CHADRON, Neb. -- April 23, 2017 -- Adams State University came up with its lone win of the series, but the Chadron State College sent its six seniors off in style, winning the four-game series in Chadron by a 3-1 margin. Chadron State tilted the weekend in their favor with a 6-1 victory in game three Sunday morning, while the Grizzlies emerged from hibernation in game four to win 8-1.

Once again, Jessica Jarecki dazzled in the circle for the Eagles. The true freshman served up a two-hit complete game, striking out seven batters. The lone run against her crossed in the fifth, after a walked batter was successfully advanced twice on consecutive sac bunts. One of ASU's two hits brought in the team's only run of the game.

The Eagle seniors took a big part in the offensive output. Senior Courtney Lecher singled to lead off the first, and fellow senior Lindsey Karlin singled her home after a stolen base put her in scoring position. Another senior, Zoe Humphries, had a solo homer in the third inning to put CSC up 2-0 in the ballgame.

A fourth, Morgan Wilhelm, moved into the No. 4 spot all-time for the Eagles with a quirky statistic. The senior outfielder was plunked by three pitches over the weekend, including one in the fifth inning of Sunday morning's game, to move to 15 career hit-by-pitches.

She and pinch-runner Alyssa Geist were both cleared from the basepaths by a three-run shot by Kayla Michel in the next at-bat.

Karlin added one more RBI on a single in the sixth for the 6-1 margin.

Adams State was finally able to engage its offense in game four, finding ways to score in four different innings. Grizzly first baseman Mackenzie Villareal made the most of her at-bats, going 4-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI, all coming on a home run in the third.

The Grizzlies were already up 4-0 after two and one-half innings, when the Eagles scored their lone run, on an RBI single by senior Taylor Bauer, to give each of the seniors who batted either a run or a run batted in on their final day at CSC Softball Field.

Bauer was honored between games, following the senior ceremony, by being announced as the team's Eagle Award winner, voted upon by the team as the greatest contributor of the year, on and off the field.

Adams State would go on to score three more runs in the fifth and one in the seventh to prevent the sweep by winning 8-1. Lauren Murphy was credited with the win for the Grizzlies, while CSC's Kinsley Mason received the loss.

Elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the postseason tournament, which Chadron State clinched a spot in on Saturday, started to take shape. 

Colorado Mesa University clinched the No. 1 spot in the standings at 31-4 in league, and will host the eight-team, double-elimination tournament in Grand Junction, Colorado, May 4-6.

Colorado Mines, maybe the hottest team in the conference, swept second-place MSU Denver over the weekend to tie the Roadrunners for second at 26-10 and hold the tiebreaker over the team downtown.

After the loss Sunday, Chadron State (25-23, 21-14 RMAC) can no longer catch either of the two teams tied ahead of them and will settle for the fourth seed at best, and at worst, sixth.

For Adams State, the picture is much muddier. The three losses push them back into a three-way tie for seventh, with New Mexico Highlands and CSU-Pueblo, at 16-20. The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (14-22) is only two games in back of the trio in the logjam, and has only four contests at 12th-place Black Hills State (3-29) remaining.

CSC travels to 11th-place Fort Lewis College next weekend, for their final four RMAC games on Saturday and Sunday. Those games, hosted by FLC, are to be played at an alternate site, in Aztec, New Mexico, starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, due to the Skyhawks' graduation, and at 11 a.m. on Sunday.