Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CARSON, Calif. – Beginning an eight-game stretch in California, the Pace University softball team dropped a pair of contests to No. 16 Cal State Dominguez Hills on Sunday afternoon. The Setters were defeated by scores of 4-1 and 5-1 in the afternoon doubleheader.

Offensively, the Blue and Gold totaled four hits in each contest, all of which were singles. Sophomore Brianna Shea (Oceanside, Calif./El Camino) and senior Gwen Pederson (Sylmar, Calif./Granada Hills Charter) both went 2-for-3 in the finale, while Haley Rusbuldt (Lakewood, Wash./Lakes), Alexandra Tejeda (Diamond Bar, Calif./Diamond Bar), Carolina Iturriaga (North Hills, Calif./Grover Cleveland), and Arianna Guarracino (Middletown, N.Y./Minisink Valley) each tallied hits in the first game of the day.

Iturriaga recorded Pace's lone RBI on the afternoon following a single in the fourth inning of the opener.

On the other side of the ball, sophomore Gisselle Garcia (Lemon Grove, Calif./Mater Dei Catholic) pitched well in a losing effort in the first game of the day. The California native struck out five while allowing four runs in six innings of action.

Junior Anna Acevedo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Fontbonne Hall Academy) also allowed four earned runs and struck out five in the second game of the day.

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The Setters will play a doubleheader at Concordia University in Irvine, Calif. tomorrow evening (6 p.m.).