Sanchez Goes Yard Twice as Toros Drop Two at TOC

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TURLOCK -- Senior slugger Adriana Sanchez clubbed a home run and drove in all four runs for Cal State Dominguez Hills, but Montana State Billings was one run better as the Yellowjackets took a 5-4 win over the Toros to open day two of the Tournament of Champions before Western Oregon took a 6-3 win over the Toros despite Sanchez's second home run on the day.

The losses drop the Toros to 15-28 on the year, and puts them in tomorrow's Consolation Bracket where they again will face Western Oregon at 9:00 am, with live stats available here.

In the opener, MSUB took a 2-0 lead before Sanchez cut that lead in half with a solo shot to left field in the fourth. The one-woman wrecking crew came through again the next inning with the bases full, roping a double to center to plate Veronica Vazquez, Catherine Brown and Rachel Gulbrandsen to give the Toros a 4-2 lead.

That edge didn't last long, however, as the Yellowjackets answered with three of their own in their fifth-inning at-bat on three RBI singles.

CSUDH looked to mount a rally in the seventh as Brown and Madison Murphy reached to lead off the frame, but a pop up, ground out and line up to the pitcher on consecutive at-bats left the Toros still searching for their first win of the tourney.

Sanchez earned three of the team's four hits and all four RBI as Jamie Duran suffered the loss.

Against WOU, the Toros took a quick 3-0 lead after three after a Jasmine Ruiz RBI double in the second and Sanchez 2RBI home run one inning later.

Toro starter Karen Peterson, however, gave up two RBI singles in the third and then four more in the fifth to account for the final scoring in the eventual 6-3 setback.

CSUDH again had a chance to rally in its final at-bat after Brown and Sanchez each singled with two out, but a foul out down the right field line ended the threat.

Brown and Sanchez finished with two hits apiece in the game, with Sanchez driving in two of the three runs.

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