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CARSON, Calif. - The Cal State East Bay softball team rebounded from a pair of shutouts on Friday but came up short in two losses to Cal State Dominguez Hills, 7-6 and 5-2, on Saturday. The Pioneers (7-7, 3-5 CCAA) committed six errors which helped give the Toros the series sweep despite East Bay's eight runs on Saturday.

Game 1: Cal State Dominguez Hills 7, Cal State East Bay 6
East Bay jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the first inning. After a one-out single from Mishka Hamor, Jamie Yaller brought the Pioneers' first run of the series in with an RBI double. Sara Holdridge then worked a two-out walk to put runners on first and third for Devin Salmones who hit her team-leading sixth homer of the year to give East Bay a 4-0 advantage. The Toros pulled back a run in the bottom of the second, scoring a run on two hits, a walk and an illegal pitch that brought the run in to score. 

The Pioneers responded in the top of the third with two runs on three hits thanks to Holdridge's fourth homer of the season, a two-run shot that gave East Bay a 6-1 lead. Cal State Dominguez Hills answered back immediately, taking advantage of a hit batter, two walks, two hits and an error to cut the East Bay lead to just two, 6-4, going into the fourth. Both teams went scoreless for the next two innings before the Toros tied the game up in the bottom of the sixth, scoring two runs on three hits but leaving the bases loaded after Andi Andersen came on in relief to get out of the jam with the game knotted at six.

After a scoreless top of the seventh, the Toros took advantage of an error and two hits in their last at-bat to score the game-winning run. Tossing just .2 innings, Stephanie Jimenez picked up the win for Cal State Dominguez Hills while Andersen took the loss for East Bay. Yaller finished 3-for-4 at the plate with a run and an RBI, while Holdridge drove in a pair and scored a pair and Salmones went 1-for-3 with three RBI and one run.

Game 2: Cal State Dominguez Hills 5, Cal State East Bay 2
The Toros were the ones to get out to the early lead in game two, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first off Andersen, who made her first start of the season in the circle and gave up a two-run homer to Christina Chavez to start the game. Cal State Dominguez Hills scored another pair in the bottom of the third, taking advantage of a Pioneer error to score both runs. East Bay broke through against Jimenez in the top of the fourth, scoring its first run against the Toros' top hurler on a homerun by Taylor Neumann that cut the lead to 4-1.

Cal State Dominguez Hills regained the four-run advantage in its half of the scoring on another East Bay error to go up 5-1. Though the Pioneers cut the lead down to three on Neumann's second homerun of the day in the bottom of the seventh, Jimenez finished off the inning with a strikeout and a fly out to pick up her second win of the day and third win of the weekend.

Neumann accounted for two of East Bay's three hits in the game, going 2-for-3, driving in and scoring both Pioneer runs thanks to her two homers that brought her season total to five. Andersen allowed just one earned run and struck out four, tossing a complete game and allowing just four hits. Jimenez gave up two runs on three hits and struck out five in her seventh victory of the young season.

Cal State East Bay will look to get back on track this week when it takes on Dominican in a nonconference Wednesday doubleheader before meeting Sonoma State for a four-game series on Feb. 24 and 25. The Pioneers and Penguins are set for a 12 p.m. start on Wednesday at Pioneer Field.