Sophomore Ashley Collinwood and senior Nicole Camarena each hammered three-run homers Saturday to give Cal State San Bernardino a 12-4 victory over UC San Diego and a split of their CCAA softball doubleheader at Coyote Softball Park.
    UCSD won the first game 3-1 on one swing of the bat, a three-run homer by Jennifer Maze off Coyotes starter Jackie Jacob. The Coyotes took three of the four games in the series.
    The Coyotes are now 14-12-1 overall and 7-3 in the CCAA while the Tritons are 15-7 overall and 5-5 in the CCAA. CSUSB will host University of North Dakota for a pair of games Tuesday at 1 p.m. Cal State Monterey Bay comes to town for a four-game CCAA series starting Friday at 1 p.m.
    Cal State banged out 13 hits in the second game, shortened to five innings by the eight-run mercy rule, the second time in two days that it happened to the Tritons.
    After the Tritons scored twice in the top of the first off starter Debbie Shisler (3-2), the Coyotes came back with four off UCSD starter Christine Zankich (2-1). Jordan Dahl walked stole second and took third on a sacrifice. Collinwood singled to shortstop but Dahl was unable to advance. Then Camarena delivered her eighth homer of the season. Freshman Priscilla Curiel then lined her fourth home run of the season over the left field wall for a 4-2 CSUSB lead.
    The Coyotes blew the game open in the second with five runs on five hits. The big blow was Collinwood's three-run blast to right center, her fifth of the season. RBI singles by Sara Bird and Shisler brought in the other two runs for a 9-2 Coyotes lead.
    UCSD scored twice in the third frame on an RBI single by Nicole Saari and a bases loaded walk issued to Randelle Bundy after Tawni Baker had relieved Shisler in the circle.
    The Coyotes wrapped up the game in the fifth with three runs on a leadoff single by Camarena followed by a walk to Curiel. Jacquelyn Holtzclaw's fly ball to right was dropped  as Curiel advanced to third and Joleen Batista, running for Camarena, scored. Curiel then scored on a wild pitch as Holtzclaw moved to third and then came home on Bird's sacrifice fly to right to close out the game.
    In the opener, left-hander Melissa Ward went the distance for UCSD, allowing six hits and striking out seven. The only Coyotes run came in the fifth when Dahl singled to drive in Shisler who had doubled with one out.
    UCSD got all the runs it needed off Jacob in the fourth as Jennifer Maze whacked an off-speed pitch for a three-run homer. Jacob allowed only four hits and struck out six without walking a batter in suffering her fifth loss of the season against five wins.