Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 Turlock, Calif. – The SF State women's softball team went 2-1 on Saturday, defeating CSU Dominguez Hills and Chico State and fell to Cal State San Marcos. 

In the first game of the season the Gators defeated CSU Dominguez Hills 1-0 in a pitcher's duel.  Emily Gibson (1-0) set the tone for SF State (2-1), throwing seven complete innings, scattering four hits, allowing one walk, with a strike out.  She stranded six runners in the contest. 

The Gators scored their only run of the game when Jennifer Lewis doubled to right field to lead off the top of the fifth.  Lewis moved to third on the sacrifice bunt from Lucy Fernandez and came around to score on an error by the Toros second baseman. 

Lewis finished the game 2-for-3 with a run scored, Fernandez had the only other hit in the contest for the Gators as the Toros' starter Jamie Duran surrendered just three hits in the losing effort.

In the second game of the afternoon, the Gators suffered a 9-0 defeat at the hands of Cal State San Marcos.  Freshman pitcher Courtney Dunkel (0-1) made her collegiate debut going 4.1 innings, allowing 10 hits, six runs, all earned, with two walks and a strike out.  Dunkel surrendered two runs in the bottom of the second but settled down to tally two scoreless innings before running into trouble in the top of the fifth. 

The Cougars scored seven runs to put the game away, the two runs early would be enough for the Cougars starter Katie Wilkinson, who held SFSU to five hits over four scoreless innings.

In the nightcap, the Gators handed Chico State their third loss of the day, defeating the Wildcats 5-0.  All nine starters reached base safely for the Gators, with six tallying hits.  Junior Courtney Gravel went 2-for-4 with a run scored, while seniors Kyle Grabowski and Kelsey Murakami finished the afternoon 1-for-2 with a run scored and two runs batted in, and 2-for-3 respectively.

SFSU scored three runs in the bottom of the third and two in the bottom of the fourth, but one run would have been enough, as starter Megan Clark (1-0) shut down the Wildcats, holding them to three hits over seven innings, without surrendering a run.

The Gators return to action tomorrow, as they will play two more contests in the Best of the West Invitational.  SFSU will square off against Dominican University and Cal State Stanislaus.