SAN MARCOS, Calif. – The Sonoma State softball team's run through the postseason ended on Saturday, falling to Cal State San Marcos 4-3 in 10 innings and 3-1 in the final game.  The Seawolves finished the year with a 42-18 record. 
 
SSU entered the game with just eleven players suited up and one win away from advancing to the Super Regionals.  In the first game, Cal State San Marcos jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first inning off starter Jesse Dupuis.  The Seawolves did what they do best and responded in the next inning with a run of their own.  Sierra Moffett reached on an error and after a fielder's choice by Amari Houston and a wild pitch Houston wound up on second base.  Gabby Hensley delivered a big RBI single to score Houston and cut the Cougars lead in half. 
 
Dupuis settled into her grove in the circle, shutting CSUSM down in the second and third inning to send the game to the fourth.  Sonoma State once again got things going with the bottom half of the lineup recording the tying run.  Moffett reached on a hit by pitch and after two outs Hensley drew a walk to put two runs on board.  Briana Avalos ripped a single into the outfield, scoring Carissa Marquez to knot the game at 2-2. 
 
From there the pitchers took over, throwing scoreless inning after scoreless inning.  Dupuis worked her way through the fourth, fifth, six and seventh innings without surrendering a run and sending the game into extra innings.  After a scoreless eighth and ninth, the Seawolves struck first in the 10^th.  Avalos led off with a single and was sacrificed to second by Rylee Nishimoto.  With two outs in the inning Courtney Jack ripped a double over the left fielders head to score Avalos and put SSU ahead. 
 
The Cougars got things going in the bottom of the tenth with two straight singles to right before Camille Rodriguez came on in relief.  They followed with a bunt single and a walk to tie the game and won it on a sacrifice fly to right.
 
Jack, Hensley and Avalos combined for all six SSU hits, finishing with two apiece while also driving in a run each.  Dupuis went a career high nine innings and allowed four runs. 
 
Forty minutes later the two teams were back on the field to faceoff again in an elimination game for a berth in Super Regionals.  The Cougars got on the board first off Rodriguez, plating a run in the bottom of the second.  Sonoma State would tie the game in the third, loading the bases on a single by Marquez, error off the bat of Hensley and a walk by Avalos.  Jordyn Martinez nearly swung the game, blasting a ball to dead center that was caught at the wall but scored Hensley to tie the game. 
 
Cal State San Marcos got the lead back in the bottom of the third and later added another in the fifth to provide some cushion.  The Seawolves got the tying run to the plate in the sixth and Marquez hit one deep to right but was caught just shy of the wall to end the threat.  The Cougars closed the game out in the seventh with three straight outs. 
 
Houston led the Seawolves with two hits while Martinez finished with a hit and an RBI.  Rodriguez went six innings and allowed just two earned runs. 
 
Sonoma State finished the season with a 31-6 record in their last 37 games and had won six straight postseason games coming into the day.