The Cerritos softball team suffered their first hosted loss of the year followed by their second shortly thereafter to pull the Falcons out of the state title run during the Super Regional softball play-offs last Saturday.

Despite having a dominating season the Falcons will not be in the running for this years state title.

Their first loss was to Fullerton College, 4-1, and shortly thereafter they lost to Mt. San Antonio College, 6-5.

During the regular season it swept No.4 seeded Mt. SAC in three games while also beating No.5 seeded Fullerton both times they faced them in the regular season.

The team was also undefeated at home throughout the season but suffered both play-off losses hosting the games.

They defeated Grossmont College, 5-3, at the start of the Super Regional in what head coach Kodee Murray called the most important game of the weekend.

However, Saturday proved to be much more important as it destroyed any chance of the team continuing to the state championship.

Going into Saturday with a 17 game win streak, their longest of the season, it was hard to envision the team suffering this pair of losses consecutively to teams they previously beat.

The team left too many runners on base and lacked the clinch hitting that helped bring them so far into the season.

Pitching also failed to come through as multiple runs were scored during late innings creating deficits that the Falcons could not rebound from.

The team ends with a 17-1 conference record and an overall record of 39-6.

The play-off route in the post season has proved to be a hurdle too tall for the Falcons to leap 2 years in a row.

The end of the season in 2009 was similar for Cerritos as the women also lost in the Super Regional second round play-offs. They lost to Sierra College, 3-2, and Santa Ana College, 8-1.