ROHNERT PARK, Calif- After Sonoma State suffered a 5-4 defeat the opening game of Tuesday's doubleheader to visiting Cal State Stanislaus, freshman Samantha Lipperd took the finale into her own hands, allowing just one hit in five innings of shutout ball while striking out eight of the 19 batters she faced, as the 12th-ranked Seawolves grabbed a 8-0 victory over the Warriors to salvage the split at the Seawolf Softball Field. Sonoma State moves to 32-9 overall and remains atop the CCAA standings at 18-6, one game ahead of Cal State Monterey Bay. Cal State Stanislaus drops to 9-28-1 (4-20 CCAA).

Cal State Stanislaus 5, #12 Sonoma State 4

Taking a 4-3 deficit into the seventh inning, Cal State Stanislaus wouldn't go down without a fight. With two outs and a runner on first base, Erica McIntyre singled to left field, moving Sarah Locarnini to second. On a 1-2 count, Missy Corral smashed a double to deep left center that allowed Locarnini and McIntryre to score, giving the Warriors the 5-4 lead.

The Seawolves couldn't get much going in the bottom half of the seventh, as Brittany Weatherford shut down the high-powered Sonoma State offense in order, earning her fifth victory of the season. Weatherford (5-17) went the distance, giving up six hits, four runs (three earned) with one walk and eight strikeouts.

Locarnini went 3-for-4 with the run scored in the seventh and Corral's only hit of the game came when it was most needed, smashing the game-winning, two RBI double.

Ali Palermo, who hit three home runs in Saturday's doubleheader against the Warriors, blasted her seventh home run of the season in the first inning, a two run shot to dead center field, which breaks the school record for most home runs by a SSU softball student-athlete in program history. Brittany Martinez and Skylynn Myers was perfect at the plate (2-for-2) -- Myers had a RBI and a run scored.

Julianne Martinez (14-5) gave up eight hits and five runs, while walking two and striking out four.

#12 Sonoma State 8, Cal State Stanislaus 0 (5 innings)

Kayla Ledford got Sonoma State off to a fast start with an RBI single up the middle, scoring Janelle Arnold in the first inning. An inning later, Ashley Britton brought home B. Martinez on a sacrifice fly to center field for the 2-0 lead.

In the third, B. Martinez, Myers and Britton all had RBIs to jump out in front of the Warriors 5-0. After a scoreless fourth, Ledford and Simone Brandalise brought home runners to go ahead 7-0. Then, with the bases loaded and two outs, B. Martinez reached base on a dropped fly ball by the left fielder, scoring Ledford for the 8-0 victory, via the eight-run mercy rule after five innings of play.

Lipperd allowed just the one hit to McIntyre in the first inning. Ledford had two hits and two RBI in the victory while Arnold, Brandalise and B. Martinez each had two hits for the Seawolves, who had 11 in the finale.

Sonoma State will hit the road for the next two weekends before returning home in the season-ending four game series with rival Humboldt State on Apr. 23-24. The Seawolves will begin with a road trip to Southern California on Friday (1 p.m.) and Saturday (11 a.m.) to take on Cal State San Bernardino.