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Coyotes and Toros Split Pair of 2-0 Decisions


CARSON -- Unlike visiting CS San Bernardino in their top of the third inning, senior Caitlin McGrath took advantage of her two-out bases loaded opportunity in the bottom half with a clean single to center field to drive home the only two runs of the game as CSUDH salvaged a 2-0 decision in the nightcap after falling 2-0 in the opener.

With the win, the Toros improve to 17-11, while the Coyotes move to 11-16.

After retiring the first two 'Yotes she faced in the third, Toro starter Wendy Espindola plunked the next batter on a 1-2 count, an at-bat magnified by consecutive hits by the next two CSUSB batters to load the bases.

Espindola bucked down, however, inducing a groundout after running the count to 3-1 to keep the game scoreless.

The Toro bats came alive in their third inning at-bat as a Krista Gould leadoff single and one by Katie Garcia two batters later put runners on first and second, and an unintentional intentional four-pitch walk to Emiley McEwen one batter later to load the bases for McGrath.

Facing a 1-2 count, McGrath stroked a line drive to center field to bring home what proved the be the game's only runs in the 2-0 win.

CSUDH game one starter Stephanie Jimenez relieved Espindola in the fourth to pick up the win after dropping the opener, moving to 10-6 on the season.

In the opener, a dropped pop-up on a difficult but catchable ball in the top of the seventh resulted in two unearned runs for the visitors, and that proved enough in the Coyotes' 2-0 win to open this afternoon's non-conference twinbill on Toro Diamond. 

The opener was scoreless entering the seventh inning as the two pitchers combined for just nine hits after six, but a pop up into shallow right field by Alex Mitchell eluded Toro second baseman Gould, allowing her to advance to second base and pinch-runner Carly Land to third, where a sacrifice fly and RBI single accounted for the game's two runs and the Coyote win.

Prior to that inning, Toro starter Jimenez had scattered just three hits, while CSUSB counterpart Brianne Godfredson allowed just five hits on the day.

Courtney Wilhelms, who brought home the insurance run in the seventh, and Jessica Hall led all batters with two hits in the contest.

On the afternoon, Garcia paced the CSUDH offense with four hits, while McGrath and Hall chipped in three apiece, with one of McGrath's baseknocks accounting for the only Toro runs of the game.

CSUDH will enjoy a reprieve in its schedule, next seeing competition on Friday, March 26, at the CS Stanislaus-hosted Tournament of Champions.
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