GOLDEN, Colo. – Back home Saturday for their first Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference series of the series, the Colorado School of Mines softball team split their first day of league action at Joe Coors, Jr. Softball Field with UCCS, dropping game one 8-0 before rallying for an 8-3 win in game two. Miquela Tammaro and Taylor Wayne led the charge in the winning effort for the Orediggers (5-7, 1-1) as they used a pair of big innings to pull away after being held in check at the dish by the Mountain Lions (7-4, 1-1) to start off the afternoon.
It was all UCCS in game one as the Mountain Lions scored single runs in the first and third innings before plating two in the fourth and blowing things open with four runs in the seventh to take the 8-0 win to begin the series. A double steal of second and home by Jaqueline Berkowitz and JV Goldsworth made it 1-0. After Kat Miller (1-2) worked a 1-2-3 second, the Mountain Lions added another run on a wild pitch before an RBI single and advancement on a caught stealing made it 4-0 through four innings.
After leaving five on base over the first three innings, Mines went down in order in each of the next three innings as they looked for something to break through against UCCS ace Autumn Kunze. Ellen Shull gave her offense a chance to get back into the action in relief of Miller, setting down the visitors in order in the fifth and sixth innings, but a four-run seventh by the Mountain Lions all but put things out of reach as they batted around in the inning on their way to the win…