Rams Take Nevada Series with Pride Game Victory

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Colorado State scored five unanswered runs in the fourth and fifth innings to claim a 9-5 victory and the series over Nevada on Saturday afternoon. The Rams celebrated their LGBTQ+ student-athletes pregame and welcomed Dr. Ashley Grice, Director of the Pride Resource Center at Colorado State University, to throw out the first pitch.

Colorado State was led by Ashley Michelena who finished 3-for-4 from the dish and scored two runs. Ashely York and Brooke Bohlender also recorded multiple hits, each tallying a pair of base hits. Michelena, Danielle Serna, Peyton Allen and Kaitlyn Cook all recorded a double in the victory as well. Both York and Bohlended drove in two runners apiece.

Julia Cabral started in the circle for CSU, tossing the first 2 1/3 frames before Jetta Nannen came in on relief. Cabral allowed five earned runs, while striking out two of the 16 batters faced. Nannen earned the win, hurling the last 4 2/3 innings, allowing no runs while facing 20 batters.

Nevada scored the first runs of the game in the first inning, registering three hits to score a run. Colorado State responded in the bottom half with four runs on three hits. After loading the bases with no outs after back-to-back singles, Serna recorded the easiest RBI in the game after drawing a walk to tie the game. Two batters later, Bohlender hit a single to center to score a pair of runs. During the following at bat, CSU extended its lead to 4-1 after scoring on a wild pitch.

Both teams were quiet in the second before Nevada took the lead again after a lead-off homer in the third inning and totaled six hits and four runs to lead 5-4.

Colorado State tied the game in the fourth inning after Hailey Smith hit a sac fly to left to score Michelena who doubled down the left-field line earlier in the frame.

CSU kept the offensive momentum in the fifth, totaling four runs on four hits. Allen started the frame with a double before Cook added one of her own two batters later to give the Rams the lead. After a RBI single by Jalyn McGuffin, York hit a two-RBI single off of the short stop to extend the lead, 9-5.

Nevada sent just seven batters to the plate in the final two frames as the Rams' defense locked down forcing four of the six outs into ground outs.

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Colorado State will finish the series on Sunday with first pitch scheduled for 12:00 p.m., MT on the Mountain West Network. The Rams will also be wearing their pink jerseys to support breast cancer awareness.

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