COLLEGE ROUNDUP : Mt. SAC Dims Mission’s Tournament Hopes, 4-3

Mt. San Antonio College received credit for a 4-3 victory over Mission on Friday when the Mt. SAC tournament game was called after five innings because of darkness.

The game, matching teams that were 2-0 in the double-elimination tournament, was delayed for two hours for the completion of a 16-inning losers’-bracket game.

“This is ridiculous,” Mission Coach John Klitsner said. “We waited 16 innings for them to finish the game before us and then they don’t give us a chance to finish ours. This was an important game and they’re going to let the score stand. That isn’t fair.”

Mt. SAC built a 4-0 lead before Mission (6-8) scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth.

In other Mt. SAC tournament games:

Oxnard experienced the long and the short of it Friday morning, afternoon and early evening, winning a 16-inning game and losing a five-inning game.

In the first game, Rich Tepezano singled in Tim Johnson with one out in the top of the 16th to drive in the winning run in Oxnard’s 8-7 victory over Chaffey. After jumping to a 7-3 lead, Oxnard went nine innings without scoring a run and allowed Chaffey to tie the score with three runs in the bottom of the ninth.

Oxnard banged out 21 hits. Jeremy Herider was five for seven with two runs batted in and Pat Avila, Tepezano and Carlos Cardenas each had three hits.

East Los Angeles scored seven runs in the second inning of the second game and won, 9-1, in a game shortened to five innings because of darkness.

WOMEN’S SOFTBALL

San Diego State tournament--Cal State Northridge (8-11) played three games, winning one. In a 2-1 win over Minnesota, Leilani Artis drove in Kelly Martin in the fifth to account for the winning run and Heather Lindstrom (4-1) threw an eight-hitter. Michelle Granger tossed a four-hitter to lead Cal to an 8-1 victory in the second game. Artis bobbled a short fly ball by San Diego State’s Stephanie Chapel in the bottom of the seventh inning of a 1-0 loss.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Portland State 69, Cal State Northridge 67--Senior forward Julie Arlotto scored 14 points and finished her Northridge career with 1,364 points, second on the school career scoring list. The Matadors finished at 10-17.

Cal Lutheran 135, Dominican 96--Cal Lutheran (14-12) tied a school single-game scoring record in its season finale at Cal Lutheran.