TURLOCK, Calif. – Simon Fraser is the NCAA West Region's best hitting team but Sunday they relied on pitcher Anissa Zacharczuk to deliver their fourth straight win with a four-hitter and a complete game shutout 1-0 against Cal State Dominguez Hills.
 
It was a pitcher's duel between Zacharzcuk and Alyssa Olague. However, it was a Chelsea Hotner solo home run in the fourth inning the propelled Simon Fraser to a 1-0 win over the Toros. It was Hotner's third homerun of the season and came while Toro's starter Olague was in the midst of tossing a two-hitter through five innings.
 
Simon Fraser's Zacharczuk went from start to finish, striking out seven and allowing four hits to pick up her fourth win of the season.
 
The Toros' only extra base hit in the game was a critical one in the seventh inning, when Maiya Lopez doubled with one out. However, the Toros couldn't come up with the clutch hit to drive in the tying run.
 
Olague went five innings with seven strikeouts and issuing just one walk and two hits. Ashley Wies threw a shutout sixth inning with a hit and a strikeout.
 
After dropping its first game at the TOC to California State Monterey Bay, which received votes this week in the NFCA Division II Coaches Top 25 Poll, SFU won four straight to finish 4-1 at the tournament. The Toros exit TOC with a 3-2 record.
 
SFU entered the weekend owning the best batting average in the region at .351.

Hanna Finkelstein was named to the All-Tournament Team, the Top Hitter of the tournament after she batted .625 in the tournament, going 10 for 16 with six runs scored, 11 RBI, four doubles, a triple and a home run. She went 2 for 4 with an RBI double against Cal State Monterey Bay and then went 3 for 5 with a bases-clearing triple and a two-RBI double against Holy Names. Finkelstein opened Saturday by going 3 for 4 with two runs scored and an RBI single against Academy of Art before going 3 for 4 with a two-run double against San Francisco State. Finkelstein is fourth in the GNAC with a .402 batting average. She ranks third in Division II with 1.60 RBI per game and 15th with 40 RBI.
 
SFU will return to conference play with eight straight homes games, starting with a four-game homestand at Beedie Field against Western Washington. The series begins Saturday at noon
 
SFU (14-14) is currently fifth in the GNAC at 5-7 with three series left to play against Western Washington, Montana State Billings and on the road at Northwest Nazarene.
 
--With files from Cal State Dominguez Hills

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