COLLEGE ROUNDUP

BASEBALL

UC Irvine 15, Houston 6

HOUTSON — The Anteaters erased a 6-4 deficit with a four-run seventh and continued to pull away with a 17-hit attack Saturday in the second game of a three-game nonconference road series with the Cougars.

Senior outfielder Matt Morris went five for five with an RBI, while junior outfielder Taylor Holiday went three for five with a home run and a double, to drive in four runs for the winners.

Senior Cody Cipriano, who also homered, and junior Taylor Vaughn had two hits and three RBIs apiece for the Anteaters (5-2-1), who used five pitchers.

Freshman Reid Suitor earned his first victory with just 1/3 inning, and Thomas Calahan and Eric Pettis combined to blank the Cougars (3-4) the final three innings.

Sophomore Ben Orloff also had two hits for UCI, which will try to sweep the series today.

Nonconference

UC Irvine 15, Houston 6

Score by Innings

UCI 0 4 0 0 1 0 4 1 5 - 15 17 0 Houston 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 6 10 2

Bibona, Hathcock (3), Suitor (6), Calahan (7), Pettis (9) and Larson, Lowenstein (7); Brown, Hancock (5), Cloeren (6), Wright (7), Touchton (9), Raviele (9) and Goolsby. W -- Suitor, 1-0. L -- Cloeren, 0-1. 2B -- Holiday (UCI), Orloff (UCI), Cipriano (UCI), Morris (UCI), Lormand (UH). 3B -- Petersen (UCI), Joseph (UH). HR -- Holiday (UCI), Cipriano (UCI), Flores (UH).

Vanguard 4, Biola 3

LA MIRADA — Luke Iverson hit an RBI single in the bottom of the 13th inning to the lead the Lions to a 4-3 Golden State Athletic Conference win Saturday.

The Lions led 8-2 in the second game of the doubleheader, which was suspended due to darkness.

Vanguard pitcher Derek Craddock in relief in the bottom of the 10th inning and allowed just one hit over four innings in earning his first win of the year.

The Lions will resume the suspended game when the two teams meet again at Vanguard on March 31.

Golden State Athletic Conference

Vanguard 4, Biola 3

Vanguard - 4 13 2 Biola - 3 9 1

Jones, Craddock (10) and Vaughn; Johnson, Alexander (8), Matson (10), Gausepohl (12), Rodrigues (13) and Bodemer. W -- Craddock, 1-0. L -- Gausepohl, 0-1. 2B -- Iverson (VU), Vaughn (VU), Cook (B), Morrow (B) 2. HR -- Voorhies (VU) 2.

Southwestern 10, Orange Coast 2

Orange Coast 11, College of the Canyons 7

COSTA MESA — Mike Ferraro and Cory Olson each went three for five with two runs and two RBIs against College of the Canyons to help the Pirates split in their two nonconference games Saturday at Orange Coast.

Chris Lum led OCC (7-5) in the first game, going two for two with two RBIs. But the Pirates committed four errors that led to four runs. Their pitchers also allowed eight walks.

OCC will play at College of the Desert Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Nonconference

Southwestern 10, Orange Coast 2

Score by Innings

Southwestern 0 1 0 2 3 0 1 3 0 - 12 10 0 OCC 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 9 4

Nuno, Diaz (9) and Monette; Rizor, Houser (5), Jacobson (5), Rogers (8), DeLoach (9) and Lum, Villanueva (8). W -- Nuno, 3-1. L -- Rizor, 1-2. 2B -- Miles (S), Smith (OCC), Alderte (OCC), Fong (OCC). 3B -- Miles (S).

Nonconference

Orange Coast 11,

College of the Canyons 7

Score by Innings

Canyons 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 - 7 10 1 OCC 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 6 x - 11 10 1

Miranda, Bradsher (2), McCarney (4), Pfau (8), Bonilla (8) and Van-Reudan; Shopshire, Eccles (6), Jarvi (8) and Cota, Villanueva (9). W -- Eccles, 2-0. L -- McCarney, 0-1. Sv -- Jarvi (2). 2B -- Stevenson (S) 2, Lewis (S), Rotkowitz (OCC), Olson (OCC), Ferraro (OCC) 2.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

San Francisco 76, UC Irvine 62

SAN FRANCISCO — UC Irvine senior Nic Campbell scored a career-high 24 points, including six three-pointers, but the Anteaters shot 35.4% from the field to drop this BracketBusters game Saturday on the Dons’ floor.

