DENVER, Colo. -- February 21, 2016 -- Chadron State College softball (8-6-1, 3-1 RMAC) swept a doubleheader today in Denver, edging the No. 21 Regis Rangers (6-9, 1-3 RMAC) in the series. It was the first four-game series victory on the road since the Eagles did the same to Regis two seasons ago in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference opener.

CSC, now winners of four of their last five contests, finally gets on the positive side of .500 after finishing the previous two weekends exactly on the fence.

The program's most recent true road win against a ranked opponent prior to this weekend came at the end of the 2009 season, at MSU Denver. Chadron State is now 4-3 on the season against preseason top-25 squads.

Cierra Cosslett pitched a five-inning, two-hit, complete game shutout in the morning game, getting four strikeouts en route to a 10-0 win. CSC battered the Rangers for 9 of their 10 hits in the first three innings, also benefitting from four Regis errors. Zoe Humphries walked, doubled, and singled in that order, in consecutive innings. She scored runs in each of her on-base chances to help push CSC out past the mercy rule mark in just three at-bats. Katelyn Kruger was 1-for-2 in the batter's box, with two walks and an RBI double in the second. Aspen Eubanks, Lindsey Karlin, and Bekka Prokaski each batted .500, with the latter two drawing a walk apiece.

Bats were much warmer on both sides for the afternoon edition of the doubleheader. CSC manufactured a couple of tough early runs before the Eagles piled up five more in the wild third inning where Shea Graham singled twice and seven different CSC players reached base safely. Regis finally got on the board in the fourth with an RBI double, and sparked a big fifth inning with a leadoff triple. Courtney Lecher's solo homer in the sixth pushed the CSC lead to 8-6, but a wild pitch and a sac fly by the Rangers put the tying run across in the bottom of the inning. Graham plated the winning run in the top of the seventh with a single up the middle, for her fourth hit in five at-bats to make it a 9-8 game. Kruger also finished 4-of-5 with three RBI.

Chadron State runs their series record with Regis all-time to 24-16 in the Eagles' favor. After a weekend of RMAC play, CSC is in a three-way tie for second, with Colorado Mesa getting the only sweep in a relocated neutral-site series with Fort Lewis in Aztec, New Mexico.

The Eagles are slated to meet CMU, the defending league runners-up, next weekend in a three-team pod with Colorado Christian. Those games are set in Grand Junction, Colorado.