GOLDEN, Colo. – The No. 22 Colorado Mesa baseball team swept a doubleheader from the Colorado School of Mines Orediggers on Friday (Mar. 28) afternoon at Darden Field in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference action.
In game one of the doubleheader, the Orediggers and Mavericks were tied at 4-4 after four innings of play in the seven inning contest. Colorado Mesa outscored Mines 9-2 in the final three frames to take the 13-6 victory.
Jack Rogers' pinch-hit, two-run single broke the game open and made it 7-4 advantage for the Mavericks. They then tacked on two more runs in the inning to make it 9-4 after six complete.
Rogers finished the game 2-for-2 with a run scored and three runs driven in while
Paul Schoenfeld went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and a run driven in. Schoenfeld hit a moon-shot home run in the third inning on a 1-0 pitch that put the Mavericks up 2-1 at the time.
Cameron Cartwright homered in the fourth inning and went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two driven in.
Declan Wiesner finished the game with two hits to round out the Mavericks with multi-hit games.
Gauge Lockhart earned the win on the mound to improve to 6-0 on the season. The Delta, Colo. native allowed four runs (two earned) on six hits, walked two and struck out four in four and a third innings.
He gave way to
JJ Almeda with one out in the fifth inning and he went on to finish the final two and two-thirds innings allowing two runs on four hits with two strikeouts.
In the night cap, the Mavericks took advantage of two Oredigger errors and 11 walks and five hit batters by the Mines pitching staff in a 25-3 win in game three of the series.
After a rough start by the Mavericks starting pitcher who didn't get out of the first inning,
Sage Ferguson was inserted, and he gave his team a shot in the arm. Ferguson dominated the Orediggers over four and two-thirds innings of shutout baseball allowing just three hits and striking out five to earn his first win of the season.
Andrew Pogue flashed his high velocities over the final two innings allowing one hit and four strikeouts to close out the game.
Schoenfeld finished the game 4-for-4 with four runs scored and four runs driven in. He launched his second home run of the day in the top of the fourth inning on a 3-1 count.
Catcher
Rocco DiFrancesco hit a grand slam in the top of the fifth inning while freshman
Jackson Helberg hit his first collegiate round tripper just three batters later.
Rogers, Cartwright, and
Keegan Landis all had multi-hit games in the night cap.
With the two wins, the Mavericks move their overall record to 21-8 and are now 14-1 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference action with Regis behind them at 9-3. The Rangers are idle this week.
The two teams will conclude the series with a single nine-inning game beginning at noon tomorrow.
