STOCKTON, Calif. — No. 5 Cal State Monterey Bay and No. 15 Humboldt State very well may meet again before the NCAA Tournament is complete. Between now and then, however, HSU pitcher Katie Obbema will be having nightmares about Otter All–CCAA third baseman Alissa Greenhaw (Galt/Cosumnes River College).

For the third game against Obbema, Greenhaw took the first team All-CCAA pitcher deep to break a late tie. Last week, it led to CSUMB's CCAA title-clinching win in Arcata. Saturday, her walk-off shot in the bottom of the seventh propelled the Otters to the CCAA Tournament championship game. Sunday, her fifth inning blast provided all of the scoring in CSUMB's 2-0 victory over the Lumberjacks in the tournament's title game.

CSUMB (47-10) earned its second CCAA Tournament crown and first since 2009. The win gives the Otters the CCAA's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, although they were a lock to be selected regardless of Sunday's outcome. HSU (41-17) also all but certainly will be in the NCAA Tourney Field as well.

Greenhaw finished the tournament 6-for-10 with a double, a triple and the aforementioned two homers to earn tournament MVP honors. If Greenhaw hadn't won that honor, it very well might have gone to Cori Reinhardt (Riverside Poly), who earned all three Otters wins at the championship, including Sunday's 3-hit shutout in the title game. She improved to 30-2 for the season.

Joining them on the all-tournament team were center fielder Anneliese Lopez (Ventura/Buena HS), second baseman Vanessa Avila (Dana Point/Santiago Canyon College) and first baseman Madison Casto (Sunnyvale/Homestead HS).

Sunday's pitcher's duel between Reinhardt and Obbema was everything top shelf softball is supposed to be. CSUMB twice got runners to third base in the first three innings, but Obbema stared down the heart of the Otter lineup to get out of both jams.

For her part, Reinhardt was even better, allowing just one Lumberjack to reach second base in the first six innings.

The Otter offense kept pecking away, however, putting runners on in each of the first four innings. They finally found a chink in Obbema's armor in the fifth, when Avila, as she had all weekend, got the ball rolling with a single to right. Greenhaw followed by hammering a 1-0 offering to left that was gone the moment it left her bat.

Humboldt had one final card to play and threatened to get back in the game in the seventh when Kelly Sonneman pinch ran after Sydney Roberts drew a leadoff walk. A Carly Perkins ground out moved Sonneman to second before Alison McKibbon flew out to shallow right for the second out.

Julie Peña, the normal starting third baseman who was out with an injured shoulder, came in to pinch hit and grounded a ball through the right side. Right fielder Courtney Varela (Hawthorne/Torrance HS) came up throwing and just missed getting Peña at first..

Sonneman, perhaps thinking she could catch the Otters napping, came around third and tried to score. But Casto read the play and threw quickly to Nicole Pires (Ontario/Colony HS), who easily tagged Sonneman for the final out.