Long Beach State 49ers

Andrew Thurman said he wanted to watch the first day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in an open setting, with family and friends. He also wanted to watch it at a place that has been very close to his heart. He said it was only...

IRVINE — The agony extended into finality at Anteater Ballpark on Saturday, as host UC Irvine ended its baseball season with a typically excruciating 3-2 loss to Long Beach State. The setback turned in the top of the ninth inning, when the winning...

IRVINE — The offense is producing in bunches and the pitching is more than holding its own. But with one game left in the regular season, the UC Irvine baseball program may be on the verge of an eight-month break. Despite an 8-4 win that...

IRVINE — The UC Irvine baseball team dug itself out of a hole by peppering singles through them Thursday night. The Anteaters broke a five-game losing streak, their longest in nine seasons, by spraying 16 hits in a 10-2 Big West Conference victory...

IRVINE — Another UC Irvine baseball loss sent the historians reeling through the years Tuesday night. The Anteaters, on then other hand, are just plain reeling. Visiting USC's 6-4 nonconference triumph was the fifth straight setback for UCI,...

FULLERTON – For the third straight game, Cal State Fullerton fifth-year senior Carlos Lopez erased a UC Irvine lead to produce a dramatic baseball victory for the Titans. Turns out, it was Lopez who also got away from the Anteaters. "It's pretty...

IRVINE — Six days after undergoing unexpected root canal surgery, UC Irvine junior pitcher Andrew Morales made the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo hitters experience roughly the equivalent of a trip to the dentist. Morales, recorded 10 of his first 12...

WOMEN'S TENNIS UC Irvine 4, San Jose State 2 LOS ANGELES — The Anteaters made history Saturday by earning the program's first NCAA Tournament victory in first-round action at Marks Stadium at USC. Sophomore Ali Facey rallied for a 4-6, 7-6, 7-...

LOS ANGELES — Loyola of Chicago was the first first-time participant in the four-team NCAA men's volleyball championship since UC Irvine had that distinction in 2006. A lot has obviously changed for the Anteaters since that time, as they moved...

UC Irvine will play in the NCAA men's volleyball Final Four this week after receiving the event's at-large bid. The other teams in the Final Four will be Brigham Young, which won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title this weekend; Loyola Chicago,...

WOMEN'S WATER POLO UC Irvine 7, San Diego State 5 IRVINE — The No. 2-seeded Anteaters advanced to Sunday's Big West Conference Tournament final behind 13 saves from Jillian Yocum and two goals apiece from Michaela Pierandozzi and McKenna...

MEN'S VOLLEYBALL Long Beach State def. UC Irvine PROVO, Utah — The No. 2-seeded Anteaters erased a 14-10 fifth-game deficit, but eventually fell to the No. 3-seeded 49ers, 25-22, 22-25, 20-25, 25-15, 22-20, in the semifinals of the Mountain...