Colorado Christian baseball had to wait over an hour past their scheduled start time against the University of Mary to finish their weekend games, but it was worth the wait as they recorded their second straight shutout of the weekend, defeating the Marauders 4-0 in Friday afternoons finale.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
The game originally scheduled for 2:00 pm was delayed an hour and fifteen minutes as the University of Mary finished the days first game against MSU Denver, which the Roadrunners took by a score of 31-3. Once the game began at 3:15 pm, it was straight to business for both teams. CCU opened up the scoring in the bottom of the second when singles from Connor Marshall and Matt Kimura each scored a run. Kimura contributed again in the bottom half of the fourth inning when his sac bunt scored Heath Hays, allowing Kimura to reach base on the fielders choice. An error on Kimura's sacrifice play allowed Marshall to advance to second and was brought home shortly after on a sac fly from Joel Manzano, capping the scoring for the game.
 
Pitching again was a huge factor as three Cougs made contributions to a combined shutout. Starter Justin Kiedinger earned his first win of the season after throwing five innings of three hit ball, striking out six. Normally a starter himself, Evan Fink came in for a relief appearance in an effort to get some work in after losing out on previous opportunities due to weather cancellations. Fink went three innings, allowed just two hits and struck out another five Marauders. Finally, Zach Haning came in for the top of the ninth inning to close things out. With a four run lead Haning couldn't earn a save, but he did avoid allowing any Mary batters to reach base.
 
WEEKEND RECAP:
 

• Scotty Ingle – Led all Cougars at the plate, going 6-10 (.600) with a pair of doubles, a triple, and scoring two runs.
• Carter Mossey – Went 4-9 (.444) in three starts, but also drew a team high four walks, leading to two runs scored and a pair of stolen bases.
• Heath Hays – Heath continued his breakout season hitting 4-9 (.444) with drawing three additional walks and scoring a team high three runs.
• Alex Ginn – Ginn threw eight innings allowing just two hits, no runs, and walks only two batters against MSU Denver on Thursday night.
• Connor McCollum – Connor recorded his second quality start of the season but was unable to walk away with a win after striking out eight and holding the Marauders to just two runs on Thursday afternoon.
• As a team, the Cougars did not allow a single run prior to the seventh inning in any game this weekend.

 
The win brings the Cougars to 5-8 on the season as they look forward to next week's RMAC opener in Colorado Springs verses the Mountain Lions of UCCS.