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DENVER, Colo. - No. 4 Metro State swept UC-Colorado Springs on Sunday at home, 13-0 in five innings and 9-2, giving head coach Jen Fisher her 100th career win at Metro State.  The Roadrunners are now 28-3 overall, including 25-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while UCCS fell to 11-25 overall and 8-19 in the RMAC.

Fisher, in her third year at Metro State, is 100-33 (.752) overall, including 80-20 (.800) in RMAC games.  This is just the third year Metro State has had a softball team after the program disbanded following the 1990 season.  Fisher started the program after coming from Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colo.

The Roadrunners narrowly missed sweeping the Mountain Lions by the mercy rule in the four-game series over the weekend.  Sunday's final game was the only game that lasted all seven innings.

Game One
Christie Robinson (Clinton, Wash./South Whidbey H.S.) became the first pitcher in Metro State history to throw three consecutive complete game shutouts, scattering three hits and no walks over five innings with four strikeouts.  Robinson has now thrown 17 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings.  She has not allowed an earned run in her past 30 1/3 innings.

The Mountain Lions nearly put a run across in the first inning as leadoff hitter Landry Davis reached third with one out. But Davis got caught in a rundown between third base and home to end the inning after a strikeout and a hit batter.

Robinson settled down and retired UCCS in order in the second and fourth innings and pitched around two leadoff singles in the third.  An error and a hit batter opened the fifth inning, but Robinson got out of the jam with a fielder's choice, strikeout and a groundout back to the pitcher's circle to end the game.

Meanwhile, Metro State's offense picked up where it left off on fire on Saturday.  The Roadrunners scored three times in the first.  Tara Mickelson (Wheat Ridge, Colo./Wheat Ridge H.S.) and Jessica Haab (Colorado Springs, Colo./Pine Creek H.S.) each had run-scoring singles in the inning and Sarah Rusch (Westminster, Colo./Standley Lake H.S.) stole home on a double steal as Mickelson took second.

Metro State scored three more in the second to lead 6-0.  Molly Clark (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood H.S.) led off with a home run to center and Mickelson hit a two-run home run with two outs that scored Kellie Nishikida (Pearl City, Hawaii/Pearl City H.S.).

The Roadrunners added six in the third as seven straight batters reached with one out.  Clark started the rally with a base hit through the left side.  Nishikida hit a two-run single up the middle after Amber Roundtree (Lakewood, Colo./Faith Christian H.S.) walked.  Nishikida later scored on a passed ball and Jennessa Tesone (Longmont, Colo./Niwot H.S.) capped the scoring with a three-run blast to center that scored Rusch and pinch runner Jesse Minch (Parker, Colo./Chaparral H.S.).

Clark scored the final run of the game in the fourth, stealing home on another double steal as Nishikida swiped second.

Haab was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate, putting her at 8-for-9 for the weekend, to lead Metro State.  Nishikida, Mickelson, Tesone and Clark all had two of the team's 13 hits.

Game Two
The Mountain Lions avoided being shut out in the weekend's four-game series when Jessika Anastos hit a two-run home run to center in the top of the first off starter Julia Diehl (Littleton, Colo./Dakota Ridge H.S.).  But Diehl was unhittable after Anastos' blast, holding UCCS hitless rest of the game, while striking out five.

The Roadrunners took a 3-2 lead after the first, scoring their first two runs on bases loaded walks to Tesone and Aubree Maul (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.).  Diehl delivered an RBI single up the middle with two outs to score Mickelson and give Metro State the lead.

Roundtree hit a one-out solo home run to center in the second, pushing the lead to 4-2.

Mickelson, Tesone and Haab opened the third with three of the team's 10 walks in the game.  After two pop outs, Nishikida walked to force in a run and Roundtree was hit by a pitch to force in another run to give Metro State a 6-2 lead.

The Roadrunners went scoreless in the fourth, just their third scoreless inning of the weekend's four games.

Diehl blasted her first career home run to open the fifth, a line drive shot to left field as she helped her own cause.  Nishikida followed with a double to center and she scored two batters later on a double by Clark.  Clark scored the final run of the game on a single to left by Tesone.

Clark had a career-high three hits to lead Metro State.  Haab's hot hitting finally ended after an 0-for-2 performance at the plate, though she walked twice in game two.

Metro State had 10 hits in the the game as they reached double digits in hits in all four games in the series, the first time the Roadrunners have done that since a four-game series at Fort Lewis last season.

Metro State will travel to Silver City, N.M., next weekend for two games at Western New Mexico on Friday and two against New Mexico Highlands on Saturday.  The Roadrunners will enter next weekend holding an 11.5 game lead in the RMAC East Division and a six-game lead over Western New Mexico overall as Metro State has clinched a bid to host the RMAC Tournament in May.  The tournament site will be officially announced following next weekend's games.