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No. 23 MSU Denver will host Northern Colorado for a doubleheader on Wednesday at 3 p.m.

Notes:
RECENT NOTES:
•    The Roadrunners are seeking their fourth RMAC regular season championship and first since 2011.
•    Kenzie Mattey (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.) is 6-1 with a 1.62 ERA and three shutouts over her last nine appearances, including six starts, while striking out 40 in 43.1 innings (since Feb. 20).
•    Cassidy Smith (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) is 8-0 with a 1.81 ERA in 58 innings over her last 11 appearances, allowing a .237 opponent batting average (since March 28).
•    Mary Towner (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley H.S.) is batting .429 with 20 RBIs, 14 runs scored and nine extra-base hits over the past 13 games (since March 29).
•    Amanda Taney (Conifer, Colo./Conifer H.S.) is batting .368 with six RBIs and four runs scored over her last eight games (since March 29).
•    Lani Redmond (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol H.S.) is batting .455 with 10 runs scored and four extra-base hits over her current nine-game hitting streak (since April 3).
•    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.) is batting .541 with 22 runs scored, 17 RBIs, nine extra-base hits and is 11-for-11 on stolen bases over her current 12-game hitting streak (since April 3).
•    Colissa Bakovich (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) is batting .367 with 22 runs scored and 10 stolen bases over the past 24 games (since March 15) and is 6-for-12 with five runs during her current five-game hitting streak.
•    Lani Redmond (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol H.S.)'s 15-game hitting streak that ended on March 28 was the longest at MSU Denver since Kaylynn Harmon (Erie, Colo./Erie H.S.) hit safely in 16 straight games last season.
•    Only two players have had longer hitting streaks than Harmon: Kellie Nishikida (39 games, 2009) and Amber Roundtree (21 games, 2010).
•    Newcomer Lani Redmond (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol H.S.) was on fire over the first weekend of the season, batting .643 (9-for-14) with three doubles, four RBIs and two runs in six games.
•    MSU Denver's No. 25 national ranking on Feb. 18 is the first top-25 appearance for the Roadrunners since being ranked No. 15 in the 2011 preseason NFCA poll.

RMAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK:
•    MSU Denver swept the RMAC player of the week awards on Feb. 10, with Mary Towner (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley H.S.) earning player of the week (.500 avg., 7 RBI, 4 R, 3 2B, 1 HR in 6 games) and Kenzie Mattey (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.) (3-1, 4.34 ERA, 19.1 IP, 22 SO in 4 games) earning pitcher of the week.
•    Mattey won RMAC pitcher of the week again on Feb. 17, becoming the first pitcher in conference history to earn the award each of the first two weeks of the season.
•    Mattey went 2-1 with a 2.80 ERA in 20 innings in three starts in Texas Feb. 13-15.
•    Mattey won it for a third week in a row on Feb. 24, becoming the first pitcher in the conference to earn it three weeks in a row since Justine Bosio from CSU-Pueblo in 2010.
•    Mattey pitched 8.2 scoreless innings in two games vs. Colorado Christian on Feb. 20, earning the win in both games.
•    Cassidy Smith (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) earned the pitcher of the week award on March 31 after going 3-0 with a 1.56 ERA against Black Hills State and New Mexico Highlands.
•    Smith won it again on April 14 following a 2-0 weekend with a 0.58 ERA in two games against UCCS.
•    Smith fired her second career complete-game shutout on Aprl 11 in a 4-0 victory.
•    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.) won RMAC player of the week on April 21 after batting .643 with nine runs scored, with eight runs batted in and six extra-base hits in four games at Regis.

LARSEN'S NO-HITTER:
•    Nicole Larsen (Murrieta, Calif./Bloomington H.S.) threw a no-hitter in a 6-0 win over Fort Hays State on March 17, taking a perfect game into the seventh inning.
•    Larsen walked the leadoff batter in the seventh, but that was the only baserunner in the game and she finished with five strikeouts.
•    It was the ninth no-hitter in school history and first since Christie Robinson blanked CSU-Pueblo in a 1-0 win in 2010.

OURY BECOMES STEALS LEADER:
•    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.) broke the school record for career steals on Feb. 8 when she stole home on a double steal against Fort Lewis in the sixth inning of an 8-4 win.
•    It was her 42nd career stolen base, moving past Nancy Kogle (1988-90).

HIGH EXPECTATIONS:
•    MSU Denver was picked as the preseason favorite in the RMAC in 2015.
•    Cassidy Smith (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) was named RMAC preseason pitcher of the year and joined Brew, Harmon and Towner on the preseason all-RMAC team.
•    Harmon was named among 50 players to the NFCA preseason national player of the year watch list.

