SAN BERNARDINO --
Jamie Leffingwell ripped a lead-off home run in the bottom of the eighth inning for a 15-14 Coyotes' victory over Humboldt State in the second game of their doubleheader Saturday at Coyote Park.
CSUSB, now 13-18 overall and 9-13 in the CCAA, will play host to Sonoma State on Monday morning in a makeup doubleheader from earlier this month.
Humboldt State is 10-23, 4-20.
Game 2: Coyotes 15, Humboldt State 14 8 innings (Box Score -- click here)
This was a back-and-forth affair that saw the Coyotes score seven runs on three hits in the first inning and eventually led 10-3 through two innings.
Humboldt State came back with three runs in the third and erupted with a six-run fourth and led 12-10 entering the bottom of the fourth.
Britney Butler's RBI-single in the fourth cut the Jacks' lead to 12-11, but HSU scored solo runs in the fifth and sixth and led 14-11.
In the Coyotes' sixth,
Charlotte Galzote's two-out single to right scored
Brittney Ybarra to pull CSUSB to within two runs, 14-12.
In the bottom of the seventh, CSUSB came back to tie the game.
Victoria Lievanos lifted a double to center that pushed teammate
Monica Ferguson to third.
Patti Masner then sent a pop fly to short right that was caught by the second baseman, but Ferguson had the presence of mind to tag up.
Then, Ybarra reached on a fielder's choice that scored Lievanos and the Coyotes tied the game at 14-14.
Carly Land kept the Lumberjacks off the board in the eighth inning and Leffingwell finished it off in grand style for her only hit of the game.
Butler and Ferguson each homered for the Coyotes and those two each had three hits, along with
Felicia Cervantes and Lievanos.
Humboldt State had six home runs -- two from Kirsten Nouzovsky, and one each from Chrissy Stalf, Courtney Hiatt, Ally Blenis and Felicia Vivieros.
Land earned the win. She threw seven innings, gave up 10 runs, eight earned and struck out two.
Game 1: Humboldt State 13, Coyotes 8 (Box Score -- click here)
The Coyotes led 8-3, but HSU scored 10 unanswered runs with home runs from Blenis and Vivieros.
No Coyote had more than one hit. Butler and Masner each doubled.
