College Roundup: Vanguard baseball defeats Whittier

Landon Riker and Grady Conner each went three for four with three runs scored, and the Vanguard University baseball team beat Whittier College 11-6 in a nonconference game Tuesday at home.

Luke Arias was also three for four and drove in three runs for Vanguard (4-0). Justin Graves (1-0) got the win, allowing two earned runs and three hits in four innings.

Vanguard plays at the University of Redlands on Friday at 2 p.m.

Golden West 8, College of the Canyons 7 (eight innings): Enrique Bennett was two for three with a home run for the Rustlers in Tuesday’s nonconference game on the road.

Golden West improved to 2-1.

MEN’S GOLF

OUAZ Spring Invitational: Vanguard placed 11th as a team in its first competition of the season on Tuesday at Wigwam Golf Course in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

Vanguard’s Titus Goodman shot a seven-over-par 79 on the final day and finished tied for 28th individually. AJ Pujols shot an 83 on the last day.

WOMEN’S GOLF

OUAZ Spring Invitational: Malia Kiger helped lead Vanguard to a seventh-place finish on the final day of competition on Tuesday at Wigwam Golf Course in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

Kiger shot an 11-over-par 83 on Tuesday for a team-best two-day total of 164, which tied her for seventh place individually.

Vanguard’s Kamryn Keller (176) finished 18th.

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