Softball No-Hitter Tossed at Toros; CSUDH Bounces Back to Split Twinbill With Coyotes
April 27, 2007

Courtesy Cal State San Bernardino Sports Information Office

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SAN BERNARDINO -- The Cal State Dominguez Hills softball team, riding the strong arm of pitcher Jennifer Martinez who pitched all 14 innings in the doubleheader and hit a grand slam homer in game two, took the nightcap, 9-3. .Junior right-hander Tawni Baker tossed a no-hitter for Cal State San Bernardino as the Coyotes defeated Cal State Dominguez Hills, 6-0, in the first game Friday afternoon.

The Toros, riding the strong arm of pitcher Jennifer Martinez who pitched all 14 innings in the doubleheader and hit a grand slam homer in game two, took the nightcap, 9-3.

The two teams will play their final doubleheader of the 2007 season at noon Saturday at Coyote Softball Park. The split gives the Coyotes a 25-27 record overall and 16-18 in the CCAA while the Toros are now 22-28 overall and 10-20 in the CCAA.

Baker was in complete control from the start, striking out the side in the first inning, retiring the side in order five times and fanning nine batters to increase her single-season strikeout record for CSUSB to 144.

She allowed only three runners to reach base on two walks and a hit batter as she recorded her sixth shutout of the season, lowered her earned run average to 3.07 and improved her season record to 10-15.

The closest the Toros came to a clean hit was a pop fly into short left field that the Coyotes' Lindsey Calderon caught on the dead run for the second out in the sixth.

Baker struck out two batters in the seventh and induced Bri Mahr to ground out to second to complete the no-hitter.

The Coyotes scored an unearned run in the third, aided by two Toros errors, then took a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth on a two-out grand slam homer by Coyotes junior designated player Nicole Camarena, her seventh HR of the season.

Senior catcher Crystal Fraijo completed the scoring with a leadoff homer, her eighth blast of the season, in the fifth.

Martinez (17-19) made the one bad pitch to Camarena, but otherwise pitched well for the Toros, giving up just seven hits.

However, in the nightcap, the Toros jumped on Coyotes starter Jackie Jacob (2-2), scoring six times in the top of the third before CSUSB could record an out.

The rally from a 3-0 deficit was capped by Martinez' grand slam belt to left field, her fourth of the season. Martinez was 2-for-4 in the game with five RBI while pitching a five-hitter.

The Toros added three more runs in the fourth for a 9-3 lead on an RBI double by Martinez and a two-run double by Mahr off Coyotes reliever Jordan Dahl.

Camarena drove in two of the three Coyotes runs with a double in the second, giving her six RBI on the day and 22 on the season.