The Stanford women’s lacrosse team, ranked No. 16 nationally, defeated Denver 12-6 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship Sunday at Papé Field in Eugene, Oregon. Denver (15-5) finished its most successful season in the program’s history. Stanford improved to 12-5. Kristie Leggio led Denver with four goals to finish the season with 104 points.
New pro baseball league eyes Colorado
Seven Colorado cities are being considered for inclusion in a new independent professional baseball league to begin play in May 2007. The newly-formed Continental Baseball League – headed by former Major League Baseball lawyer Ron Baron and former major-leaguer Jay Johnstone – plans to field six to 10 teams in the Southwest. Pueblo, Fort Collins, Thornton, Longmont, Aspen, Greeley and Boulder are being considered.
RMAC baseball concludes, tourney seeds set
The CSU-Pueblo baseball team (31-20, 19-12) scored five unanswered runs and defeated Metro State (26-22, 19-12) 9-5 at Auraria Field to conclude the teams’ Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular-season schedules.
Also, Fort Hays State (43-13, 23-9 RMAC) compiled 20 hits en route to a 14-3 victory over host Regis (30-26, 12-15).
The RMAC postseason tournament begins Wednesday at Mesa State College in Grand Junction. No. 1-seeded Mesa State (35-17, 22-7) will face No. 6 New Mexico Highlands (28-26, 15-16) at 7 p.m. No. 2 Fort Hays State faces No. 5 Nebraska-Kearney (28-24, 14-11) at 11 a.m. No. 3 CSU-Pueblo goes against No. 4 Metro State at 3 p.m.
