DENVER, Colo. – Junior right fielder Alex Fife hit for the cycle to lead the top ranked Colorado Mesa baseball team to a 13-9 win over the Regis Rangers at Regis Baseball Field on Friday afternoon in the series opener. The Mavericks improve to 31-4 on the season and 23-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
 
Fife singled in the first, homered in the second, tripled in the fourth, and doubled in his final at-bat in the eighth and finished his night 4-for-4. He also scored five runs and drove in one while reaching base in all six of his plate appearances.
 
The cycle is the first for the Mavericks since the February 21, 2009 when two-time All-American Matt Bodenchuk did it at Suplizio Field against the same Regis Rangers. Bodenchuk hit his cycle in order from single to home run in the game.
 
In the game, six Mavericks finished with multiple hits in the 21 hit barrage with 10 of those going for extra bases.
 
Austin Wallingford was 5-for-6 with four runs driven in and a run scored. Wallingford hit his eighth home run of the season in the first inning, a three-run shot to left field. He also had a double in the Mavericks' four-run seventh inning.
 
Zach McLeod and Bligh Madris each had three hits.
 
Lefty Tyler Ehlers got his second series opening start of the season and picked up the win to improve to 5-0 on the season. Ehlers went 5.2 innings and allowed six runs (three earned) on nine hits, walked one and struck out four.
 
The Mavericks and Rangers will play a doubleheader tomorrow.