College Roundup: OCC baseball falls to Santa Barbara
BASEBALL
Santa Barbara 3, Orange Coast 1
SANTA BARBARA — Sophomore Stephen Corona’s solo home run in the eighth inning accounted for half the Pirates’ hits in the opener of a best-of-three Sectional series in the Southern California Regional playoffs on Friday at SBCC.
Sean Barry threw a complete game for the No. 3-seeded Vaqueros (33-9), who have No. 10-seeded OCC (25-17), the defending state champion, one loss away from elimination.
Barry struck out five and walked two. In his last four starts, he has now allowed just two earned runs and 16 hits in 35 innings (an earned-run average of 0.51).
OCC ace Art Vidrio allowed seven hits and three runs (two earned) in four innings to absorb the loss and fall to 8-3.
Freshman Stefan Panayiotou had the other hit for OCC, which committed one error that led to an unearned run.
Santa Barbara took a 2-0 lead in the second inning and added another in the fourth.
The series continues Saturday at 1 p.m. An OCC win would force a deciding game on Sunday at noon.
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MEN’S TENNIS
Embry-Riddle 5, Vanguard 0
MOBILE, Ala. — The No. 3-seeded Lions were no match for the No. 2-seeded entry from Florida in the semifinals of the NAIA Championship tournament on Friday at the Mobile Tennis Center.
The loss ends Vanguard’s final season, as the school announced in March that the program would be discontinued. The Lions finished 27-2.
It was the third straight NAIA semifinal loss for Vanguard, which also reached the semifinals in 2004 and 2000.
Coach Mattias Johansson’s Lions won the last three Golden State Athletic Conference championships and were victorious in their last 33 conference regular-season matches.
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MEN’S GOLF
NCAA Lubbock Regional
LUBBOCK, Texas — UC Irvine is in 11th place following Friday’s second round at the Rawls Course.
The Anteaters shot 291 Friday and have a 36-hole total of 578 following the started 4 ½ h ours late due to heavy thunderstorms Thursday night.
Host Texas Tech leads with a two-round score of 552, ahead of Texas (555) and Duke (558).
UCI junior Jacob Schulze shot even-par 71 in the second round and is 34th at one-over-par 143. Senior Pete Fernandez and freshman David Kim are tied for 46th at 145.
Host Texas Tech leads with a two-round score of 552, ahead of Texas (555) and Duke (558).
The final round is scheduled Saturday.
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MEN’S TRACK & FIELD
Big West Conference Championships
RIVERSIDE – UC Irvine senior Mason Miller won the shot put event at UC Riverside on Friday.
Miller’s heave of 60 feet, 0 1/4 inches made him UCI’s first conference shot put champion in 25 years, since Mike Morales won the event in 1990 (and also in 1989).
Freshman Matt Dispenza was second in the high jump with a mark of 6-7 1/2 to earn eight team points for the ‘Eaters.
Freshman Lawrence O’Hara was eighth in the shot put with a career-best 51-11 3/4.
Mike Graf finished ninth in the long jump (21-11 1/2).
UCI is fifth in the team competition with 19 points following Friday’s action.
Advancing to Saturday’s finals after the preliminaries Friday are Lloyd Sicard (14.22), Kyle Hubbard (14.70) and Oliver Pham (14.91) in the 110-meter high hurdles, Isaiah Thompson (1:52.76) in the 800, and Cameron Vaca (51.98) and Sicard (52.82) in the 400.
The final day of action Saturday begins with field events at 10 a.m. The first running event is at 2:08 p.m.