COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Metro State's 10th-ranked softball team tied an NCAA Division II record by hitting eight home runs in game two of a doubleheader to earn a split on the road with UC-Colorado Springs on Friday. The Roadrunners fell 12-6 in game one, but won the second 15-3 in five innings. Metro State's loss in the first game was just the second time all season the Roadrunners have lost the first game of a doubleheader after losing 4-3 to Fort Hays State (Kan.) on Feb. 8. Following Friday's doubleheader, Metro State is 29-7 overall this season and 22-4 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Mountain Lions are 11-20 overall and 8-15 in the RMAC. The loss in game one was the first time this season Metro State has lost to a below-.500 team.

The eight home runs in game two tied an NCAA Division II record that California (Pa.) set on April 10, 2004, against Slippery Rock (Pa.). Only two schools have ever hit seven in a game.

Game 1 Metro State allowed eight runs in the second inning and Christie Robinson took the loss on the mound, snapping her personal 16-game winning streak. She is now 17-2 this season.

Amber Roundtree and Kellie Nishikida each had two of Metro State's seven hits in the game. Nishikida also had a double, the only extra-base hit in the game for the Roadrunners.

The Roadrunners led 3-0 after the top of the first after Roundtree walked to start the game and scored on Nishikida's double one batter later following a passed ball. The Roadrunners added two more unearned runs in the inning.

Following a 1-2-3 first inning, Robinson ran into trouble in the second. After allowing a single to start the inning, she struck out Christina Blanton. But things unraveled after that as five consecutive Mountain Lions reached base. UCCS's Tasha Pagdilao capped the inning with a grand slam to left field.

The Roadrunners scored two in the top of the third to cut the lead to 8-5. Jennessa Tesone brought Roundtree home on a fielder's choice and Nishikida scored on a single up the middle by Tara Mickelson.

Robinson had another 1-2-3 inning in the third, but again found a rut in the fourth. She allowed three straight hits to start the inning, including a three-run home run by Holly Jordan to give the Mountain Lions an 11-5 lead. Again, Robinson bounced back with a perfect fifth inning, but she allowed the first two batters to reach in the sixth and gave way to Corrie Nishikida who got Metro State out of the inning with just one run in and a 12-5 deficit.

Metro State scored its last run of the game in the seventh as Sarah Rusch brought Roundtree home with a single.

Game 2 Five different Roadrunners homered in game two as Metro State tied the NCAA record for home runs in a game. Tara Mickelson, Sarah Rusch and Jessica Haab each homered twice in the 15-3, five-inning rout. Amber Roundtree, Mickelson and Rusch each had three of Metro State's 14 hits.

Brittany Moss allowed just two earned runs, tossing all five innings and striking out seven.

Roundtree led off the game with a double to left-center and Kellie Nishikida followed with a walk to set up Rusch's first home run of the game, a three-run blast to left field.

After the Mountain Lions scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first, the Roadrunners struck with four more in the second. Haab connected on her first home run of the game, scoring Jesse Minch in the process. The Roadrunners scored two more later in the inning as Kellie Nishikida scored on a single by Mickelson, who later scored on a wild pitch.

Jessica Anastos hit a solo home run in the third to cut Metro State's lead to 7-2.

Metro State broke the game open with five runs in the fourth to take a 12-2 lead. Roundtree again led off with a double and scored on a single by Nishikida. Mickelson and Rusch then followed with back-to-back home runs. After UCCS's second pitching change of the game and two outs, Corrie Nishikida got involved, drilling a solo home run to left.

For the second time in the game, the Roadrunners hit back-to-back home runs as Haab and Roundtree led off the fifth inning with solo shots. Following a fly out to left, Mickelson hit Metro State's third solo home run of the inning to take a 15-2 lead.

UC-Colorado Springs added one more run in the bottom of the fifth, but the game ended as Metro State was up by more than eight runs at 15-3.

The two squads will square off again on Saturday for two games beginning at 11 a.m. at Mountain Lion Field in Colorado Springs.