Game 1: New Mexico Highlands 13, CSU-Pueblo 3
Game 2: New Mexico Highlands 6, CSU-Pueblo 5

PUEBLO, Colo. - CSU-Pueblo's high after their weekend sweep of Nebraska-Kearney were dashed Tuesday when it was tripped up by arguably the RMAC's top team in New Mexico Highlands.

The ThunderWolves lost 13-3 and 6-5 in the mid-week non-conference doubleheader.

In both games, the ThunderWolves seemingly had both games at hand before Highlands, boasting perhaps the top stable of bats in the country, hammered CSU-Pueblo.

The ThunderWolves were cruising in the first game, up 3-0 through four innings, having given up hit, before the Cowboys strung together several infield hits to put up six in the fifth inning.  Highlands kept piling on, eventually getting up to 13 runs on the Pack, which hadn't allowed more than 10 runs in a single game coming into Tuesday's games.

The second game hurt even more, as CSU-Pueblo held a 5-2 lead going into the top of the 7th.  Highlands trimmed the lead to 5-4, and took the lead when Tommy DeAngelis cranked a two-out, 0-2 pitch over the outfield wall to give Highlands the 6-5 lead, one they would preserve after holding the Pack scoreless in the bottom half of the 7th.

CSU-Pueblo falls to 9-9 with the sweep, while Highlands, which came in ranked 26th in the nation, improves to 14-4.  The only silver-lining for the Pack is that Tuesday's games were non-conference battles, and CSU-Pueblo's 4-2 conference record is preserved going into this weekend's three-game series with Colorado Mines at Rawlings Field.