COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The UC-Colorado Springs Mountain Lions took both victories over the Yellow Jackets softball team on Sunday afternoon, defeating BHSU in the first game 8-0, and the second game 3-2.  

GAME 1 

UCCS scored three runs in the first inning for the third game in a row versus the Jackets on the weekend in game one, after the Mountain Lions scored after two singles and a sac fly. 

After scoring no runs in the second inning, UCCS managed to score a run in the third an fourth innings before closing out the game in the fifth inning after scoring three more runs.  UCCS was led offensively by 2B Nikki Hoffman and SS Emily Jennings, after the two combined for six RBIs in the game on three hits. 

Yellow Jacket pitcher, Kaitlin Farrar, took the loss in the game after going four innings and giving up four earned runs on eight hits.  

BHSU's 2B Katie Campo went 1-for-2 and had a double to right field as the team's lone extra base hit in the top of the fourth inning.  The only other BHSU batters to notch a hit in the game were 3B Alexis Shaffer and DH Brittnay Geersen. 

UCCS was led on the mound by P Korey Kulpins, who went all five innings and had three strikeouts and gave up just the three hits to the Jackets. 

GAME 2 

The second game of the day went all seven innings as the Jackets and Mountain Lions were tied at 2-2 heading into the final inning.  The pitcher's dual ended with a UCCS walk-off homerun over the leftfield wall by Jessica Belsterling to give her team the 3-2 victory.  

Belsterling also pitched another complete game for UCCS as she did on Saturday, while striking out seven Yellow Jackets and surrendering just four hits to move to 5-2 on the season. 

UCCS scored first in the opening inning after a bases loaded walk with Nikki Hoffman at the plate.  BHSU answered back in the second inning, thanks to a RF Sara Schmid solo homerun to center field, which was her first of the season. 

In the fourth inning, the Jackets tied the game at two runs apiece when Campo hit an RBI double to right field that allowed Katherine Drake to score. Pitching for the Yellow Jackets was Savanah Eckhardt, who went all 6.1 innings, gave up just three earned runs on five hits.  

The Jackets now move to 1-14 overall on the season and 1-9 in RMAC play as they look forward to a four-game weekend series versus Metro State on Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 22-23, 2014. 

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