MORAGA, Calif. — A big nine-run outburst in the eighth inning Tuesday by the Saint Mary's baseball team turned a back-and-forth close contest into a blowout, as the Gaels swept their non-conference home-and-home series against UC Santa Barbara with a 15-5 win at Louis Guisto Field.
Saint Mary's (31-17) earned its second straight come-from-behind win and 18th of the season with 11 runs in the seventh and eighth innings combined. UC Santa Barbara (20-25) held three different leads Tuesday but wasn't able to hold on to any of them. The Gauchos led 1-0 in the first, 4-3 in the fifth and 5-4 in the sixth.