Errors Prove Costly for Regis in Losses to CSU-Pueblo

Pueblo, Colo.: Regis and CSU-Pueblo played one inning of baseball to finish up the halted game due to darkness from the previous day in Denver before their regularly scheduled game in Pueblo.  A late homerun by senior J.T. Putt, his third of the game, closed the gap to 14-13 but that was as close as Regis could get in the first game.  CSU-Pueblo also won the nightcap in front of over 2,000 fans 7-4 in their annual "Pack the Park" night.

Putt had him some kind of game going 4-for-4 with three homeruns and a career-high eight RBIs in the 14-13 loss to CSU-Pueblo (21-17, 15-10 RMAC).  Regis (13-23, 9-18 RMAC) fell behind 6-2 after one inning and briefly took the lead in the second inning after scoring seven runs to take a 9-6 lead.  The Thunderwolves responded with three of their own in the top of the third to tie the game.

Regis was unable to stop the CSU-Pueblo offense and with a combined 29 hits and six errors the game took longer than planned and on Saturday evening, in Denver, with darkness looming the two teams decided to halt the game after six innings.  The two teams would then play the final inning in Pueblo before their regularly scheduled game.  Putt hit his third and final homerun of the game in the seventh, a solo shot, but it was too little too late for the Rangers.

Senior Patrick Farrell collected three more hits helping the Rangers outhit CSU-Pueblo 16-13.  Sophomores Dave Holland and Alex Haag and freshman Tim Lewis each collected two hits with Holland and Lewis chipping in with an RBI each.  Senior Max Regalado had a two-run double and a sacrifice fly to drive in three runs.

The Rangers hurt themselves with six errors in the game with only eight of the 14 runs being earned by the four pitchers for Regis.  Sophomore Tyler Landwehr pitched two perfect innings in the eighth and the ninth with one strikeout.  Sophomore Mike McElreath was saddled with the loss but allowed just one earned run in two innings of action.

Click here for boxscore from game 1.

Game two wasn't as offense-oriented as game one was but Regis was able to strike first when Farrell hit a leadoff homerun, his 20th of the season to center field.  CSU-Pueblo responded with one run in the bottom half of the inning and two innings later essentially put away the game scoring four runs to take a 5-1 lead. 

Regis collected just five hits but scored four runs while committing two errors.  Regis scored one in the eighth and two more in the ninth to make it a little closer but came up on the short end of the 7-4 score.

Sophomore Steve Falconi (3-6) started and threw seven innings allowing nine hits and six runs, five earned, in the loss.  Haag had two of the Rangers five hits and an RBI.

Regis will travel across town to take on Colorado Mines beginning on Friday night at 6:00 p.m.

Click here for boxscore from game 2.