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Box Score 2 DENVER - Metro State finished the 2013 season with a sweep over Black Hills State at home on Sunday, winning 10-2 in five innings and 6-4. The Roadrunners finished the year 17-28 overall and 10-23 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while BHSU fell to 5-31 and 4-24.
Kelsey Tillery (Windsor, Colo./Windsor H.S.) homered in both games, driving in five runs combined.
Game One
The Roadrunners jumped on top in the bottom of the first after
Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.) led off with a single and scored on a ground out by Tillery.
MSU Denver pushed five runs across in the second for a 6-0 lead. The Roadrunners took advantage of a pair of errors and Tillery capitalized with a two-run home run.
The Yellow Jackets scored their only two runs in the top of the third.
Metro State took advantage of three more errors in the fourth to score twice and
Dani Sandel (Omaha, Neb./Westside H.S.) ended the game in the bottom of the fifth on the mercy rule with a run-scoring single to left-center, scoring Oury.
BHSU committed seven errors in the game and Metro State had eight hits, led by by two from Oury, Sandel and
Mary Towner (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley H.S.).
Monique Hernandez (Las Vegas, Nev./Las Vegas H.S.) (7-9) pitched all five innings and did not walk a batter.
Game Two
A pair of home runs by Tillery and Towner provided the difference in Game Two.
Tillery homered with two outs in the bottom of the first for another 1-0 lead.
She drove in Oury with a sacrifice fly in the third to push the lead to 2-0.
BHSU tied the game in the top of the fourth with two runs.
In the bottom of the inning, MSU Denver answered with four runs to lead 6-2. With one out, Towner, who was robbed of a home run in the second inning, finally got one just past the left fielder's glove as the ball deflected off the fielder's glove and over as she crashed through the portable fence.
Amanda Taney (Conifer, Colo./Conifer H.S.) later delivered an RBI single and Sandel drove in run with a ground-rule double down the left field line.
Brittany Moss (Northglenn, Colo./Northglenn H.S.) (6-14) survived two runs by the Yellow Jackets in the top of the seventh to earn the win in her final collegiate appearance, pitching all seven innings. She struck out five.
The Roadrunners say goodbye to two seniors, Moss and
Annalyse Garcia (Frederick, Colo./Frederick H.S.). Another senior,
Aubree Maul (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.), is battling Ovarian Cancer and hopes to earn a medical redshirt to return next season.