Coloradoan staff

Colorado State University's #25strong season ended late Saturday with an 8-0 loss to Auburn in the NCAA Division 1 Tuscon Regional.

CSU, which extended its season with a 6-0 win over Harvard earlier in the evening, fell short of Sunday's regional final against host Arizona.

No. 23 Auburn manufactured two four-run innings against CSU. No Tigers player had more than Justus Perry's two hits, but five Auburn players drove runs in. The game was called a run-rule victory when Auburn went up 8-0 in the fifth inning.

CSU's bats were stymied by Auburn pitcher Chardonnay Harris, who yielded only three hits on the night.

Ashley Ruiz, who was arguably CSU's top player of the tournament, notched one of the Rams' hits, while Lauren Buchanan and Tara Shadowen had the others.

The Rams' season ends with a 39-12 record in the program's 25th year after it was reinstated following a Title IX lawsuit. The 25 players on this year's squad put together the best seasons in program history, earning the Rams their first NCAA postseason appearance in 16 years.

Seniors Bridgette Hutton, Amber Nelson, Lauren Buchanan, Danni Klein and Isabella Navarro played their last game for the Rams on Saturday.

“From senior to freshman, it is a really great group of ladies. Hopefully what we put together this season becomes the standard," CSU coach Jen Fisher said in a university release. "I think we can keep building on this. I defiantly asked those five seniors if they will keep coming back to keep mentoring the new players coming in.”

CSU 6, Harvard 0

They might be #25strong, but 6 was a pretty good number for CSU against Harvard.

The Rams broke a scoreless tie with a 6-run bottom of the sixth inning to top Harvard in an elimination game in the NCAA Division 1 Softball Tuscon Regional. The win earned the Rams a rematch with No. 23 Auburn, the team that sent the Rams into the elimination bracket Friday night.

CSU turned Saturday's pitchers' duel into a route on the back of Ruiz's base-clearing triple and a 2-RBI single by Isabella Navarro.

CSU starter Bridgette Hutton proved to be a riddle Harvard couldn't figure out. She threw a 3-hit shutout while striking out four.