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Toros End Skid With 8-5 Nightcap Win After Being No-Hit in 9-0 (5) Opener

Senior Veronica Vazquez helped key the Toros' nightcap win
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CARSON --  The agony and the ecstasy.  It's not often to feel both emotions on the same day much less in a span of three hours, but that's exactly what the Cal State Dominguez Hills softball team experienced after ending a 16-game losing streak by virtue of an 8-5 come-from-behind win over Cal State East Bay in the nightcap of today's CCAA twinbill.

This win, which moves CSUDH to 15-23, 9-18 CCAA, came after the Pioneers no-hit the Toros in a 9-0, 5-inning contest.

After not collecting a hit in the opener, CSUDH finally saw a digit come up in the hit column in the second inning on an Analisa Nicholson infield single, spurring the host's first run after a Carly Mitchell sacrifice fly brought her home to tie the game at 1-1.

CSUEB, however, answered in the third with four runs to make it a 5-1 contest before the Toros got one back on a Jasmine Ruiz RBI single in the fourth.

Down 5-2 entering the bottom of the fifth, CSUDH's bats again came alive to the tune of three hits, with a Murphy 2RBI opposite field bloop double down the left field line tying the game at 5-5 after five.

That's when the Pio defense imploded as CSUEB committed four errors in the sixth as the Toros scored thrice to take the lead for good, with the two hits in the frame coming from Nicholson and Vazquez.

That proved enough for Toro starter Alicia Paiz, who picked up the complete-game win to snap the slide that began on March 7.

Ruiz, Nicholson, Catherine Brown and Vazquez each tallied two hits, with Murphy and Vazquez driving home two each.

In the opener, CSUEB continued to roll at the expense of the Toros as the Pios took a 9-0 win in a game called due to the mercy run rule. 

CSUEB pitcher Emily Perlich no-hit the Toros in the game, facing 16 batters, just one over the minimum.

It was all CSUEB as the Pioneers scored a pair in the second on a 2-run homer by Meli Sanchez, before adding a single run in the fourth for a 3-0 lead.

One inning later, the Pios broke the game open with six, the big blows coming on a Sanchez 2RBI single and a Kelsey LaVaute 3-run shot off starter Jamie Duran for a 9-0 lead.

Perlich was one walk away from a perfect game, granting Catherine Brown the lone Toro to reach base in the third.

The Toros will head to Turlock and the Tournament of Champions, looking to defend the title they won last year.
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