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College Roundup : Canyons Shadows WSC Leader With 6-0 Win Over Glendale

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Anyone who thought defending Western State Conference champion College of the Canyons was going to allow this year’s title to slip away without a battle ought to be ashamed.

Canyons (18-12, 11-4 in conference play) trailed Ventura by a half-game heading into Saturday’s conference game against visiting Glendale and made certain that the Pirates gained no ground.

Propelled by three sixth-inning home runs and the pitching of Mike Teich and Leiff Christofferson, Canyons blanked the Vaqueros, 6-0, keeping pace with Ventura, a 12-4 winner over Santa Monica.

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Teich (2-2) scattered eight hits through 7 1/3 innings. Christofferson took it from there, allowing no hits to earn his fourth save and complete Canyons’ first shutout of the season.

“I feel good about this win because some people started counting us out a couple of weeks ago,” Canyons Coach Len Mohney said. “This is a beat-em-up league. You can’t read the paper every morning and see that you’re in the same place.”

Randy Cooper, Don Pederson and Pete Washington hit home runs in the sixth inning for Canyons.

In other baseball games:

Pierce 7, Oxnard 6--Sophomore left-hander Pete Dragaloski (6-2) lasted all 11 innings of the WSC game at Oxnard, allowing eight hits for the victory.

With the score tied, 6-6, in the 11th, Chris Murphy led off with a bunt single and was sacrificed to second. With two out, Murphy scored when Kevin Johnson’s fly ball was dropped.

Valley 4, Cuesta 2--Steve Slattery (4-1) struck out seven in his first complete game of the season and the Monarchs (24-7-1, 9-5) manufactured two runs in the ninth to win the WSC game at Cuesta.

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In the ninth, Eric Vargas scored on Steve Ross’ ground out to second base and Mike Suarez scored on a fielder’s choice.

Westmont 3-6, Cal Lutheran 0-3--Jeff Ludwig pitched a four-hitter in the first game and Westmont scored four times in the fifth inning of the second game to sweep a Golden State Athletic Conference doubleheader at Westmont.

Cal Lutheran’s Henry Campos was two for six in the two games. In four games this week, Campos was 11 for 19 with eight runs batted in. For Cal Lutheran (23-13, 11-5 in conference), Devon Schutzler was two for four in the second game and Tim Lewis hit a two-run homer in the seventh.

SOFTBALL

Cal State Northridge 8-2, Cal State Dominguez Hills 0-0--Heather Lindstrom and Debbie Dickmann combined to allow only seven hits--all singles--in 14 scoreless innings as the top-ranked Lady Matadors swept a California Collegiate Athletic Assn. doubleheader at CSUN.

Lindstrom (13-4), a freshman from Crescenta Valley High, scattered four hits and struck out five with only one walk in the opener. It was her seventh shutout.

Northridge (41-13, 9-1) had 13 hits in the first game, including three by Lisa Erickson. Dickmann (24-2) allowed only three hits in posting her 15th shutout.

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MEN’S TRACK

Cal State Northridge 60 1/2, Cal State Los Angeles 56, San Luis Obisbo 51 1/2, Cal State Bakersfield 36--Tyrone Jeffries of Northridge (9-1, 7-0) qualified for nationals with a time of 21.34 seconds in the 200 meters in a California Collegiate Athletic Assn. quadrangular meet at Cal State Bakersfield.

WOMENS’ TRACK

San Luis Obisbo 67, Cal State Northridge 47, Cal State Bakersfield 33, Cal State Los Angeles 24--Mary Coleman and Laura Isles of Northridge (7-3, 5-1) qualified for nationals in a CCAA meet at Bakersfield.

Coleman qualified in the 400 meters with 55.45 seconds and Isles qualified in the 100 with 11.88.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Cal Poly Pomona 6, Cal State Northridge 3--Cal State Northridge (6-12, 4-3) is still in the hunt for a berth in the eight-team Division II national tournament, but the Lady Matadors did not help their cause by dropping a CCAA match at CSUN.

Pomona (12-10, 8-2), which is in second place in the CCAA, swept the top four singles and top two doubles matches.

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