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#2CSM KNOCKS BOTH #1 SIERRA & #3 MSAC FROM UNBEATEN RANKS TO CLAIM TOP SPOT IN CALIF. CC SOFTBALL

SAN MATEO – Kayleen Smith set the stage with her booming first inning home run to spark state No. 2 College of San Mateo over No. 3 Mt. San Antonio to begin a Bulldogs sweep of last year’s state finalists Sunday afternoon. Following a 2-0 victory over Mt. SAC, unbeaten CSM (11-0) took apart No. 1 Sierra, 11-3, in a mercy-rule five inning affair. Mt. SAC (6-1), the 2014 state runner-up, and defending state champion Sierra (5-1) suffered their first losses of the season. Sierra had a 6-game winning streak dating to 2014 and had lost only once – to Mt. SAC in a state semifinal – over the previous 24 contests. --So the Bulldogs can now claim the top spot among the state’s 80 community college softball teams.

Box Score
February 15, 2015

COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO SPORTS NEWS      February 15, 2015           Contact: Fred Baer          baerf@smccd.edu      

#2CSM KNOCKS BOTH #1 SIERRA & #3 MSAC FROM UNBEATEN RANKS TO CLAIM TOP SPOT IN CALIF. CC SOFTBALL

 
SAN MATEO – Kayleen Smith set the stage with her booming first inning home run to spark state No. 2 College of San Mateo over No. 3 Mt. San Antonio to begin a Bulldogs sweep of last year's state finalists Sunday afternoon.
 

Following a 2-0 victory over Mt. SAC, unbeaten CSM (11-0) took apart No. 1 Sierra, 11-3, in a mercy-rule five inning affair. Mt. SAC (6-1), the 2014 state runner-up, and defending state champion Sierra (5-1) suffered their first losses of the season. Sierra had a 6-game winning streak dating to 2014 and had lost only once – to Mt. SAC in a state semifinal – over the previous 24 contests.

 
--So the Bulldogs can now claim the top spot among the state's 80 community college softball teams.
 

Lauren Berriatua got a state co-leading sixth win of the season in shutting out the Mounties, scattering five singles and striking out three.

 
CSM made effective use of just three hits in that contest. Melina Rodriquez got the other key hit and scored the other run, in the sixth inning.
 

Rodriquez went 2-for-3 and scored three times against Sierra. Smith scored three times without benefit of a hit, walking twice and sacrificing twice – once for an RBI. Kacy Edward hit a triple and had three RBIs.

 
The Bulldogs had to come-from-behind twice in that contest. Sierra took the initial lead, 1-0, in the top of the first but CSM tied it in the bottom of the frame. The Wolverines went ahead 3-1 in the top of the third, after which pitcher Lacie Crawford held them scoreless for her fourth victory. CSM responded with a single run in the bottom of the frame, seven more in the fourth, and then ended it with two runs in the bottom of the fifth. 
 

Harlee Donovan, who had a state-leading sixth home run on Saturday, took the state RBI lead with two more against Sierra. Lelani Akai and Kaitlin Chang each had two hits against Sierra.

--Sierra gave Mt. San Antonio a second loss on Sunday, 8-7, before taking on the Bulldogs.
 

CSM had four victories for the weekend. On Saturday, San Mateo swept a twin bill, beating American Riveri, 9-1, and College of the Redwoods, 10-0, each in five innings.

CONFERENCE OPENER TUESDAY: CSM opens Coast North Conference play on Tuesday (Feb. 17) at De Anza College (0-7) in Cupertino.

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