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It's Deja Vu All Over Again as Toros Sweep #14 Jacks to Take Season Series

Freshman Kristin Tanaka picks up both wins in circle

Freshman Kristin Tanaka picked up two wins as CSUDH swept 14th-ranked Humboldt State again.
Game 1    Game 2

Carson, CA -- Freshman pitcher Kristin Tanaka made the most of her two relief appearances this afternoon, hurling 4.0 total innings and picking up two wins as Cal State Dominguez Hills completed the regular season series sweep of defending CCAA Champion and 14th-ranked Humboldt State in 7-6 (9) and 8-7 wins.  With the two victories, CSUDH's sixth-straight against HSU dating back to the 2006 campaign, the Toros improve to 15-11, 9-5, while the Jacks fell to 19-10, 8-4 CCAA.

Game one saw four lead changes in the 9-inning game as the two teams combined for 13 runs and 26 hits in the contest.  After the Toros took their first lead at 3-1 in the 5th inning after a Liz Vazquez two-out 2RBI double, the Jacks replied with four in the 7th as Marissa Slattery brought home three runs with a booming double to right field.

The Toros, still riding momentum from yesterday's sweep, tied the game in their 7th inning at-bat as Tanaka earned a bases loaded walk and Jennifer Tellez singled home the tying score.

HSU looked to win it two innings later after a Slattery RBI single and a walk and single ensued, but Tanaka fanned Lindsay Warren swinging to end the threat.

That proved pivotal as Vazquez belted a one-out homer in the 9th to tie the game and, after Tellez singled and took third on a two-base error by the Humboldt right fielder, the freshman catcher scampered home on a wild pitch to seal the win.

Vazquez wielded the big bat for the Toros with a 2-3 day and 3 RBI, and Slattery, Caitlin Klug and Ashley Oltjenbruns belted 3 hits apiece for the Jacks, while HSU starter Lizzy Prescott dropped her third decision in as many games in Carson.

In the nightcap, the Jacks looked to run away with the game after putting up four runs in the first, but the Toros struck for two in the second and four in the third to take a 6-4 lead after sending nine batters to the plate.

After both pitchers settled down for an inning, the offenses again took center stage as the Jacks tallied two hits and a run off CSUDH starter Kaci Carroll to knock her from the game, and a hit and run against Tanaka in her second relief appearance of the afternoon for a 7-6 lead.

But just as they had done all series, the Toros replied with two singles to lead off the 6th, and the HSU defense did the rest in the CSUDH comeback.  After a sacrifice bunt and intentional walk to Christine Bathauer to load the bases, Katie Garcia followed the second out of the inning with a ball that the center fielder booted to allow two runs to score, accounting fo the final margin in the 8-7 win.

Bathauer was perfect at the plate going 3-for-3, while Bri Mahr enjoyed a 2-for-4 outing with 2 RBI.  Oltjenbruns went 3-for-4 with 2 runs and 3 RBI for HSU, but the Jack defense committed 5 errors which allowed four unearned runs as starter Hanna Jones suffered the hard-luck loss.

Tanaka hurled 1.2 innings and allowed just two hits in picking up her second win of the day, and third of the series.

The Toros travel to Chico State next weekend to start a stretch of three weeks away from Toro Diamond, before returning to Carson on April 4, to host Cal State Stanislaus in CSUDH's final regular season homestand.





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