Cade Campbell Becomes Fourth Golden Bear To Hit School Record-Tying Three Long Balls

SANTA CLARA – The California baseball team (6-5) homered a school-record-tying eight times on its way to a 19-3 win over Santa Clara (6-4) in seven innings at Stephen Schott Stadium on Sunday. Cade Campbell (4-5, 3B, 3 HR, 5 RBI) tied school records with three home runs and 15 total bases to lead the attack. Alex Birge (3-3, 2 HR, 4 RBI) went deep twice, while PJ Moutzouridis (3-5, 3B, HR, 2 RBI), Jarren Advincula  (1-4, HR, 2 RBI) and Matthew Thomas (1-4, HR, RBI) also cleared the fences.

"Our guys had a lot of fun playing the game today," head coach Mike Neu said.

The eight home runs were the second-most hit by a Division I team in 2025 behind only BYU's 10 against Cal State Northridge on Feb. 20.

Santa Clara scored the game's first run when Malcolm Williams led off the bottom of the second with a triple and scored on Dylan Joyce's sacrifice fly.

Birge started Cal's long ball party with an opposite field solo shot over the left field wall to lead off the third inning that tied the score 1-1 but the Broncos answered with two runs of the their own in the bottom of third on a solo homer by Max Ross to lead off the home half and an RBI single by Williams that plated Ben Cleary, who had doubled two batters earlier and moved to third on a ground ball.

Campbell got one run back with his first home run to lead off the fourth.

Dominic Smaldino started the fifth with a walk before Birge hit his second homer in as many at bats with a two-run shot that gave the Bears a 4-3 lead that was their first of the day. Thomas followed with a solo shot before Campbell capped the rally with his second homer to put the Bears up 6-3.

The Bears broke the game wide open and hit three more home runs in the top of the sixth. PJ Moutzouridis led off the inning with a solo homer. Cal added its next two runs on a bases loaded walk drawn by Advincula and a Seth Gwynn sacrifice fly before Campbell unloaded on a three-run blast for his third long ball in as many innings. Cal scored its final two runs of the frame on back-to-back RBI singles from Smaldino and Birge.

Cal tacked on its five final runs in the top of the seventh. Advincula led off the inning with the Bears' eighth and final home run then Campbell tripled and scored on Ryan Tayman's RBI double. Tayman scored on a wild pitch before pinch-hitter Jeff Hoffman picked up his first hit at Cal. Moutzouridis followed with a triple to plate pinch runner Ethan Kodama before scoring the Bears' final run on a Smaldino RBI groundout.

Tayman (2-4, 2B, RBI) also had a pair of hits for the Bears, while Smaldino (1-3, 2 RBI) drove in a pair of runs.

Williams (2-3, 3B, RBI) was the only Santa Clara player with more than one hit.

Ethan Foley (2-0) was credited with the win in the game that was shortened due to the Bears leading by 10 or more runs after seven innings, while Spencer Dessart (2.1 IP, 1 BB, 3 SO) picked up a save. Dessart entered the game with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning with Cal leading 6-3 and the tying run on deck before retiring seven of the eight batters he faced.

Santa Clara reliever Jace Gillmore (0.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB) was tagged with the loss. Gilmore was the first of five Broncos who pitched in relief of starter Tyler Alleman (4.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 3 SO).

The teams conclude a four-game series that started with two Bronco wins in Berkeley on Friday and Saturday with a final contest at Santa Clara on Monday (6 p.m.). The game will also serve as Cal's last before their first ACC game in school history in the Friday opening of a three-game series March 7-9 at No. 17/19/18 Duke.