Win streak at 46 games after No. 1 CSM takes two at Modesto
Thirty never looked so purdy.
It has been 51 weeks since College of San Mateo last lost a game on the softball diamond. The Lady Bulldogs (30-0) improved their overall season record to 30-0 with a doubleheader sweep Saturday at Modesto College, topping host Modesto 8-2 before downing College of the Canyons 5-2 in the nightcap.
After finishing the 2025 season on a 16-game win streak, CSM has now won 46 straight overall. The Bulldogs last lost a game 4-3 at West Valley on April 3, 2025.
CSM head coach Nicole Quigley-Borg has drawn greatly from her alma mater, with two Capuchino graduated bookending the current win streak. Beginning April 8, 2025, with a home win over Hartnell College, right-hander Nohemi Livingston — now a transfer junior at Jessup University, who graduated Cap in 2023 — earned the win by working nine innings in the 5-4 extra-inning victory.
Saturday's twin bill saw freshman left-hander Lola Sierra — a 2025 Cap grad — earn the save with 1 1/3 innings of relief in the opener. Sierra picked up right where she left off, delivering a complete-game victory in the nightcap, allowing two runs on seven hits and a walk, while striking out seven. Her record improves to 16-0, tied for second most wins in the state.
Starting pitcher Nia Mapa worked two innings, and departed with a 2-1 lead — Mapa hit a solo home run in the first inning, her 13th of the year, and sophomore Hannah Ames broke a 1-1 tie with a solo homer in the second.
Sophomore Katie Johnson added a two-run shot in the third. Ames paced the Bulldogs with a 3-for-4 performance with a double, a home run and three RBIs. Kali Saykao matched the game-high of three hits for Modesto (10-19).
Against College of the Canyons (18-12), Mapa gave CSM the early lead with an RBI single in the first. Mapa later scored on a wild pitch, and, in the second, Johnson drove home a run to make it 3-0. The Cougars closed it to 3-2 in the top of the fourth on RBI doubles from Jeniece Jimenez and Jasmine Soriano, but the Bulldogs got the runs right back in the bottom of the frame with a sacrifice fly from sophomore Ale Phillips and an RBI double by sophomore Kaylee Poulos.
Phillips went 3 for 3 to pace all hitters, adding an RBI and two runs scored. Love Cabanas and Maliah Castro recorded two hits apiece for the Bulldogs, while Soriano and Krista Viereck each had two hits to pace College of the Canyons.
CSM now ranks first in Northern California and second among all teams in the California Community College Athletic League (3C2A) with a .395 team batting average. Only Palomar College-San Marcos — the team the Bulldogs defeated to capture the 2025 3C2A state championship — is better with a .440 mark.
Pitching wise, CSM leads all the 3C2A with a 1.37 ERA.
--Fred Baer, CSM/SMCCCD Athletic Communications