Game 1 box score | Game 2 box score

Needing two wins against North Georgia on Sunday to stay alive in the NCAA Softball Championships and reach the final series, Cal State Dominguez Hills answered the call. The Toros won the first game 8-6 with a pair of runs in the seventh before winning the nightcap 7-5.
 
The Toros will advance to the best-of-three championship series against Rogers State starting on Monday, May 30 at 11 a.m. PDT.
 
Game 1
Kaylee Hull doubled in Chenoa Au with the game-winning run in the top of the seventh to help Dominguez Hills overcome five errors and complete another comeback victory.
 
The Nighthawks scored six unearned runs, including five in the third inning, to build a 6-3 lead. Raquel Jaime and Claudia Valencia had run-scoring hits in the fourth to tie the game at 6-6 and set up the seventh-inning dramatics.
 
Au stood on second with two out after walking to lead off the inning at the top of the seventh. Kaylee Hull dug out a low, inside pitch with two strikes and drove it over the left fielder's head. It one-hopped the wall to bring in the go-ahead run.
 
Alyssa Olague worked around a leadoff walk by striking out the last two hitters of the game to complete the victory. Those were her only two strikeouts of the day as she completed the game she started. The right-hander finished with 4.1 innings pitched. She allowed five hits and no earned runs (six unearned). Ashley Wies pitched 2.2 shutout innings in the middle of the game.
 
Jaime went 4-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI for the Toros. Hull reached base in all four of her plate appearances as the freshman had three hits, including a double and a walk. She also had three RBI and scored two runs. Katelyn Sturm had three hits, including a pair of doubles, as the Toros outhit the Nighthawks 17-8.
 
Game 2
The Toros used a five-run fourth inning to propel themselves into the championship series.
 
Jaime Raquel continued her huge day at the plate by knocking on three runs, and Maiya Lopez had four RBI, including a three-run blast as part of the five-run fourth. The Toros turned a 2-1 deficit into a 6-2 lead in the inning, and they would never trail again.
 
North Georgia cut the Toros' lead down to 6-4 with a two-run homer in the top of the sixth, but Lopez provided an insurance run in the bottom half of the inning when she doubled in Valencia.
 
Ashley Wies pitched the final 4.2 innings in relief of Alyssa Olague. She gave up three hits and three runs (two earned) while walking none and striking out four.
 
The Toros are the first CCAA team to play in the national championship series since Cal Poly Humboldt in 2016.