California State University San Bernardino Athletics

    ARCATA – Former Cal State San Bernardino pitcher
Regina Farfan tossed five shutout innings Thursday as the Toros defeated the Coyotes 4-2 in the
second round of play in the NCAA Division II West Region
Softball Tournament at Humboldt State.
    The Coyotes, 35-31-1, will play an elimination game
at 11:30 a.m. Frioday against Seattle University which
lost in the first round 4-0 to Cal State Stanislaus
but eliminated Cal State Monterey Bay, 4-2,
earlier Thursday. 
    The Toros and Western Oregon, both 2-0, will face off
at 2 p.m. Friday in the winner’s bracket. 
    If the Coyotes prevail over Seattle, they would return at
4:30 p.m. Friday to face an opponent in another
elimination game in the double elimination game
tournament. 
    Farfan (17-9) gave up five hits but no runs and
struck out one in her five innings of work. She
pitched for the Coyotes as a freshman in 2005 before
transferring to San Jose State and later to Dominguez
Hills. 
    Freshman left-hander Cassidy Lee (8-8) was dominant early, retiring the
first nine Toros she faced while Farfan was giving up
a hit in each inning to the Coyotes but staying out of
trouble. 
    In the fourth inning, the Toros got a run on three
hits. With runners on second and third, Jackie Jacob
replaced Lee and gave up a run-scoring single to Katie
Garcia. Jacob then struck out two batters with the
bases loaded to shut down the rally. 
    After Farfan retired the side in order in the fifth,
the Toros erupted for five hits and three runs off the
normally stingy Tawni Baker to make it a 4-0 game. A
Coyote error figured in the scoring as well.
CSUSB’s Debbie Shisler finished up in the circle for
the Coyotes pitching 1.1 innings and giving up one
hit. 
    Kristin Tanaka replaced Farfan in the sixth and the
Coyotes finally got on the board in the top of the
seventh when Tori Beaudette ripped a one-out home run
to left field, her second of the tournament and eighth
of the season. 
    Jacquelyn Holtzclaw then singled to shortstop and
advanced to second on a throwing error. Jordan Dahl
followed with a sharp single inside the first base
line to score Holtzclaw and make it 4-2 with two out. 
    However, Jamie Lowe fouled out to end the game.
CSUSB scored 10 runs on 11 hits including three
homers in a 10-1 win over Humboldt State in the
tournament opener but mustered only eight hits against
Farfan and Tanaka and only one went for extra bases. 
    Dahl, Lowe and Beaudette each had two hits for the Coyotes.
    The two teams split their regular season meetings, 2-2, back in February.
   In other games Thursday, Western Oregon defeated Cal State Stanislaus 4-0 and Humboldt State eliminated UC San Diego 3-1.