SPOKANE, Wash. – Saint Mary's Baseball will head north to take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs in a battle for WCC Tournament seeding.
 
The Zags currently sit at 13-8 in a three-way tie for second place, two games ahead of the Gaels who currently occupy the sixth, and final seed in the tournament standings.
 
THE DETAILS
Saint Mary's (18-21, 11-10) vs. Gonzaga (17-25, 13-8)
May 5-7, Steve Hertz Field – Spokane, Wash.
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LAST TIME OUT
In a series where each game came down to the final frame, USF had two walk-off wins against SMC last weekend, winning game two in the bottom of the 12th and game three with a home run in the bottom of the ninth to take the series.
 
The Gaels did win game one by scoring four runs in the ninth to come away with a 4-2 win over the Dons.
 
Connor Linchey again delivered a quality start for the Gaels, allowing just two runs over 6.2 innings with two walks and two strikeouts. Ryan Taurek would enter in relief in the seventh, and collected the win with a hitless 2.1 innings, allowing no walks with four strikeouts.
 
ABOUT GONZAGA
Gonzaga has recently turned it on in West Coast Conference play, after struggling with a daunting non-conference slate to start the season. They were swept by No. 24 Texas Tech, Tennessee, and GCU early in the year.
 
The Bulldogs were picked to repeat as WCC champs in the conference's annual preseason coaches' poll. They received six first-place votes to San Diego's four.
 
The Zags are defending WCC Regular Season Champions for the second straight season after winning their sixth WCC title in 2022, matching their best record in conference play (20-7) the past two seasons as well as cracking thirty wins for the sixth consecutive full season.
 
Since 2016, Gonzaga has the most regular-season conference wins (112), the highest regular season conference winning percentage (.691), the most WCC Tourney appearances (5), regular or tournament championships (5) and regional appearances (4) among West Coast Conference teams.
 
Coach Mark Machtolf's Bulldogs are coming off a program-best No. 10 ranking and their second straight year with a win in the NCAA Tournament – the first time in program history the Zags have done so under the current format – after appearing as a #2 seed in the 2022 Blacksburg Regional. The Bulldogs were eliminated by #3-seed Columbia in Game Three after rallying to eliminate #4-seed Wright State in Game Two.