BELMONT, Calif. — The Dominican University of California softball team dropped a PacWest doubleheader, 5-0 and 7-1, at Notre Dame de Namur on Saturday.

Dominican threatened early in the first with a pair on and one out but left both runners in scoring position. Dominican didn't get a baserunner again until the fourth and threatened in the seventh with a pair of singles but failed to score. A pair of errors in NDNU's half of the second inning placed a runner on second and Kaydi Kochi brought the run home two batters later. She was caught in a rundown to second to record the third out but that gave Lindsay Handy enough time to score from third to give NDNU a 2-0 lead. The Argos tadded on with three runs on four hits in the third off of Ashlyn Moriarity.

Moriarity is still in search of her first win of the season after giving up five runs, three earned, on five hits in three innings of work. Freshman Kelsey Goodner came in and struck out four in three scorless innings of relief. Shelby Reali scattered four hits in a complete-game effort for the Argos to pick up her fourth win of the season.

NDNU took an early lead in game after two batters reached based on hit by pitches — Dominican pitchers hit seven batters on the day. The Penguins got a run in the third to tie the game when Kayla Rodriguez scored on Tori Johnson's RBI groundout. Rodriguez singled to left fielder and made it all the way to third when the ball went through Monica Volz's legs.

NDNU used back-to-back hits in the fifth, then with runners on the corners executed a double steal to take the lead. An RBI single added an insurance run. NDNU put the game out of reach with a four-run sixth inning.

Katelyn Harden allowed one run through the first four innings but gave up a pair in the fifth and was charged with four runs in the sixth inning. Gaby Katafias gave up two hits and recorded two outs to close out the sixth. Jenna Bassler struck out five en route to her fifth win of the season for the Argos and allowed just three hits in game two.

Kayla Rodriguez and Catlyn Cavender both had two hits on the day.

Dominican faces Holy Names on Sunday, March 8 at 12 and 2 p.m. HNU is the host team but the games will be played at Penguin Field. Live stats will be available at dominicanathletics.com/live.