Bears’ Season Ends At ACC Championship

DURHAM, N.C. – The California baseball team’s 2025 season and run at the ACC Championship ended Thursday with a 10-3 loss to No. 1 seed Georgia Tech (40-16) in the quarterfinals. The No. 16 seed Golden Bears (24-31) had knocked off No. 9 Miami and No. 8 Wake Forest the past two days to reach the quarterfinals and finished with six wins in their final 10 games of the campaign.

Cal allowed an ACC Championship record-tying seven home runs to the Yellow Jackets on Thursday and never led in the contest, but after allowing four runs on three home runs in the bottom of the first, the Bears did close the gap to 4-2 heading into the bottom of the seventh. Cal was still within three runs before Georgia Tech plated five runs on another three homers in its half of the eighth.

Cal reliever Cole Tremain kept the Bears in the game during his career-high-tying 5.0 innings work from the second through sixth frames. Tremain entered the game to start the second inning and posted five straight scoreless innings of work. He struck out four and allowed just one hit and one walk. Tremain finished the season with a team-high 24 appearances, a team-low 3.38 earned run average and a team-high-tying four wins.

Jacob French (4-5) tied a career-high with four hits and finished the season with a career-high-tying 13-game hitting streak and a team-high .390 batting average. Jaren Advincula (3-5, R, 2 SB) had a three-hit game and swiped a pair of bags. Advincula ended the campaign second on the team with a .342 mark and 13 stolen bases, both career bests.

Drew Burress (2-4, 2 R, 2 HR, 4 RBI, BB) hit two of Georgia Tech’s seven home runs. Caleb Daniel (2-3, R, HR, RBI), Alex Hernandez, Vahn Lackey, Kyle Lodise and Drew Rogers had the others, while Kent Schmidt (2-5, R) joined Burress and Daniel with multiple-hit games.

The Yellow Jackets used three pitchers with starter Tate McKee (6.1 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 10 SO, 1 WP, 1 HBP) picking up the victory to improve to 7-3.

Cal starter JJ Hollis (0-1) took the loss, allowing four hits including three…