RIVERSIDE -- Cal Baptist's softball team, ranked No. 3 in the nation among NAIA member schools, swept a softball doubleheader from Cal State San Bernardino Wednesday, taking game one 9-0 in a five-inning mercy rule and edging the Coyotes, 3-2, in the nightcap.
    The Lancers are now 4-0 on the season while the Coyotes record dipped to 3-6 as they get ready to host Cal State Stanislaus in the CCAA conference opener for both teams on Friday at 1 p.m.
    CSUSB is now 0-4 against two Golden State Athletic Conference powers, having been swept on Feb. 3 by Point Loma Nazarene, the NAIA's No. 2 team.
    The Lancers' pitching was as effective as any staff could be, allowing just five hits to the Coyotes over 12 innings in the two games.
    Game two was competitive as Coyotes right-hander Debbie Shisler (0-2) went six innings, allowed nine hits and three earned runs, striking out three Lancers. Shisler's pitches resulted in 13 groundouts and only one fly to the outfield.
    CBU took a 1-0 lead in the second on an RBI single by Briana Corral that held up until the top of the fourth when the Coyotes evened the score when Jacquelyn Holtzclaw doubled to left center to drive in Brooke Stix, who had walked.
    In the Lancers' half of the inning, CBU picked up two runs to make it 3-1 as Sarah Hurlbut singled and later scored on a wild pitch and Kendall Gorham, aboard on a single, came home as Corral hit a ball into right field and was thrown out at first.
   CSUSB closed the gap to 3-2 on Priscilla Curiel's one-out home run to left in the top of the fifth, but the Coyotes were retired in order in the sixth and seventh by Lancers' reliever Tory Ferreira to save the game for starter Emma Holden. Ferreira held CSUSB hitless and struck out three in 2.2 innings.
    The Coyotes mustered just two hits off the Lancers' Melanie Ahumada in her four innings of work in the nightcap. Gorham mopped up, striking out two of the three batters she faced in the fifth and final frame.
    CBU scored four times in the second, made it 6-0 in the third and added three more runs in the fourth to invoke the mercy rule. The Lancers hit four home runs off CSUSB pitchers Rachel Lopez and Brianne Godfredson. Lopez (2-2) took the loss whole Ahumada is now 2-0.