SAN FRANCISCO --- Coming off a break from California Collegiate Athletic Association action, SF State returns to conference action taking on the current CCAA leader, Humboldt State. The Gators will look to keep the conference's top home run hitting team under check as they try to shake off the split against Dominican University on Sunday. The four-game series begins Friday at 1 p.m. with the second leg starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

All four games will feature live stats found at http://www.sidearmstats.com/sfsu/softball/xlive.htm.

Head-to-Head
Last year, SF State dropped three of the five contests against the Lumberjacks. Humboldt State won the first game 12-6 in the Best of the West Invitational and took the first two games of the four-game CCAA series in Arcata, Calif., 5-3 and 10-3. The Gators rebounded the next day by taking the final leg 14-12 and 9-3 for the doubleheader sweep.

Gator Notes
SF State currently sits seventh in the conference with a 13-12 overall record, 7-9 in the CCAA. The Gators look to bounce back from a disappointing loss Sunday afternoon to Dominican after scoring first in the contest. ... Courtney Gravel leads the team with a .338 batting average off a team-high 23 hits. As of March 13, Gravel ranked tied for ninth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Div. II amongst the toughest to strikeout. ... Ashley Huff follows with a .288 average and leads the team with 13 runs. Huff has totalled 31 bases so far and tops the CCAA with four triples. She also is tied for seventh with eight stolen bases. ... Kylie Grabowski leads the team with 15 RBIs. ... From the circle, Marisa Ibarra tops the pitching staff with a 1.70 ERA, the third-best in the CCAA. Ibarra is tied with Samantha Lipperd from Sonoma State for most wins in the CCAA with 10 victories (10-4 record). She has tallied five shutouts, including two-straight shutouts last week against Notre Dame de Namur and Dominican. In 86.2 innings pitched, Ibarra has struck out 64 batters to rank sixth in the conference and averages 5.17 strikeouts per game (ninth in CCAA).

Lumberjack Notes
Humboldt State tops the conference with a 12-4 CCAA record, 18-9 overall, and enters the week's games with a seven-game win streak on its tail. The Jacks will play Notre Dame de Namur on Tuesday at home before making the trek down to San Francisco. As a team, the Jacks have knocked 49 homers, slowly creeping up on the CCAA season record of 64 home runs, and ranked fifth in the nation for home runs per game with 1.43 HR/game as of March 13. Chrissy Stal--who holds the conference record for most home runs in a single season at 18--leads the team with 10 long balls, just two shy of tying the conference's career record of 41. Last week, Stalf tied for 13th in the nation with seven home runs, but after blasting three will likely move into the top 10. Stalf's .439 batting average also leads the Jacks from the batter's box, along with her .866 slugging percentage. ... Hannah Williams follows with a .411 average and Courtney Hiatt rounds out the top three hitters with a .388 average. ... From the circle, Lizzie Perez leads the team with a 2.06 ERA and, like Ibarra, boasts a 10-4 record in 85.0 innings pitched with 55 strikeouts.