{"id":195806,"date":"2026-02-27T02:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195806\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:19:10","slug":"dons-fall-to-lancers-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195806\/","title":{"rendered":"Dons Fall to Lancers in Series Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772158750_379_CBU logo.png\" alt=\"California Baptist\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> California Baptist<\/p>\n<p>2\/27\/2026 | 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Feb. 27 (Fri) \/ 2:00 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772158750_379_CBU logo.png\" alt=\"California Baptist\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0California Baptist&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/california-baptist\/95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. \u2013 The University of San Francisco baseball team (5-3) dropped a 16-2 nonconference decision to California Baptist (8-2) in the series opener Thursday afternoon at Benedetti Diamond.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIN CASE YOU MISSED IT:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tTrailing 7-0, San Francisco scored its first run of the game in the bottom of the fourth inning as <a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/eddison-esquivel\/6249\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6249\" target=\"_blank\">Eddison Esquivel<\/a> came across to score on a <a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/wyatt-davis\/6372\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6372\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Davis<\/a> double.&#13;<br \/>\n\tAfter California Baptist added a run in the following frame, <a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tj-rogers\/6260\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6260\" target=\"_blank\">TJ Rogers<\/a> recorded a solo home run off the left-field netting to get the green and gold within 8-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Lancers scored eight unanswered runs in the seventh and eighth innings to solidify the 16-2 victory.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NOTABLE PERFORMANCES:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSan Francisco pitchers faced 53 hitters in the game, allowing eight ground balls and nine fly balls while striking out six.&#13;<br \/>\n\tRogers led the Dons at the plate, going one-for-three with a home run, his third of the season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tDavis recorded an RBI with a double in the fourth inning. He is currently tied for the team lead in RBI with seven through eight games.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>POSTGAME WITH THE DONS:<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSan Francisco continues its series against California Baptist at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, at Benedetti Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW US:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor updates and more information on the San Francisco baseball program,\u00a0follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFDonsBaseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SFDonsBaseball<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/usfdonsbaseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@USFDonsBaseball<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/University.of.SanFrancisco.Baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@University.of.San.Francisco.Baseball<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMERCHANDISE:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWant to dress like the Dons? Get your official San Francisco Dons gear from the University of San Francisco bookstore today!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usfca.spirit.bncollege.com\/?utm_campaign=bm-usfca-athletics&amp;utm_source=client_push&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to purchase<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSPONSOR THE DONS:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe University of San Francisco Athletics Department would like to acknowledge our department sponsor \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/common\/controls\/adhandler.aspx?ad_id=13&amp;target=https:\/\/www.coca-cola.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coca-Cola\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; for their continued support of USF Athletics. Interested in sponsoring the Dons? Please contact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/staff.aspx?staff=227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Allocco<\/a>, the Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director of External Relations, at\u00a0fallocco@usfca.edu or at (415) 422-4561.<\/p>\n<p>*This article was created using technology provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a>*<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: California Baptist 2\/27\/2026 | 2:00 p.m. &#13; ESPN+ &#13; &#13; Feb. 27 (Fri)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-195806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}