Noriega, Bradley Pace USD

Jose Luis Noriega and Kevin Bradley, ranked 19th in the nation in doubles, scored a 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-5) victory over Iowa’s Klas Bergstrom and Thomas Adler in Sunday’s last match to give University of San Diego a 5-4 victory over Iowa in the championship of the USD Invitational men’s tennis tournament.

USD led 4-2 after singles play, getting victories from 13th-ranked Noriega, Bradley, Akiba Mashaka and J.J. Shobar, but Iowa rebounded with strong doubles play.

USD, now 8-9, has not lost the tournament since it began five years ago.

In another match, Yale beat Drake, 5-1, for third place. Dartmouth took fifth, Pacific sixth, Navy seventh and Iowa State eighth.

BASEBALL

Senior Bill Dunckel, a Fallbrook High graduate, hit his first home run of the season, a fourth-inning grand slam, and helped San Diego State to a 10-inning, 11-10 nonconference victory over Nevada Las Vegas. Dunckel finished two for four with five RBIs. He also had a double.

Rick Page’s RBI single in the 10th made a winner of relief pitcher Marc Woodward (1-0), who pitched to one batter in the top of the inning.

Greg Quam was two for five with two RBIs for SDSU (15-7).

UNLV (9-11) scored only three earned runs. SDSU committed seven errors.

CREW

UC San Diego won three of its four matches, including both Novice 8s, in a dual-race against USC.

Eighteen seconds was the magic margin of victory. UCSD’s novice women’s 8 covered the 1,500-meter course in 6 minutes, 26 seconds, 18 seconds faster than the Trojans. The novice men’s 8 also won by 18 seconds, crossing the finish line in 5:22. And USC won the varsity women’s 8 by 18 seconds, in 6:01. UCSD won the varsity men’s 4 by one second, in 6:01.