UC Davis Aggies

This wasn't the way it was supposed to end. