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

CARSON, Calif. -- Megan Konieczka went 3 for 5 with a home run, but the rest of the Sonoma State offense recorded only four more hits in the two games combined, allowing 15th-ranked Cal State Dominguez Hils to complete the four-game series sweep of the Seawolves on Saturday at Toro Diamond in Carson.  The Toros hit a walkoff, two-run home run in the opener to win 2-0, before completing the doubleheader sweep in game two with a 9-1 victory in six innings.

Sonoma State, which suffered its first four-game series sweep since Apr. 24-25, 2008, has lost nine of its last 11 games, falling to 18-13 overall and 10-12 in the CCAA.  Cal State Dominguez Hills preserved its unblemished record at home (24-0), improving to 31-6 and 22-4 in conference play.

Game One:  #15 Cal State Dominguez Hills 2, Sonoma State 0  (8 innings) -- Box Score

It was again a pitcher's duel between two of the conference's best pitchers in SSU's Samantha Lipperd and CSUDH's Lauren Harper, and it would take extra innings to decide a winner...let alone score a run.

Lipperd did what she did best, striking out batters -- 13 of them to be exact.  She struckout five straight batters at one point and, through the first five innings, 12 of the 15 defensive putouts by SSU came by way of a Lipperd strikeout.  In fact, Lipperd allowed just five base runners through the first seven innings.  It was in the fourth inning that she ran into a bit of trouble, loading the bases after an SSU error, a single and a walk, but Lipperd worked herself out of the jam, stranding all three Toros on base to keep the hosts scoreless.

Meanwhile, Harper kept the Seawolf bats silent, allowing just six base runners out of the 29 batters she faced the entire game, none of which advanced beyond second base.

With both pitchers well above 100 pitches, it was a matter of time before either team would break the scoreless tie.  It was in the bottom of the eighth that Cal State Dominguez Hills did just that.  After Lipperd gave up a one-out single to Khryssi Steele, Veronica Vasquez slammed a 1-0 pitch up and over the outfield fence, giving the Toros a 2-0 victory in walkoff fashion.  Two of the three hits that Lipperd (15-6) gave up in the ballgame came in the eighth, including Vazquez's game-winner.

Konieczka recorded two of the four Sonoma State hits in the game off of Harper, who rose to 15-4 this season.

Game Two:  #15 Cal State Dominguez Hills 9, Sonoma State 1  (6 innings) -- Box Score

The Toros wouldn't put the series finale in doubt for very long, scoring three runs in the second inning and five more in the third to jump out to an 8-0 lead.

Down by eight runs and facing a loss via the eight-run mercy rule in the top of the fifth inning, Konieczka would extend the game with a leadoff home run, cutting the deficit to seven runs at 8-1.  However, in the bottom of the sixth inning, Cal State Dominguez Hills' Christina Chavez hit an RBI single, scoring Diasy Beltran to win 9-1, by way of the mercy rule.

The Toros scattered 14 hits off of Ciara Becerril (5-7) and Lipperd combined, including 10 hits through the first three innings of play during Becerril's time in the circle.  Only three of the eight runs given up by Becerril, however, were earned -- all five CSUDH runs in the third inning came home because of two defensive errors by SSU, therefore all five runs were unearned.  Six Toros recorded at least two hits in the nightcap.

Cal State Dominguez Hllls starting pitcher, Stephanie Jiminez (15-1), kept the Sonoma State offense in check, allowing only five base runners, including the home run she gave up to Konieczka in the fifth, to earn her 15th win in 16 decisions this season.

Sonoma State will remain in southern California to finish the series with Cal State San Bernardino, which was cut short last weekend because of rain.  Monday's doubleheader will start at 11:00 a.m.