This is from the Cal State release....

Nicole Camarena drove in six runs with a home run, double and single Wednesday as Cal State San Bernardino shocked top-seeded Humboldt State, 10-1, in the first round of the NCAA Division II West Region Softball Tournament.
The Coyotes, 35-30-1, advance to the second round in the winner's bracket of the double elimination tournament to face Cal State Dominguez Hills, a 6-4 winner over UC San Diego. The game will be played at 4:30 p.m. today
The Coyotes jumped on Humboldt State ace pitcher Lizzie Prescott (38-11) for seven of their 10 runs in a game that ended in the sixth inning via the eight-run mercy rule.
Debbie Shisler, who pitched three innings of one-hit ball to start the game, earned her sixth win of the season for CSUSB against six losses.
The Lumberjacks (47-18) will face UC San Diego in an elimination game at 11:30 a.m. today.
Ironically, it was the Coyotes who eliminated the host Lumberjacks from the CCAA conference tournament last weekend on this same field.
"This is No. 1," said a jubilant Camarena after the game, comparing the win and her performance with other softball highlights in her career. "I was really nervous before the game. Inside my heart I was so excited to play them because they are a tough team."
Camarena admitted she has been pressing in recent weeks, particularly the plate.
"It all came together today. I just left it all out there today." Her homerun in the fourth broke open a scoreless game and put CSUSB up 2-0, scoring Jordan Dahl ahead of her. It also tied her with Krista Hernandez for first place on the Coyotes all-time single-season home run list with 14.
She came up in the fifth and delivered a two-run single as CSUSB scored three times to lead 5-1.
The Coyotes broke it open in the sixth on a leadoff home run by pinch-hitter Sara Bird and a solo blast by Tori Beaudette that forced HSU to bring in Hannah Jones in relief of Prescott.
Jamie Lowe drove in a run and Camarena brought in two more with a double to right center. Five of the team's 10 runs were unearned thanks to two costly Humboldt errors.
Prescott was dominant early, striking out 10 and walking only two before the Coyotes starting putting the ball in play, finishing with 11 hits.
Beaudette and Tayler Wilson each had two hits for CSUSB. The Coyotes also made some defensive plays behind the combined pitching of Shisler, Cassidy Lee, Jackie Jacob and Tawni Baker. Baker allowed just two hits in working the fifth and sixth innings.
This was the first regional tournament win the history of the Coyotes softball program in their first appearance ever in the tournament.

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