TURLOCK — Contained for the most part on Friday, the powerful Cal Poly Humboldt offense unleashed on Saturday, scoring a total of 20 runs on 22 hits in a California Collegiate Athletic Association doubleheader sweep of the Stanislaus State softball team with a 10-2 win in the opener and a 10-9 triumph in the nightcap.
 
Cal Poly Humboldt (10-14, 6-10 CCAA) had 11 extra-base hits in Saturday's doubleheader, including three home runs in game one. The Lumberjacks entered the weekend as the CCAA's best slugging team, top home run hitting team, second in doubles per game and third in triples per game. Stanislaus State (6-15, 4-12 CCAA) limited the powerful Humboldt lineup Friday to only one run in the opener and a narrow one-run decision in game two.
 
Katie Thornsberry logged two more multi-hit games for the Warriors on Saturday to make it four straight. She batted .727 (8 for 11) with a double and two RBIs in the weekend series against Humboldt, raising her season batting average by nearly 100 points in one weekend.
 
GAME ONE
 
The dormant Humboldt offense awoke early on Saturday morning. Micaela Harris homered on the first pitch of the game, and the Lumberjacks were off. They jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning thanks to two home runs in the inning, the second coming from Vanessa Saltos – a two-run shot that made it 4-0.
 
Saltos hit another two-run home run in the third inning to make it 6-0. JoAna Mullins cleared the bases in the fourth inning with a three-run triple, making it 9-0 at the time. Izzy Star's RBI single scored Mullins and made the score 10-0.
 
Refusing to go quietly, the Warriors put together a rally of their own. Three singles and a walk led to two runs in the bottom of the fourth, thanks in part to RBI knocks from Madison Flexser and Thornsberry. That made it 10-2, but the Warriors needed one more run to keep the game going past the fifth inning. Humboldt's Kelsey Burr came in and pitched a 1-2-3 fifth to end the game early at 10-2.
 
GAME TWO
 
Game two featured even more offense than the first with the Warriors getting involved. The game featured a total of 19 runs on 26 hits between the two teams. Both teams traded six-run innings – Humboldt's in the top of the fourth and Stan State's in the bottom of the fifth.
 
The Lumberjacks struck for six runs on six hits in the fourth, pushing their lead at the time to 8-3. Harris tripled home two and scored on a throwing error to put three runs on the board with only one out. Then a walk, back-to-back singles, a wild pitch, an RBI sacrifice bunt and another RBI single scored three more.
 
Stanislaus State jumped on that bandwagon an inning later. 12 Warriors came to the plate in the fifth with six scoring on six hits. The Warriors could have done even more damage in the inning, but once they loaded the bases with only one out, they could only draw a walk and went 1 for 4 at the plate, leaving the bases loaded at inning's end.
 
Humboldt did the exact same thing it did in Friday's nightcap to come away with the one-run win on Saturday. Heading into the seventh, the game was tied 9-9, and Humboldt scored the only run it needed in the top half, then held on in the bottom half for the win. It was Harris again, after tallying the first run of the day on a leadoff home run in game one, she drove in the last run of the day on a bases-loaded single, making it 10-9.
 
COMING UP
Stanislaus State next travels to Southern California for a CCAA road series at Cal State San Bernardino, starting Friday. Fans can find all live coverage links on WarriorAthletics.com.