Yotes Walk Off With 3-2 Win in Extras Before 8-0 (5) Nightcap Win to Sweep CSUDH

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SAN BERNARDINO -- Cal State San Bernardino's Tiffany McIntosh wasted little time in the bottom of the 8th inning after the two teams tied in regulation at 2-2, hammering an opposite field solo shot over the right field fence to lead off the frame, giving the hosts a 3-2 win in game one of today's rescheduled double-header.

CSUSB then wasted little time in taking an 8-0 nightcap win in 5 innings to sweep the afternoon twinbill.

Freshman Madison Murphy tallied a pair of hits, a third of the team's total, in the loss.

The hosts scored a pair of runs in the first inning, a score that held up until the top of the fourth.

That's when the Toro bats came alive as a Murphy lead-off double started the rally, with the true freshman scoring two batters later on a CSUSB miscue.

CSUDH knotted the game at 2-2 one inning later after Veronica Vazquez reached on another Yote error and advance to second base, moving up a base on Alyssa Cruz-Fernandez's sacrifice, and scoring on Catherine Brown's baseknock to the opposite field.

A Murphy single set the table for two-time All-American Adriana Sanchez, but CSUSB pitcher Cassandra Williams induced a fly ball and ground out to maintain the tie.

The Toros looked to go ahead in the top of the 8th after putting runners on first and second with two out, but after Annalisa Nicholson singled to right one batter later, pinch-runner Carly Mitchell was gunned out at home to quell the would-be rally.

CSUSB capitalized on its momentum in the next frame, sending the Yotes home with a game one win.

The nightcap saw CSUSB make up for the opening extra inning game with a mercy run rule one after scoring five in the third, one in the fourth and two in the fifth to end the game and take the sweep.

Starter Alicia Paiz cruised through the first two innings but retired just one batter in the third inning before the Coyote batters knocked her from the game.

Sanchez knocked two hits as part of seven total, as well as the only extra base knock of the game.

The Toros will return to the friendly confines of Toro Diamond this weekend, hosting Sonoma State for a four-game set with Friday's first pitch set for 1 pm.

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