BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 GAME 1:  #16 Sonoma State 12, Cal State Stanislaus 1 (5 innings) -- Box Score
GAME 2:  #16 Sonoma State 9, Cal State Stanislaus 0 -- Box Score

TURLOCK, Calif. -- Two-time All-American Samantha Lipperd continues to shatter records in the pitching circle for Sonoma State and Saturday wasn't much different.  The senior from Boulder Creek tossed her 1,000th-career strikeout in Sonoma State's 12-1 blowout victory over host Cal State Stanislaus in game one of Saturday's doubleheader in Turlock. 

Lipperd, the active career leader in strikeouts in all of Division II -- and seventh among pitchers across all three NCAA divisions -- improved to 15-3 this season and has a CCAA-high 138 strikeouts.

The Seawolves followed it with a dominating 9-0 win in the series finale, as freshman pitcher Amanda Llerena allowed just three hits and struck out 12 to win her 10th game of the season and improve to 10-5. 

Sonoma State, ranked at No. 16 in this week's NFCA Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll, rise to 25-8 and 18-6 in the CCAA with the series sweep of Cal State Stanislaus; the Seawolves have now won six straight games. The Warriors drop to 11-21 (6-18 CCAA).

Both teams will step away from conference play next weekend to compete in the 12th Annual Tournament of Champions, Presented by Mizuno, featuring 26 teams from the NCAA Division II West Region in Turlock.  Sonoma State will play a single game against Western Washington on Thursday in Turlock (2:00 p.m.) before opening the TOC at 8:45 a.m. Friday against Hawai'i Pacific.

GAME 1

All 12 runs for SSU came across the plate in the first three innings, including an eight-run third inning that put the game out of reach.

It started with a three-run top of the first inning for the Seawolves when Holli Brown smashed a home run to left field, scoring Ali Palermo and Vanessa Currie.  Megan Konieczka then delivered a leadoff solo shot in the second to give Sonoma State a 4-0 advantage.

Cal State Stanislaus got a run back in its half of the second inning on a sacrifice fly, but that would prove to be the only run scored by the Warriors in the four-game series.

The visitors would then blow the game wide open with eight runs in the third inning to take a 12-1 lead and eventual victory.  Fourteen batters came to the plate for SSU in the frame, pounding out six hits.  Sonoma threatened for more, but left the bases loaded at the end of the inning.

The Warriors couldn't get much else going offensively against Lipperd, as the senior hurler allowed just three hits, all of which came in the first two innings.  She walked two and struckout five.  Her fifth and final strikeout of the day was her 1,000th-career strikeout, and it came with one out in the bottom of the fifth.

Offensively, five Seawolves pounded out two hits each, including Brown, Konieczka, Anica Purdy, Danielle D'Eccliss and Palermo.  Brown recorded four RBI and Konieczka added three. 

GAME 2

Sonoma State scored one run in each of the first three innings, then blew the game open once again in the seventh when it plated six runs to take a 9-0 lead.

D'Eccliss put the first run on the board when she scored on a wild pitch in the top of the first.  Keisi Chinen brought batted in run number two on a sacrifice fly, scoring Hayley Condon, then Brown singled up the middle in the third, scoring D'Eccliss for the 3-0 lead.

Meanwhile, Llerena cruised right through the Cal State Stanislaus lineup the first time around, not allowing a base hit until the bottom of the fifth.  That's when the Warriors put runners on second and third with one out, but Llerena worked herself out of the jam to keep the shutout in tact. 

That was the only threat offered by CSU Stanislaus in the ballgame as Sonoma State went on to secure a series sweep and its sixth straight win with the six runs on seven hits and two errors in the seventh inning.

Llerena gave up just three hits and walked two, striking out 12, matching her career-high that she set in yesterday's victory.  Currie and Konieczka added two hits, Chinen recorded three RBI and D'Eccliss scored three times to pace the Seawolf offense in the series finale.