Softball | 2/13/2016 8:11:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SAN BERNARDINO (Feb. 13, 2016) – Sierra Clark continued to be a thorn in the side of the Coyotes on Saturday, but CSUSB broke through and the end result was a doubleheader split with CSUSB losing 8-0 in the opener, and coming back with a 12-7 win in the second.

CSUSB (7-6 overall, 2-2 CCAA) continues conference play next week at San Francisco State. Cal State East Bay is now 3-3, 2-2.

Game 1: Cal State East Bay 8, Coyotes 0 5 innings
Clark, who threw a two-hit shutout Friday, came right back with another one in a stellar five-inning effort. She had one strikeout with one walk and one hit batter. She faced just 20 Coyote batters.

Morgan Ratliff and Monica Maddox each singled for CSUSB.

Marisa Lerma had a two-run home run in the first and finished 3-for-3 with four RBI. Courtney Leyba had two hits, and Clark helped her cause with two hits in as many at-bats.

Game 2: Coyotes 12, Cal State East Bay 7
CSUSB turned things around in the second game, scoring multiple runs in four innings with a complete game from junior LHP Cassandra Williams.

The Apple Valley native improved to 6-3 by giving up 13 hits, seven runs but just one earned. She had a pair of strikeouts.

Jessica Brown opened the scoring with a solo home run to left, and Briana Quintana added an RBI-single through the left side for a 2-0 lead in the second.

The Coyotes then padded the lead to 4-0 in the third; thanks to Amanda Herrerra's two-out double to left that scored Brown and Amanda Fitzgerald.

But the Pioneers answered with an impressive six-run fourth on six hits. Rose Marston keyed the inning with a bases-clearing double to center.

The CSUEB lead was short-lived, however, as the Coyotes grabbed the lead with a three-run fourth. Kaylee Gemmell answered with a two-run single to left off Clark, who relieved Tatiana Beilstein. All told, the Coyotes got to Clark with four hits in 2 2/3 innings of relief.

CSUSB put the game out of reach on a five-run fifth. The dagger was on Kaylee Gemmell's quick bounce in front of the plate. The catcher threw the ball away to first and three runners scored.

Ratliff had three hits, and Brown had two along with Taylor Ancona and Quintana. The Coyotes totaled 14 hits in the contest.

Both Marston and Gabby Gonzalez had three hits for the Pioneers.