BIG HITTERS RETURN IN 2015:
•    Six of the team's top nine hitters return in 2015, and the returners accounted for 63 percent of the team's hits, 61 percent of the team's RBIs, 64 percent of the team's runs and 64 percent of the team's home runs in 2014, while combining to bat .355.
•    Losing Aubree Maul (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.) is a big blow to the pitching staff as Cassidy Smith (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) is the only returning pitcher.
•    Smith accounted for 18 of the team's 33 wins last season (55 percent) and 147.2 of the team's 320.2 innings (46 percent).

NEW BALLPARK:
•    MSU Denver opened The Regency Athletic Complex on Feb. 20 vs. Colorado Christian.
•    Here is a list of firsts for the Roadrunners at the new park:
•    Win: 2/20 vs. Colorado Christian (8-0, 5 inn.)
•    Hit: Carissa Terry (Moreno Valley, Calif./Valley View H.S.), home run, 2/20 vs. CCU, 2nd inning of Game 1
•    Run: Carissa Terry (Moreno Valley, Calif./Valley View H.S.), 2/20 vs. CCU, 2nd inning of Game 1
•    RBI: Carissa Terry (Moreno Valley, Calif./Valley View H.S.), 2/20 vs. CCU, 2nd inning of Game 1
•    Home run: Carissa Terry (Moreno Valley, Calif./Valley View H.S.), 2/20 vs. CCU, 2nd inning of Game 1
•    Stolen base: Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.), 2/20 vs. CCU, 3rd inning of Game 1
•    Strikeout: Kenzie Mattey (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.), 2/20 vs. CCU, 4th inning of Game 1
•    No-hitter: Nicole Larsen (Murrieta, Calif./Bloomington H.S.), 3/17 vs. FHSU (6-0 win)
CLOSING IN ON RECORDS:
•    This season's team is already ranking among the best in school history in several statistical categories:

Batting Average
            Year    
1.    .372    1984
2.    .358    2009
3.    .355    2014
4.    .348    2015
5.    .333    2010

Slugging Percentage
            Year    
1.    .636    2009
2.    .610    2010
3.    .573    2008
4.    .543    2014
5.    .534    2015

Doubles
            Year    
1.    106    2014
2.    103    2008
3.    88    2010
4.    86    2015
5.    84    2009

Triples
            Year    
1.    29    1988
2.    24    2015
3.    19    1989
4.    18    1990
5.    16    1985

Stolen Bases
            Year    
1.    131    1990
2.    89    2014
3.    77    2015
4.    58    2010
5.    54    2009

Strikeouts/7 Innings (Pitching)
            Year    
1.    5.41    2009
2.    5.25    2008
3.    4.70    2010
4.    4.31    2012
5.    3.82    2015

Shutouts
            Year    
1.    13    2010
2.    9    1989
3.    8    2009
4.    7    2015
5.    5    2012

•    This season's team is already ranking among the best in school history in several statistical individual categories:

Individual Batting Average
            Year    
1.    .496    Nancy Kogle, 1990
2.    .456    Kaylynn Harmon (Erie, Colo./Erie H.S.), 2014
3.    .449    Amber Roundtree, 2009
4.    .449    Lani Redmond (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol H.S.), 2015
5.    .443    Kelsey Tillery (Windsor, Colo./Windsor H.S.), 2014

Individual On-Base Percentage
            Year    
1.    .545    Nancy Kogle, 1990
2.    .540    Lani Redmond (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol H.S.), 2015
3.    .535    Amber Roundtree, 2010
4.    .534    Kaylynn Harmon (Erie, Colo./Erie H.S.), 2014
5.    .528    Amber Roundtree, 2009

Individual Triples
            Year    
1.    11    Nancy Kogle, 1988
2.    10    Nancy Kogle, 1989
3.    7    Stefanie Priselac, 1988
4.    6    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.), 2015
5.    5    6 tied

Individual Stolen Bases
            Year    
1.    25    Nancy Kogle, 1990
        25    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.), 2015
3.    21    Britney Thomas (Cheyenne, Wyo./East H.S.), 2014
4.    19    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.), 2014
5.    18    Michelle Martinez, 1990

Individual Strikeouts/7 Innings (Pitching)
            Year    
1.    7.22    Brittany Moss, 2009
2.    6.78    Brittany Moss, 2010
3.    6.35    Kenzie Mattey (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.), 2015
4.    5.57    Aubree Maul (Fort Collins, Colo./Rocky Mountain H.S.), 2012
5.    5.40    Jessica Fisher, 2008