SAN MARCOS, Calif. – The Cal State San Marcos softball team recorded a come-from-behind 10-8 victory in Saturday's doubleheader California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) opener against San Francisco State. The Cougars finished the day with a split, falling 9-5 to the Gators in the nightcap.

Junior Kat Calderon and freshman Jaqlyn Newhouser each tallied four hits on the day. Calderon recorded two doubles and a triple to drive home three runs and score twice.

The Cougars take to the road to play Chico State next weekend in a four-game CCAA series starting on Friday, Feb. 16.
 
GAME 1: CSUSM 10 – SF State 8 
The Cougars posted all 10 runs in the final three frames of the game. Down 4-0 entering the bottom of the fourth, senior Karla Bernal hit a 2-RBI single up the middle to put CSUSM on the board.

The Gators added to their lead in the fifth when Hayley Nunes led off with a triple and scored on Michelle Castro's double to center. SF State would get two more runs across on Mallory Cleveland's double and a CSUSM error to make it 7-2.

In the fifth, junior Rae Camez hit a two-out single to first and later scored on Calderon's double off the right center wall. Freshman Raven LeClair was called out trying to stretch a single into a double. However before the out was made, Calderon had crossed the plate to make it 7-4.

CSUSM's bats came alive in the sixth when the Cougars put together six runs on seven hits. Back-to-back singles by junior Kammy Fisher and Newhouser set the stage. A three-run homer by freshman Janaea Mason, her second of the season, evened the game at 7-7. A two-run triple by Calderon dropped in just fair down the right field line, past an SF State's diving right fielder, to give CSUSM its first lead of the day. Calderon would later score on LeClair's single down the left line to make it 10-7 Cougars.

A Rohrer home run would cut the Cougars' lead to 10-8, but the CSUSM infield would take care of business with a double play and ground out to earn the win.

Freshman Carly Slack (1-1) nabbed her first collegiate win, going three innings and giving up two runs on four hits. The loss was credited to SF State starter Lindsey Cassidy (1-3) who went 5.2 innings and relinquished 10 runs on 14 hits.
 
GAME 2: SF State 9 – CSUSM 5
The Cougars once again found themselves trailing early. This time the Gators scattered eight runs over the second, third and fourth innings.
 
CSUSM made the zero disappear on the end of the score with two runs in the bottom of the second, thanks to two sacrifice flies by LeClair and freshman Aliya Machrone.
 
After the Gators made it 9-2 with a run in the sixth, CSUSM started a two-out seventh-inning rally with three consecutive singles to load the bases. The first run across came on another SF State error. Sophomore Mackenzie Fannin then crushed a 2-RBI double to right field before SF State's Karla Soto entered the circle to halt the Cougar rally.