COLORADO SPRINGS-Something clicked for Adams State University junior April Riggins, who wears No. 8, on Saturday, April 8th as she celebrated the fourth month of the year with four home runs to help her Grizzlies get a split in Saturday's Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference doubleheader at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. 

The Grizzlies captured the first game as they were able to hold off the Mountain Lions in the bottom of the seventh inning for the 10-8 win. In the second game, a 9-run bottom of the first inning doomed the Grizzlies as they fell 14-3 in five innings.

On the day, Adams State had seven home runs with sophomore Tyler Hays, senior Marissa Harmon and freshman Taylor Roberts hitting the long ball.

In the opening game, the Grizzlies jumped on the score board in the top of the first inning as Riggins took an 0-1 pitch and drove it over the left field wall for a 2-run jack to score herself and Hays.
The Mountain Lions rallied back and tied the the game in the bottom of the inning as two solo homers to left field made the score 2-2.

After a scoreless second inning, Riggins struck again as she took another 0-1 pitch and drove it back over the left field wall for a 3-run jack. This time Hays was joined by Kalin Johnson on the trot around the bases to makes the score 5-2.

UCCS cut the lead to one run in the bottom half of the inning on a 2-RBI single on a 3-2 pitch. Hays then nailed a home run in the top of the fifth to center field. Again UCCS tallied a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth.
Riggins then hit another three run blast down the right field line to score Johnson and Paige Reichmuth before Roberts nailed her solo homer.

The Mountain Lions battled back and scored three runs, one on a single one on a double and one a sacrifice fly.

In the game, ASU ASU tallied 12 hits and only struck out four times as they only stranded two runners on base.

In the circle, Murphy earned her 10th win of the season as she allowed the eight runs on ten hits and two walks. She struck out five in her 6.1 innings of work and stranded five of the 31 batters she faced. Whitney Fields closed the game and earned her first save of the season as she tossed .2 of an inning and had a strikeout and a walk.

Fields, who started the second game, then ran into a buzzsaw. She only earned two outs in the game as she gave up eight earned runs on five hits and two walks. Taylor Roberts came in for relief. She finished the game as she tossed 3.1 innings and have up five earned runs on six hits and one strikeouts.

The Mountain Lions had two 2-run doubles and a 3-run home run in the bottom of the first inning to take the 9-0 advantage before Harmon nailed her homer, a 2-run home run, in the top of the second. Riggins finished out her day with a solo homer in the fourth to close out the scoring for the Grizzlies.

The day also had a somber feel to it as the Grizzlies all wore red ribbings to honor New Mexico Highlands University catcher Danielle Cordova, who parrished in a tragic car accident earlier this week.

The Grizzlies and Mountain Lions will close out their four game series tomorrow when they take on UCCS at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.