San Diego streak rolls on with an 81-63 win

Gyno Pomare and Ross DeRogatis each scored 19 points as host San Diego won its seventh straight game, beating UC Santa Barbara, 81-63, on Friday.

With the win, the Toreros improved to 9-4; the loss ended the Gauchos’ four-game winning streak. UC Santa Barbara, which lost a road game for the first time this season after five wins, is 8-3 overall.

Pomare, who posted a team-high eight rebounds, had 13 points in the first half, including a stretch in which he made five straight.

With the score tied, 21-21, with five minutes left in the first half, the Toreros went on a 14-7 run to take a 35-28 lead.

Nir Cohen, who’d missed the previous 10 games because of a broken left hand, was one of five players in double figures for San Diego. He finished with 10 points.

Chris Devine led the Gauchos with 12 points; Alex Harris and Cecil Brown each added 10.

DeRogatis, who was saddled with two early fouls and scored just four points during the first 20 minutes, hit his stride in the second half. He made all five of his three-point attempts, including three in a row as part of a 15-0 Toreros run.

UC Santa Barbara was two for 16 from three-point range and missed 12 straight in one second-half stretch.

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Loyola of Chicago 72, UC Irvine 69 -- Blake Schilb was four for 15 from the field but went eight for eight from the free-throw line to finish with 17 points for the Ramblers, who held off a second-half surge by the Anteaters.

J.R. Blount added 15 points for the Ramblers (9-4) and Majak Kou had 11.

UC Irvine (4-8) fought back from a 38-31 halftime deficit to go ahead by two with 3:44 left on a jump shot by Mark Kelley, who led the Anteaters’ scoring with 13 points.

But Schilb tied the score less than a minute later before the Ramblers pulled ahead on a Blount three-pointer.

UC Irvine pulled back to within a point, 70-69, with eight seconds to go on a Patrick Sanders jump shot, but it was the Anteaters’ last basket. Schilb scored the final points with two free throws.

Sanders added 12 points and Michael Hunter came off the Anteaters bench to score 10.