Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

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LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Metro State baseball team swept two games at Colorado Christian on Friday, winning 13-10 in game one, before a 6-2 victory in game two at All-Star Park in Lakewood, Colo.  The Roadrunners improved to 11-7 overall and 8-6 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while CCU fell to 3-17 and 0-14.

Game One
Metro State's bats came out on fire in the first game as the Roadrunners led 11-0 after the top of the fourth inning.

Eleven batters came to the plate in the top of the first inning as Metro State used five walks and base hits by David Kaplan (Colorado Springs, Colo./Doherty H.S.), David Fox (Lakewood, Colo./Faith Christian H.S.), Robbie Nickels (Phoenix, Ariz./Horizon H.S.) and Brennan Brown (Thornton, Colo./Legacy H.S.) to score five times.

Jordan Stouffer (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.) scored in the second inning on a sacrifice fly by Nickels on a ball to the left field fence that was dropped and allowed Nickels to reach second.

Zach Krueger (Holyoke, Colo./Holyoke H.S.) led off the third with a double down the left field line and scored on a ground out by Fox after stealing third base.

The Roadrunners pushed four across in the fourth inning after three consecutive singles by Evan Claus (Albuquerque, N.M./Eldorado H.S.), Nickels and Everett Altman (Wheat Ridge, Colo./Wheat Ridge H.S.) and a hit batter opened the inning.  Krueger had a two-run single to left and Fox drew a bases-loaded walk later in the frame.

Jake Draeger (Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis H.S.) escaped the first and second innings with inning-ending double plays and pitched a 1-2-3 third to shut down the Cougars early.  But they touched him for four runs with two outs to chip away at the lead in the bottom of the fourth.

CCU scored three more times in the fifth with two more runs coming with two outs.

Reliever Taylor Huyett (Broomfield, Colo./Legacy H.S.) was greeted in the sixth inning with a single, triple and a double, but he allowed just two runs out of the situation with the help of Kyle Orgill (Aurora, Colo./Grandview H.S.), who got the final two outs of the sixth.  But the two runs cut Metro State's lead to 11-9.

Krueger provided some breathing room in the top of the seventh with a two-run home run to left-center that scored Eric Lopez (Hayden, Ariz./Hayden H.S.).

Orgill pitched around a two-out double in the seventh.  Nate Van Bibber (Littleton, Colo./Douglas County H.S.) came on in the eighth inning and allowed hte first three batters to reach base.  With runners on second and third and nobody out, David Altman lined a single to right.  But A.J. Begay, who was on third base, froze to see if the ball would be caught and Krueger fired a one-hop strike to home plate from the middle of right field to gun down Begay for the first out.

Van Bibber allowed a run on a fielder's choice and then got a ground out to short to end the inning with just one run allowed.  He allowed just a one-out single in the ninth to seal the win.

All nine Metro State batters had at least one hit as the Roadrunners tied a season-high with 16 hits as a team.  Krueger and Nickels led the way with three hits each and Kaplan, Fox and Claus each had two.

Draeger picked up his third win of the year.

Metro State left 15 runners on base in the game, including leaving the bases loaded in the first, second, fourth and fifth innings.

Game Two
It was the Bradshaw Perry (Aurora, Colo./Cherokee Trail H.S.) show in game two as the senior righthander tossed his second career complete game in the seven-inning affair.  He scattered five hits and did not walk a batter, though he hit four, and struck out six.

Perry fanned two in the first inning and struck out the side in the second.  Meanwhile, the offense was heating back up in the top of the third.  Mike Coffey (Highlands Ranch, Colo./ThunderRidge H.S.) led off with a double down the right field line to start a six-run inning.  Ty Hancock (Winslow, Ariz./Winslow H.S.) singled through the left side and Ty Jacobs (Denver/Cherokee Trail H.S.) drove Coffey in with a base hit to right for the 1-0 lead.

Krueger then tripled into the right field corner to drive in a pair.  Stouffer later drove in Krueger with a single to left and Jake Danneffel (Las Vegas, Nev./Bonanza H.S.) connected on a two-out double down the left field line, scoring Brown and Kaplan to finish the inning.

That was all the support Perry needed.  He did allow a pair of two-out RBI singles in the fourth after hitting the first two batters of the inning.  But he recovered to allow just one hit in the final three innings to cool the hot CCU bats.

The Roadrunners had 11 hits, led by Hancock with three.  Krueger and Coffey each had a pair.  Both of Coffey's hits were doubles.

Both teams will meet for another doubleheader on Saturday at All-Star Park.  The first pitch is set for noon.