Pacific Tigers

The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level. Erin Ashby (Crescenta Valley High, 2011) Stanford softball sophomore: Despite a performance in which Ashby drove in a pair of runs and tallied a pair of hits, Stanford stumbled against...

Linden High senior Matt Zaklan threw four hitless innings before Escalon High rallied with a three-run fifth, but the Lions answered with three late runs to win 7-3 in Game 1 of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division V best-of-three series at Billy Hebert...

In his 22nd season of coaching college baseball, Missouri Baptist's Eddie Uschold has never seen anything like it. Then again, few have. The Spartans, playing with their season on the line early this week in Kingsport, Tenn., outlasted defending...

In one of those moves that often goes unnoticed by all but baseball junkies, the Detroit Tigers late in 2008 announced they had hired a former Philadelphia Phillies scout named Kevin Hooker to assume their newly created position of Pacific Rim...

Scott Hong (Glendale Community College, 2011) Occidental College baseball senior: Hong wrapped up a phenomenal senior campaign at Occidental with a fitting accolade, as the former Vaquero was bestowed an All-Southern California Interscholastic Athletic...

A year after reaching the NCAA Championships round for only the seventh time in program history, the University of Memphis men's golf team returns to the postseason with longer odds of making an eighth trip to the final round. The Tigers earned an at-...

The University of Hawaii softball team headed north on Tuesday with a few more conference honors packed up. After claiming the conference championship in its return season to the Big West, UH earned three of the league's major awards, and eight...

Random thoughts for a Tuesday morning, wondering whatever happened to Pat Johnson, a CIF-SS 100-meter champion in 1994 for Redlands High School, who later won a Super Bowl ring with the Baltimore Ravens. Want an autographed football signed by Joe...

Last year, the St. Mary's baseball team did what only one other Division I baseball program had done in the nearly 40 years since the Sac-Joaquin Section began crowning an annual champion. The Rams won their third consecutive section title. This week,...

IRVINE — Six days after undergoing unexpected root canal surgery, UC Irvine junior pitcher Andrew Morales made the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo hitters experience roughly the equivalent of a trip to the dentist. Morales, recorded 10 of his first 12...

It took 20 months for Eric Sugimoto to transform from just another talented recruit into the Big West Conference champion. The sophomore from San Diego claimed the conference individual title last week in San Jacinto, playing the best golf in his...

Final exams and the pursuit of a conference championship have occupied the attention of the University of Hawaii softball team heading into its final series of the Big West schedule. When the Rainbow Wahine take the field today in Stockton, Calif.,...