SACRAMENTO -- Lafulafu Malepeai had a pair of hits and a home run, and Danyelle Leone threw four shutout innings of relief to help Sacramento State to a 5-3 win over Pacific on Wednesday afternoon.

The Hornets improved to 13-2, the program's best 15-game mark since the 1995 squad had the same record. That 1995 team won 40 games, and hosted an NCAA Regional. In addition, the team won its eighth straight game - the longest since the 2012 squad won nine straight.

Sacramento State, playing its first home game since Feb. 8, scored three times in the first inning, and never trailed the rest of the way. Pacific outhit the Hornets, 9-4, but Sacramento State took advantage of nine walks, including three from Madi Mendoza and two from Saskia Raab.

Leone (1-0) was outstanding in the circle, throwing the final four innings, allowing no runs and four hits to preserve the Hornet win. After Pacific scored an unearned run in the first inning off Hornet starter Ella Ferguson, Malepeai immediately got that run back with a homer to left field to lead off the bottom of the first. Sacramento State would eventually score two more in the inning off a Pacific error to take a 3-1 lead. 

The Hornets added another in the second on a bases loaded walk to Mendoza, before Pacific tacked on a pair in the third to make the score, 4-3. The Hornets got an insurance run in the sixth when Katie Marsh's 12-pitch at-bat ended in a two-out, RBI-double scoring Raab. Pacific had runners at first and second with two outs in the seventh, but cleanup hitter Bailey Boetjer's drive to left-center was snagged by a running Raab for the final out.

Malepeai (2), Marsh (1) and Erin Garcia (1) supplied the Hornets' four hits. The Hornets left nine runners on base, and Pacific stranded seven. Raab's eight-game hitting streak came to a close, but she has reached based safely (via hit or walk) in every game this season.

The Hornets are back in action when they host the three-day Capital Classic from Friday-Sunday. On Friday, the Hornets host both Santa Clara (12 p.m.) and San Jose State (2:30 p.m.).