No. 11 Loyola wins series at Mobile

MOBILE – The No. 11 Loyola Wolf Pack responded well after taking it on the chin during the first game of Friday's doubleheader, blowing out Mobile in the second game to win the series. After the Wolf Pack won Thursday's series opener, the Rams took the first game on Friday, 10-2, to even the three-game set before the Pack won the rubber match, 15-3. 
 

Loyola is now 21-6 overall and 9-3 in Southern States Athletic Conference play, and it'll return to Mobile on Wednesday to play a non-conference contest against Spring Hill College. First pitch is set for 5 p.m.
 

Game 1: Mobile 10, #11 Loyola 2

Trailing by eight runs, Loyola pushed its only two runs across in the sixth inning. Garrett Felix reached on a fielder's choice and Cole Romero put two runners on base with a two-out single. Collin Zeringue delivered the two-RBI double during the next at-bat. The Rams, though, scored two more runs in the bottom half of the frame to go back up eight, 10-2. 
 

Mobile scored two runs in the first and one in the second to take an early 3-0 lead. Then a five-run fourth inning built the 8-0 advantage. 
 

Game 2: #11 Loyola 15, Mobile 4

The Rams, again, scored early, this time taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning. That score held until Loyola could get on the board in the fifth when Romero smacked a three-run home run to put Loyola on top, 3-2. Mobile would answer in its half of the frame, though, tying the game, 3-3. 
 

The Wolf Pack scored 12 straight runs in the final four innings before Mobile added one in the bottom of the ninth. Felix notched another three-run home run in the sixth, 6-3, and Jaxon Buratt and Landon Manson each had RBI singles to make it an 8-3 lead. In the seventh, Romero recorded a sacrifice fly and Brandon Mooney came home later in the inning on an error by the Mobile catcher, 10-3. Drew Lee picked up an RBI single in the eighth, and Jed Cambre had one in the ninth to set up Manson's three-run homer to blow the game open even more, 15-3. 
 

Prescott Marsh earned the win after giving up the three earned runs on five hits with four strikeouts. He allowed two of those runs and three of those hits in the first inning, as he only gave up two more hits and walked one throughout the rest of his six-inning performance. A combination of Frank Fernandez, Cole Bordes and Hunter Ponson finished the final three innings to close out the win. 
 

Pack Facts

• Loyola's 18 hits were its second-most in any game this season. This was also the ninth game in which the Pack have scored at least 15 runs in 2025, and it was the team's 12th game won by double digits this year. 

• With the victory in Game 2, the Wolf Pack secured their seventh series win of the year. 

• After homering in Thursday night's win against Mobile, Cole Romero hit his eighth home run of the season in the second game Friday, a three-run shot to put the Wolf Pack ahead in the top of the fifth. This matches his 2023 home run total, and his 16 career homers have him tied for the seventh-most in a Wolf Pack career. 

• Four of Romero's 16 home runs at Loyola have been hit at Mobile, as he also hit two in one game against the Rams in 2023. 

• Garrett Felix also gave the Wolf Pack a lead with his three-run bomb to right field in the sixth inning of Game 2, his third home run of the season. 

• Felix went 4-for-6 at the plate, his second game this season with four hits.  

• Both the hitting streaks for Romero (22 games) and Felix (14 games) stayed alive in Friday's doubleheader, as they each recorded a hit in both games. 

• Landon Manson hit another home run, his fourth in the Pack's last six games, to give Loyola a double-digit lead late. 

• Manson added three singles and two walks to reach base six different times during Game 2. 

• Prescott Marsh picked up his third pitching win of the season in his longest outing, six innings, while striking out four.