BSB | Armstrong Belts WCC Leading 13th Homer but Gaels Fall in Game Two to USF

Friday, May 15

Moraga, CA

6:00 PM

Saint Mary's College of California

29-24, 14-12

San Francisco

24-27, 15-11

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
San Francisco	3	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	10	17	0
Saint Mary's	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	4	2

#44 Luis Martin Romero: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 3 SO vs. San Francisco

BSB | Armstrong Belts WCC Leading 13th Homer but Gaels Fall in Game Two to USF

5/15/2026 10:42:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

MORAGA, Calif. - The Saint Mary's baseball team dropped game two of its three-game regular season series finale with San Francisco, falling 10-3 to the Dons Friday night in Moraga. The Gaels chipped away at the lead with single runs in three consecutive innings but the Dons used two pitchers on the night, holding the Gaels to three runs off four hits to clinch the series victory.

Ian Armstrong connected on his conference leading 13th home run of the season with a solo shot in the sixth inning. Diego Castellanos finished his night 1-for-4 but extended his hit streak to an incredible 29 games. Makoa Sniffen and Nick Allred had the other two extra-base hits for the Gaels, each recording a double with Sniffen's in the first and Allred's coming in the fifth.

Saint Mary's (29-24, 14-12 WCC)did officially lock up the fifth seed in the 2026 West Coast Conference tournament and will await its opponent after the final conference game on Saturday.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Sophomore right hander Sam Kretsch made his fifth start and team high 19th appearance of the season Friday night but San Francisco (24-27, 15-11 WCC) had more of the same going from Thursday night, scoring seven runs off ten hits over the first three innings. Saint Mary's stopped the bleeding with a run in the fourth inning after loading the bases and went on to score three runs over three consecutive innings.

Ian Josephson helped plate a run with a ground ball out in the fourth, followed by an RBI ground out in the fifth from Cody Kashimoto and then finally a solo home run from Ian Armstrong in the sixth to give the Gaels three runs. The solo homer for Armstrong would give him the WCC lead with 13 on the season. A two-RBI double in the ninth though would help extend the Dons lead to 10-3 as USF reliever Quentin Pohorski would retire the Gaels in order in the bottom half of the inning to clinch the series win.

Diego Emerling and Luis Martin Romero helped piece together the final six innings of the ballgame, allowing a combined three runs off seven hits with two of those runs coming as unearned. Emerling finished his outing with a career high three innings and five strikeouts while Romero finished the final three frames, allowing just four hits and zero earned runs in his 16th appearance of the season.

GAME NOTES

Diego Castellanos extended his hit streak to 29 games, going 1-for-4 with a run scored
Makoa Sniffen also recorded a hit to keep pace with the single-season program record, sitting at 84 hits
Sniffen's lone hit was a double back in the first inning, his 15th of the season
Ian Armstrong crushed his WCC leading 13th home run of the season with a solo shot in the 6th inning
Nick Allred got the start in left for the fourth time in his last five games and extended his hit streak to seven games, going 1-for-3 with a double
Diego Emerling had a career outing with three innings of work and a career high five strikeouts
Luis Martin Romero went three innings in relief without allowing an earned run in his 16th appearance of the season

LOOKING AHEAD

The 2026 regular season finale against the Dons will take place on Saturday with Senior Day for the Gaels. The pregame ceremony will take place approximately 20 minutes before first pitch. Tickets for Saturday's regular season finale can be purchased online at smcgaels.com/tickets.

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