BASE | Gaels Announce Full 2021 Schedule
2/5/2021 2:52:00 PM | Baseball
MORAGA, Calif. — It's been nearly a year since Saint Mary's Baseball has taken the diamond, but the Gaels are just about set for the 2021 season. The full, tentative 2021 schedule has officially been released, and given COVID-19 restrictions still in place across much of the country, the schedule is mostly regional. In this release, we will go through the highlights of this year's schedule, including the full West Coast Conference schedule.
HOME OPENER – UTAH VALLEY
Saint Mary's begins the 2021 season at home, in contrast to 2020 where they opened on the road in Texas. This season, Saint Mary's welcomes Utah Valley to Moraga for the home opener, a four-game series beginning on Friday, February 19. These two teams have met 21 times since 2007, and most recently at Utah Valley in 2019, when the Gaels swept the Wolverines (SMC is 15-6 against Utah Valley). The Gaels have won their last five home openers, dating back to 2015. The series begins with at 2:00 pm on Friday, with a doubleheader set for Saturday beginning at 10:00 am.
AWAY FROM HOME
The Gaels go on the road for the first time during the season the following weekend, February 26-28, as the Gaels take on the Lancers of California Baptist. The series begins on Friday with a 3:00 pm start before they play a night-time doubleheader on Saturday, and the series concludes on Sunday at 11:00 am. This begins a stretch of games away from home for Saint Mary's including two games at Cal (March 6-7) and three games in non-conference play against Pacific (March 12-13).
WCC IS BACK
After the 2020 season was halted the week WCC play was slated to begin, the Gaels are scheduled to play WCC games for the first time since 2019. Conference play begins on March 19 as the Gaels host San Diego for a three-game series, and continues all the way through mid-May. Saint Mary's went 17-10 during WCC play in the 2019 season and went all the way to championship game of the WCC tournament before falling to LMU in the title game. The last two teams Saint Mary's saw in the postseason (Gonzaga and LMU) are on the schedule late in the year – at Gonzaga (April 9-11) and vs. LMU (14-16, the final WCC series of the year).
FULL WCC SCHEDULE
March 19-21 vs. San Diego
March 26-28 at Pepperdine
April 1-3 vs. Portland
April 9-11 at Gonzaga
April 16-18 vs. Santa Clara
April 23-25 vs. Pacific
April 29-May 1 at BYU
May 7-9 at San Francisco
May 14-16 vs. LMU
ADDITIONAL NOTES
It is important to remember that this 2021 season's schedule is extremely tentative, and is subject to change based on further restrictions and cautions over COVID-19…no fans will be allowed into Louis Guisto Field during the entire 2021 season…live broadcasts of every Saint Mary's home game can be found on the WCC Network throughout the season, with links to every broadcast on the Gaels schedule page…to view the entire 2021 schedule, click HERE.
#GaelsRise
HOME OPENER – UTAH VALLEY
Saint Mary's begins the 2021 season at home, in contrast to 2020 where they opened on the road in Texas. This season, Saint Mary's welcomes Utah Valley to Moraga for the home opener, a four-game series beginning on Friday, February 19. These two teams have met 21 times since 2007, and most recently at Utah Valley in 2019, when the Gaels swept the Wolverines (SMC is 15-6 against Utah Valley). The Gaels have won their last five home openers, dating back to 2015. The series begins with at 2:00 pm on Friday, with a doubleheader set for Saturday beginning at 10:00 am.
AWAY FROM HOME
The Gaels go on the road for the first time during the season the following weekend, February 26-28, as the Gaels take on the Lancers of California Baptist. The series begins on Friday with a 3:00 pm start before they play a night-time doubleheader on Saturday, and the series concludes on Sunday at 11:00 am. This begins a stretch of games away from home for Saint Mary's including two games at Cal (March 6-7) and three games in non-conference play against Pacific (March 12-13).
WCC IS BACK
After the 2020 season was halted the week WCC play was slated to begin, the Gaels are scheduled to play WCC games for the first time since 2019. Conference play begins on March 19 as the Gaels host San Diego for a three-game series, and continues all the way through mid-May. Saint Mary's went 17-10 during WCC play in the 2019 season and went all the way to championship game of the WCC tournament before falling to LMU in the title game. The last two teams Saint Mary's saw in the postseason (Gonzaga and LMU) are on the schedule late in the year – at Gonzaga (April 9-11) and vs. LMU (14-16, the final WCC series of the year).
FULL WCC SCHEDULE
March 19-21 vs. San Diego
March 26-28 at Pepperdine
April 1-3 vs. Portland
April 9-11 at Gonzaga
April 16-18 vs. Santa Clara
April 23-25 vs. Pacific
April 29-May 1 at BYU
May 7-9 at San Francisco
May 14-16 vs. LMU
ADDITIONAL NOTES
It is important to remember that this 2021 season's schedule is extremely tentative, and is subject to change based on further restrictions and cautions over COVID-19…no fans will be allowed into Louis Guisto Field during the entire 2021 season…live broadcasts of every Saint Mary's home game can be found on the WCC Network throughout the season, with links to every broadcast on the Gaels schedule page…to view the entire 2021 schedule, click HERE.
#GaelsRise
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