Pacific Tigers

Brittain Altomare had two goals and goalie Kelsey Gregerson made six saves, including one on the doorstep with 10 seconds left, as Hofstra beat Towson, 6-5, in women's lacrosse Friday night at James M. Shuart Stadium. Kelsea Donnelly (South River)...

SOFTBALL San Marino 5, South Pasadena 2 (nine innings): The visiting Titans scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning to register a Rio Hondo League victory. The Titans (12-4-1, 4-2 in league) finished with 10 hits. Michelle Floyd had three...

Scott Hong (Glendale Community College, 2011) Occidental baseball senior: Once again, Hong is doing it all for the Tigers. But after leading the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference last season in saves, Hong has taken on the roll as...

COLLEGE SOFTBALL East Los Angeles College 7, Pasadena City College 6: A game-winning two-run double from Huskies catcher Valerie Aguilera capped a heart-breaking four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh for the Huskies, who stole a South Coast...

BASEBALL UC Riverside 3, UC Irvine 2 RIVERSIDE — The host Highlanders broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning to close out the sweep of the three-game Big West Conference series on Saturday. Sophomore shortstop Chris Rabago went...

UC Irvine junior Franziska Goettsching has been named Big West Conference Player of the Week in women's tennis. Goettsching earned doubles and singles wins to help UCI defeat Pacific, Wyoming and Sacramento State last week to up its record to 16-3, 5-...

More than anything, the UC Irvine men's basketball season that ended Monday in Oklahoma was about a body of work. Specifically, the 2012-13 Anteaters, coming off three straight losing seasons, capped by a 20-loss campaign in 2011-12, produced 21 wins in...

Wildcats bested by Islanders CORONADO — The Brawley Union High boys’ and girls’ swim teams both lost to Coronado High here Tuesday, by scores of 39-131 and 63-117, respectively. For the girls, Cody Franks placed first in the 50-meter...

I love the Big West Conference, going back to its days as the Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. when Lew Cryer was commissioner and Nevada Las Vegas was a national power. I still drink coffee out of a PCAA mug that was a media gift from the 1985 tournament...

AUSTIN, Texas — Shane Larkin is sharing a special season with all those Miami seniors. Larkin, the sophomore who is the only non-senior starter for the Hurricanes and the ACC player of the year, had 10 points and matched his career high with...

The following are updates on local athletes at the collegiate level. Mark Saatzer (St. Francis High, 2010) junior infielder, Chapman University baseball: As good a start as Saatzer got out to this season, his numbers have only ballooned as the season's...

They should make the Sweet 16. They can make the Final Four. They could win it all. These three simple but surprising — even stupefying — sentences if said a few months ago are where you start today. They pull into perspective Miami's...