Senior right-hander Lizzy Prescott shut out Cal State San Bernardino on two hits in the first game and then recorded her first save of the season for fellow senior hurler Hannah Jones in the second game as Humboldt State swept a non-conference softball doubleheader Tuesday, 3-0 and 3-2.
    The Lumberjacks, ranked 14th in the nation, improved to 21-10 on the season while the Coyotes are now 19-19-1 as they prepare to host MidAmerican Nazarene at 1 p.m. Friday.
    It was vintage Prescott -- the 2007 CCAA and NCAA West Region Pitcher of the Year and a second-team all-American -- in game one as she struck out 12 Coyotes and walked only one while yielding a pair of scratch hits to the Coyotes, the CCAA's top hitting team with a .320 batting average.
    While Prescott was collecting her sixth shutout of the season and 15th complete game, the Lumberjacks pecked away at Coyotes starter Debbie Shisler (4-4), accumulating 10 hits while scoring single runs in the first, fourth and seventh innings.
    HSU provided Prescott with the only run she really needed in the top of the first inning as leadoff batter Caitlin Klug (six-for-eight in the twinbill with four runs scored), led off with a single, advanced to second on an infield out and scored on Natalie Galletly's single to right center (her 31st RBI of the season).
    Chrissy Motzny drove in an unearned run in the fourth and Klug doubled and scored in the seventh on a base hit by Marisa Slattery.
    Jamie Lowe and Ashley Collinwood got the only hits off Prescott and neither was able to advance past second base.
    In game two, Klug again initiated a run-scoring first inning for the 'Jacks, reaching first on a single, stealing second, moving to third on an infield out and scoring on Slattery's double to left center off CSUSB freshman lefthander Cassidy Lee (2-3).
    HSU added solo runs in the fourth and fifth off Lee on RBI singles by Lindsay Warren and Galletly to lead 3-0 while Jones shackled the Coyotes on just one hit through four innings.
    The Coyotes finally broke through against Jones in the bottom of the fifth. Jordan Dahl delivered an RBI single. After Dahl stole second and Jones walked Lowe, HSU coach Frank Cheek summoned Prescott to relieve Jones. Prescott gave up an RBI single to Nicole Camarena that scored Dahl but then got Collinwood to fly out with two runners aboard to end the rally.
    Prescott preserved the 3-2 lead through the final two innings but not before Coyotes' freshman Jacquelyn Holtzclaw's bid for a game-tying home run in the bottom of the sixth was caught by the 'Jacks Nikki Ketteringham at the left field fence. CSUSB went quietly in order in the seventh as Prescott picked up her first save of 2008.
    CSUSB has now lost five of its last six games.