SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Junior third baseman Jocelyn Villaflor blasted her first career home run, future collegiate players Isabella Barge and Marissa Jensen each went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, and the Troubadours had the bases loaded in the seventh, but St. Francis fell by a 10-7 final to visiting Del Oro in a wild Sierra Foothill League girls' fastpitch game at Schuster Field Friday afternoon.
The Troubies dip to 5-7 for the year, 2-3 in league play. The Golden Eagles win their third straight game to improve to 6-3 overall with a 4-1 SFL mark.
Arielle Alcantar and Olivia Meisner also had hits for St. Francis. Alexis McFarland, Jaeya Leavitt and Kaili Heeb each walked twice to add more Troubie runners to the table.
The lead changed multiple times, with Del Oro opening with two runs in the opening frame, Villaflor's two-run homer tying the game at 2-2, the Golden Eagles reclaiming a 4-2 lead in the second, only for the Troubies to push across five runs in the bottom half of that stanza for a 7-4 edge. Then DO scored two more in the third and fourth each to regain the lead at 8-7, then tacking on an insurance run in each of the fifth and sixth frames to set the board at 10-7.
In the seventh, Alcantar reached on a one-out infield single, then was forced at second for the second out. Lillyana Perkins and McFarland each drew five-pitch walks to load the bases, only for Del Oro freshman Karis Herstam to strike out Leavitt to complete the save.
St. Francis' five-run second came mostly at the expense of Golden Eagle lefty Mikayla Finn. A walk, a Meisner single, an Elizabeth Bettar sacrifice and another walk loaded the bases for Leavitt, who drew yet another free pass to bring in Hazel Pryor. Barge then yanked a 1-1 pitch down the left-field line, scoring Perkins and McFarland and pushing SF up by a 5-4 margin. That one-run lead grew to three when Jensen drilled a hard liner just to the right of the keystone bag. With center fielder Caelyn Campos shaded to the left side, Jensen's ball easily reached the track for a double, scoring Leavitt and Barge in the process.
The 7-4 Troubie lead slimmed to 7-6 on Kate Brown's two-run homer to center in the third. Sophomore Emma Johnson then put the Golden Eagles back up on her own two-run bomb, this time to right. Avery Enyart doubled in the fifth, and Chloe Champas followed with one of her three RBIs with a hit to right in the fifth. DO plated its 10th run on a wild pitch with two out in the sixth.
Villaflor's homer comtinues a strong start to her 2026 season, which already served as encore for a strong finish to her sophomore year. She leads the Troubies in both batting (.375) and OPS (1.041) in 12 games thus far.
St. Francis now begins a stretch of more than three whole weeks – 23 calendar days, in fact – without a home game. The Troubies travel to Oak Ridge for an SFL matchup on Wednesday, take a full week off for the school's spring break, then come back to action on April 1 for a non-league visit to Inderkum.
