PUEBLO, Colo. (April 12, 2015) ~ The visiting Colorado School of Mines Orediggers earned a series split with No. 8/13 Colorado State University-Pueblo after winning the series finale, 12-9, Sunday at Rawlings Field.

The loss gives the ThunderWolves their first series split of the season and drops their record to 28-8 overall and 20-6 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference games. The Orediggers up their record to 12-19 overall and 7-17 in league contests.

The two teams combined to register 32 hits on the day with Mines notching 17 and the Pack tallying 15 base knocks. Both squads committed one error. The Orediggers stranded 12 runners on base, while CSU-Pueblo left six men aboard.

Thomas Bevington (Sr., Colorado Springs, Colo.) suffered the loss out of the bullpen for the ThunderWolves after going 1 1/3 innings, giving up four runs on six hits. A.J. Valerio tossed eight innings of solid relief to earn his first victory of the season for Mines.

Five different players tallied at least two hits for CSU-Pueblo, including Jordan Godman (Jr., Las Vegas, Nev.) who had a team-high three hits. Dominick Bregar (Jr., Pueblo, Colo.) and Mike Wagner (Sr., Golden, Colo.) both tallied two runs, while Manny Menocal (Jr., Las Vegas, Nev.) notched a team-high three RBIs. Daniel Vigil (Sr., Pueblo, Colo.) had two hits, two RBIs and one run scored.

The Orediggers tallied the first run of the game courtesy of a two-out solo home run over the right field wall by Nate Olinger in the top of the first inning.

CSU-Pueblo responded in a big way, scoring seven times in the home half of the first inning. Austin Mascorro (Sr., Oxnard, Calif.) drove in Godman with a double down the right-field line for the first run of the inning. Mascorro then came around to score on a throwing error by Orediggers' shortstop Logan Smith. A sacrifice fly out by Menocal and a RBI single by Lawrence Chavez (Sr., Estancia, N.M.) extended the ThunderWolves' lead to 4-1. Vigil ripped a single up the middle to plate two runs and Godman capped the inning with a RBI double to give the Pack a 7-1 lead after the first inning.

Colorado Mines answered right back with four runs in the top of the second inning to trim the deficit to two, at 7-5. The Orediggers took the lead with four more runs in the third inning and two in the fourth to move in front, 11-7.

The Pack got two runs back in the bottom of the fifth inning on a two-run double by Menocal. Bregar and Wagner scored on the play to pull the home team to within two, at 11-9.

Valerio held CSU-Pueblo scoreless over the final four innings and the Orediggers tacked on an insurance run in the top of the ninth to make the final score, 12-9.

The ThunderWolves return to action Tuesday, playing host to Adams State University in a nonconference doubleheader at Rawlings Field. Game one is slated to begin at 3 p.m.

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As a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, Colorado State University – Pueblo competes in 22 varsity sports in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics.