CHADRON, NEB. – The Colorado Mesa University softball team won a single game of a triple-header at Chadron State Monday (Feb. 27).
The Eagles won the first game 4-3 thanks to a walk-off homerun by Taylor Bauer in the seventh.
After two scoreless innings, Chadron scored a single run in the third on an RBI double.
Kaila Jacobi led off the fifth inning with a homerun to left field. The Mavericks plated two more runs in the innings due in large part to a pair of errors.
The Eagles tied the game at three in the bottom of the fifth with a pair of solo homers.
Four of the Mavericks five hits in the game were singles.
McKenzie Surface (5-2) allowed four runs on seven hits and struck out four.
Colorado Mesa tallied 14 hits, including six homeruns, in a 14-1 win in game two.
Homeruns by
Baylee Boren and
Kellie Mrofcza highlighted a four-run first inning by CMU.
The Mavericks blasted three two-homeruns in the third off the bats of
Brooke Hodgson,
Kellie Mrofcza and
Abby Toller.
Chadron's lone run of the contest came on a solo-homer by Taylor Bauer in the fourth.
Mesa scored four runs in the fourth on four hits, including a two-run homer by
Sarah Phillis.
Kimbri Herring threw a complete-game two-hitter with six strikeouts and one walk.
Zoe Pakes gave CMU an early 1-0 lead in the second inning with a solo homer, but CSC plated two runs in both third and fourth innings to lead 4-1.
Brooke Hodgson's two-run blast in the fifth cut the deficit to 4-3, but Chadron plated another run in the bottom of the inning on a sacrifice fly.
The Mavericks tied the game in the sixth with two runs on two hits and one Eagle error.
Allie Mason hit a lead-off homerun in the sixth for the winning run for CSC.
McKenzie Surface took the loss for CMU (5-3) allowing four runs, two earned, on five hits in three innings of relief work.
Colorado Mesa (8-4, 1-2) will make its home debut Saturday (March 4) against Adams State.
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