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Box Score 2 TURLOCK — The Cal State Stanislaus softball team rebounded in a huge way after miscues caused them the earlier game as the Warriors out-slug Cal State Dominguez Hills in the series finale to earn a doubleheader split on Saturday.
The Warriors scored eight runs on eight hits in the second inning of the nightcap en route to a 12-0, five-inning, mercy-rule victory to improve to 5-6 overall and 2-2 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
The offensive onslaught was a great sight for the Warriors after they were not able to hold a 4-0 lead in the day's first game and lost 10-7. In the first game, three errors in the sixth inning allowed seven Cal State Dominguez Hills unearned runs to score. The Toros, which entered the weekend with a six-game winning streak, leave Turlock with 8-6, 2-2 records.
Cierrah Mullins went 3-for-3 and drove in four runs with a homer in game two to lead the Stanislaus offensive explosion as part of the 12-hit parade that included four doubles and two homeruns.
Kristan Burns went 2-for-3 with a two-run bomb and
Amy Droege had two doubles and drove in three scores.
Brittney Rickles also went 2-for-3 and scored twice.
In the Stanislaus 8-run second inning, already up 2-0 after a Mullins homerun in the first, the Warriors put-together five straight hits and a sac fly to score three runs. Another fly out later, Mullins singled in another score, Droege sent in two with one of her doubles and Burns belted a two-run shot to deep left-field to make it 10-0.
The Warriors tagged-on two more runs in the fourth with a RBI single by Mullins and a double by Droege to plate pinch-runner
Nicolette Vizcaino.
This proved to be plenty of offensive run support for starter
Jessica Varady, who picked up the six-hit, five-inning complete game shutout for her third win in as many starts this week.
In game one, a shocking seven-run sixth inning doomed the Warriors as CSUDH sent 11 batters to the plate to score those runs with just three hits.
Still, down 9-4, the Warriors regained momentum that carried into the second game. In the bottom of the sixth, Droege homered to left to score two runs to make it 9-6. At 10-6 after a homer by Toros' Adriana Sanchez,
Brianna Nicholson hit a solo shot in the seventh for the final count.
In the doubleheader, a total of nine doubles and six home runs were slugged. The Warriors out-hit CSUDH, 26-14, in the twinbill.
Deenah San Luis had three hits in game one and Droege finished with a 2-for-4, 2-RBI game. Droege tallied 4-for-7 with five runs batted in with two doubles and a homer on the day. Rickles ended up with four hits on the day and is now batting .412.