BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 Box Scores:  Game One  |  Game Two

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.  --  Vanessa Currie went 2 for 3 with a home run and Samantha Lipperd earned her 13th win of the season in Sonoma State's 6-1 win over host Cal State San Bernardino in Friday's series-opener, but the Seawolves surrendered 11 runs to the Coyotes in the bottom of the fourth inning of game two, losing 13-9 to suffer the doubleheader split at Coyote Field in San Bernardino.

Sonoma State moves to 18-9 this season with a 10-8 mark in the CCAA, while Cal State San Bernardino sees its record go to 11-16 and 7-11 in conference play.

Game One:  Sonoma State 6, Cal State San Bernardino 1  --  Box Score

True to form, Sonoma State used patience at the plate, speed on the base paths and a timely base hit to score a pair of runs, almost immediately after Cal State San Bernardino threw its first pitch.  Shannon Kehr led off with a walk, then Ancia Purdy reached on a fielder's choice, but the attempt to get Kehr out at second failed.  During the next at bat, both Kehr and Purdy each advanced on stolen bases to put runners in scoring position with no outs.  Samantha Lepp delivered an RBI single to score Kehr and Purdy also came home on the play, but thanks to a defensive error.

The Seawolves continued to threaten in the top of the first, putting another pair of runners in scoring position with one out (Lepp and Currie) and loading the bases on a two-out walk to Ali Palermo, but the Coyote starter Carly Land got Keisi Chinen to strikeout to end the inning.

Neither team could continue the offense through the next four innings until Cal State San Bernardino put a run across the plate in the fifth to cut the Sonoma State lead in half at 2-1.  In their next at bat, the Seawolves plated two more runs on a two-RBI pinch-hit double by Samantha Beauchamp, scoring Danielle D'Eccliss and Skylynn Myers to push the lead to 4-1.  Two more insurance runs would come in during the top of the seventh inning -- a solo home run by Currie and an RBI infield single by D'eccliss -- but it was more than enough for Lipperd and Ciara Becerril to close the door on the 6-1 win in Friday's opener.  Lipperd got the victory, her 13th of the season, by tossing the first six innings and allowing just two hits and the lone Coyote run, which was unearned; she also walked two and struck out six.  Becerril came in for the seventh, scattering a couple of singles, but closed out the game unscathed.

Currie led the offense, going 2 for 3 with the solo shot in the seventh, followed by the 2 for 4 effort by D'Eccliss; she recorded an RBI and a run scored.  Beauchamp brought home two runs on the aforementioned double in the sixth inning and Myers came across the plate twice.

CSUSB's Land (4-7) gave up eight SSU hits, six runs (five earned) while walking four and striking out four.  Felicia Cervantes went 2 for 3 with an RBI for the Coyotes.

Game Two:  Cal State San Bernardino 13, Sonoma State 9  --  Box Score

After an all-around effort in the opener, Sonoma State flexed its muscles in game two, blasting four home runs -- a two-run home run by Kehr in the fourth inning, back-to-back solo shots by Chinen and Megan Konieczka to lead off the fifth and a solo blast by Currie in the seventh -- but it would not be enough to overcome 11 runs scored by Cal State San Bernardino in the bottom of the fourth inning alone, as the Coyotes held off the Seawolves for a 13-9 win for the twinbill split.

The Seawolves again would score first in the game with Kehr coming home on an RBI single by Myers in the first.  Another SSU run came across the plate in the third on a bases-loaded, RBI single by Chinen, scoring Jayme Tickemyer, before Kehr's two-run shot in the fourth, giving Sonoma State a 4-0 lead.

It was in the bottom of the fourth that the game changed drastically.  Cal State San Bernardino plated 11 runs on eight hits to take a large 11-4 lead.

Almost immediately, the Seawolves worked to get some of the runs back -- Chinen and Konieczka did just that with back-to-back home runs to left field to close the gap to five runs at 11-6.  The Coyotes would score another run in the fifth, but the Seawolves would continue to chip away, scoring two more runs in the sixth (RBI singles by Beauchamp and pinch-hitter Hayley Condon) to cut the CSUSB lead to four at 12-8.

However, Cal State San Bernardino wasn't finished, scoring another insurance run in the sixth to again up the lead to five runs at 13-8.  Then Land, who was tagged with the loss in game one for the Coyotes, got two quick outs on the Seawolves, but Currie's second home run of the day put SSU within four at 13-9.  Land came through in the clutch, though, and induced the game-ending flyout to earn her first save of the season.  Abreanna Landeros (4-2) got the victory, tossing four innings and giving up nine hits and six runs to SSU before Land took over in the fifth.  Charlotte Galzote and Cervantes led the offensive attack for Cal State San Bernardino, recording three hits apiece.

Currie, Myers, Chinen and Konieczka had two hits each with at least one RBI (Chinen had two RBI's).  Kehr finished with two RBI's and two runs scored.  Lipperd fell to 13-3 as the pitcher of record this season, allowing six hits and seven runs (all earned), before being taken out in the middle of the fourth inning.  Becerril scattered eight Coyote hits and gave up six runs.

Sonoma State and Cal State San Bernardino will wrap up the four-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday, starting at 11:00 a.m., but rain is forecasted in the San Bernardino area overnight and into Saturday, which could cause the postponement of the series to a later date and time.  Updates regarding the status of Saturday's doubleheader will be posted to sonomaseawolves.com, once information becomes available to the SSU sports information office.