Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The Colorado Mesa softball team opened RMAC play at home with a two-game split with Metro State Saturday (Feb. 22). The Roadrunners won the first game 12-6 and the Mavericks rebounded with a 10-9 win in the second game.

In the opener, Metro jumped out to a 6-0 lead after scoring two runs in the first and four runs in the second.

Mesa answered with four runs in the bottom of the second and tied it up with two runs in the fourth thanks to a two-run homer by Makayla Kovak.

Metro secured the win with three runs in the sixth and seventh innings.

Jessica Severinsen (3-0) took the loss for the Mavericks allowing seven runs on 10 hits in six inning of relief work.

Severinsen put the Mavericks on the scoreboard first in the second game compliments of a two-run homer in the bottom of the first.

Mesa added three more runs in the second with two hits and one walk.

Metro grinded out six runs in the fifth off of five hits, including a home run by Chelsea Brew.

Makayla Kovac blasted a home run in the bottom of the sixth to regain the lead for the Mavs 8-7. Kovac finished 3-for-4 with two RBI's and two runs scored.

The Roadrunners took the lead back in the top of the seventh with two runs off of two hits.

Karissa Nickeson opened the seventh for CMU with a home run. Sarah Phillis hit a pinch hit triple and would score the game-winning run off a single by Lindsay Drayer.

Ashley Pulido picked up her first win of the season for the Mavericks allowing seven runs, six earned, on eight hits with three strikeouts in six innings pitched.

Mesa (2-6, 1-1) will close out the four-game series with Metro State Sunday (Feb. 23).