SEASIDE, Calif. — The Cal State Monterey Bay softball team appeared to be in the driver's seat in its NCAA West Regional opener versus Montana State Billings. The Otters built a 6–0 lead through five innings and still led 6–3 with one out in the seventh. But MSUB capped an amazing rally with a 3-run Kelsey Devlin homer that lifted the No. 8 seeded Yellowjackets to a surprising 7-6 win over the top-seeded Otters Friday at the Otter Sports Complex.

CSUMB (47-11 overall) drops to the loser's bracket, where it will face No. 4 seed Humboldt State (41-18) in an elimination game at 1:30 p.m. Humboldt was itself the victim of a late grand slam in a 5-4 loss to No. 5 Sonoma State.

Sonoma (40-19) and MSUB (30-21) will play at 11 a.m. for the right to advance to Sunday's championship game.

The Otters jumped ahead in the third inning on an RBI single by Anneliese Lopez (Ventura/Buena HS). Alissa Greenhaw's (Galt/Cosumnes River College) 2-out, 2-run double capped a 5-run Otter fifth that seemed to put CSUMB in cruise control up 6-0.

But five singles in the sixth allowed MSUB to pull three runs back. Nevertheless, when Otter starter Cori Reinhardt (Riverside Poly) got Brittany Sanders to ground out leading off the seventh, CSUMB was just two outs away from the win.

But an Aubrey Conceiscao solo shot got the Yellowjackets going. Then a walk and a single up the middle set the stage for Devlin, who belted her sixth homer of the season to left center to complete the comeback.