Eagles fall in 3 conference games, win 1

Last weekend the CSC softball team traveled to Colorado State University-Pueblo, to play RMAC opponents CSU-Pueblo ThunderWolves and the Metropolitan State University- Denver Roadrunners. The Eagles lost both games against Metro (8-3,  2-0) and split against CSU-P (11-2, 6-3).

The Eagles managed to split against the ThunderWolves but couldn’t find a way to win against the Roadrunners. The Eagles scored 17 runs during the weekend, 11 against the ThunderWolves in their first game.

In the first game of the weekend, the Eagles faced the Roadrunners in what started off as an easy day for the Eagles with Rebekah Anthony, senior of Monument, Colorado, hit a home run in the first inning and Taylor Bauer, junior of Rapid City, South Dakota, also hitting a homer in the third inning while the Roadrunners remained scoreless. The score remained 2-0 in CSC’s favor until the top of the sixth inning when the Roadrunners’ second baseman Cassidy Smith, junior of Loveland, Colorado, managed to score a 3-run homer giving the Roadrunners the lead. They held on for the rest of the game going on to hit five more RBI’s before the final out. Kayla Michel, freshman of Brighton, Colorado, gave the Eagles their third and final RBI of the game. The Eagles lost the first game of the weekend 8-3.

In the second game, CSC managed to pull off a blowout victory against the ThunderWolves in a game that was called early in the fifth inning. The Eagles jumped out to an early lead in the first inning thanks to Zoe Humphries, junior of Arvada, Colorado, homering on a two RBI play. Shea Graham, a graduate student of Colorado Springs, Colorado, also hit an RBI in the same inning to put the Eagles ahead 3-0. The Eagles managed to score eight more runs before the fifth inning came around. After both teams went scoreless in the first inning, the game was ended after the fifth, giving the Eagles their first win of the weekend 11-2.

The Eagles again tried to knock off the ThunderWolves the next day, the Eagles could not score a run until the fifth inning when they finally managed to score two RBI’s, but only allowed the ThunderWolves to score once in the previous four innings, going through a scoring drought. The ThunderWolves responded in the sixth inning by hitting five RBI’s to push the lead for the Eagles who went scoreless in the top of the inning and only scored one RBI in the seventh inning.

In the final game of the weekend, the Eagles looked to get revenge on the Roadrunners and finished the weekend 2-2 by picking up a win and ending the trip on a high note. This game didn’t have a lot of scoring, the only RBI’s of the game were scored in the second inning by Smith who pitched, despite being a second baseman in the first game. The Eagles had a total of 25 at bats but could only produce four hits none of which were RBI’s, the Eagles went on to lose the game to the Roadrunners 2-0.

The Eagles are on the road for a four-game weekend against Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado, at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday.