{"id":199823,"date":"2026-03-02T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:17:09","slug":"lancers-top-dons-in-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199823\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancers Top Dons in Series Finale"},"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\/03\/UMassLowell.png\" alt=\"UMass Lowell\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> UMass Lowell<\/p>\n<p>3\/6\/2026 | 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 06 (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\/03\/UMassLowell.png\" alt=\"UMass Lowell\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0UMass Lowell&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/umass-lowell\/206\" 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 (6-5) fell to California Baptist (10-3) in a low-scoring 2-1 loss in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Benedetti Diamond.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIN CASE YOU MISSED IT:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSan Francisco scored the game&#8217;s opening run on a <a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brendan-burke\/6246\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6246\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Burke<\/a> solo home run in the bottom of the second inning to give the Dons a 1-0 advantage.&#13;<br \/>\n\tCalifornia Baptist rallied in the third and fourth innings, scoring two runs to take a 2-1 lead. The Lancers held the Dons scoreless in the final five frames to earn the win and secure the series.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NOTABLE PERFORMANCES:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/adrian-valdez\/6364\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6364\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Valdez<\/a> earned the start on the mound and went five innings, giving up two runs, one earned, on three hits, allowing one walk and striking out five.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/usfdons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/quentin-pohorski\/6258\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6258\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Pohorski<\/a> was a bright spot for the Dons, coming out of the bullpen and throwing three shutout innings, allowing one hit, with two walks and three strikeouts.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBurke recorded his third career home run, his first of the season, and went one-for-four at the plate to lead the green and gold offensively.&#13;<br \/>\n\tAs a team, the Dons outhit the Lancers for the first time this series, accumulating five throughout the contest. Five different players recorded a base hit, with Burke registering the lone extra-base knock.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>POSTGAME WITH THE DONS:<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSan Francisco returns to the Hilltop and continues its home stand with a four-game series against UMass Lowell on Friday, Mar. 6 \u2013 Monday, Mar. 9, 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=1238&amp;target=https:\/\/bauersit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bauer&#8217;s Intelligent Transportation<\/a>\u00a0&#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: UMass Lowell 3\/6\/2026 | 2:00 p.m. &#13; ESPN+ &#13; &#13; Mar. 06 (Fri)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-199823","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\/199823","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=199823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}