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Two UC Irvine women’s water polo players major awards and four Anteaters earned All-Big West Conference honors, it was announced Wednesday.

Freshman Jessy Cardey was named Freshman of the Year, while Dan Klatt picked up Big West Coach of the Year honors for the second straight season.

Senior Kat Plummer, junior Cortney Collyer and Cardey each earned first-team All-Big West honors. Junior Caitlin Haskell was named to the second team.

The ’Eaters won their second straight Big West Tournament title Sunday and finished the season with a 15-14 record.

The entered the Big West tournament as the No. 4 seed, but upset top-seeded Pacific in the semifinals, then edged No. 2-seeded Cal State Northridge, 12-11, in the title match at Long Beach State.

Erin Kiene received honorable mention in all-conference voting.

— From staff reports

Bergman earns laurels

UC Irvine baseball pitcher Christian Bergman received three more honors from baseball media outlets for his near-perfect performance against UC Davis on Saturday.

Bergman was named to the College Baseball Foundation’s “National All-Star Lineup,” was tabbed a National Player of the Week by CollegeBaseballInsider.com and was voted a Primetime Performer by CollegeBaseball360.com.

Bergman faced the minimum 27 batters in a one-hit complete-game shutout of the Aggies to clinch the Big West series win. The senior standout yielded a leadoff hit, and after the Anteater defense caught the Aggie runner stealing, Bergman proceeded to retire the next 26 batters he faced, using just 89 pitches in his first career shutout.

Bergman struck out six to improve to 4-2. After allowing a fly-ball out to right field to lead off the sixth inning, he did not allow a ball out of the infield.

— From staff reports