Harris’ Pitching Helps Stars Beat Padres, 5-3

Greg Harris allowed only one run in the first four innings, and Sandy Alomar Jr. broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run single in the fourth inning as the triple-A Las Vegas Stars beat the Padres, 5-3, in an exhibition game Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Todd Simmons pitched a scoreless ninth for the save.

For the Padres, Stanley Jefferson had 3 hits, 2 walks and 2 stolen bases. Eric Show was the losing pitcher.

Las Vegas is the Padres’ triple-A affiliate. The teams will meet again today at 1:05 p.m. in Las Vegas.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Senior Wally Trice struck out 14 batters and overcame 12 hits as U.S. International University beat Pepperdine, 8-4, to gain a split of the nonconference doubleheader at Players’ Field.

Leadoff hitter Jim Doyle and Matt Howard hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning of Pepperdine’s 9-4 victory in the first game. USIU’s runs were scored on Jerry Benavides’ grand slam in the sixth.

Trice raised his record to 8-3 and USIU’s to 13-21-1. Kevin Keller hit a two-run homer for USIU. Pepperdine is 19-17-1.

Rob Brown allowed only five hits as San Diego State beat Colorado State, 8-1, in the seven-inning first game of a Western Athletic Conference doubleheader at Smith Field.

Steve Montejano drove in three runs and Bill Miller two for San Diego State (20-13-1, 3-2). Brown, a junior right-hander, struck out five and walked two in raising his record to 4-3. Colorado State entered the second game 7-13 and 0-1.

After his team won the first game, 4-2, UC San Diego’s Gary Fessia hit a two-run home run in the first inning for a 2-0 lead, but that was the only hit the Tritons got as Southern California College won, 4-2, for a split of the nonconference doubleheader in Costa Mesa.

Fessia had two hits in support of first-game winner Dave Adamson (3-1). Adamson allowed five hits and struck out five in seven innings.

SCC’s Erik Gasner hit a three-run homer in the fourth for a 3-2 lead in the second game.

UCSD, which has won five of its past six games, is 16-8.

TRACK

Three members of Point Loma Nazarene College’s women’s track team each won two events as Point Loma beat Pomona-Pitzer, 102-27, in a nonconference meet at Pomona.

Point Loma won the men’s meet, 88-69. The Crusader teams are each 5-0 in dual meets.

Connie Navarro (javelin and long jump), Shawndelle Reddic (100- and 400-meter races) and Staci Haines (shotput and discus) were the double winners.

GOLF

Phil Mickelson of University of San Diego High School and two other junior All-Americans fired 3-under-par 69s to share a two-shot lead in the first round of the American Junior Golf Association’s Woodlands Junior Golf Classic.

Jim Furyk of Manheim, Pa., and John Sosa of El Paso, Tex., also shot 69.

The 36-hole tournament, the first stop of 21 events on the AJGA tour, ends today.