COLLEGE ROUNDUP : CLU Baseball Team Improves to 9-0

Jason Wilcox had four hits and scored twice and Darrell McMillin slugged his seventh home run to lift Cal Lutheran to an 8-2 nonconference baseball victory over host Westmont on Tuesday.

Cal Lutheran improved to 9-0; Westmont fell to 3-4.

Westmont jumped on Cal Lutheran starter Tim Wimbish for a pair of runs in the first inning but the Kingsmen matched that with two runs in the second.

CLU broke the tie in the fourth, pushing across two runs with the help of some shoddy Westmont defense before McMillin belted a solo home run.

In other baseball games:

L.A. City 5, Canyons 0--Canyons’ sputtering offense was unable to score despite five hits, eight walks and a hit batsman.

Five pitchers combined on the shutout for host L.A. City (8-5) in the nonconference game. Canyons is 3-8.

Mission 8, Ventura 7--Jose Gallegos’ two-run home run in the eighth inning proved to be the difference in the nonconference game at Mission.

Starter Eric Duncan gave up four runs and nine hits in 7 1/3 innings but received enough offensive support to earn the win.

Robert Garcia was three for four with a run batted in for Mission (1-5-1).

Taft 8, Oxnard 6--Four players collected two or more hits for winless Oxnard (0-7) in a nonconference game.

Ralph Guillen went three for five with three RBIs to lead Oxnard. Nick Frank, J. J. Ramirez and Mark Contreras each had two hits.

SOFTBALL

Antelope Valley 2, Ventura 0--Freshman Christina Amend pitched a three-hitter with two strikeouts to pick up the victory in a nonconference game at Ventura. Heather Aston singled and scored while Cheri Bainbridge and Nicole Sterba drove in runs for Antelope Valley (2-3).

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Occidental 79, Cal Lutheran 55--Visiting Occidental outscored Cal Lutheran by 22 points in the second half, turning a two-point lead into a one-sided victory in a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game.

Evelyn Albert scored a game-high 19 points for the Regals, who trailed by just two points at the half. But the Tigers put up 45 points in the second half to run their record to 12-11, 8-3 in SCIAC play.

Cal Lutheran is 1-22, 1-10.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

CS Northridge 5, CS Fullerton 4--Monica Kocian, Gabriela Knizek and Jenny Cotone each scored straight-set singles victories to pace the Matadors (3-3).