Softball Winless on Day One of Best of West Invite

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TURLOCK -- Sophomore pitcher Jamie Duran held San Francisco State to just three hits, but the Gators put across an unearned run in the top of the 5th and that proved enough as the Toros suffered a 1-0 blanking in their 2014 season debut, before Catherine Brown and Elizabeth Jimenez (pictured) knocked two hits apiece in game two as CSUDH fell in 8 innings by a 6-5 score to Dominican University.

CSUDH completed its day with a 5-4 loss to host CS Stanislaus in the final game of the day.

The opener saw a pitcher's duel with Duran and SFSU hurler Emily Gibson teaming to scatter just seven hits as a quartet of Toros each smacked a single.

Against Dominican, the Toros jumped to a 3-0 lead in the 2nd on an Alyssa Cruz-Fernandez RBI single, a Carly Murphy RBI walk with the bases full and a Stephanie Hua RBI baseknock one batter later.

Dominican, however, would chip away at its deficit, scoring in the 4th, 5th and 6th innings to tie the game at 5-5, and then take the lead with two in the eighth frame.

CSUDH looked to mount its own rally after a Kaci McGinnis single loaded the bases with none out, but after a fielder's choice took care of pinch-runner Murphy at home, a Brown RBI single cut the Toro deficit to a single run, but Priscilla Cardona was cut down at home trying to tie the game before Veronica Vazquez bounced back to the pitcher for the final out of the game.

Karen Peterson took the loss after tossing all 8.0 innings, fanning three against just one walk.

In the final game of the day against the host Warriors, CSUS took a 3-0 lead after their 4th inning at-bat, only to have the Toros answer with a pair in the bottom of the 4th as Jasmine Ruiz smacked a 2-run double to left center.

One inning later, two-time All-American Adriana Sanchez smacked her own RBI double to knot the contest, and scored the go-ahead run on a Warrior error.

CSUS, however, would get the last laugh with the final two runs of the game in the 6th, quelling a Toro would-be rally in the 7th that saw Brown fly into a double play to end the game as Duran was thrown out at the plate to end the game.

CSUDH will look to pick up its first win of 2014 tomorrow on the final day of the tournament, with a 10 am battle against Cal State San Marcos.

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