The Cal Lutheran baseball team (16-0, 9-0...

The Cal Lutheran baseball team (16-0, 9-0 in Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play), has beaten opponents in nine SCIAC games by an average of 12.5 runs. The Kingsmen beat Caltech, 20-0, last Thursday, and their closest game is a 9-2 win over Claremont-Mudd. . . .

Cal State Northridge is ahead of last season’s school-record pace for strikeouts. Northridge pitchers have 138 strikeouts in 13 games, an average of 10.6 a game. Last season the Matadors had 511 in 63 games, an average of 8.1. . . .

The Matadors’ earned-run average is 2.63 and Northridge pitchers have issued only 30 walks in 113 innings. . . .

Last week, four Matador pitchers posted wins and they combined for 48 strikeouts in 34 innings. Right-hander Steven Morales led the way with 15 strikeouts--including a school-record eight in a row--in seven innings against Utah. . . .

Scott Richardson and Kyle Washington each has a 12-game hitting streak. Richardson leads Matador regulars with a .385 batting average. Washington is fourth at .310. Greg Shockey is second at .333 after seven hits in 14 at-bats last week. Shockey leads Northridge in on-base percentage (.525).

Basketball: College of the Canyons point guard David Langley, who has committed to Quincy (Ill.) College, took his game to another level during the Southern California regional. Langley, who averaged 17.2 points and hit 50.8% of his shots during the regular season, averaged 22.7 points and made 31 of 50 shots (62%) from the field during the regional. Canyons made 59.7% of its shots in regional play after shooting 48.5% during the regular season. . . .

Keith Gibbs, a senior, ended his two-season career at Northridge ranked sixth (along with junior Percy Fisher) in career blocked shots with 24, seventh in assists (181), and tied for eighth with Jemarl Baker (1987-90) in career steals with 66. . . .

Seniors Shelton Boykin and Brian Kilian ended their two-season careers ranked eighth (21) and tied for ninth (16), respectively, in blocked shots. . . .

Senior David Keeter ranks fourth in Northridge history with 48 three-point baskets.

Men’s volleyball: Kill totals typically generate much attention, but the Northridge men’s volleyball team obviously is doing something right on defense. Three Matadors are among Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn. leaders in digs-per-match averages.

Mike Mesnik is second at 2.61, Axel Hagar third at 2.57 and Coley Kyman seventh at 2.35.

Northridge players also are effective offensively. Craig Hewitt and Kyman are seventh and eighth in hitting percentage with averages of 47.1% and 46.6%. Ken Lynch (7.09 per game) and Kyman (5.22) are fourth and seventh in kill average and Matt Unger (.455) and Mesnik (.444) are third and fourth in service aces.

A scheduling quirk has left the Matadors, ranked third in the American Volleyball Coaches Assn. poll, idle until Tuesday when they play host Pepperdine for first place in the DeGroot Division.

Softball: Northridge, 15-14 and making a bid for its first NCAA Division I playoff invitation, has won only five of 17 games against nationally ranked teams. The victories came against No. 2 Fresno State (6-1), No. 5 Cal State Fullerton (8-4), No. 12 Cal State Long Beach (3-2), No. 14 Arizona State (2-1) and No. 17 Minnesota (2-0).

Northridge already has hit a school-record 10 home runs, including three by Beth Calcante and two each by Tamara Ivie and Patti Pearson.

Just call her Miss Clutch. Missy Cress is batting only .230 for Northridge, but she has 13 hits in 29 at-bats with runners in scoring position--a team-best average of .448.

Statistics current through Tuesday.