Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SAN BERNARDINO – Improving a batting average from .486 takes a herculean effort.
 
Well, senior Nicole Nobbe flexed her muscles in the weekend series against visiting San Francisco State, going 10-for-13 with four doubles as the Coyotes swept the Gators on Saturday.
 
CSUSB won Saturday's game by scores of 5-2 and 10-2 in the six innings and improved to 29-21 overall and 16-16 CCAA heading into next weekend's final regular-season series at Cal State Monterey Bay.
 
Game 1: Coyotes 5, SFSU 2
Trailing 2-0 after one inning, the Coyotes picked apart the Gators and took control with a three-run fifth inning.
 
CSUSB got solo runs in the third when Darian Manuz scored on an unearned run and Cassandra Williams drove in a run on her one-out double in the fourth and the game was tied at 2-2.
 
In the fifth, Manuz hit a triple down the right-field line that scored pinch-runner Na'Tavia Lee and Thalia Ortiz followed with a two-run shot over the left-field wall and CSUSB had its three-run lead.
 
Williams (15-11) went the distance and threw six innings of shut-out ball. She finished with six strikeouts, did not offer a walk and scattered six hits.
 
Both Nobbe and Manuz had two hits and Ortiz led with her two RBI.
 
Game 2: Coyotes 10, SFSU 2 6 innings
Ortiz gave the Coyotes the momentum early, hitting a leadoff home run in the first and Mary Menicucci and Roberts each had RBI. Menicucci earned hers on a bases-loaded walk, and Roberts singled to right.
 
Nobbe added an RBI of her own in the second when she drove in Ortiz, who singled, and CSUSB led 4-0.
 
Tiffany McIntosh added to the hit parade with a run-scoring single in the fourth and the Coyotes took a 5-0 lead through four.
 
SFSU came back to make things interesting with a two-run sixth, but that didn't matter as the Coyotes posted a five-run sixth to end the game early.
 
CSUSB had seven base hits in the inning – all singles – and Ortiz finished off the game with a base hit to right that scored Menicucci.
 
Ortiz, Ramos, Nobbe and McIntosh all had three hits apiece to lead the 15-hit attack. Ortiz, Menicucci and Roberts had two RBI each.
 
RHP Stephanie Luhman (13-9) earned the victory with one strikeout and one walk.
 
Nobbe takes a  .510 batting average into the final regular-season week of play at CCAA-leading Cal State Monterey Bay. She is vying to become the first Coyote in the Division II era to finish to reach the .500 level.  All-American Anne Cordaro hit at least .500 in two different seasons (1988, 90) when CSUSB competed at the Division III level.
 
The Coyotes honored their two seniors -- Manuz and Nobbe -- in a postgame ceremony.