{"id":297385,"date":"2026-05-03T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297385\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:20:09","slug":"csun-drops-both-games-of-a-doubleheader-to-long-beach-state-to-close-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297385\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUN Drops Both Games of a Doubleheader to Long Beach State to Close Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CSUN softball team fell to Long Beach State in both games of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon at LBSU Softball Complex. The first game was a 2-1 affair while CSUN lost\u00a0in walk-off fashion in\u00a0the second game, 3-2. Amber Rivas<\/a> had two RBIs between both games and Mackenzie Kila<\/a> had an RBI in game two. Alizae Cole<\/a> pitched a complete game in game one. Senior Malia Williams<\/a> pitched\u00a06.1\u00a0innings in game two.
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED

\nGAME ONE
\nVanessa Perez<\/a> led off the game with a\u00a0walk,\u00a0and Raegan Jackson<\/a> bunted her over to second. Maddie Okano hit a deep fly ball that was caught in center\u00a0field,\u00a0and Perez moved to third base in the process. Rivas promptly hit a single to left field and scored Perez as CSUN struck first\u00a0for a 1-0 lead.
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\nIn the bottom of the first, Long Beach tied things up with one swing. Avery Weisbrook swung and hit a ball over the left field wall to even the score at 1-1.
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\nIn the next inning, LBSU took the lead. After an infield single, a sacrifice bunt and a groundout, Lina Apodaca singled up the middle to make it a 2-1 affair after two innings.\u00a0
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\nIt was a pitcher’s duel the rest of the way\u00a0with no runs scored\u00a0in the final five innings. Cole, the freshman,\u00a0pitched a complete game in her first career start, only allowing four hits. She kept the Matadors in the\u00a0game,\u00a0but the CSUN offense came up short.\u00a0
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\nGAME TWO
\nPerez walked and Jackson got\u00a0hit\u00a0by a pitch to start the game. After they were bunted over, an RBI groundout by Rivas brought the first run of the game home\u00a0for a 1-0 CSUN lead\u00a0after the first half inning.
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\nIn the bottom of the third, Long Beach State took the lead. A single and a double opened the inning for the Beach. A wild pitch and a throwing error scored both of the runs as Long Beach took the lead, 2-1.
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\nFlash forward to the top of the sixth and CSUN struck back. Jackson got hit by a pitch and Rivas singled to right field\u00a0before a\u00a0sacrifice fly off the bat of Kila evened the scoring at two apiece.
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\nIt came down to the bottom of the seventh where Long Beach had the potential for a\u00a0walk-off victory.\u00a0 Three straight singles loaded up the bases for Brooklyn Lee. She promptly singled into center field and won the game for the Beach.
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\nNOTES OF THE GAME<\/p>\n


\n\tCSUN ends the season at 14-32 and 9-18 in Big West play.
\n\tRivas ends the season with 18 RBIs, good enough for third on the team.
\n\tIncluding today, Williams pitched 122 innings this season, which led the team.
\n\tCole ended the season with a 4.97 ERA.
\n\tJackson hit a double in her final collegiate game.
\n\tKila had an RBI in her final collegiate game.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

ACCORDING TO HEAD COACH JODIE COX
\n“We’re really going to miss our seniors. CSUN is a better place because those girls choose to be here. They made a huge impact on our program. This team doesn’t stop fighting. They don’t give up and they fight until the very last out. They have integrity and it just shows the character of who they are not only as players, but as people too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CSUN softball team fell to Long Beach State in both games of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-297385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}