Box Score

DENVER, Colo. - Metro State crushed Colorado State-Pueblo 19-2 on Saturday at home to win the weekend series three games to one.  The Roadrunners improved to 16-15 overall and 12-6 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while the ThunderWolves fell to 15-16 overall and 9-9 in the RMAC.

Metro State belted a season-high six home runs, including a school record three from Jordan Stouffer (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.), and got a strong pitching performance from Bradshaw Perry (Aurora, Colo./Cherokee Trail H.S.).

Stouffer's three home runs tied a record held by four other players as he went 3-for-6 with seven runs batted in, coming just one shy of the school record for RBIs.  Mike Hoefs was the last player with three homers in a game, reaching that total on March 4, 2006, against St. Cloud State.

Stouffer wasn't the only Roadrunner tying records as David Fox (Lakewood, Colo./Faith Christian H.S.) ripped three doubles, reaching three doubles in a game for the eighth time in school history, including the third time this season.  Chris Redding (Northglenn, Colo./Northglenn H.S.) was the last to do it on March 5 against Colorado Christian.  Fox had three doubles against Mesa State on Feb. 26.  On Saturday, Fox was 4-for-5 and scored four times and drove in two.

Perry put together his best outing as a Roadrunner, lasting six innings and allowing just one run on four hits with four strikeouts.  He threw just 81 pitches, despite walking five.

Eight of Metro State's starting nine batters recorded at least one hit, led by Fox with four.  Stouffer, Zach Krueger (Holyoke, Colo./Holyoke H.S.) and Tommy Frikken (Arvada, Colo./Pomona H.S.) each had three and Chris Redding (Northglenn, Colo./Northglenn H.S.) and Cody Henry (Thornton, Colo./Legacy H.S.) had two each.

Marcel Dominguez (Carlsbad, N.M./Carlsbad H.S.), Henry and Frikken each hit home runs as well.

After a 1-2-3 top of the first from Perry, Stouffer hit a two-out, two-run home run to right field, scoring Fox to give the Roadrunners a 2-0 lead.  They added another in the second after a leadoff double by Henry and an RBI single by Frikken.

Stouffer's two-run home run with nobody out in the third put Metro State in front 5-0 and an error allowed the sixth run to score for Metro State.

CSU-Pueblo scored its only run off Perry with a one-out, solo home run by Kyle Wager.  After walking the next two batters, Perry settled down and escaped the jam with a fielder's choice and a strikeout to end the inning.

Stouffer's three-run home run with one out in the fourth forced the ThunderWolves to their bullpen, but Henry hit a solo home run later in the inning to give Metro State an 10-1 lead after four innings.

The Roadrunners then scored five in the fith.  Frikken led off with the first home run of his four-year Metro State career.  After a walk to Redding and a single by Krueger, Fox hit his third double of the game to center, scoring two.  Pinch hitter Nick Columbia (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood H.S.) brought Fox in with a single to center and Columbia later scored on a base hit by David Kaplan (Colorado Springs, Colo./Doherty H.S.).

A leadoff double in the seventh led to a run by the ThunderWolves.  Metro State finished the scoring in the bottom of the eighth as Dominguez hit a grand slam to left after three straight singles from Frikken, Redding and Mike Coffey (Highlands Ranch, Colo./ThunderRidge H.S.).

Sean Walter (Wiggins, Colo./Wiggins H.S.) and Taylor Huyett (Broomfield, Colo./Legacy H.S.) each pitched a scoreless inning in relief.

Metro State will look to continue its hot streak next weekend with a four-game series at Nebraska-Kearney.