BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The CSUB and New Mexico State softball teams played a pair of mirror image games, earning the teams a split Monday afternoon at the Roadrunner softball Complex. CSUB took game one, 7-1, before NMSU came back to win game two, 5-1.

Senior pitcher Katie Chavez (Fresno/Edison HS) and junior first baseman Ryane Petersen (Fresno/Fresno State) were the story in game one. Chavez twirled a three-hitter to hold one of the nation's highest scoring teams (NMSU came in ranked 25^th in scoring and 27^th in home runs nationally) in check.

At the plate, Petersen was on fire. She hit two home runs-her 10^th and 11^th of the season-in addition to a 219-foot single that hit the top of the fence in dead centerfield.

Petersen helped CSUB open the scoring in game one with a two-run shot to highlight a three-run the first inning. She led off the fourth inning with another homer, this one moving her to within one of Christie Hill's school record, before Danielle Lyman (Moreno Valley/Canyon Springs HS) added a two-run single to give Chavez more than enough breathing room.

NMSU lived, or, rather, died in the air in game one as the Roadrunner defense tracked down a plethora of line drives and fly balls. Only Ashley Maroda's fourth inning solo home run did any damage, however, as Chavez allowed just three runners as far as second base.

But the Aggies turned the tables in game two. NMSU scratched out single runs in the second and fourth innings to sandwich Tiara Jennings' seventh homer of the season in the third.

CSUB hitters, meanwhile, saw the Aggie defense deny several sure scoring chances with spectacular plays. Right fielder Amber Olive made the biggest play, leaping at the fence in right center to rob Kristen Archuleta (Hollister/San Benito HS) of what would have been her 11^th home run.

The Roadrunners scored their lone run of game two when Chelsey Bell (Ridgecrest/Burroughs HS) followed Stefanie Frei's (Valencia/Canyon Country HS) one-out double in the fourth with a single up the middle.

CSUB (19-29 overall) returns to Pacific Coast Softball Conference action Saturday with a doubleheader at Sacramento State. NMSU (22-25) returns home to host Utah State in a three-game Western Athletic Conference series beginning Friday in Las Cruces.