COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The University of Colorado Colorado Springs softball team will play for a chance to qualify for the RMAC Tournament for the second straight season when the Mountain Lions (15-26, 14-22 RMAC) travel for a four-game series at Black Hills State (5-35, 3-29 RMAC). The teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday at noon and on Sunday at 11 a.m., at Yellow Jacket Field in Spearfish, S.D.

The Mountain Lions are two games out of a three-way tie for seventh in the RMAC standings behind Colorado State-Pueblo, New Mexico Highlands and Adams State. The top eight teams after this weekend will qualify for the RMAC Tournament, which will take place May 4-6, in at Colorado Mesa in Grand Junction, Colo. UCCS will need help from one of the other three teams in order to clinch its spot in the tournament.

UCCS is 6-2 in the last two weekends and have the last two RMAC Players of the Week with Rayle Glover and Melissa Martinek. The duo have combined for eight home runs in the last two series, and along with Whitney Weber, have reached base in the last eight games. Martinek leads the team with a .405 batting average while Glover is second at .386.

The Mountain Lions are third in the RMAC with 44 home runs and a .496 slugging percentage. UCCS won five straight games before a 14-5 setback in the final game of the New Mexico Highlands series on Sunday.

Black Hills State just finished a stretch where it played three of the top five teams in the conference in the last three weekends. The Yellow Jackets are led Lexi Baker on offense with a .333 batting average. Alex Wiley leads the pitchers with a 4.79 earned run average and 64 strikeouts.