Box Score (Game 1)
Box Score (Game 2)
TURLOCK — Cal State San Bernardino snatched its fourth win in five games Saturday with a 10-4 victory over Central Washington and a 6-2 win over Northwest Nazarene (Wash.)
It took the first two innings for the Coyotes (17-19) to get going after Central Washington scored two runs each in the bottom of the first and second innings to take a 4-0 lead. It was all Cal State San Bernardino from that point on as the Coyotes scored at least one run in each inning, including three runs in the third and seventh.
A pair of singles by
Priscilla Curiel and
Felicia Cervantes drove in the three ruins in the third before
Jamie Leffingwell tied the game in the fourth when she scored on one of four Wildcat errors. Leffingwell gave the Coyotes the lead for good, at 5-4, in the fifth when she tripled down the left field line to score
Courtney Wilhelms.
CSUSB added two more in the sixth on a Cervantes double before a two-run single by Curiel and a an RBI double by
Ashley Collinwood put the finishing touches on the contest.
Five Coyotes had multiple hits as Curiel led the way going 2-for-3 with three RBIs, two runs scored and walk. Cervantes drove in four runs while going 2-for-5 in the opening game of the night for the Coyotes.
Cassidy Lee (5-4) went the distance for CSUSB tossing all seven innings. She allowed four runs on nine hits and struck out five.
In the nightcap, Cervantes gave the Coyotes an early lead in the bottom of the second when she scored on a Crusader error. NWNU answered with a run in the top of the third, but a
Jacquelyn Holtzclaw double and a Collinwood single put CSUSB up 3-1.
The Crusaders cut it to 3-2 with an unearned run in the top of the fifth, but Cal State San Bernardino put it away with three runs in the sixth. Butler drove in the first two runs of the inning with a single to short before she scored on another Crusader error.
Carly Land (2-8) won her second straight game, allowing just two runs on six hits in seven innings of work.
The Coyotes now close out the tournament with bracket play Sunday.
