GOLDEN, Colo. - Metro State's baseball team won 15-3 on Friday evening at Colorado Mines. The Roadrunners improved to 4-5 overall and 1-4 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while CSM fell to 2-11 and 0-5.

Jake Draeger (Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis H.S.) tossed seven innings, allowing just one earned run, while striking out six and scattering seven hits and one walk to earn the victory.

Metro State jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Zach Krueger (Holyoke, Colo./Holyoke H.S.) singled through the left side to start the game and he came home with two outs on a double down the left field line by Jordan Stouffer (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.).

The Orediggers came through with a pair of RBI singles in the bottom of the first to take a 2-1 lead.

Stouffer came up with a two-run, two-out double in the third to score Krueger and David Fox (Lakewood, Colo./Faith Christian H.S.) as Metro State regained the lead.

Eric Lopez (Hayden, Ariz./Hayden H.S.) singled home Robbie Nickels (Phoenix, Ariz./Horizon H.S.) in the fourth and Krueger followed with a sacrifice fly to center to score Sean Reeves (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley H.S.) for two more for Metro State.

David Kaplan (Colorado Springs, Colo./Doherty H.S.) brought home Fox in the fifth as Metro State took a 6-2 lead.

The Roadrunners added two more in the sixth. Reeves walked to start the inning and, after stealing second, scored on a double by Lopez, who was thrown out at third on the play. Krueger then doubled to right and scored on a single by Mike Coffey (Highlands Ranch, Colo./ThunderRidge H.S.) to build the lead to 8-2.

Mines pushed an unearned run across in the bottom of the sixth after a dropped fly ball opened the inning.

The Orediggers unraveled on the mound in the eighth as Metro State scored seven runs with the aid of five walks, a hit batter, an error, a leadoff single by Nickels, and a grand slam by Krueger.

Tyler Leonard (Canon City, Colo./Canon City H.S.) threw a scoreless eighth inning and Eli Ford (Casper, Wyo./Kelly Walsh H.S.) escape the ninth inning unscathed.

Krueger finished the evening 3-for-4 with four runs scored and five runs batted in. Lopez, Nickels and Stouffer each had two hits.

The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday in Golden beginning at 1 p.m.