This Week in Mountain Lion Athletics

Softball (14-9-1 / 9-5 RMAC)

• The Mountain Lions are on their best home start (6-0) since the 2007 season, when UCCS started 7-0 and went 14-2 at home.
• UCCS is leading the RMAC in batting average (.351), stolen bases (32), runs (161) and fielding percentage (.966), and second in the conference in on-base percentage (.426) and RBIs (148).
• Payton Kornfiend and Jourdan Hitchings are fourth and fifth, respectively, in the conference for stolen bases. Hitchkings is also fifthin the RMAC with a .487 batting average.
• T. J Flodman has reached base in the last 13 games since the first game of the Fort Lewis series.

Men's Outdoor Track and Field

• UCCS will continue the outdoor season at the CSU-Pueblo Open on Saturday at the Eddie and Neta DeRose ThunderBowl. It will be the first meet of the season for the Mountain Lions in the same facility that will host the national outdoor championships in May.
• Carson Aberle ran the third-fastest 800-meter run of the early outdoor season last Saturday at the Jerry Quiller Classic in Boulder. He ran an altitude-adjusted time of 1:52.70 and came within two-tenths of a second of the provisional mark for nationals.
• The 4x400-meter relay team of Jonathan Wright, Ryan Buchanan, Nathan Week and Alan Ford won the event last Saturday with 3:20.40. The Mountain Lions won nearly three seconds against the second-place team of Air Force.
• Marc Hensley and Ford both finished in the top 10 of a large field of 400-meter sprinters last Saturday afternoon. Ford finished sixth with 50.05 seconds behind four sprinters from Division II teams.

Women's Outdoor Track and Field

• The Mountain Lions will compete on the same track that will host the national championships in May for the CSU-Pueblo Open Saturday at the Neta and Eddie DeRose ThunderBowl.
• Alex Colvin finished second in the pole vault last Saturday with 10-11 3/4 in her first competition of the outdoor season. She is tied for No. 18 in the Division II performance lists this season.
• UCCS is scheduled to be one of six RMAC teams in Pueblo, along with Adams State, Colorado Mines, CSU-Pueblo, Metro State, New Mexico Highlands and Western State.