BASEBALL

San Diego State went extra innings to take a 9-8 victory over San Francisco State in the morning, then lost in the afternoon, 1-0, to Cal Lutheran, in two nonconference games at SDSU.

In the bottom of the 10th against S.F. State, Steve Dietz walked in the winning run. S.F. State pitcher Shane Francisco walked four batters in the 10th, only two intentionally. John Wagner was three for five with one RBI and Derek Vineyard and Dietz picked up two hits each for the Aztecs.

Cal Lutheran scored five runs in the first two innings to put SDSU behind early. The Aztecs (5-4) went through eight pitchers in each game. Cal Lutheran is 5-0.

Clint Ellison scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning as Point Loma Nazarene defeated San Francisco State, 1-0, in a nonconference game at PLNC (3-3-1).

Ron Caton’s single up the middle scored Ellison, who pinch ran for Brock Marsh. Marsh led off the inning with a single.

Chris Gunnett (1-0) struck out seven and went the distance for the Crusaders. Rich Miller had three hits for PLNC (3-3-1). S.F. State fell to 3-6.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

UC San Diego shot 54% from the field and won its school-record 16th consecutive game with a 97-46 victory over Pacific Christian (20-15). UCSD (21-4), ranked third in Division III, broke the record it set last year. Chris Moore led UCSD with 13 points, and Erik Johnson, John Spence and Joey Drake had 12 points apiece. The Tritons made 41 of 76 shots. Pacific Christian shot 38% (19 of 49).

Point Loma Nazarene (11-15) blew an 11-point first-half lead and fell to visiting Westmont, 72-57, in a Golden State Athletic Conference game. PLNC was led by Mark Bulin’s 17 points and Charlie Simmons’ 11. Westmont (16-10), which shot 52% for the game (22 of 42), led at halftime, 39-32. PLNC shot only 32% (17 of 53), including 28% in the second half (8 of 29).

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Point Loma Nazarene, by virtue of a coaches vote, has been seeded third in the NAIA District III playoffs and will begin play Friday night at Fresno State. PLNC (20-6) ended the season in a three-way tie for first in District III with Christ College Irvine (23-4) and Fresno Pacific (23-4), which received the first and second seed, respectively. All three finished with a 13-2 conference record.

After comparing head-to-head records three ways and failing to break the tie, conference coaches went to the the coaches vote as the fourth tie-breaker. The winner of tonight’s first-round game will play at CCI Friday. Friday’s winners meet for the championship Tuesday.

SAILING

Unless the wind dies, it seemed that Roy Disney’s Pyewacket will break the record for ninth biennial San Diego-to-Manzanillo race by more than a day today.

The Santa Cruz 70 from Los Angeles Yacht Club had 301 nautical miles to go in the 1,100-mile race at 8 a.m. Tuesday and was projected to finish at 10:14 PST this morning, based on its average speed of 8.8 knots.

Jake Woods’ larger, 82-foot maxi Sorcery averaged 7.6 knots when it set the record of 5 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 43 seconds in 1986. Pyewacket, which started Friday, has until almost noon Thursday to beat that record.

However, Pyewacket, leading nine other ULDB 70s as well as the rest of the 19-boat fleet, faced historically light winds across the Sea of Cortez to the Mexican mainland.

Victoria, sailed by Steve Steiner of the Long Beach YC, leaped from sixth to second place Tuesday but was 55 miles behind Pyewacket.