THORNTON, Colo.— Colorado Mesa University junior Myah Arrieta matched a single-game school-record by hitting three home runs and hit four for the second straight day as the Maverick softball team continued to overpower Black Hills State University in another Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference neutral-site sweep over the Yellow Jackets on Saturday here at Riverdale Ridge High School.
 
After hitting 15 home runs in Friday's doubleheader sweep, the Mavericks added 11 more on Saturday racing to 19-4 and 10-2 mercy-rule wins to sweep the series and win their 12^th and 13^th consecutive wins.
 
CMU is now 23-7 overall and 21-3 in RMAC play, still a game behind MSU Denver and tied with Colorado Christian for second place in the conference standings.
 
BHSU fell to 10-17 overall and to 9-13 in RMAC play.
 
Arrieta hit three of the Mavs' seven first game home runs and added one of the four in the second game as the she finished the weekend hitting .813 (13-16) with eight home runs and a staggering 2.375 slugging percentage while scoring 11 runs and driving in 14.
 
She now has 15 home runs on the season to sit in a tie for the RMAC lead with fellow Maverick Mirada Pruitt, who hit her second of the series in Game 2.
 
The Mavs, who now have 69 home runs on the season as a team, scored 59 runs on the same number of hits throughout the series, 37 of which went for extra bases.  Meanwhile, the CMU pitching staff allowed just 11 runs on 22 hits throughout the series as Hannah Sattler spread seven hits while striking out five in the second game of Saturday's twin-bill after throwing two innings of 1-hit, scoreless relief of Preslee Christensen  in the first.
 
With her three home runs in the first game, Arrieta became just the fifth Maverick to join the illustrious club and went 4-for-5 with six RBIs while adding a double and four runs scored from the lead-off spot, igniting the Maverick attack which put up a season-high 19 runs in the five innings.
 
The Mavs scored and homered in all five as Arrieta hit a solo shot in the third, a 2-run shot in the fourth and a 3-run blast to left in the fifth to complete the scoring.  The Mavs scored eight runs in the second inning as Iliana Mendoza, began the inning with a homer to right before Cailynn Parsons added a 2-run shot after Makayla Westmoreland had reached on an error. 
 
Three more Yellow Jacket errors and run-scoring doubles by Pruitt and Mendoza, who had two extra-base hits in that inning alone, also aided the offensive barrage.
 
The Mavericks led 9-0 at that point but walked a 'Jacket run home in the bottom of the second cut the gap to 9-1, momentarily.
 
Freshman Jackie Oster and Arrieta then hit back-to-back home runs to begin the third before a 2-run Westmoreland double later in the inning extended the Mavs' lead to 13-1.
 
BHSU then hit two home runs of their own in the bottom of the third to make the score 13-4 before Arrieta's second and third home runs in the ensuing innings helped the Mavs secure the mercy-rule win.
 
The Mavs finished the game with 18 hits, including the seven home runs and five doubles all nine starters and pinch-hitter turned center fielder Bella Aragon had at least one hit. 
 
Ava Fugate also hit a home run on the second play of the game.
 
Christensen, who registered 13 strikeouts in a 5-inning shutout on Friday, picked up her second win of the series to improve to 7-3 on the year after throwing the first three innings before Sattler pitched the fourth and fifth, surrendering just one hit.
 
The Yellow Jackets took an early 1-0 lead of the second game on an Ashlynn Pauwels RBI single in the bottom of the first and held that lead through three innings before freshman Allison Lindsay picked up a key 2-run go-ahead home run on the second play of the fourth inning after Chloe Valdez had singled.
 
Arrieta then added her fourth home run of the day and eighth of the series later in the inning as the Mavericks built a 4-1 lead through four.
 
Pruitt then hit her third home run of the series In the fifth before a Maverick error led to a Yellow Jacket score in the bottom half of that inning.
 
The Mavs then struck for five runs in the top of the sixth on four hits as Valdez hit a 2-run homer to punctuate the scoring.  Fugate also added an RBI double in that inning while Pruitt had an RBI single.  Ally Distler also added a sacrifice fly.
 
Sattler went the distance for the Mavs in the circle and improved to 7-2 while the Mavs registered 11 hits, including two each from Arrieta, Pruitt, Valdez and Mendoza.
 
The Mavericks have now swept their last three and five of their six RMAC series this season.
 
A perfect 8-0 in their two home weekends so far, the Mavs will return home for their longest home-stand of the regular season, playing their next eight at the CMU Softball Stadium.  That stretch begins on Thursday (Mar. 29) with a twilight 4 & 6 p.m. doubleheader against New Mexico Highlands.  The Mavs will also play the Cowgirls at 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. on Friday before taking Easter Weekend off.
 
NMHU is currently 9-16 overall and 5-15 in RMAC play after splitting a Saturday doubleheader at last place Adams State.  They will play the Grizzlies two more times on Sunday.