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No. 18 MSU Denver will host the RMAC tournament Thursday through Saturday at The Regency Athletic Complex and at Regis University.

Notes:
RECENT NOTES:
•    The Roadrunners won the RMAC regular season championship for the first time since 2011 when they were co-champions, and for the fourth time in the eight-year history of the program.
•    Cassidy Smith (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.) is 9-0 with a 2.21 ERA over 73 innings in her last 14 appearances, allowing a .253 batting average to opponents (since March 28).
•    Sarena Espinoza (Corona, Calif./Corona Centennial H.S.) is batting .437 with 31 RBIs, 14 runs, eight doubles and five home runs over the past 21 games (since March 28).
•    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.) is batting .473 with 28 runs scored, 20 RBIs, four home runs, three doubles, three triples and is 16-for-16 on stolen bases over the past 18 games (since April 3).
•    Amanda Taney (Conifer, Colo./Conifer H.S.) is batting .333 with six RBIs and five runs scored in her past 12 games (since April 4).
•    Kenzie Mattey (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa H.S.) is 9-1 with 2.02 ERA in 59 innings with 52 strikeouts and a .224 opponent batting average over her past 12 appearances.
•    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.
•    Oury had a 16-game hitting streak shortly after Redmond's ended, that streak snapping on April 25.
•    Only two players have had longer hitting streaks than Harmon and Oury: Kellie Nishikida (39 games, 2009) and Amber Roundtree (21 games, 2010).
•    Redmond 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 was 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).
•    Oury broke the single-season steals record of 25 on April 22 against Northern Colorado.

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.    .343    2015
5.    .333    2010

Slugging Percentage
            Year    
1.    .636    2009
2.    .610    2010
3.    .573    2008
4.    .543    2014
5.    .528    2015

Doubles
            Year    
1.    106    2014
2.    103    2008
3.    89    2015
4.    88    2010
5.    84    2009

Triples
            Year    
1.    29    1988
2.    25    2015
3.    19    1989
4.    18    1990
5.    16    1985

Stolen Bases
            Year    
1.    131    1990
2.    93    2015
3.    89    2014
4.    58    2010
5.    54    2009

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.    .443    Kelsey Tillery (Windsor, Colo./Windsor H.S.), 2014
5.    .441    Lani Redmond (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol H.S.), 2015

Individual On-Base Percentage
            Year    
1.    .545    Nancy Kogle, 1990
2.    .538    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 Doubles
            Year    
1.    30    Kelsey Tillery (Windsor, Colo./Windsor H.S.), 2014
2.    18    Mary Towner (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley H.S.), 2015
        18    Sarah Rusch, 2008
4.    17    Dani Sandel (Omaha, Neb./Westside H.S.), 2014
5.    16    Amber Roundtree, 2009
        16    Kellie Nishikida, 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.    30    Susie Oury (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West H.S.), 2015
2.    25    Nancy Kogle, 1990
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
        18    Colissa Bakovich (Loveland, Colo./Loveland H.S.), 2015

Individual Strikeouts/7 Innings (Pitching)
            Year    
1.    7.22    Brittany Moss, 2009
2.    6.78    Brittany Moss, 2010
3.    5.95    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