COLLEGE ROUNDUP:

IRVINE — The UC Irvine men’s volleyball team, ranked No. 2, used a team effort to defeat No. 4-ranked USC, 30-15, 22-30, 30-25, 30-24, at the Bren Events Center in front of a season-high 2,421 fans.

UCI improves to 21-4, 16-3 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. UCI’s 21 wins are the third most in program history. It is UCI’s 10th consecutive win over the Trojans, who go to 16-8, 12-7.

Jordan DuFault led the Anteaters with 17 kills while hitting .500 (17-1-32), while senior outside hitter Taylor Wilson recorded 15 kills and a career-high seven block assists. Freshman middle blocker Austin D’Amore had a career and match-best nine total blocks and libero Brent Asuka tallied a match-high 16 digs.

Setter Ryan Ammerman had four kills, 49 set assists and 10 digs in the win. Opposite Carson Clark added eight kills and sophomore middle blocker Kevin Wynne totaled seven kills, hitting .636 and five blocks. Senior opposite Jon Steller came off the bench to hit .500 on six kills in 12 attempts without an error. Serving specialist Nick Spittle fired two aces.

USC was led by Tony Ciarelli with a match-high 23 kills. Murphy Troy added 17 kills, four service aces and 10 digs, while Riley McKibbin recorded 52 set assists and a team-high 14 digs.

UCI dominated the net, out-blocking USC 15.5 to 6.

MEN’S GOLF

Orange Empire Conference

four-way match

SANTA ANA — Marcus Sostak-Rosa, an Estancia High product, shot two-under-par 70 to earn medalist honors for Orange Coast College, which went 3-0 at Santa Ana Country Club Wednesday.

Orange Coast scored 370, while Cuyamaca (377), Irvine Valley (400) and Riverside (402) followed. Albert Kilgore shot 73 and Joe Doody 74 for the Pirates, who play at Oak Creek Golf Club in another conference match hosted by Irvine Valley.

MEN’S TENNIS

UC Irvine 6,

Loyola Marymount 1

IRVINE — Freshman Fabian Matthews, a Corona del Mar High product, won at No. 2 singles, 6-1, 6-2, as part of the Anteaters’ nonconference win Wednesday at Anteater Tennis Stadium.

Khunpol Issara, Stephen Stege, Sam Gould and Shimpei Suzuki also won in singles for UCI (10-14), which won all three doubles matches for a 1-0 lead.

BASEBALL

Vanguard 12, Occidental 1

LOS ANGELES — Junior Keegan Freeman went three for five with two RBIs, one run and a double for the Lions in the nonconference game Wednesday.

Senior Nicholas Akins went one for three with three RBIs and a home run, while junior Brett Halstead went two for four with two RBIs and a home run for Vanguard (16-18). Lions Mario Romero and Jacob Wood both also went two for four and Derek Craddock also hit a home run.

Occidental dropped to 10-18.

Nonconference

Vanguard 12, Occidental 1

SCORE BY INNINGS

Reid, Curtis (8) and Romero, Gentry; Pomerantz, Suzuki (2), Eyrich (3), Saraceni (4), Smallman (5), Bukac (6), Doherty (7), Belter (8), Banuelos (9) and Woolwine, Garrett. W – Reid. L – Eyrich. 2B – Freeman (VU), Manzano (VU), Halstead (vU), Behrends (VU); Jebbia (OC), Gray (OC). HR – Akins (VU), Halstead (VU), Craddock (VU).