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Saint Mary's College Athletics Gaels
Eryn McCoy vs Santa Clara
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
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Winner Santa Clara SCU 9-28
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Saint Mary's SMC 9-28
Winner
Santa Clara SCU
9-28
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Final
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Saint Mary's SMC
9-28
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Santa Clara SCU 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 9 0
Saint Mary's SMC 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8 3

W: DIAS, Regan (6-8) L: Perez, Eileen (2-14)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB | Gaels Drop Series Finale to Broncos

Saint Mary's dropped their first conference game of the season in a 4-1 loss at home to Santa Clara.

MORAGA, Calif. — Saint Mary's (9-28, 2-1 WCC) had a chance to sweep the Broncos (9-28, 1-2 WCC) on Sunday but a number of miscues proved costly in a 4-1 loss.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Broncos' first batter of the game, Eleni Spirakis, reached on a misplayed pop-up in the infield and would come home on a sacrifice fly just one batter later. A two-run jack by Emma Bickford in the second inning gave SCU a three-run advantage early on.

Saint Mary's got on the board in the fifth as Dylan Linton notched an RBI fielder's choice to cut the deficit to two. Later in the inning, the Gaels had two runners on base but were picked off at second on a throw down from the Broncos' catcher to end the threat.

Trailing by three in the final inning, Nikki Alexander got on base with a single and Julia McCormack followed suit with a double but another base running error would force out McCormack at third.

Kimiko Zapanta had two of the team's eight hits in the game and also stole her eighth bag of the season. Bailey Lotz also went 1-for-3 with a double.

Eryn McCoy came in to relieve Eileen Perez in the second and threw six innings with no earned runs while striking out three. The junior allowed two earned runs over 13 innings this weekend and walked only two batters.

SMC committed three errors on defense that resulted in two unearned runs for Santa Clara.

UP NEXT: SACRAMENTO STATE
  • The Gaels remain at home for a doubleheader on Tuesday versus Sacramento State. Links to live stats can be found on the team's schedule page.
 
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