Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

PUEBLO, Colo. - The Metro State baseball team rallied in game two to complete a sweep over Colorado Christian on Sunday in Pueblo, taking game one 9-2 and game two 13-6.  The series was moved from All Star Park in Lakewood on Sunday morning to Pueblo due to poor field conditions.  Metro State improved to 20-19 overall and 17-10 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while CCU fell to 12-34 overall and 6-22 in the RMAC.

Game One
Seven of Metro State's starting nine hitters had at least one hit as the Roadrunners piled up 18 hits in the win.  Zach Krueger (Holyoke, Colo./Holyoke H.S.) led the team with a 5-for-6 performance at the plate, reaching a career high in hits, and tied the school record with three doubles.  It was the fourth time this season a Metro State player has had three doubles in a game as David Fox (Lakewood, Colo./Faith Christian H.S.) did it twice and Chris Redding (Northglenn, Colo./Northglenn H.S.) once.

Redding had four hits on Sunday.  Brennan Brown (Thornton, Colo./Legacy H.S.) was 3-for-5 with a double and David Kaplan (Colorado Springs, Colo./Doherty H.S.) and Jacob Trimble (Danville, Ill./Schlarman H.S.) each had two hits.

Bradshaw Perry (Aurora, Colo./Cherokee Trail H.S.) worked five innings and allowed just two runs to earn the win.  He struck out five.  Nate Van Bibber (Littleton, Colo./Douglas County H.S.) fired three hitless innings of relief and Ross MacDonald (Las Vegas, Nev./Bonanza H.S.) pitched a perfect ninth inning to close the game.

CCU went ahead 2-0 in the third inning after a double and walk opened the inning.  Perry worked out of jams in the fourth and fifth innings.  Centerfielder Redding threw out a runner at third to end the fourth inning as Jimmy Martinez tried to stretch his double into a triple.  The out was made just in time to prevent David Altman from scoring ahead of Martinez.  Perry loaded the bases with one out in the fifth, but used a strikeout and a foul out to end the threat.

Meanwhile, Metro State's offense was starting to heat up.  The Roadrunners cut the lead in half in the fourth when Kaplan scored on a fielder's choice after reaching on a double.

Redding opened the fifth with a single to center and scored on Krueger's second double of the game to tie the score.  After two outs, Brown doubled to right to bring home Krueger.  Kaplan and Trimble followed with back-to-back singles and they each scored on Cody Henry (Thornton, Colo./Legacy H.S.)'s double to left as Metro State scored five times in the fifth.

Fox drove in one in the sixth, scoring Redding on a single to left.  Krueger delivered a two-run double in the seventh to end the scoring.

Game Two
Redding led off the game with a home run, but CCU pushed six runs across in the bottom of the first to take a 6-1 lead.  However, that was all the Cougars would manage against starter Ted Jamison (Lakewood, Colo./Green Mountain H.S.) as he settled down and pitched six scoreless innings after the first to close out the game.

Metro State got two runs back in the second one a two-run single to center by Trimble, scoring Kaplan and Evan Claus (Albuquerque, N.M./Eldorado H.S.).

The Roadrunners scored three unearned runs in the third to tie the game.  They added three more again in the fourth as Krueger's triple with nobody out scored Redding, who led off with a single.  Fox followed Krueger's hit with a home run.

Krueger and Fox hit back-to-back doubles in the fifth to push across one more run for a 10-6 lead.

Redding and Krueger hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh and Stouffer hit a solo home run two batters after Krueger for the final three runs of the game.

Jamison allowed just four hits after the first inning.

Krueger finished just a single shy of becoming the first player in school history to hit for the cycle.  He reached on an error in the third inning.  Krueger, Redding and Kaplan each had three of the team's 17 hits.  Claus was 2-for-2 with two doubles and a two walks.

Metro State will host No. 7 New Mexico Highlands next weekend for three games on Friday and Saturday.  It will be the final regular season games for the Roadrunners this season and the teams' final homestand of the year.