Rangers Drop Final Game of Series, 17-13, to Get Swept by Mesa State

Denver, Colo.: The Rangers fell 17-13 to Mesa State on Sunday for the fourth time in as many games to get swept by the Mavericks. Regis totaled for 17 hits on the day with 16 RBI's.

After holding the Mavericks (24-5, 14-3 RMAC) to zero runs in the top of the first, the Rangers jumped on top scoring three in the bottom of the inning. Junior Jesus Arzaga doubled to right field to start off the inning before being brought in by sophomore Aaron Salvucci's single up the middle. Salvucci advanced to third on sophomore Zach Blakeley's single through the left side. A left center fly moved Salvucci to third on the tag before a single to right field by Gerard Mohrmann scored him. Blakeley advanced to third on the play. A sacrafice fly by senior Micheal Khouri brought in Blakeley for the third run of the inning.

Although Regis (13-16, 6-10 RMAC) held Mesa to two more scoreless innings, they had two scoreless innings after the first as well. In the top of the fourth, those three runs were no longer enought to allow the Rangers to hold onto the lead.

Mesa State took advantage of two Ranger errors in the top of the fourth and registered nine runs on six hits. Regis came back in the bottom of the inning with one run. The Mavericks tacked on four more runs to their previous nine in the top of the fifth taking a commanding 13-4 lead over the Rangers. They added two more in the sixth and one in the seventh to make the score 16-4 going into the bottom of the seventh.

While some teams would let down with such a deficit, the Rangers forced this game to unfold differently. They scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh to take their runs to nine. The Mavericks scored one more in the top of the eigth before Regis scored four in the bottom of the inning setting the score at 17-13. Regis scored nine runs in the seventh and eigth innings to Mesa State's two.

While the battle was fought, no runs were scored in the ninth ending the game in favor of Mesa 17-13.

Freshman Alex Haag went 3-for-3 on the day with two runs batted in, one double, and two runs scored. Blakeley went 3-for-6 scoring one run while Arzaga went 2-for-5 with a double and crossed the plate three times.

The Rangers will face Metro State in their next games scheduled for March 27th, 28th, and 29th. The first pitch is set for 3:00 p.m. on the 27th.

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