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LAS VEGAS, N.M. - Metro State's softball team earned a sweep at New Mexico Highlands on Saturday, winning 8-2 and 6-3 in Las Vegas, N.M. The Roadrunners improved to 10-17 overall and 7-7 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while NMHU fell to 15-13 and 10-8.

Game One
Metro State pounded out nine hits and drew six walks in the 8-2 victory. Molly Clark (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood H.S.) broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the second with a leadoff home run to left-center.

The Roadrunners scored four more times in the third as the first six batters reached base, including RBI singles by Chelsea Brew (Colorado Springs/Rampart H.S.) and Mary Towner (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley H.S.).

Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.) drove in the final run for Metro with a one-out single in the top of the seventh to score Clark from second.

Aubree Maul (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.) struck out five and allowed just four hits for the win.

Game Two
It was all Metro through 6 1/2 innings as the Roadrunners built a 6-0 lead. Kasey Nichols (Springville, Calif./Porterville H.S.) drove in two with a double to center in the third, scoring Kelsey Tillery (Windsor, Colo./Windsor H.S.) and Annalyse Garcia (Frederick, Colo./Frederick H.S.).

Tillery hit a one-out solo home run in the fifth for a 3-0 lead.

Metro struck for three more in the top of the seventh. Towner hit a pinch hit double to lead off the seventh, the first pinch hit for Metro this season. Tillery followed with another double to score Towner, and Gracia drove in Tillery with a single up the middle. Garcia scored the final run on a ground out by Brew.

Those three insurance runs proved to be necessary as the Cowgirls started the bottom of the seventh with five straight hits, including three doubles, as they scored three times. But starter Jordyn Randolph (Arvada, Colo./Pomona H.S.) settled down with a strike out, pop out and another strike out to end the game.

Randolph earned her second straight win to improve to 2-6 on the season. She allowed eight hits and struck out four.

The two teams will play another doubleheader on Sunday.