DENVER – Don't look now, but MSU Denver's pitching staff is on a roll.
 
Complementing perhaps the best offense in Division II, the Roadrunners' pitchers yielded only five runs Sunday in a doubleheader sweep of CSU Pueblo, with wins of 12-3 and 13-2 at the Assembly Athletic Complex.
 
"The pitching was really good all weekend," MSU Denver coach Ryan Strain said. "That was a good-hitting team that had been hot. For us to do what we did was pretty impressive."
 
The Roadrunners completed a four-game sweep that included Saturday wins of 4-3 and 11-8. Nearly half of the 16 runs scored by CSU Pueblo for the weekend came in a seven-run inning in Saturday's second game. Even with that big inning, MSU Denver posted a 4.50 ERA for the series while improving to 26-8 overall and moving into second place in the RMAC at 11-5.
 
"If we can do that, with our offense, we can play with anybody and beat anybody," first-game starter and winner Jack Slominski said. "I think our starters have been good all year, with just a couple of hiccups here and there, and that's going to happen. But we've fed off each other."
 
Slominski and second-game starter Carson Brown starred Sunday.
 
"Slominski had all his pitches working, filled up the zone, didn't give them many pitches to hit, didn't get behind in the count," Strain said. "And Brownie did a great job, too. They both gave us really good starts."
 
Slominski (5-1), who typically pitches the nine-inning, single-game series finale on Sundays, went to the mound for Sunday's nine-inning first game since Friday's postponement set up a seven-inning second game.
 
He was in control from the start, allowing one run on six hits in 6 1/3 innings while walking one and striking out four.
 
"I just try to compete and throw strikes and use all my pitches," Slominski said.
 
Ryan Overboe stranded the runners he inherited as the Roadrunners cruised to the win.
 
Jake Williams, Cam Yuran and Zach Schuler all hit long, long home runs to lead a 19-hit attack.
 
Brown (3-1) pitched five shutout innings in the second game, allowing just three hits while walking two and striking out six.
 
"You get confidence seeing your guys pitching well," Brown said, referring to the starters in the first three games of the series. "It gives you a little fire and makes you want to go out and do the same."
 
Colin Stone had three of the Roadrunners' nine hits, and they also took advantage of seven walks. It was only the fifth time in 34 games this season that MSU Denver didn't have a home run.
 
"We took care of business in pretty much every phase of the game today," Strain said. "We played great defense, we pitched it well and we swung the bats well."