ROHNERT PARK, Calif. — The last time the Dominican University of California softball team traveled to Sonoma State, the teams ran out of daylight to finish their game. The two teams picked that game up in the fifth inning with the Penguins trailing 3-1. Dominican went on to lose that game 4-1 but production from throughout the lineup helped the Penguins take game two 7-5 from the No. 4-ranked team in the NCAA Division II West Region.

Kelsey Lardner was charged with the loss after she lasted just two innings and gave up three earned runs back on Feb. 4. Ashlyn Moriarity had thrown two innings of one-hit ball but has had since had season-ending surgery. Gaby Katafias finished off game one and allowed one run on four hits with two strikeouts. The Penguins' run came on a Catlyn Cavender RBI single that scored Kayla Rodriguez, who stole twice in the game. Unofficially, game one took 1678 hours and 17 minutes.

Myaleen Mazon (10-5) picked up the win in game one, and with only having to throw three innings at the point of resumption, stayed in the circle for game two. The Penguins got the most of the reigning CCAA Pitcher of the Week and tagged her for nine hits in five innings. Dominican also took advantage of a sloppy SSU defense that had six errors.

Dominincan — using a rare nine-player lineup and no substitutions — saw hits from six different players and runs scored by their top four batters. The Penguins' number five batter, third baseman Tayler Munoz, didn't score a run but went 3-for-4 and had four of the Penguins' six RBI.

The Penguins wasted no time scoring. Munoz and Sarah Mckenzie had back-to-back, two-out RBI singles to give Dominican a 2-0 lead in the first. They canceled out an SSU run in the second with a run in the third. Cavender tripled and came home on another Munoz RBI single. SSU put up another run in the bottom half of the inning and Dominican had the answer yet again in the top half of the fourth, all with two outs. Cavender's second hit of the day scored Tori Johnson, then Munoz doubled down the right field line. That scored Leslie Mesa easily and a fielding error allowed Cavender to score as well to give Dominican a 5-2 lead. Dominican added one more run in the sixth, thanks in large part to a pair of SSU errors. A pair of mental errors on unexecuted fielder's choices loaded the bases. Munoz stepped into the box and hit the ball to third. The ball was mishandled, allowing Mesa to score for her second time in the game. That chased Mazon and Gabby Dupree limited the damage by leaving the bases loaded.

Katelyn Harden improved to 8-9 on the season with four strikeouts in a complete-game effort. After allowing two runs early she cruised through the fourth, fifth, and sixth. Harden found trouble in the seventh but worked out of the jam after allowing three runs to clinch the win.

Dominican returns home to host BYU-Hawaii in a PacWest doubleheader on Friday, April 17. The home schedule concludes on Sunday, April 19 versus Holy Names with a Senior Day pregame ceremony honoring Mesa, Kayla Rodriguez, and Samantha Talavera. Both home doubleheaders are slated for 12 p.m. first pitch on Penguin Field.