College Roundup: Meggs steps up for UCI

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

UC Irvine 65, UC Riverside 60 (OT)

RIVERSIDE — Kelly Meggs scored a career-high 26 points to lead the visiting Anteaters in their Big West Conference regular-season finale Thursday.

The win assured UCI (13-16, 9-7 in conference) no worse than a No. 5 seed in the Big West Tournament that begins Tuesday. Losses on Saturday by both UC Davis and Pacific would give UCI a No. 3 seed. A loss by either UC Davis (at home against UC Santa Barbara) or Pacific (at home against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) would make UCI the No. 4 seed.

The top four teams play host to quarterfinal games on Tuesday.

Meggs had five three-pointers and a team-best six assists, filling in for senior point guard Kassandra McCalister, who sat out with a foot injury.

Anete Klintsone had 16 points for UCI.

UCR, which beat UCI in their first meeting, fell to 5-24, 3-13.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Concordia 97, Vanguard 80

SAN DIEGO — Senior Chris Raybon scored 18 points to lead the visiting Lions in the quarterfinals of the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament on Thursday.

Taylor Kelly had 16 points and Chris Pynch added 14 for the No. 7-seeded Lions, who complete their season at 15-15.

The No. 2-seeded Sea Lions (20-8) advance to Saturday’s semifinals.

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BASEBALL

Concordia 9, Vanguard 7

COSTA MESA — The host Lions erased a 7-2 deficit in the late innings, but the defending NAIA champions scored two in the ninth to win the Golden State Athletic Conference opener for Vanguard on Thursday.

J.T. Truhett went four for five and Adonis Tountas was three for five for the Lions, for whom David Kiriakos drove in three runs.

Starter J.R. Bromberg allowed seven runs on eight hits over 6 1/3 innings for the hosts, who fell to 8-3, 0-1 in conference.

Concordia is 10-5, 4-1.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Orange Coast 9, Fullerton 0

COSTA MESA — No Pirates singles player surrendered more than three games in six straight-set wins in the Orange Empire Conference match Thursday at OCC.

Andrew Pham and Chad Meyer both earned 6-1, 6-0 wins at Nos. 3 and 4 singles, respectively, for OCC (2-6, 1-1 in conference).

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Orange Coast 6, Fullerton 3

FULLERTON — Nory Call, Nicole Pham and Remi Sutton all won in singles and doubles to propel the visiting Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference match Thursday.

Call, Pham and Sutton won in straight sets at Nos. 4-6 singles, respectively.

OCC improved to 2-0 in conference.

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SOFTBALL

Doubleheader

COSTA MESA — Host Vanguard University posted a 2-1 win over Simpson, after falling, 6-2, in the first game of the nonconference contests Thursday.

Taylor Hallahan and Breanne Gomez had three hits in the two games and Brittney Boggs had two combined runs batted in for the Lions (10-9).

Vanguard pitcher Rachel Stalford allowed four hits in a complete-game victory in Game 2 to improve to 3-1.

Simpson is 9-11.