GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The Colorado Mesa baseball team allowed five runs in the top of the second inning and could never recover in an 8-5 loss to the Colorado Christian Cougars on getaway day at Suplizio Field in a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference game.
 
The Mavericks (25-5, 13-3 RMAC) got on the board in the bottom half of the first inning on a RBI single by Haydn McGeary that drove in Tanner Garner who led off the inning with a single to center field.
 
The Cougars (8-21, 3-13 RMAC) answered with five runs in the top of the third inning, with just two of those runs being charged as earned, after a dropped fly ball saw three runs cross the plate.
 
Colorado Mesa got on back in the bottom half of the inning on a RBI single by Dominic DeMarco scored Caleb Farmer to make it 5-2.
 
Colorado Christian scored three more runs on a pair of home runs in the third and fourth innings to make it an 8-2 game after three and a half innings.
 
The Mavericks clawed their way back into the game, scoring two runs in the fourth inning on back-to-back sacrifice flies by Garner and Chase Hamilton to make the score 8-4.
 
McGeary added an RBI double in the bottom of the seventh but that would be all the closer the Mavericks would be able to get. The freshman finished the game 3-for-5 with two runs driven in.
 
Hunter Douglas finished the game 4-for-5.
 
Freshman Andrew Morris was tagged with the loss in his first collegiate start. Morris (0-1) allowed five runs (two earned) on four hits, walked two and struck out two in just an inning and two-thirds of work.
 
Colorado Mesa will head back out on the road next weekend when they travel to RMAC rival CSU-Pueblo for a four-game series.