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Christos Stefanos
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Christos Stefanos drove in four runs for CMU in a 14-11 loss to Regis.
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Colorado Mesa CMU 18-9
14
Winner Regis University RUBB 16-10-1
Colorado Mesa CMU
18-9
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Final
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Regis University RUBB
16-10-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Colorado Mesa CMU 0 1 3 5 0 0 1 1 0 11 15 2
Regis University RUBB 3 2 0 1 0 3 3 2 X 14 13 1

W: Carson Gantz (2-0) L: Pace, Jordan (0-1) S: Ethan Sloan (6)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Patti Arnold, Sports Information Assistant

Mavs can't hold late lead

Three home runs not enough in opening loss to Regis

DENVER, Colo. — The habit of falling behind early continued Thursday for the No. 13 Colorado Mesa baseball team, but this time, the Mavericks couldn't hold the lead late, falling 14-11 to Regis.

CMU's 11-game winning streak ended in the opener of a four-game series between the teams at the top of the conference standings. The Mavericks are still in first place at 11-2 in conference play (18-9 overall), with Regis in second at 7-2, 16-10-1 overall.

The Mavericks rallied from an early 5-1 deficit to seemingly take control 9-5 in the fourth inning, but the Rangers outscored CMU 9-2 the rest of the way.

Home runs from Christos Stefanos, Derek Shaver and Declan Wiesner and a 15-hit attack weren't enough to hold off Regis, which finished with 13 hits and only one home run, but it was a big one, a three-run shot by Adam Paniagua that erased CMU's last lead, 10-9, and put Regis up 12-10 in the seventh inning.

Paniagua is second in the RMAC in hitting at .453, just behind the Mavericks' Rob Sharrar's .455. The Mavericks' center fielder went 5 for 5 with a double on Thursday, Paniagua 4 for 6, driving in eight of the Rangers' runs.

Down 5-1, Stefanos hit a two-run home run, his seventh of the season, and Wiesner a solo shot, his fourth of the season, to pull CMU within one run. Shaver came through with a three-run home run in the Mavs' five-run fourth inning that put them up 9-5.

Before Shaver's fourth home run of the season, Stefanos lifted a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to score Sharrar and Braden Winget singled to left to score Ethan Nunez.

Six pitchers worked for CMU, combining to give up 13 hits, eighth walks and only two strikeouts. They were called for five balks, three by starter Liam Hohenstein. Tyler Glowacki, Jordan Ellison, Jordan Pace, Brenden Morris and Cade Nicol all pitched in relief.

Stefanos drove in four runs, Shaver three and Wiesner two. Kolby Felix went 2 for 2 with a leadoff triple in the seventh, scoring on a sacrifice fly by Stefanos. Felix scored three runs.

The teams resume the series with a doubleheader starting at noon Friday at Regis and wrap it up with a nine-inning game starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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