GAME 1 BOX SCORE

GAME 2 BOX SCORE

GOLDEN – Colorado School of Mines softball needed only three hits to win its third consecutive series-opener on Saturday as the Orediggers blanked visiting Western New Mexico, 4-0, at CSM Softball Field in Golden.

All three base hits circled the bases as sophomore Rebecca Fallon launched a pair of solo shots over the left field fence – the first multi-homer game since Courtney Derus last April at WNMU – and classmate Angela Eickelman sent the first of her career off the scoreboard in center.

The pair went back-to-back to open the bottom of the second, while a textbook first-and-third double steal executed by senior Cassie Ford and freshman Pua Fujinaga followed Eickelman's fourth-inning long ball.

Fallon closed 2-for-3 with the two RBI and two runs and Eickelman 1-for-3.

Freshman Hallie Smith (7-16) was workmanlike in the circle en route to her second complete game shutout, allowing only four hits and two walks with six strikeouts on 98 pitches.

The Mustangs (19-22, 16-14 RMAC) bookended game two with four-run at-bats, rallying from a 7-6 deficit with two out in the seventh to halve the doubleheader, 10-8.

The beneficiary of a third-inning, two-out error, Mines (8-31, 6-19 RMAC) overcame a 5-0 start by WNMU with five runs on six hits, before claiming its first lead with two in the fourth.  

Junior Dana Gallegos led three Orediggers with multi-hit efforts, swinging 3-for-4 with two RBI, two runs and two stolen bases.

Sophomore Paige Noehring hit 2-for-5 with a double and two runs and Eickelman 2-for-3 with one RBI and a run scored. Fallon had her second two-RBI game, closing 1-for-3 with one double and a walk.

The women host the Mustangs in their annual Senior Day home finale twinbill at 11 a.m. on Sunday.