COLLEGE ROUNDUP

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Vanguard 86, Biola 57

COSTA MESA — Senior Lindsey Rinke came off the bench to score a game-high 20 points and help the host Lions bounce back from having their regular-season Golden State Athletic Conference winning streak halted at 53 games.

Rinke hit five of her six three-point tries, while freshman reserve Kelsey Carlson drained four of six from beyond the three-point line and finished with 13 points for Vanguard (12-3, 8-1 in conference) Saturday.

Junior Lauren Gregory scored 12 points, senior Melissa Cook had 11 points and freshman Sarah Boyd 10 for the No. 3-ranked Lions, who caused 28 turnovers and held the Eagles (12-3, 8-1) to 28.4% shooting from the field (19 of 67).

Golden State Athletic Conference

Vanguard 86, Biola 57

BU – Alberts 14, Matthews 8, Erickson 4, De Luca 3, England 3, French 12, Paty 6, Thomas 4, Conicelli 2, Kater 1.

3-pt. goals – Paty 2, Erickson 1, De Luca 1, England 1.

Fouled out – De Luca.

VU – Gregory 12, Cook 11, Boyd 10, Richter 9, Halberg 2, Rinke 20, Carlson 13, Reyes 7, Pfohl 2.

3-pt. goals – Rinke 5, Carlson 4, Cook 1, Reyes 1.

Fouled out – Pfohl.

Halftime – VU, 35

UC Riverside 59, UC Irvine 56

RIVERSIDE — Sophomore Kelly Cochran scored 12 of her 18 points in the second half, but it wasn’t enough in the Big West Conference game as the visiting Anteaters lost their 12th straight Saturday.

Senior Stephanie Duda recorded her Big West-leading 11th double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds.

UCI (4-16, 0-6 in conference) outrebounded the Highlanders, 45-35.

UCR improved to 7-10, 5-1.

Big West Conference

UC Riverside 59, UC Irvine 56

UCI – Cochran 18, Duda 12, Ishizaki 6, Maessen 6, Forry 2, Tull 4, Mai 2, Barnes 2, Ke. Johnson 2, Zdenek 2.

3-pt. goals – Ishizaki 2, Maessen 2.

Fouled out – None.

Technicals – None.

UCR – Gbewonyo 12, Waddell 12, Friend 10, Foster 8, Lott 4, Glyniadaki 8, Campillo 3, Schmuckal 2.

3-pt. goals – Waddell 2, Friend 1, Campillo 1.

Fouled out – None.

Halftime – UCR, 39-23.

BASEBALL

Orange Coast 5, Cuesta 5

(14 innings)

Orange Coast 4, Cuesta 1

(7 innings)

COSTA MESA — Host Orange Coast College earned a victory and a tie in a nonconference doubleheader Saturday to win the three-game series, 2-0-1.

Freshman catcher Jourdan Watanabe’s two-run home run keyed a three-run fifth inning in the opening-game win, erasing a 1-0 Cuesta lead.

Sophomore starting pitcher Matt Hauser, a Corona del Mar High product, earned the win for the Pirates. He went six innings, allowing six hits and one earned run. He struck out three.

Brett Wallach earned his second save of the season, leaving the bases loaded in a scoreless seventh.

Sophomore catcher Gabe Cota had a sacrifice fly in the fifth and freshman first baseman Drew Hillman had an RBI double in the sixth for OCC.

In the second game, sophomore Serin Jarvi started, allowing just one earned run in six innings for the hosts.

Justin Peterson, a Costa Mesa High product, worked 4 2/3 relief innings allowing one hit and one unearned run, and fellow sophomore lefty Brandon Dixon worked three scoreless innings, fanning three, before both teams ran out of daylight.

Nonconference

Game 2

Orange Coast 5, Cuesta 5 (14 innings)

SCORE BY INNINGS

Powers, Simko (6), Sousa (8), Buchta (11), Kretchmer (14) and Farris, Cate (11); Jarvi, Jacobson (7), Peterson (8), Dixon (13) and Watanabe, Cota (10), Seifman (12). 2B – Arcoleo (C), Clair (C), Karch (OCC), Hillman (OCC) 2, Ferraro (OCC) 2, Watanabe (OCC) 1, Seiler (OCC) 1. 3B – Olson (OCC). HR – Cate (C), Gross (C).

Nonconference

Game 1

Orange Coast 4, Cuesta 1 (7 innings)

SCORE BY INNINGS

Estrada, Mirowski (6) and Cate; Hauser, Wallach (7) and Cota. W – Hauser, 1-0. L – Estrada, 0-1. Sv – Wallach (2). 2B – Smith (C), Bauer (C), Kartch (OCC), Hillman (OCC) , Elliott (OCC). 3B – Olson (OCC). HR – Watanabe (OCC).

WOMEN’S TENNIS

USC 7, UC Irvine 0

LOS ANGELES — The No. 37-ranked Anteaters opened their season with a nonconference loss to the No. 8-ranked Trojans Friday.

Senior Becky Bernhard and junior Ali Borowicz won at No. 3 doubles, 8-6, but USC won the other two matches to pick up the point for doubles.