Toros Settle for Split Against Coyotes

Carson, CA -- Cal State Dominguez Hills used two six-run innings to take a 12-1 mercy run rule decision over visiting Cal State San Bernardino, but the Coyotes used a leadoff home run in the top of the 8th inning to fuel a two-run rally as CSUSB forged a 9-8 win in the 8-inning nightcap.

The Toro bats were locked in early on Coyote starter Tawni Baker, tagging her for five earned runs in just a third of an inning pitched as a bases loaded wild pitch, a Jodi Nakawatase (pictured) RBI single, a CSUSB error and a Katie Garcia bases-clearing triple accounted for the six-run first inning.

CSUDH's bats continued to punish 'Yote pitched in the second as Nakawatase belted her first home run of the season, providing the big blow in the six-run sixth.

The visitors put up a run in the third, but it was too little too late as the Toros cruised to the 12-1 win. CSUDH starter Regina Farfan picked up her third win of the season as she allowed three hits and no earned runs, while Nakawatase's 2-for-3 effort with 3 RBI led the Toro charge.

The nightcap looked to be more of the same as the Toros strung together five hits for three runs in the third inning, the big blows courtesy of RBI singles from Jennifer Frazier, Bri Mahr and Farfan.

Unlike game one, however, the Coyotes tie the game in the 5th, took the lead in the 6th and battled CSUDH to a 7-7 tie after regulation. In the eighth, CSUSB's Jordan Dahl greeted reliever Farfan with a towering shot over the right-center field fence, after which Priscilla Curiel added an insurance run that would prove to be the difference as the Toros came up one run short in their 8th-inning at-bat.

Farfan suffered the loss in 2.2 innings of work, while Jordan, Liz Vazquez, Frazier, Mahr and Kristin Tanaka all tallied two hits in the defeat. Jacquelyn Holtzclaw, Curiel and Dahl, however, garnered three hits apiece as 'Yote reliever Jackie Jacob picked up her first win of the season in 5.2 innings of work.

The two teams hook up again for the final two games of the four-game set, with first pitch of game one set for 11:00 am on Toro Diamond.

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