Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ARCATA – HSU softball coach Frank Cheek may never bunt again. With this year's team, runners at first base are already in scoring position.
 
Humboldt State scored all its runs on home runs in a pair of wins over Cal State Stanislaus (6-4, 7-0) in California Collegiate Athletic Association action on Friday.
 
The Lumberjacks lead the nation with 41 home runs, seven more than the next highest team, University of North Georgia. Humboldt is 10-4 in CCAA action and 16-9 overall. The Jacks have already won more conference games this season than they did last year. Stanislaus drops to 6-12 in league and 11-15 overall.
 
The two wins against the Warriors put the Jacks in first place in the CCAA.
 
Courtney Hiatt hit the mightiest of Humboldt six blasts on the day. In the bottom of the fifth she hammered the first pitch she saw deep over the fence in left for a grand slam – her second grand slam of the season.
 
“I knew they were going to walk Hannah to try and get to me because she hits home runs, too,” Hiatt said.  “I knew if I went up there and was aggressive on the first pitch, I'd just drive it. I think the way coach has us in the lineup, our hitters are in the perfect spots. Our first five or six hitters - it's scary. Grand slams don't happen every day, but apparently when you play Humboldt softball they do.”
 
It was the fourth game in a row that a Lumberjack has hit a grand slam. The slam streak came to end in the second game Friday when the Jacks could only hit a pair of 2-run homers (Serena Aragones and Megan Wink) and a 3-run shot (Tonya Walker).
 
Chrissy Stalf was also a member of the dinger parade, blasting the 38th of her career in the first game to move out of a tie with Natalie Galletly for second on the HSU all-time homer list. Stalf has nine homers this season. Sarah Fox also went deep in the first game.
 
“It feels really good,” Stalf said of her place in the record books.  “I didn't know until you guys kept putting it in all the papers, and I'm proud of myself. But overall I'm proud that we won.”
 
“We can hit the long ball,” said Cheek.  “We have eight batters in that starting lineup that have hit home runs. They're walking Williams, and we have pretty good power behind her. They walked her and Hiatt hit one out. I thought the coach did the right thing, and I would've done the same thing.”
 
Lizzy Perez (9-4) held on for the win in the first game, giving up a three-run homer to Cierrah Mullins in the seventh inning. Katie Obbema (4-1) pitched a shutout in the second game, scattering five his in seven innings. She lowered her ERA to 3.54.