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Billings, Mont. – Montana State Billings baseball team dropped both games in their Saturday double-header against Colorado Mesa University, 12-2, 6-2. The Mavericks out hit the Jackets 19-13 to capture both victories.
 
Game 1: CMU 12 MSUB 2
 
Colorado Mesa jumped out early scoring 10 runs within the first four innings of play. Mack Unruh scored MSUB's first run as Justin Harcharik was hit by a pitch, advancing all runners. The Mavericks quickly answered in the bottom of the fifth with Kennedy Kinkade singling through left field, driving Tim Fowler home.
 
The Jackets couldn't capitalize on their opportunities in the top of the sixth as they left two runners on base. Colorado Mesa increased their lead to 12-1, scoring in the bottom of the sixth with Garrett Carpenter crossing on a sac fly.
 
In the top of the seventh, Brad Birch gave the Yellowjackets' offense a spark as he hit his second home run of the season, bringing the score to 12-2. The 10 runs scored by the opposition in the early part of the contest would prove to be too much to overcome for MSUB as they would not be able to generate any more runs after Birch's homer.
 
The Jackets pitching rotation was out of sync all afternoon, only recording one strikeout out of 44 batters faced. Joe Andriolo was credited with the loss and he falls to 0-2 on the year. Including his home run, Birch finished 2-5 with one run scored and one run batted in.
 
Colorado Mesa's Aaron Corwin got his first win of the season, striking out six batters in 5.1 innings of work. Carpenter and Fowler had strong performances at the plate combing for five total hits and six runs batted in.
 
Game 2: CMU 6 MSUB 2
 
Four errors plagued the Yellowjackets as three of the Mavericks' six runs were unearned. The Yellowjackets finished with five hits compared to the oppositions seven. Faring slightly better in this matchup, the hurlers struck out five batters while facing 30 total. Samuel Paterson recorded his second start of the year and finished with four of the team's strikeouts in 4.1 innings of work.
 
Steven DeYoung had the best day at the plate for MSUB going 1-3 with one run batted in.
 
Carpenter followed his game one performance with a 2-3 effort in game two, while also scoring two runs. Joey Danner made the start for Colorado Mesa and tallied five of the team's six strikeouts.
 
As both team's went into the fourth inning even 0-0, the Mavericks scored the game's first run to give Colorado Mesa the 1-0 lead. At the top of the fifth, the Yellowjackets went three up, three down; while the Mavericks notched five runs at the bottom of the inning to give them the 6-0 lead.
 
MSUB made a great late game effort scoring two runs in the top of the seventh but they would not be able to complete the task and would go on to lose their sixth game of the season
 
MSUB falls to 2-6-1 on the year while Colorado Mesa improves to 3-3. The Yellowjackets and Mavericks will face off for the final game in their series Sunday, Feb. 17 at 12 noon.