Campbell made nine of 18 from the field, but the rest of the Anteaters were just 14 of 47 on field-goal tries (29.8%).

UCI senior Mark Kelley had 10 points and a game-high 14 rebounds off the bench, while Patrick Sanders added 10 points for UCI (12-16).

USF is (12-15), which shot 52.7% from the field, was led by Alan Wiggins Jr., who had 19 points.

Nonconference

San Francisco 76, UC Irvine 62

UC Irvine -- Campbell 24, Sanders 10, Fells 7, Kelley 10, Templeton 9, McIntosh 2.

3-pt. goals -- Kelley 6, Templeton 3.

Fouled out -- Templeton.

San Francisco -- Dukes 9, Watkins 5, Wiggins 19, Quezada 17, Cavic 4, Kellogg 14, Byrd 5, Hernandez 3.

3-pt. goals -- Quezada 3, Kellogg 2, Watkins 1, Dukes 1, Hernandez.

Halftime -- 43-24, USF.

Azusa Pacific 84, Vanguard 68

AZUSA — The Lions shot 54.5% from the field to take a 42-39 halftime lead, but sot just 28.1% from the field the final 20 minutes in this Golden State Athletic Conference road game Saturday.

APU (22-5, 12-5 in conference), shot 51.7% in the second half to prevail.

Freshman Dennis Heenan led the Lions (6-20, 3-14) with 17 points.

Golden State Athletic Conference

Azusa Pacific 84, Vanguard 68

Vanguard -- Davis 9, Rosales 3, Heenen 17, Scott 12, Dalafu 10, Gusiff 8, Roberts 5, Brakeville 4.

3-pt. goals -- Heenan 3, Gusiff 2, Dalafu 2, Robets 1, Scott 1.

Fouled out -- Rosales, Watson.

Technicals -- None.

Azusa Pacific -- King 22, Zea 4, Prather 11, Butler 18, Ford 10, Ajufo 6, Oliver 5, Danielian 4, Thornton 2, Martin 2.

3-pt. goals -- Ford 2, King 2, Oliver 1.

Halftime -- 42-39, VU.

SOFTBALL

Vanguard 1, Chapman 0

Vanguard 5, Chapman 1

COSTA MESA — Senior shortstop Rachel Bomgren singled in the game-winner in the 1-0 first game, then went three for four with three runs in the second game to help the Lions sweep a nonconference doubleheader at home Saturday.

Bomgren, a returning NAIA All-American, went five for six in the two games.

Jennifer Olvera threw eight shutout innings to win the first game, allowing just two hits and striking out nine. She is now 3-0.

Jennifer Rynda allowed no earned runs and five hits in seven innings to win the second game and improve to 3-1.

Vanguard, which has won eight in a row, is now 9-2, while Chapman fell to 6-2.

Nonconference

Game 1

Vanguard 1, Chapman 0

Score by Innings

Chapman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 2 1 Vanguard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 4 1

Waffle, Wilder (7) and Campbell; Olvera and Ocasio. W -- Olvera, 3-0. L -- Wilder, 3-1. 2B -- Goncalves (C).

Game 2

Vanguard 5, Chapman 1

Score by Innings

Chapman 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 1 5 2 Vanguard 1 0 1 0 2 1 x - 5 10 2

Winford and Francis; Rynda and Ocasio. W -- Rynda, 3-1. L -- Winford, 0-1. 2B -- Bomgren (VU), Rynda (VU).

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

UC Irvine def. Pacific

STOCKTON — Matt Webber led the third-ranked Anteaters to a 30-23, 30-20, 30-25 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation victory over the Tigers, ranked No. 11, Saturday.

