BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 GAME 1:  #7 Humboldt State 6, #17 Sonoma State 1 -- Box Score
GAME 2:  #17 Sonoma State 17, #7 Humboldt State 3 -- Box Score

ARCATA, Calif. -- After falling 6-1 in the opener, the Sonoma State offense exploded for 17 runs on 17 hits in five innings to demolish Humboldt State in the series finale, 17-3, to salvage the doubleheader split on Saturday at the HSU Softball Field in Arcata.  The 17th-ranked Seawolves snapped a four-game losing streak, improving to 32-12 overall and 19-9 in the CCAA.  The seventh-ranked Lumberjacks, meanwhile, drop to 36-12 (23-5 CCAA).

Humboldt State had gone into the fourth and final game of the series outscoring Sonoma State 16-6, but with the 17 runs in the finale, the Seawolves outscored the powerful Lumberjacks 23-19 in the series.  Ali Palermo broke the program's single-season home run record on Saturday, blasting her 11th of the season and Vanessa Currie has tied the all-time doubles record with her 38th career double, both in the nightcap blowout.

Sonoma launched four home runs in the victory, holding Humboldt to just one -- a three-run shot by Chrissy Stalf in the third inning of game two, the only runs of the game for the 'Jacks.  In the doubleheader combined, Keisi Chinen went 6 for 7 with two home runs, five RBI and two runs scored to pace the Seawolf offense.

Sonoma State returns to Rohnert Park for the final home series of the season next weekend.  The Seawolves will host Chico State in a four-game series starting with a doubleheader on Friday at 1:00 p.m.

GAME 1:  #7 Humboldt State 6, #17 Sonoma State 1 -- Box Score

The Lumberjacks took an early 4-0 lead, but did so on just one base hit.  However, the base hit would be a grand slam off the bat of Julie Pena, who launched an Amanda Llerena pitch off of the scoreboard in left field.  Llerena walked the first batter and hit the next two, setting up the four-run bomb in the bottom of the first inning.  Another 'Jacks run came across the plate on a Dani Randall single, scoring Chrissy Stalf to give the hosts a 5-0 advantage.

Chinen got a run back for the Seawolves in the top of the third, thanks to her solo home run to lead off the third.  Sonoma would threaten one more time in the game, but not until the top of the seventh.

In the meantime, Humboldt State plated an insurance run in the sixth on its 80th home run of the season, a solo shot by Tonya Walker to put HSU up 6-1.

In Sonoma State's final chance, Megan Konieczka walked, Chinen singled and Vanessa Currie was hit by the pitch to load the bases with two outs, but Lumberjack starter Katie Obbema forced a game-ending groundout to clinch the series win over the Seawolves.

Chinen went 3 for 3 in the opener with the aforementioned home run in the third.  Llerena (13-6) allowed six runs on six hits and four walks while striking out nine.

HSU's Obbema went to 17-3, giving up seven hits and one walk, fanning three in her winning effort.  Stalf went 2 for 2 with two runs scored to lead the 'Jacks offensively.

GAME 2:  #17 Sonoma State 17, #7 Humboldt State 3 -- Box Score

While the Sonoma State offense was silenced for the first three games of the series, game four would be much, much different.

After a quick out by Humboldt's Lizzie Perez, three of the four SSU seniors -- Danielle D'Eccliss, Currie and Ali Palermo -- recorded back-to-back-to-back hits; D'Eccliss' came on a single up the middle, Currie followed with a double to left center, then Palermo broke the program's single-season home run record, smashing her 11th of the season to put the Seawolves up 3-0.

Sonoma State continued to pile on the runs, plating one in the second on an RBI single by Aubrie Tolliver, scoring Hayley Condon, then three more came across the dish in the third when Chinen hammered her second home run of the day, this time a three-run shot scoring Condon and Holli Brown for the 7-0 Seawolf lead.

Samantha Lipperd, who got the start in the circle in game two, retired the first seven batters she saw, but a single and a double on back-to-back plate appearances for Humboldt State set up a Stalf home run to cut the SSU lead to four at 7-3 in the bottom of the third.

The Seawolf momentum offensively wouldn't stop, however, as Currie and Brown gave the 'Jacks a taste of their own medicine with a pair of two-run home runs in the fourth inning to extend the lead to eight runs at 11-3.  Three more runs came around to score in the inning when Konieczka scored from third base on an error off the bat of Chinen, then Condon stole home after Ally Bryant's steal of second drew a throw from the catcher, and the seventh run would score on a Purdy groundout, which brought home Bryant for the 14-3 lead.

The scoring would continue for Sonoma in the fifth as three more runs put Sonoma up 17-3.  Currie scored from second on a fielding error, followed by RBI singles by Chinen and Tolliver.  SSU even threatened for more with the bases loaded, but HSU relief pitcher Hannah Williams forced a pop out to stop the bleeding.

Lipperd came back out to shut down Humboldt State, securing the blowout win.  Lipperd improved to 19-6 this season; she gave up three runs on five hits, striking out three.  Currie went 3 for 4 with a home run, two RBI and three runs scored, Palermo went 2 for 3 with a home run, three RBI and two runs scored and Chinen recorded a 3 for 4 effort with a home run and four RBI.