DENVER— Colorado Mesa University senior pitcher McKenzie Surface pitched six combined innings and allowed just two runs as she earned a pair of wins while matching the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference victories for career wins as the nation's 17^th-ranked Mavericks took both games of a Saturday afternoon doubleheader by 6-4 and 6-2 margins over MSU Denver here at the Roadrunners' Regency Athletic Complex.
 
Surface earned her 77^th career win in relief in the first game as the Mavs plated two runs in the top of the seventh to break what was a 4-4 deadlock after the Roadrunners had come from 4-0 behind with three runs in the bottom of the fifth against starter Kimbri Herring and another in the bottom of the sixth against Surface.
 
The senior hurler out of Colorado Springs and Discovery Canyon then threw the first four innings of Game 2 leaving with a 6-1 lead before sophomore Paige Adair and Herring combined to close out the final three innings.
 
Now 78-16 in her 3-time First Team All-RMAC career and a perfect 8-0 this year, Surface has matched Regis' Kaitlyn Gentert, who had the same number of her wins in her 2005-08 Ranger career.
 
The wins moved the Mavericks to 18-6 overall and to 11-3 in RMAC play, good for a 3-game lead in the win column over idle Colorado Christian (8-2 RMAC), which had their RMAC series against Regis delayed a day until Sunday and Monday.  However, the Cougars still lead the conference on a percentage basis with at .800.  CMU is second at .786.
 
The Roadrunners fell to 11-15 overall and to 7-5 in the RMAC with their fifth and sixth straight losses.
 
Game 1
 
The Mavericks out-hit the Roadrunners 10-6 as they took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second on a Jordyn Hays lead-off triple an ensuing sacrifice fly by Kaila Jacobi.  The Mavericks then left two more runners on in the third but converted on three hits for three runs in the fourth to extend their lead to 4-0.
 
Sarah Staudle and Brooke Doumer had the biggest hits as Staudle doubled home Jacobi after the junior third baseman had hit a 1-out double herself.
 
Then after Bailey Kleespies was hit and Hailey Hinson drew a walk to load the bases, Doumer delivered a 2-run single to right.
 
Meanwhile, Herring was perfect through four innings before running into some trouble in the fifth as the Roadrunners scored three runs on a Celyn Whitt 2-run single and Megan Sansburn sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to 4-3.
 
After the Mavericks stranded a runner in the top of the sixth, Surface came on for the bottom of the sixth.  She struck out MSU's first hitter (Ashlee Kim) before Darby McGhee homered to tie the game.  However, Surface would retire the next two Roadrunners to keep the game tied.
 
In the top of the seventh, Doumer led off with a double and advanced to third on a wild pitch before Kellie Mrofcza delivered the eventual game-winning RBI on a double.  Mrofcza then moved to third on an AnnMarie Torres single before scoring an insurance run on a Hays sacrifice fly to complete the scoring.
 
Surface then allowed a pair of singles in the bottom of the seventh but also recorded her third, fourth and fifth strikeouts of her 2-inning stint to cap the win.
 
Doumer went 2-for-4 to lead the Mavs also all but one of the Mavericks' starting nine hitters recorded a hit. 
 
CMU had four doubles as well.
 
Game 2
 
The Roadrunners would draw first blood with a single run in the bottom of the first before the Mavericks quickly answered on a Kleespies homer to begin the top of the second.  The Mavericks then capitalized for two more runs on three Roadrunner errors in the rest of the inning and led 3-1.
 
Torres then hit her team-leading seventh homer to begin the top of the third as the Mavs went up 4-1 before scoring two more runs on a Mrofcza triple in the fourth which plated Lauren Wedman and Tegan Woosley.
 
With a 6-1 lead behind her, Surface went four innings giving up just five hits and a walk while striking out two.  Adair then came in for the fifth and sixth innings allowing just one more run in the sixth.
 
Herring then retired three of the four Roadrunners she faced in the seventh to complete Surface's record-tying win.
 
The Roadrunners had a 9-5 edge in total hits but left nine runners on base compared to just four by the Mavericks.  Wedman, who got the start in right field, went 2-for-3 to lead the Maverick offense.
 
The two teams will play another doubleheader on Sunday, starting at 11 a.m.