HONOLULU -- On the second day of the Hawaii Spring Fling, Sacramento State split a pair of games, beating Western Illinois, 4-1, before falling to CSU Bakersfield, 14-6.

Sacramento State moved its record to 3-1 at the three-day tournament (hosted by Hawaii), and 6-2 overall this season. The loss to Bakersfield snapped a four-game winning streak.

The Hornets are playing six games over three days, and conclude the tourney tomorrow vs. Utah Tech (5 p.m. PT) and host Hawaii (7:30 p.m. PT).

Gwen Ludwig, Andrea Lira and Lafulafu Malepeai hit safely in both games. That includes Ludwig finishing 4-for-8 with three runs and a stolen base, Lira going 3-for-7 with a run and two RBIs, and Malepeai going 2-for-6 with two runs, a double and an RBI.

For Lira, she has now hit safely in each of the first eight games of the season, and dating back to last year, has a 16-game hitting streak. Its the longest hitting streak by a Hornet since 2018, and with a hit in tomorrow's first game against Utah Tech, would move into Sacramento State's top five for longest hitting streak in program history.

In addition, Katie Marsh hit her team-high third home run of the season vs. CSU Bakersfield, and freshman Shannon Garcia connected her first collegiate homer against Western Illinois. The Garcia home run also came on her first collegiate hit.

In the win over Western Illinois, Sacramento State scored single runs in the first, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. The run in the fifth snapped a 1-1 tie. The Hornets' top three hitters in the lineup (Ludwig, Malepeai and Lira) combined to go 4-for-10 with two runs and a pair of RBIs. That included a Lira RBI-single scoring Malepeai in the fifth which proved to be the game-winning RBI.

Danyelle Leone (1-0) earned the victory, allowing just one run and three hits in four innings. Alexa Ortiz collected her first save of the season, holding Western Illinois hitless and facing one batter over the minimum during the final three innings.

In the loss to CSU Bakersfield, the Hornets held a 4-2 lead after the first inning, and 5-4 after the third, but the Roadrunners scored seven times in the fourth to put the game away. Ludwig and Lira collected two hits apiece. Sacramento State batters struck out just twice the entire game. The top six hitters in the lineup combined for seven hits, but the bottom three hitters in the lineup went a combined 0-for-10.