SACRAMENTO -- Marissa Bertuccio threw a complete game three-hitter, and Lewa Day launched a two-run homer to lead Sacramento State to a 2-1 victory over Portland State in the first game of a Big Sky Conference doubleheader Friday afternoon at Shea Stadium. The Vikings bounced back to win the nightcap, 5-0.

Sacramento State (22-14, 3-2) was playing for the first time since March 30 after last week's three-game series at Idaho State was postponed. The Hornets and Vikings (16-19, 5-3) will conclude their three-game series tomorrow at noon. Rain is in the forecast tomorrow.

The Hornet offense was held down by Portland State pitching in today's doubleheader. Sacramento State scored just two runs on six hits in 44 at-bats (.136). Fortunately, one of those hits came in the first inning of the opener off the bat of senior Lewa Day, who cranked a two-run no doubter over the left field wall. That proved to be the only runs Sacramento State would score all day, and was enough run support for the dominant Marissa Bertuccio.

The senior right-hander won her 11th game (11-5) while lowering her ERA to 1.70 and notching her 13th complete game. In seven innings, Bertuccio allowed just three hits and one run with no walks and six strikeouts. That sixth strikeout was the 500th of her career, and she is now one of just four Sacramento State hurlers to notch 500 during the program's Div. I era (1990-pres.).

After the Hornets jumped out to the 2-0 lead, Portland State got a run back in the fifth, and had runners at second and third with one out in the seventh. Bertuccio, however, got a pop-out and a line out to end the game. The line out was caught by second baseman Jenna Birch who made a brilliant full extension diving catch. Birch made three highlight reel plays during the doubleheader, but the diving catch was one of the biggest of the season and saved what likely would have been two PSU runs.

The Day homer in the first scored Haley Hanson, who reached via hit and stole her 40th career bag. The 40 stolen bases tie the Div. I era program record, and she is also 17-for-18 this season. The 17 stolen bases set the new Hornet Div. I single-season record, originally held by Nene Alas (2019). Hanson led off the first with a base hit, extending her hitting streak to 10 games (the longest by a Hornet this season). That hitting streak did come to an end in the nightcap.

Unfortunately for Sacramento State, Day had to leave the game with injury after her home run and did not return. The round tripper for Day was her only at-bat of the afternoon, and marked her 10th bomb of the season and 56th of her brilliant career.

The Hornets had three hits off PSU starter Allicitie Frost, who took the loss. Caroline Evans had Sacramento State's other hit, a fifth-inning double.

In the nightcap, PSU's Grace Kimball (10-8) tossed a three-hit shutout while walking four and striking out six. The Vikings scored four times in the second inning, and added a run of insurance in the sixth.

Sacramento State did not have a hit until the fourth inning, but did threaten to score in fourth, fifth and seventh innings, putting multiple runners aboard in each. That included loading the bases with no outs in the seventh, but Kimball got out of the jam.

Savannah Wahl worked the first 1.2 innings. Evans tossed 5.1 innings of relief, allowing just a run and six hits. Gwen Ludwig, Alexis Parish and Evans had the Hornet hits. Evans was the only Sacramento State player to hit safely in both games.