The Field House. College Sports coverage from The Denver Post’s Kyle Fredrickson.
The Western Slope has staked its claim to the best Division II softball team in the country.
Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction is a perfect 30-0 this season and the Mavericks are ranked No. 1 by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. The 30-game win streak is a program record and half of those victories ended by mercy rule. CMU has scored double-digit runs 16 different times while junior right-hander McKenzie Surface, of Discovery Canyon High School in Colorado Springs, has tallied 101 strikeouts with a 2.66 ERA.
Fourth-year head coach Ben Garcia has assembled a roster with nine Colorado natives that appears well suited for a deep NCAA Tournament run in May.
“(We’re) trying to keep them grounded, first of all, and they’re doing a good job of that on their own. We talk about that all the time,” “One game at a time, one series at a time, and they’ve responded fairly well.”
CMU aims to keep its perfect streak alive at 2 p.m. Friday for the first of a two-game series against Fort Lewis.
