Box Score BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— The regular season has come to an end for No. 4 UCSB Baseball (43-12, 27-3) which completed the sweeping of CSU Bakersfield Saturday afternoon with a 14-6 win. The Gauchos will now patiently await Monday's NCAA Selection Show to find out where they will be heading for their NCAA Regional.
Notable
- 27 Big West wins is the most in program history with the exemption of last season where the conference played four-game weekend series. The 27-3 record grants a win percentage of .900 which is also the most in program history.
- The Gauchos finish the regular season 14-0-1 in weekend series and swept nine of them. The nine sweeps tie the record that was set in 2019.
On the Stat Sheet
- Ryan Gallagher continued his bid for Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year improving to 8-0 on the year with five innings of work tonight. The righty allowed three runs on six hits and had a strikeout. He finishes the regular season with an ERA of 3.00.
- Christian Kirtley (43), Johnson (24), and Broc Mortensen (16) all extended their on-base streaks.
- The Gauchos outhit the Roadrunners 20-9 collecting five doubles, two homers, and 13 RBI. They also had seven walks and an OPS of 1.338.
- Six different Gauchos posted multi-hit efforts with four of them having three-plus.
- Nick Vogt led the way going 4-for-5 with a double, a walk, two RBI, and two runs.
- LeTrey McCollum had a career day going 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI, and a run.
- Bryce Willits went 3-for-4 a pair of doubles, walks, and runs to go with a RBI.
- Mortensen tied the Big West lead with his 15th home run of the season and finished 3-for-5 with a double and a team-best four RBI. He has now tied his home run total from last season and has a chance to be the conference leader back-to-back seasons.
How It Happened
- The Gauchos scored a single run in four different innings, but did most of their damage hanging a four in the third and posting a six-spot in the eighth.
- The first run scored in the first frame as Christian Kirtley collected a sac-fly but CSUB was quick to respond tying the game in the bottom half.
- UCSB had five hits in the third opening with three-straight singles to load the bases. Mortensen promptly cleared the bases with a double to left center to make it a 4-1 ball game. Zander Darby added another singling through the infield to score Mortensen.
- CSUB answered with a pair of runs to cut the lead but Kirtley extended it to 6-3 with a lead-off homer in the fifth, his 11th of the year.
- Willits posted an RBI double in the sixth and John Newman Jr. had a pinch hit RBI single in the seventh to grow the lead to 8-3.
- UCSB used five hits to score six runs in the eighth including Mortensen's bomb and a two-RBI single by Vogt.
Next Up
UCSB will find out where its heading for the postseason Monday morning at 9 AM on ESPN2.
