Box Scores:
Game 1
Game 2
ROHNERT PARK --
Missy Corral delivered another big blow for the Cal State Stanislaus softball team. This time it was a two-run eventual game-winner against No. 12 Sonoma State.
Against one of the top pitchers in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, and with two outs in the top of the seventh, Corral drove in two runs with a double to lift the Warriors, 5-4, in game one of Tuesday's doubleheader.
In game two of the twinbill, which was a make-up for Friday's rain out, Sonoma State won 8-0 in five innings.
With the split, Cal State Stanislaus is now 9-28-1 overall and 4-20 in conference play. The Seawolves had their eight-game winning streak snapped and are now 31-9, 17-6 in the CCAA.
Trailing 4-3 going into their final at-bats, the Warriors rallied.
Sarah Locarnini got on with an infield single with one out just ahead of a pop-up by
Nikky Rissetto.
Erica McIntyre kept the rally alive with a single to left to set up Corral's heroic at-bat.
Just like many times before this season, Corral came up with the clutch hit as she took a 1-2 pitch from Julianne Martinez to left center to score both Locarnini and McIntyre.
Brittani Weatherford had scored on an error and Rissetto drove in
Brittany Balanesi in the fifth inning to give Stanislaus a 3-2 lead at the time. Sonoma State scored twice in the sixth to take a 4-3 lead.
Jennifer Arnold had homered in the second inning to answer Sonoma State's two-run first.
Weatherford was stellar in her outing in the circle. She gave up just four runs -- three of them earned -- on six hits and struck out eight. She walked just one.
In the nightcap Sonoma State's Samantha Lipperd gave up just one hit -- a McIntyre single in the first -- in five innings for the win. The Seawolves scattered 11 hits off Warrior pitchers
Kiley Mendez -- an utility player making her first collegiate start -- and Balanesi.
The Warriors continue their conference season with a four-game set this weekend at Cal State East Bay. Friday's doubleheader in Hayward is at 1 p.m.
