{"id":132978,"date":"2021-05-26T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=132978"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:39:34","slug":"uccs-athletics-celebrates-historic-may-with-baseball-rmac-championship-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=132978","title":{"rendered":"UCCS Athletics celebrates historic May with Baseball RMAC championship and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_RMAC_Champions-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_RMAC_Champions-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_RMAC_Champions-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_RMAC_Champions-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_RMAC_Champions.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in program history, the UCCS Baseball program swung its bats for the fences and knocked one out of the park with a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) championship, downing Colorado Mesa University (CMU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final blow for CMU fell when the Mountain Lions racked up 18 runs to CMU&#8217;s 9, ending the series, allowing the first-time champs to hoist a trophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of what these young men have accomplished this year,&#8221; Dave Hajek, fifth-year head coach, said. &#8220;This team continues to step up regardless of the challenges their facing. This is a big day for our program and all of our staff, players and families that have contributed and helped us get to this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the victory, UCCS punched its first-ever NCAA regional tournament ticket, earning the No. 4 seed in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following headlines showcase more excellence among UCCS&#8217; athletic programs during the month of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/news\/2021\/5\/2\/mens-track-and-field-mountain-lions-capture-rmac-outdoor-championships-and-first-outdoor-mens-title-in-school-history.aspx\">Track &amp; Field capture RMAC outdoor championships and first outdoor men&#8217;s title in school history<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/news\/2021\/5\/26\/mens-track-and-field-ross-headlines-41-mountain-lions-on-rmac-all-academic-team.aspx\">41 Mountain Lions make Track &amp; Field RMAC all-academic team<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/news\/2021\/5\/26\/womens-lacrosse-church-sodomka-lead-13-lacrosse-rmac-all-academic-selections.aspx\">13 Mountain Lions selected in Lacrosse RMAC all-academic team<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/news\/2021\/5\/21\/mens-track-and-field-track-field-collects-17-ustfccca-all-region-honors.aspx\">Track &amp; Field collects 17 all-region honors<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/news\/2021\/5\/21\/uccs-athletics-uccs-department-of-athletics-earns-34th-consecutive-semester-with-3-00-or-high-gpa.aspx\">Department of Athletics earns 34th consecutive semester with 3.00 or higher GPA<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>For the first time in program history, the UCCS Baseball program swung its bats for the fences and knocked one out of the park with a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship, downing Colorado Mesa University. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=132978\" title=\"UCCS Athletics celebrates historic May with Baseball RMAC championship and more\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":132979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[93,332],"class_list":["post-132978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-more-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_RMAC_Champions.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-yAO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132980,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132978\/revisions\/132980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}