Cole Reinholm added 10 kills and Jayson Jablonsky contributed 10 kills for UCI, which won its third straight match and improved to 15-3, 9-3 in the MPSF. Aaron Harrell recorded six kills, two aces and a match-high seven block assists, while Brian Thornton amassed 37 assists for the visitors.

UCI will play at UC Santa Barbara, which is also ranked No. 3, Wednesday at 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Vanguard 90, Azusa Pacific 74

AZUSA — Junior Jessica Richter scored 22 points and senior Rachel Besse added 20 to help the No. 1-ranked Lions extend a pair of winning streaks in the Golden State Athletic Conference road game Saturday.

Vanguard (22-0, 17-0 in conference) have won 55 straight regular-season games and 43 consecutive regular-season conference games.

Besse made 10 of 14 field-goal tries and haded six rebounds, while senior Kelly Schmidt had 16 points, a team-high eight rebounds and five assists.

APU fell to 21-5, 13-4.

Golden State Athletic Conference

Vanguard 90, Azusa Pacific 74

Vanguard -- Burns 18, Schmidt 16, Besse 20, Richter 22, Goold 7, Cook 7.

3-pt. goals -- Burns 4, Richter 4, Goold 1, Cook 1.

Fouled out -- None.

Technicals -- None.

Azusa Pacific -- Johnson 12 Ferdaszewski 6, Urbick 6, Somers 23, Leathers 11, Hala’Ufia 12, Eddington 4.

3-pt. goals -- Leathers 3, Somers 3.

Halftime -- 45-33, VU.

UC Riverside 72, UC Irvine 62

IRVINE — UC Irvine senior guard Angie Ned scored 20 points, but the Big West Conference-leading Highlanders prevailed Saturday at the Bren Events Center.

Sophomore Amanda Forry had 15 points and eight rebounds for the Anteaters (6-21, 3-10 in conference), who received 13 points and 10 rebounds from junior Stephanie Duda.

Riverside is 17-9, 11-1.

Big West Conference

UC Riverside 72, UC Irvine 62

UC Riverside -- Nkele 22, Gbewonyo 12, Friend 10, Cox 10, Waddell 11, Lott 7.

3-pt. goals -- Waddell 2, Gbewonyo 2.

UC Irvine -- Forry 15, Duda 13, Ned 20, Ke. Johnson 6, Mai 2, Ka. Johnson 6.

3-pt. goals -- Forry 1, Ned 1, Ke. Johnson 1.

Technicals -- Team 1.

Halftime -- 39-32, UCR.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

UC Irvine 5,

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 2

SAN LUIS OBISPO — Becky Bernhard, Inna Agababian, Clare Fermin and Heidi Kaloi won in singles to lead the Anteaters in their Big West Conference opener Saturday.

Jayme Hu and Ali Borowicz won at No. 3 doubles for UCI (6-2, 1-0 in conference).

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Orange Coast 101, Santa Ana 43

Orange Coast 131,

Santiago Canyon 6

COSTA MESA — Brandon Babiracki, Kyle Peterson, Josh Strickland and Chris Macke each won two events to help the host Pirates record two Orange Empire Conference victories Friday in a double dual meet.

Babiracki won the 1,500 meters (4 minutes, 4.22 seconds) and the 800 (1:57:71), while Peterson topped the field in the 110 high hurdles (16.82) and the pole vault (14 feet, 3 inches).

Strickland, a Costa Mesa High product, won the 100 (11.34) and the 200 (22.92), while Macke won the high jump (6-0) and the long jump (22-10 1/2 ).

Other individual winners for the Pirates included Morgan Rose (50.77 in the 400), Scott Burbach (189-4 in the javelin) and Clint Parga (41-0 1/2 in the triple jump).

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Orange Coast 100, Santa Ana 25

Orange Coast 80,

Santiago Canyon 50

COSTA MESA — Madison Empting won the 200 meters (28.62) and the 400 (1:02.83) to help the Pirates claim two wins in an Orange Empire Conference double dual meet Friday.

Brenda Finney (18.6 in the 100 hurdles), Erendira Uriostegui (2:23.4 in the 800), Tirza Mejia (1:18.16 in the 400 hurdles) and Brittany Ickes (104-2 in the javelin), won events for the Pirates.