[Game 1 box score] [Game 2 box score] [CSUDH presser]

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - No. 6 seed Cal State Dominguez Hills matched up with No. 1 seed Western Washington, needing two wins to claim the 2024 Softball West Super Regional Champinship. The Toros won the first game 3-2 to force a winner-take-all title game but fell in extra innings on a walk-off home run, 7-6. (May 15)
 
Game 1
Alani Nguyen and Kaylee Hull singled in runs in the third inning and Jay Ross had an RBI groundout in the fourth to help lead Cal State Dominguez Hills to a 3-2 win over Western Washington in an elimination game for CSUDH.
 
The runs in the third gave Mariah Ramirez and the Toros the advantage early and they never surrendered their lead even with WWU bringing the go-ahead run to the plate in the sixth and the seventh innings.
 
Ross was 2-for-3 out of her leadoff spot, and the top five batters in the order all collected a hit. CSUDH outhit WWU 7-4.
 
Ramirez earned the win to improve to 26-7. She pitched all seven innings allowing four hits and two runs. She walked three and struck out six.
 
Game 2
Cal State Dominguez Hills built a 6-0 lead in the winner-take-all championship game before No. 1 seed Western Washing began to chip away at the lead and win the game with a walk-off home run in extra innings 7-6.
 
Mariah Ramirez became the Toros single-season home run leader when she hit a grand slam in the second inning to put CSUDH up early. RBI groundouts by Ramirez and Hill extended the lead to 6-0 after the top of the fourth.
 
A home run by the Vikings' Emma Andrewjeski in the bottom of the fourth and an RBI single in the fifth cut the Toros' lead to 6-2.
 
In the seventh, the first two batters for WWU singled before Kanilehua Pitoy homered to make it a one-run game (6-5). The tying run would come around to score unearned and send the game to extra innings tied at 6-6.
 
In the top of the eighth, leadoff batter Kianna Abellera reached base on a single and was sacrificed to second. With two outs, Jay Ross came through with a single to left field but it was too hard and directly at the left fielder, not allowing Abellera to come home.
 
In the bottom of the eighth, the Vikings' leadoff batter Maleah Andrews homered the opposite way on the fourth pitch she saw to earn WWU the win and give the GNAC its first regional softball champion in conference history.
 
Cal State Dominguez Hills completes its season with a CCAA-best .650 winning percentage.