Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DENVER - Nick Hammett (Broomfield, Colo./Broomfield H.S.) struck out eight and allowed just five hits in game one as Metro State split at home with Colorado State-Pueblo on Sunday, winning 6-2 before an 11-2 loss in game two.

Game One
Hammett allowed one earned run in seven innings, tying a career high with eight strikeouts, while allowing just five hits and one walk to improve to 3-3 on the season. Eli Ford (Casper, Wyo./Kelly Walsh H.S.) escaped a jam in the ninth, retiring both batters he faced by inducing a double play and a strikeout to pick up his first career save.

The Roadrunners took a 2-0 lead in the second on a two-out triple to left-center by Mitch Gibbons (Franktown, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.) that scored Darryl Baca (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) and Zac Baldini (Lakewood, Colo./Green Mountain H.S.).

The ThunderWolves took advantage of an error by Hammett in the second to tie the game 2-2.

Baca broke the tie with a three-run home run in the fourth, a towering shot to left to score Baldini and Danny Miller (Denver/Denver Christian H.S.). Markie Ortivez (Littleton, Colo./Heritage H.S.) followed with a double and later scored one a single from Erik Cammall (San Diego, Calif./St. Augustine H.S.) for a 6-2 lead.

Both teams would go scoreless over the final five innings.

Baca, Baldini, Ortivez and Cammall each had two hits.

Game Two
Cammall led off the bottom of the first with a double off the top of the fence in left-center and scored on a base hit by Jacob Nelson (Lakewood, Colo./Wheat Ridge H.S.) for the early 1-0 lead.

The ThunderWolves scored four times in the second and four more times in the fourth.

Baldini drove in the only other run for the Roadrunners in the fifth on a single to score Nelson.

Andrew Paust (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.) threw two scoreless innings of relief.

Metro State will play at Adams State next weekend.