PALO ALTO, Calif. ? The Portland State softball team dropped a 5-0 contest to Cal Poly in an NCAA Tournament elimination game on Saturday afternoon at Smith Family Field and saw its season end with a 29-26 record.

Cal Poly sophomore pitcher Anna Cahn (28-6) held the Vikings to just two hits, struck out four and didn't walk a batter in a complete-game effort.

The Mustangs struck first, scoring a pair of runs in the top of the fifth on three hits.

After the Viks failed to capitalize with runners on second and third, and one out in the bottom of the fourth, the Mustangs found themselves in the exact same situation one-half inning later.

A sacrifice fly to left field by Jenna Maiden brought across the first run for Cal Poly, and Stephanie Tam followed with an RBI-single up the middle to put the Mustangs up 2-0.

The Mustangs then added two more runs in the sixth and another in the seventh for the final margin.

Portland State was making its second-ever appearance in the NCAA Division I Tournament, and first since 2006. They lost to No. 5 Stanford, 10-3, yesterday, and then were eliminated by the 22nd-ranked Mustangs today.

Arielle Wiser and Jamee Rauch picked up the only hits in the game for Portland State.

Cahn helped her cause by going 3-for-4 with an RBI at the plate.

Nichole Latham took the loss for the Vikings, giving up eight hits and two walks in 5.1 innings to fall to 16-13.

The 29 wins are the third-most for the Vikings since jumping up to the DI ranks in 1999. They graduate six seniors and return four position starters and their top two pitchers from a squad that won the Pacific Coast Softball Conference title.

"It was a rough game. Up until the fifth inning we were right in it," said PSU Head Coach Tobin-Echo Hawk. "If we would have scored there in the fourth I think things would have been different. It was just a change in momentum that took the game away from us."

GAME NOTES: Four of the six seniors (Jessi Even, Jackie Heide, Jamee Rauch and Jana Rae Slayton) played all four seasons at PSU, and went 121-107 in their career. That mark is the best four-year period for the Viks at the DI level ... Wiser finished the year on a six-game hitting streak ... Heide's .358 batting average on the season is the best in school history on the DI level ... PSU finished with a .286 team batting average, it's best since 1997.