Senior shortstop Jordan Dahl crushed a three-run homer and junior Tori Beaudette drove in three runs with a pair of homers Saturday as Cal State San Bernardino defeated Chico State, 8-4, in the second game of their CCAA softball doubleheader.
    The Wildcats won the first game, 6-4, as Krystal Shaw pitched a complete game for her 12th win of the season.
    The split gives the Coyotes a 30-26-1 record overall and 15-11 in the CCAA, a record that should keep them in third place in the CCAA standings heading into next week's final regular season series at second-place Cal State Stanislaus.
    The Wildcats are now 24-25 overall and 12-16 in the conference.
    Winning the second game was a nice sendoff for six seniors who played the final home games of their collegiate careers on Saturday. The six -- Tawni Baker, Nicole Camarena, Dahl, Jackie Jacob, Jamie Lowe and Tayler Wilson -- were cheered by family and friends in the crowd of 167 fans.
    CSUSB won 19 of the 27 home games it played this season en route to the program's first 30-win season since 2002.
    The Coyotes went up 1-0 in game two on a first-inning, bases empty home run by sophomore Ashley Collinwood, her seventh of the season.
    However, Chico State got to CSUSB starting pitcher Jackie Jacob for three runs in the third on an RBI single by Kaitlyn Azevedo and a two-run double by Cooper Jackson. Cassidy Lee then relieved Jacob and got the final out in the inning.
    Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the fourth, Beaudette belted a solo homer to lead off the inning and four batters later, Dahl bombed her 11th home run of the season over the right-field fence with two runners aboard to give CSUSB a 5-3 lead and boost her RBI count to a team-leading 44.
    The Coyotes tacked on three more in the fifth as Beaudette hit her second homer of the game and sixth of the season with a runner on for a 7-3 lead. Later in the inning, Wilson scored from third on a wild pitch.
    Beaudette, Sara Bird and Debbie Shisler each had two hits in the game for CSUSB.
    Lee (6-7) picked up the win in relief, although Baker, the senior right-hander, pitched three innings of three-hit ball in relief to get the save. Lauren Walker (9-10) took the loss for Chico State.
    Freshman centerfielder Priscilla Curiel was brilliant defensively in the game, making a fine catch of a two-out liner in the sixth with the bases loaded to snuff out a Chico rally, then making a diving stop in left center of a low liner from Nicki Jarrett for the first out in the seventh.
    In game one, the Wildcats erupted for five runs in the third on four hits and never looked back. Two walks and a single loaded the bases and Lee replaced starter Jacob only to give up an RBI single to Jarrett and a two-run double to Azevedo. Jackson's sacrifice fly brought in another run and Christine Johnson singled home the fifth run of the frame.
    CSUSB came back with three in the home half of the hitrd on four hits and a pair of Wildcats errors. All of the Coyotes runs in the game were unearned.
     Wilson drove in Beaudette with a single in the sixth to close the gap to 5-4 but Azevedo answered with a solo home run off Baker in the seventh. Wilson and Debbie Shisler each had two hits in the game for CSUSB. Jacob (10-7) took the loss in game one.