Clips
With historic streaks over, Cal State Fullerton baseball trying to finish above .500
“I think we finally started to play better this month. We’ve had more opportunities and were able to take advantage of them.” The Titans had won six of seven before dropping a 1-0 decision in the opener of their season-ending series at Cal State Northridge on Thursday afternoon. -- Los Angeles Daily News
College baseball: UC Irvine stays in Big West title hunt; UCLA clinches Pac-12 title
Cal State Northridge 1, Cal State Fullerton 0: Timothy Josten pitched seven scoreless innings (two hits, five strikeouts), but the Titans dropped the opener of their season-ending series on a walk-off passed ball at CSUN. -- Orange County Register
Locals honored to play in Orange County Softball Coaches All-Star Classic
Marina’s Shayla Thomas, a Cal State Northridge signee, got the Green team even at 1-1 with a well-struck triple to left field in the bottom of the sixth. -- Daily Pilot
8 locals selected to play in 52nd Orange County All-Star Baseball Game
9 local seniors in O.C. All-Star Softball Game
Nine local seniors have been selected to play in the 21st Orange County Softball Coaches All-Star Classic on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Irvine’s Bill Barber Park’s Deanna Manning Stadium.
Here are the local players:
Katie Belmontes, Costa Mesa, OF (Cal State Northridge)
Shayla Thomas, Marina, 1B (Cal State Northridge) -- Daily Pilot
Agoura’s Aaron Suval named Coastal Canyon League baseball MVP
Agoura’s Aaron Suval was named the 2019 Coastal Canyon League baseball MVP. Suval, a CSUN commit, anchored the Chargers to a 13-2 record and league title this season. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Dons fall short of tourney, pass torch to youngsters
BENEDETTI DIAMOND — The San Francisco Dons may have seen their playoff hopes come to an end Saturday when wins by Loyola Marymount and Saint Mary’s ended any possibility of a trip to the West Coast Conference Tournament, but they made the most of Sunday’s season-ending doubleheader, sweeping Cal State Northridge as the senior class figuratively passed the torch to the youngsters. -- San Francisco Examiner
Dodgers in the Valley? Ballpark might have replaced mall — had the Angels not squashed the idea
The San Fernando Valley still lacks a major sports venue and community gathering place. In February, Major League Baseball and its players’ union pledged $1 million to Cal State Northridge so the school could install lights at its cozy baseball field, in the hope that night games and youth programming there could make the field something of a community center. -- Los Angeles Times
Santa Barbara Sports Roundup: Sticks, Balls, and Sneakers
FLASH ON THE TRACK: Lightning strikes in the vicinity caused a precautionary stoppage of the Big West Track and Field Championships at UCSB on Saturday. When the meet resumed after more than an hour, Hope Bender ran like lightning in the 400-meter hurdles. The UCSB senior stopped the clock at 56.64 seconds, shattering her school record, cleaving almost a second off the meet record (57.69 by Cal Poly’s LeBren Martin in 2003), and moving her up to No. 3 on the NCAA leaderboard. “It was my last 400 hurdles race as a collegian,” said Bender, who left Cal State Northridge’s De’Andreah Young in the dust on the homestretch. “I wanted it more.” -- Santa Barbara Independent
UCD roundup: Aggie baseball falls to Matadors
The Aggies had eight hits but unfortunately not at the right time as UC Davis fell 8-2 to visiting Cal State Northridge in Big West action Saturday. -- Davis Enterprise
UCSB’s Hope Bender Named Athlete of Meet at Big West Championships
UC Davis came in third with 117.5 points, Cal Poly was fourth with 97.5 points and host UC Santa Barbara ended up fifth at 92.5. CSUN (85), UC Riverside (64) and UC Irvine (40) rounded out the standings. -- Noozhawk