's RBI base hit later in the first. CMU tied it up on Hailey Hinson's lead-off homer in the second, but the score would stay 1-1 until the sixth, when Larson drilled her fourth of the season to left field for a 2-1 lead. 

Marchando dominated in the latter stages of the game, allowing just one baserunner in the last three innings.

GAME 2 - MINES 5, COLORADO MESA 2
Clara Larson's three-RBI game again led Mines as they worked past Colorado Mesa 5-2 in Saturday's late game.

Claire Stringfellow (2-4) battled to the complete-game win, scattering six hits and two runs. The Orediggers pounced on four Maverick errors in the game.

Larson went 2-for-4 with three RBI while Megan Dickson had a 3-for-4 game and Renata Boyd notched two hits. 

CMU got on the board first with Brooke Doumer's single to plate Aislyn Sharp in the third, but Mines immediately answered in the top half of the fourth when Dickson tripled and then scored on an error to make it 1-1.

The Mavericks temporarily retook the lead in their half of the fourth when small ball put pinch-runner Drew Sims on third, allowing her score on Kaley Barker's sacrifice fly. Things broke open in the Mines fifth, however, when Larson smacked a two-run double over the leftfielder's head and later scored on a well-timed squeeze play by Kylie Redding. Larson tacked on an insurance run in the sixth with a single to plate Stefanie Brunello.

Mesa put runners in scoring position in the fifth and sixth but Stringfellow worked out of each inning unscathed before producing a quick seventh. Shea Mauser (7-2) allowed four runs - two earned - on six hits in 4.1 innings of work for CMU. Ellie Smith finished the game allowing a run on four hits.

NEXT UP
The two teams wrap up their series Sunday with an 11 a.m. doubleheader.