CARSON -- After tasting a difficult defeat in Friday's game two, the Cal State Dominguez Hills softball team returned to Toro Diamond and put together a slugfest to back Ashley Wies, who pitched both of Saturday's games and was rewarded with a 12-3 and 9-1 mercy-rule sweep over Cal State San Bernardino to take the CCAA series.

The Toros combined for 21 hits and Wies gave up only eight knocks including two in game one.

Game 1 - CSUDH 12, CSUSB 3 (5 innings)
After the Yotes got on the board with a run in the 1st, the Toros answered with three runs in their at-bat to take the lead for good, with a 2RBI single from Claudia Valencia accounting for the big blow.  

Kianna Abellera got into the scoring column with a solo blast of her own in the 2nd and, after CSUSB scored twice in the 3rd with a 2-run shot of its own, CSUDH scored four more in the 3rd to take an 8-3 lead.  Alex Davis drove home the first run of the frame, with an Abellera RBI double, a Valencia bases-loded walk and fielder's choice bringing home the final three runs of the inning.

CSUDH continued to swing the hot bats, scoring twice in the 4th on a couple of unearned runs in the 4th to make it 10-3, with Kaylee Hull's 2-run shot in the 5th enabling the Toros to walk off the game via the mercy run rule.

Abellera roped three hits with three runs scored and two RBI, with Valencia driving home three of her own.

Game 2 - CSUDH 9, CSUSB 1 (6 innings)
Wies was at it again the nightcap, scattering just six hits en route to her 14th win of the year, and her 3rd game of the series.

The Toro offense picked up all the runs they would need in the 2nd inning after Maiya Lopez continued her hot hitting by homering a 2-2 offering to dead center, bringing home Valencia in the process.

Lopez drove in her third run of the game three innings later before two Coyote throwing errors plated two additional runs for a 5-0 lead.

The Yotes finally got on the board in the 6th, only to have the Toros put the game away in their 6th-inning at-bat.

In the frame, Valencia roped a double to second base to bring home Abellera, before Lopez concluded her stellar outing by banging a single to right-center to bring home the final two runs of the game, and end it via the mercy run rule.

Lopez finished with 5 RBI on three hits while Valencia matched her teammate's output with three hits as well, with Raquel Jaime adding two.

CSUDH, sitting in third place in the CCAA standings, travels to fourth place Cal State East Bay next weekend for a four-game series in what could be a early glimpse of the upcoming CCAA Championship Tournament.