The Cerritos College softball team dropped two games back of first place in the South Coast Conference after suffering a 10-5 defeat at the hands of East Los Angeles College on Thursday. The loss was the first all season by a team that is ranked behind the Falcons (19-7, 9-3), who entered the week ranked #5 in Southern California. The team will play a rain make-up game at Nancy Kelly Field against Orange Coast College (6-15) at 3:00 p.m. on Monday.

In the top of the first inning, Cerritos took a 1-0 lead, but saw the Huskies (10-17, 4-8) score the next eight runs. East LA scored runs in four straight innings, while the Falcons made a run with a pair of runs in the sixth and seventh innings.

Freshman starting pitcher Kristen Voller (Norco HS) took the loss after allowing three runs in four innings, with both freshman Jissel Caballero (Warren HS) and sophomore Jenny Navarro (Warren HS) also seeing action in the circle.

At the plate, freshman first baseman Kylee Brown (Mayfair HS) went 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBI, with Navarro also adding a pair of hits and an RBI. Sophomore outfielder Mackenzie Kutzke (Los Alamitos HS/University of Montana) drove in a pair of runs in the loss.