GOLDEN, Colo. -
Kayleigh Krueger's walk-off double in game one helped Colorado School of Mines split their doubleheader with Colorado Christian.
The Orediggers (18-12, 17-9 RMAC) snapped a 14-game win streak by the Cougars (16-5, 15-2 RMAC) as two of the league's hottest teams began their series. Mines won the opener 7-6 with CCU taking the second game 9-0.
Clara Larson tied the Mines career doubles record in game one, notching her name in the record book once again with the 64th of her career.
GAME 1 - MINES 7, COLORADO CHRISTIAN 6
Kayleigh Krueger's walk-off double helped Mines win an enthralling back-and-forth battle to start the series.
Krueger also homered in the first as part of a four-RBI game as Mines raced out to a 5-0 lead before CCU chipped away to tie it and eventually take the lead in the top of the seventh.
Mines got off to a dream start as
Kylie Redding singled in
Stefanie Brunello before Krueger tucked a three-run homer inside the leftfield foul pole to lead 4-0. Redding's high pop fly in the second fell between two fielders to allow
Lauren Decker to score, but CCU began to claw back with Sydney Reamer's RBI double - their first hit of the game - in the third. A big fourth inning cut it to 5-4 with three runs, and Reamer led off the fifth with a home run to tie it 5-5.
The tie lasted in the seventh, when an error by Mines allowed the go-ahead run to come across for a 6-5 lead. That left the Orediggers down to their final at-bat; with two-outs Larson doubled in center and then scored on an error by the shortstop to tie the game, but that set up Krueger, who blooped a double inside the leftfield line to score Redding for the win.
Sydney Marchando was sparkling over the first two innings before CCU adjusted on the second time through the order; she departed in the fifth and
Sadriena Rodriguez (3-0) tossed three innings of three-hit relief with only the single unearned run on her record. CCU starter Jennifer Romero also left in the fifth with a 5-5 tie, with Samaria Roope (3-1) allowing two runs - both unearned - in the seventh to take the loss.
GAME 2 - COLORADO CHRISTIAN 9, MINES 0 (5 inn.)
Colorado Christian made the adjustments it needed to for the afternoon's game, racing out to a big early lead in a 9-0 run-rule victory.
The Cougars produced nine hits led by Sydney Reamer's grand slam. Stephanie Day got CCU on the board with a one-run double in the first before Samaria Roope singled in another and Kenzie Middle's triple made it 4-0 in the second. Sami Edwards' sac fly in the third made it 5-0 before Reamer's big fly in the third pushed the lead to 9-0.
Julie Katz (7-0) earned the win in four innings scattering four hits; Sydney Rawlings threw a scoreless fifth.
Kylie Redding (4-4) left in the third allowing four earned, with
Kayleigh Krueger pitching three innings of relief and allowing three.
NEXT UP
The two teams finish their series Sunday starting at 11 a.m.
