Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

SMC California Athletics

Saint Mary's College Athletics Gaels
Victoria Castillo Swing vs Harvard
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Victoria Castillo went 4-6 with 3 runs scored today
5
Winner Saint Mary's SMC 21-22
4
Oregon State OSU 19-19
Winner
Saint Mary's SMC
21-22
5
Final
4
Oregon State OSU
19-19
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Saint Mary's SMC 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 5 9 2
Oregon State OSU 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 2

W: Nishikawa, Mia (8-7) L: Logan Hulon (10-12)

6
Winner Saint Mary's SMC 22-22
4
Oregon State OSU 19-20
Winner
Saint Mary's SMC
22-22
6
Final
4
Oregon State OSU
19-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Saint Mary's SMC 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 6 8 3
Oregon State OSU 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 6 4

W: Vasquez, Odhi (9-6) L: Ellie Garcia (9-8)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB | Gaels Come From Behind Twice to Sweep Doubleheader in Corvallis

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Saint Mary's (22-22, 5-3 WCC) showed grit and fortitude in a pair of comeback victories on the road against Oregon State (19-20, 2-5 WCC). The Gaels have now been asked to come from behind in 21 games this year, and with the two wins today, have done so successfully seven times.

GAME ONE: SMC 5 - OSU 4
The Gaels came from behind to take the opener in this three game set. Mia Nishikawa got the ball for game one in the circle, and surrendered an earned run in the first, but settled in nicely from there on out. An error helped load the bases for the Beavers in the second, and with two outs, they cleared those bases to take a 4-0 lead, but Nishikawa persevered to the tune of five straight scoreless frames, giving plenty of time for her offense to rally behind her. 







The Gaels began their comeback trail in the third. Dominique Oliveira reached first on the first defensive miscue of the game from the Beavers, followed by a Kiah Silva walk to set the table for Sam Buckley. Buckley promptly laced a ball through the 3-4 gap to plate Oliveira and put the Gaels on the board. It was Buckley's 37th RBI of the season, tying her for second most in a single season in program history. 



After the lone 1-2-3 inning worked by Nishikawa in the bottom of the third, the Gaels cut the deficit to one in the fourth. Victoria Castillo led off the inning with a single before Taylor Lane got a fastball over the heart of the plate and hammered it over the left field fence for her first blast of the year. Lane entered the season as the Gaels active home run leader with seven, but has since been lapped by the likes of Buckley, Alex Cutonilli and Tori Cervantes. This blast tied her for third amongst active Gaels with Cervantes.



That tie between Lane and Cervantes lasted all of one inning, as Camille Lara led off the fifth with a single before Cervantes sent a pitch over the fence to the deepest part of the yard in right left center to put the Gaels ahead for the first time today. It was her fifth home run of the year, surpassing her career-high total of four in a season last year. 



With the one run lead, Nishikawa would see the tying run in scoring position in all three remaining frames, but was cool, calm and collected, stranding those runners at second in all three occasions en route to her eighth win of the season, and the 20th of her young career. Camille Lara logged her third three hit ballgame of the season, once again taking the team lead for hits this season, now with 46. Taylor Lane was the only other Gael with two hits, as she barreled the softball twice, once with a single to the right field wall, and the other time for her first blast of the year. 

GAME TWO: SMC 6 - OSU 4
Like Mia Nishikawa, Odhi Vasquez had to pitch from behind for the early portion of game two, falling behind 1-0 and 2-1. Vasquez responded by hanging up consecutive zeroes in the third and fourth, allowing her offense to score four unanswered and push Saint Mary's out in front. Despite surrendering a couple more runs (one earned, one unearned), Vasquez worked through trouble and picked up her ninth win of the year, and her first in over a month. 













The Gaels scored their first two runs on errors, as Victoria Castillo scored on a bunted ball by Mia Zabat that was thrown by the Beavers pitcher into right field in the second, and Camille Lara scored on a ball that went through the legs of the OSU shortstop off the bat of Tori Cervantes in the third. That wasn't all in the third, however, as with one out, Jenavee Amador was robbed of extra bases in left, but Tori Cervantes scored on what would be scored a sac fly to push the Gaels ahead for the first time. 







Another sacrifice fly, this time off the bat of Camille Lara, plated Kiah Silva in the fourth, and an RBI groundout from Braxton Brown after a Victoria Castillo triple gave the Gaels their largest lead of the game at 5-2. Oregon State got one back in the fifth with a solo shot, but Braxton Brown would get that one back in the seventh with an RBI single scoring Tori Cervantes for the second time today. In the final frame, Oregon State would score on a SMC error, but on the same play, following a missed cut off, Mia Zabat would pick up the loose ball and fire it to Odhi Vasquez covering third to tag out the final out of the game. 







Victoria Castillo notched her second three hit game of the year, and moved her hit streak to four straight games. Her average climbed from 0.260 to 0.323 over the last four games. Castillo and Tori Cervantes scored twice in the game, while Braxton Brown drove in two runs. 

The Gaels will wrap up the series tomorrow with a single game at noon. 

#GaelsRise

 
Print Friendly Version