Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

ALAMOSA, Colo. - The No. 9 Metro State softball team swept Adams State, winning 9-1 in five innings and 17-9 on the road as the Roadrunners improved to 10-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference on Saturday.  ASC dropped to 3-3 with the pair of losses.

Game One
The Roadrunners hit four home runs and used a strong pitching performance from Christie Robinson (Clinton, Wash./South Whidbey H.S.) to win by the mercy rule after five innings.  Robinson allowed just three hits to improve to 4-0 this season.

Tara Mickelson (Wheat Ridge, Colo./Wheat Ridge H.S.) belted two home runs, while Jennessa Tesone (Longmont, Colo./Niwot H.S.) and Lauren Hainlen (Parker, Colo./Chaparral H.S.) each homered as well.

Trailing 1-0 in the top of the third, the Roadrunners had seven straight players score as Metro State put together a seven-run inning.  Mickelson belted a two-run shot to start the scoring and Tesone and Hainlen followed to give Metro State back-to-back-to-back home runs as it took a 4-0 lead.  Amber Roundtree (Lakewood, Colo./Faith Christian H.S.) later hit a two-run double down the left field line after three straight walks loaded the bases.

Mickelson led off the fourth with a home run to center and Molly Clark (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood H.S.) later drove in Tesone with a sacrifice fly to push the lead to 9-1.

Game Two
The Roadrunners tied a school record with eight home runs, falling just one shy of Angelo State's record of nine set last March in a rout of the Grizzlies.  Tesone also crushed three home runs, tying Kellie Nishikida (Pearl City, Hawaii/Pearl City H.S.)'s single game record.  Her seven runs batted in were just one shy of the school record.

Sarah Rusch (Westminster, Colo./Standley Lake H.S.), Mickelson, Hainlen, Jessica Haab (Colorado Springs, Colo./Pine Creek H.S.) and Clark each homered as well.

Metro State put up two runs in each of the first four innings, but trailed 9-8 after four as ASC answered with four runs in the third and fourth.

Clark's one-out homer tied the game in the sixth, starting a six-run inning as Rusch, Tesone and Hainlen also hit home runs in the inning.

Julia Diehl (Littleton, Colo./Dakota Ridge H.S.) improved to 6-0, earning the win in relief as she tossed 4.1 innings and allowed just two earned runs.

The two teams will play a doubleheader on Sunday again in Alamosa.