GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The nation's top-ranked Colorado Mesa University softball team cranked out nine doubles, turned a pair of double plays and scored four or more runs in three different innings to post 7-1 and 10-2 wins over the visiting Regis University Rangers on Saturday afternoon in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference action at the CMU Softball Stadium.
 
Brooke Hodgson also broke her Maverick single-season school record for RBIs as she hit her RMAC co-leading 13^th homerun of the season to match the record of 70 in the first game before going 3-for-4 with three RBI in the second, a 5-inning mercy-rule win.  Hodgson, who went 4-for-7 throughout the day to raise her batting average to an incredible .550, now has 73 RBIs this season and 259 for her career.
 
Meanwhile, junior pitcher McKenzie Surface matched the CMU record for career victories in the circle as she allowed just three hits while striking out seven in the complete game opener before coming back to earn a 1 2/3-inning save in the second game of the twin-bill.  Surface, who is 18-0 this year, allowed just one hit in that stint of relief for starter Kimbri Herring, and now has 67 career victories to match Melanie Meuchel's 4-year Maverick total.
 
The Mavericks are now 36-0 overall and 26-0 in RMAC play.  Regis, third in the RMAC, fell to 26-16 overall and to 21-9 in the league.
 
The teams will play another doubleheader on Sunday at 11 a.m.
 
Game 1
 
The Mavericks finished with 10 hits, including three doubles and Hodgson's home run, while taking advantage of four Ranger errors and six walks from normally controlled Ranger pitcher Logan Losh, who shared RMAC Pitcher of the Year honors with Surface in 2017.
 
Losh, who threw a no-hitter against Colorado Christian last week, did strike out seven to match Surface in that statistic, but was charged with four earned runs, while falling to 15-6 on the year.  She had allowed just 39 walks in 123 2/3 innings before today.
 
The Mavericks scored one run without the aid of a hit in the bottom of the first as Hodgson reached on a catcher's interference call before Maggie Manwarren later scored on a passed ball.
 
They then extended the lead to 5-0 in the third as Hodgson led off the inning with her homerun down the left field line before doubles by Kaila Jacobi and Kellie Mrofcza, a RBI single by Abby Toller and another Ranger turned it into a 4-inning frame.
 
The Rangers would pull one run back in the top of the fifth on an Analece Apodaca RBI single, the last of her three hits in the game.  However, the Mavericks got two more runs in the bottom half of the inning as Zoe Pakes hit an RBI double before scoring on another Ranger error.
 
Surface then retired six of the final seven Rangers she faced to finish off the win.
 
Game 2

The Mavericks were unable to score a run in the first inning for the first time in 11 games but once again used a big third-inning to break it open. 
 
Alexandria Dufour reached on an error to begin that rally before stealing second and scoring on Hodgson's 19th double of the year.  AnnMarie Torres then hit the second of her three doubles in the game to plate Hodgson before Pakes hit a 2-run single to center to make it 4-0.
 
Bailey Kleespies, who would go on to turn an unassisted double play in the top of the fourth, then hit a sacrifice fly to extend the lead to 5-0.
 
The Rangers would get two of those runs back in the top of the fourth as they chased Herring from the after 3 1/3 innings.  However, Kleespies made a nice bases-loaded catch at third base against Delaney McGinn to record the unassisted double play moments after Surface had come on in relief to prevent further damage.
 
Jacobi then hit her second double of the day and 17^th of the season to score Torres from first with two outs in the bottom half of the inning as CMU extended the lead to 6-2 through four innings.
 
In the fifth, CMU tacked on four more runs to complete their 20^th mercy-rule win of the campaign.  Pakes led off the frame with a single before her pinch-runner Alexa Samuels would go onto score on a Toller pinch-hit single. 
 
Hodgson the delivered a 2-out, 2-run single moments before Torres hit a bloop double to left field, her third of the game, that allowed Hodgson to score all the way from first on some heads-up base-running.
 
The Mavericks finished the game with 13 hits, including six doubles, and have now had double-digit hit totals in five straight and eight of their last nine games.
 
Herring earned her 14^th win of the year after giving up five hits and two earned runs while striking out four.  Surface picked up her first save of the campaign.
 
Hodgson and Torres went a combined 6-for-7 in the game as they drove in five and scored four runs combined.  Pakes also went 2-for-3 while Kleespies went 2-for-2.

With ten regular season games remaining plust the post-season, the Mavericks now have 105 doubles as a team this year, which is just seven shy of the RMAC record of 112, set by Mines in 2009.