SAN BERNARDINO -- Junior
Patti Masner provided the Coyotes with a big-time lift with a grand slam that keyed the Coyotes to a 15-11 victory over Humboldt State as the teams each earned a victory Friday in their CCAA doubleheader at Coyote Park.
The Coyotes, who lost the first game 9-8, are 12-17 overall and 8-12 in the CCAA, while the visiting Lumberjacks are 9-22, 3-19. The two teams complete their weekend series with Saturday's doubleheader that begins at 11 a.m.
Game 2: Coyotes 15, Humboldt State 11 (box score -- click here)
A week ago, the Coyotes utilized an 11-run inning to earn a victory over Sonoma State. On this day, CSUSB ignited with a 10-run, fifth inning capped by Masner's slam.
Trailing 7-2, the Coyotes scored 10 runs on six hits and stranded three runners on base. The Coyotes scored an unearned run when
Jamie Leffingwell reached home when
Monica Ferguson's ground ball became an error, loading the bases for Masner.
Masner ripped a Jennifer Sizemore delivery over the center-field wall and CSUSB tied the game at 7-7.
After
Alex Mitchell reached on a walk and
Charlotte Galzote followed with a single, Leffingwell gave the Coyotes a 10-7 lead with a three-run home run off Chrissy Stalf.
Masner earned her fifth RBI of the inning when she walked with the bases loaded and
Victoria Lievanos scored an unearned run for the 10th run of the inning.
But Humboldt State's Alicia Reid put her name in the CCAA record books with four home runs in a single game. She had three solo shots and added a two-run bomb in the seventh.
Galzote was 3-for-3, while Butler had two hits including a home run -- her eighth of the season. Leffingwell had three RBI, while Butler and Lievanos each had two.
Freshman
Abreanna Landeros earned the win in five innings.
Game 1: Humboldt State 9, Coyotes 8 (box score -- click here)
The Lumberjacks scored four runs on just two hits in the first inning.
But CSUSB climbed back into the game with one run in the third and grabbed the lead with a five-run fourth on three hits and benefited from two HSU errors.
Trailing 4-1, Leffingwell, Brittany Ybarra and
Jamie Nakagawa each had RBI, before Mitchell earned an RBI on a ground-out to second. The Coyotes scored their other run from
Felicia Cervantes off a wild pitch.
But HSU scored three runs in the fifth to go back on top led by pinch-hitter Alison McKibbon's two-run double to right center.
The Coyotes came back to tie the game at 7-7 in the fifth on Masner's bases-loaded walk.
HSU scored two runs on four hits in the seventh and hung on for the win.
Leffingwell had three hits for CSUSB, while Ybarra had two.