Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Despite another strong outing from junior pitcher Karly Harris and the hot bat of junior third baseman Leslie Mesa, the Dominican University of California women's softball team dropped a pair of tough losses to Chaminade University on Friday in Pacific West Conference play, 6-4 in 10 innings and 5-2.

Chaminade (13-13/9-7) took an early game one lead. Shannan Hokama tripled off of Harris (4-15), then came home on a sac fly to right by Kori Berinobis. In the fifth, Chaminade struck for a pair of runs that extended the lead to 3-0 but Dominican (5-29/0-16) rallied in the bottom of the inning. Outfielders Katelyn Sheehan and Marissa Cordisco singled to begin the inning, then Kayla Rodriguez followed with a single to right center but made a costly mistake and passed Cordisco on the basepath when the runners held to see where the ball dropped. Freshman outfielder Tori Johnson continued the hit parade with an RBI single. Another costly baserunning error resulted in the second out when Cordisco was picked off between third and home. Mesa ripped an RBI triple to cut the lead to 3-2, then junior Kayleigh Klingberg followed suit with a triple to center field to bring home Mesa and tie it at 3-3.

For the second day in a row, the game went to extras and Harris pitched well under pressure. She escaped a bases-loaded jam in the seventh by inducing two fly balls to center and a groundout. A fly ball to right in the ninth proved more damaging when Sheehan couldn't come down with the ball. That put Chaminade ahead 4-3 but Dominican rallied yet again. Klingberg hit a two-out, bases-loaded squibber to bring the tying run home but the Lady Penguins couldn't get the winning run home.

Chaminade took advantage of the international tie breaker in the 10th. Three hits resulted in a pair of runs and a 6-4 lead that held up for the Silver Swords victory.

In game two, Dominican put a pair of runs on the board in the first inning. Kayla Rodriguez was hit by the first pitch of the game and Tori Johnson reached on an error by pitcher Kaitlyn Watanabe. Freshman pitcher Ashlyn Moriarity allowed three runs in the third but limited the damage by leaving the bases loaded. However, the Silvers Swords added on in the fourth and again in the sixth. Dominican drew back-to-back walks but left both stranded in the seventh to end the game.

Watanabe (7-5) threw 5.1 innings of relief in game one and pitched a complete game in game two to pick up both wins for Chaminade.

Mesa, who finished her day 4-for-7 with a walk, run, and RBI, lifted her average to a team-best .354. Klingberg's three RBI on the day give her a team-leading 20.

Dominican heads back to Albert Park on Monday, April 1 vs. UH Hilo and Tuesday, April 2 vs. Hawai'i Pacific University. First pitch of both PacWest doubleheaders is slated for 12:00 p.m. Live stats will be available at www.dominicanathletics.com/live.