HAYWARD, Calif. – Cal State East Bay softball will host the first of its final two California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) series' at Pioneer Field starting on Friday, April 10. Both CSUEB and Cal State Dominguez Hills are looking to rebound after dropping their respective league road series' this past weekend.

It has been mostly all-or-nothing for the visiting Toros in league play this season with each of their past four series ending in a sweep. CSUDH swept San Francisco State (March 6-7), then dropped all four to Cal State Monterey Bay (March 13-14), followed by a sweep of UC San Diego (March 22-23) and most recently were swept by Humboldt State (April 2-3).

It could have been a much different story for the Toros would drop the first three games against the No. 17 Jacks by one-run margins. Cal State Dominguez Hills managed to hold Humboldt State to only 16 runs during the series, well below its nearly 26 runs per league series heading into last weekend.

Pitchers Jaime Duran and Aly Valinches have started 36-of-38 games in the circle this season. Both have identical 9-8 records, sub-four ERA's, and have combined to throw 235.1 of the team's 253 innings this season.

Sophomore Madison Murphy leads the offense with her .346 batting average, 14 doubles, and three triples. She is the only player on the Toros roster to have started all 38 games this season and one of five regulars to enter Friday batting over .300 this season.

Cal State East Bay is 10-6 at Pioneer Field this season while Cal State Dominguez Hills is 5-13 in true road games. The Pioneers can still match their 18-6 home record from last season with series sweeps of the Toros and UC San Diego the following weekend.

The Pioneers are statistically a better team in Hayward including a .285 batting average and 3.21 staff earned run average. In true road games the Pioneers hit nearly 20 points lower and have a 4.35 team ERA.

Pitchers Tatiana Beilstein and Sierra Clark are a combined 7-4 with a 2.65 ERA and 30 strikeouts. Clark has racked up half of the team's strikeouts (22-of-44) in 44 innings at Pioneer Field this season.

Gabby Gonzalez is arguably the team's hottest hitter entering Friday with a 7-game hitting streak. She has multiple hits in each of her past three games and is hitting .533 (16-for-30) over her past 10 contests.

Gonzalez's .371 average this season sits just behind the team leader in catcher Ali Cerminara at .378. She leads the team with 13 multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI performances this season.

Kelsey LaVaute has collected a base hit in six straight at bats spanning the past three games. During that time her season batting average rose from 53 points and she blasted her 18th homer during her recent hot streak.

The East Bay offense has performed much better of late hitting .330 with 30 hits over the first three games of its most recent series with Cal State San Bernardino. The Pioneers scored 15 runs with five homers in Friday's doubleheader against the Coyotes.

Last season Cal State East Bay won the first three games against Cal State Dominguez Hills to win the series for the first time since joining the CCAA. Prior to last year the Pioneers were just 3-14 against the Toros dating back to the 2010 season.