LAKEWOOD, COLO. – The Colorado Mesa University softball team repeated as Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Regular Season Champions with a split at Colorado Christian Sunday (April 23).
The Mavericks won game one 12-0 and lost game two 6-3.
CMU scored in all five innings of game one.
The Mavs opened with three runs on four hits in the first.
Alex Dufour highlighted a three-run second inning with a two-run homer to right field.
Brooke Hodgson led-off the third with a homer to center field, and
AnnMarie Torres hit a homer to center field that scored two in the fourth.
Mesa scored three runs in the fifth, including a solo homer to left field by
Kaila Jacobi.
McKenzie Surface (21-4) allowed three hits in 3.2 innings of work.
Andy Hancock allowed one hit in 1.1 innings of relief work.
The Mavericks capitalized on a first inning error to score one run in the first inning of game two without a hit.
CCU plated one run in the bottom of the inning, but CMU added another run in the top of the second.
Mesa's lead grew to 3-1 in the third. Alex Dufour was hit by a pitch and then scored thanks to a single by
AnnMarie Torres and a fielder's choice.
The Cougars scored three runs in the fifth on five hits, all singles, and added another in the sixth.
Kimbri Herring (12-1) took the loss giving up five runs on seven hits.
McKenzie Surface allowed one unearned run on three hits in two innings of relief work.
Colorado Mesa (38-6, 31-4) will close out the regular season with a four-game home series against CSU-Pueblo April 29-30.
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