NCAA BASEBALL / REGIONAL TOURNAMENTS

By STEVE HENSON

May 25, 1996 12 AM PT

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Cal State Northridge 18, Northeastern Illinois 1--Eric Gillespie hit his 22nd and 23rd homers of the season and Jason Cole pitched a six-hitter for the Matadors, who shed the memory of a humiliating loss to Stanford by eliminating Northeastern Illinois at Palo Alto.

Northridge (50-17) had four home runs, a triple and two doubles among 19 hits. The Matadors scored in every inning but two and extended an 8-0 lead with eight runs in the seventh inning.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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