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PLNC Women First in Conference Track Meet

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The Point Loma Nazarene women’s track team won the Golden State Athletic Conference championships at UC Santa Barbara Saturday, edging Azusa Pacific, 128-120.

The Crusaders won seven events, and the two-mile relay team of Melissa Mabe, Sandy Cuevas, Vanessa Couch and Annette Ronnerman set a GSAC record of 9:40.6.

Triple event winners were Ronnerman (also on the 400-meter and mile relays), Mabe (400 hurdles, mile relay) and Aminda Sloan (100 meters and 400 and mile relays).

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PLNC’s men finished second to Azusa Pacific, 169-79. GSAC marks were established by Goshu Tadese in the 10,000 (31:38.60) and Dan Ratjes in the high jump (7-2 1/2).

Darla Vaughn won the 100 meters (12.2 seconds), 100 hurdles (14.38), and 200 meters (24.75), but San Diego State lost to host USC 62-61, in a four-way meet that included Long Beach State (31) and Cal State Los Angeles (19).

In the non-scoring men’s meet, Brian Craft-Negrete high-jumped 7-0 1/4. Pat Thiss won the hammer at 193-9.

BASEBALL

Kurt Archer threw a five-hit shutout as San Diego State defeated Sacramento State, 5-0, in a nonconference game at Charlie Smith Field. Archer improved to 1-1, striking out five and walking four. He did not allow more than one hit in an inning.

Scott Dennison was three for four and scored a run for the Aztecs (16-8). Anthony Johnson and Brian Grebech were each two for four. SDSU, which also won Friday, completes the three-game series with Sacramento State today at 1 p.m.

Tom Cheek won the first game and lost the second as the University of San Diego split a West Coast Conference doubleheader at Santa Clara.

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Cheek threw 2 2/3 innings in the first game as USD (11-4, 7-7) scored five runs in the first inning and won, 5-3. In the second, Cheek (7-3) came on in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie game and allowed a two-out home run to Mark Lewis as Santa Clara (13-12-2, 8-5-1) won, 12-11.

USD’s Tony Moeder had a two-run homer to cap its five-run first in the first game. Rick Doane was three for four with two runs batted in, and Kevin Herde was three for five in the second game.

Scott Sharts of Cal State Northridge hit three home runs to power the Matadors past U.S. International, 9-1, at Northridge. It was Shart’s second three-homer game of the season; he has 13. Northridge is 13-12, USIU 8-15-1.

SOFTBALL

San Diego State’s Michelle Wesson threw a three-hitter, and the Aztecs defeated Chapman, 4-0, in the first game to split a nonconference doubleheader. Wesson (5-7) allowed only four base runners and got all the support she needed when Julie Myers hit a run-scoring triple in the first. Stephanie Chapel and Tracy Stowe added RBIs.

The Aztecs got only two hits, by Tonya Chamberlain and Sue Campbell, in a 2-1 loss in the second game. SDSU entered the day having won four of six games and is 6-15. Chapman is 20-8.

Cindy Oliver (4-6) struck out six in a three-hitter as USIU broke an eight-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory over St. Mary’s at USIU.

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USIU (7-14) hadn’t scored a run in 42 innings until Michelle Hagen sacrificed and scored Karen Winkler in the first inning.

MEN’S TENNIS

SDSU’s Ricardo Herrera lost in No. 1 singles to New Mexico’s Jorge Ortega, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, but the Aztecs outlasted the Lobos, 5-3 in a Western Athletic Conference match at SDSU.

No. 2 Tole Marinkovic defeated NM’s Warren Fulgenzi, 7-6, 6-0, and teamed with Herrera in No. 1 doubles for a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Ortega and Fulgenzi.

SDSU (11-4, 5-0) meets co-WAC leader Utah (4-0) Monday at 2 in the final WAC match of the year before the tournament April 30--May 5 at Colorado State.

The University of San Diego advanced to the finals of the USD Invitational tournament with a 6-3 victory over Iowa. The Toreros got victories at Nos. 1 and 2 singles as Jose Luis Noriega defeated Thomas Adler, 6-4, 6-3, and Dan Mattera defeated Jay Maltby, 7-5, 7-6.

Yale, a 6-3 winner over Washington, faces 25th-ranked USD (13-2) today at 2.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Seventh-ranked Cal defeated San Diego State 6-3 in a nonconference match. Dorey Brandt and Nicole Storto won singles matches in straight sets for the 18th-ranked Aztecs (6-7). Storto and Susan Hawke also won in doubles, 6-4, 6-2.

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