ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – The Sonoma State softball team improved to 5-2 on the season with a doubleheader sweep of Holy Names on Thursday.  The Seawolves used a pair of outstanding pitching performances to take the first game 2-1 and the second 7-5. 
 
Jesse Dupuis continued her hot start on the mound for SSU picking up her second win in as many games.  She went six innings, allowing just three hits and one unearned run while extending her streak without an earned run to 13.1 innings. 
 
Offensively the Seawolves put the first run on the board in the first inning with the game's first score.  After a fielder's choice and back-to-back walks loaded the bases, Courtney Jack recorded an RBI groundout to score Rylee Nishimoto.  The Hawks would tie the game in the top of the second with a run but Jordyn Martinez ended the frame by throwing out a runner trying to steal second. 
 
The Seawolves threatened in both the second and third innings, placing five runners on base but coming up empty.  That changed in the bottom of the fifth when Sonoma State grinded out what would prove to be the winning run.  Gianna Hays got the rally started with a double into the left field gap.  She would come around to score on an RBI single by Jack to make it 2-1.
 
Dupuis pitched her way out of trouble in the sixth before being relieved by Nichole Sarra in the top of seventh.  Sarra earned the save, retiring the Hawks in order on three straight groundouts to Cassidy Romano. 
 
Anna Zoia-Buescher led all players with three hits, finishing 3 for 4 while Hays added two hits.  Jack drove in both Sonoma State runs. 
 
The Seawolves wasted little time in the nightcap getting the offense going breaking the game open in the bottom of the first with four runs.  Zoia-Buescher led-off with a single and advanced to second on a single by Nishimoto.  Hays followed two batters later by lacing a double into left to score both runners.  Skylar Linnane then delivered an opposite field homerun to score two more and make it 4-0 after the first. 
 
Camille Rodriguez controlled the game from the circle for Sonoma, cruising through six innings without allowing a run.  She surrendered just four hits in the first six innings while striking out six. 
 
Sonoma State's offense got going in the fifth inning, scoring a run on a double by Martinez.  Nishimoto who earlier reached on a single came around to score.  The Seawolves would add two more important runs in the sixth when Linnane and Reagan Hunt scored on a two-run triple by Romano. 
 
The Hawks made things interesting in the top of seventh, scoring five runs on three hits to get the tying run at the plate.  Rodriguez ultimately came back into the game, getting the final two outs and earning her third win of the season.  She ended the game with her seventh strike out. 
 
Linnane finished 3 for 3 in the game with two RBIs and two runs scored.  Nishimoto and Martinez both tacked on a pair of hits as SSU finished with 12 as a team. 
 
The Seawolves are off until Wednesday when they will host Academy of Art for a doubleheader before starting CCAA play on Friday against San Francisco State.  Live stats and video will be available at www.sonomaseawolves.com.