College Roundup

MEN’S BASKETBALL

UC Santa Barbara 77,

UC Irvine 74

SANTA BARBARA — Junior guard Patrick Rembert missed the front end of a one-and-one free-throw situation with 15 seconds left and the Anteaters trailing, 75-74, in the Big West Conference game Wednesday.

James Powell hit two subsequent free throws and Eric Wise’s three-point attempt missed to thwart UCI’s final possession.

Wise had 22 points and seven rebounds to lead UCI (13-17, 5-10). Michael Hunter had 18 points for UCI.

UCSB (18-9, 12-4) clinched at least a share of the regular-season conference title.

UCI, which is tied for eighth with UC Riverside in a struggle to earn on of the eight berths into next week’s Big West Tournament, closes its regular season Saturday at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Vanguard 96, Concordia 67

COSTA MESA — Bridgette Reyes had 25 points and Rachel Copeland hit six of eight three-point attempts on her way to 22 points for the host Lions in a quarterfinal of the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament on Wednesday.

Diana Neves (15 points) and Jackie Blied (13) also chipped in for No. 3-ranked Vanguard (23-2).

The top-seeded Lions meet No. 4-seeded Biola at home in one semifinal Friday at 7:30 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara 57,

UC Irvine 55

IRVINE — Sophomore Mikah Maly-Karros had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Anteaters in the Big West Conference game Wednesday.

Jade Smith-Williams had 12 points for UCI (9-19, 6-9 in conference), which led, 35-31, at halftime.

UCSB improved to 12-16, 9-7.

UCI closes its regular season Saturday at home against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

BASEBALL

Vanguard 3, The Master’s 2

COSTA MESA — The Lions rallied from a 2-0 deficit with single tallies in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings Wednesday to improve to 14-1, 5-0 in Golden State Athlete Conference play.

Brandon Pesante reached on an error and later scored on an error for the game-winner, allowing Lions reliever Adrian Mendoza to earn the win and Robert Purpura to post his third save.

Brandon Godfrey allowed no earned runs in seven innings for Vanguard, for which Tyson Leighton was two for three with one run batted in.

The Master’s is 9-6, 3-2.

MEN’S TENNIS

San Diego 4, UC Irvine 3

IRVINE — Sophomore Steven Henderson won in singles and doubles for the host Anteaters in the nonconference match Wednesday.

Henderson won at No. 6 singles and teamed with senior Zac Tsai to win at No. 2 doubles.

Senior Shimpei Suziki won at No. 3 singles for UCI (7-4).

USD is 7-2.

MEN’S GOLF

Orange Empire Conference Four-way

SANTA ANA — Orange Coast College freshman Ryan Knapp shot one-over-par 73 to earn co-medalist honors and lead the Pirates to the win at Santa Ana Country Club Wednesday.

Knapp shared medalist honors with Santiago Canyon’s Joe Depietro.

OCC shot 381, while Santiago Canyon (391), Irvine Valley (395) and Santa Ana (416) followed.

Tyler Paul carded a 75 for the Pirates, while Chris Franchina and Joe Doody both shot 77. Benny Santa Maria and Kord Tagley both shot 79.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Orange Coast def. Palomar

COSTA MESA — Sophomore Brad Hemmerling had 15 kills to pace the host Pirates to a 30-20, 30-20, 30-17 Pacific Coast Conference victory Wednesday.

Paul Leon had 38 assists and Harrison Phelps had 13 digs for OCC (8-0, 2-0 in conference). Libero Harrison Phelps came up with 13 digs, while setter Paul Leon dished out 38 assists for the Pirates.

OCC will play at Irvine Valley Friday at 6 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara def.

UC Irvine

SANTA BARBARA — Carson Clark led the visiting Anteaters with 21 kills and 16 digs in the 33-31, 30-28, 27-30, 30-24, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation loss Wednesday.

No. 12-ranked UCI fell to 9-10, 5-9 in conference).

UCSB (10-8, 7-5) had 15 kills from Corona del Mar High product Scott Slaughter.

SOFTBALL

Santa Ana 6,

Orange Coast 3

COSTA MESA — Six errors produced four unearned runs to provide the difference in the Orange Empire Conference game Wednesday.

Cheyanne Tovar and Katrina Gaar had two hits each for Orange Coast (6-11, 1-7 in conference).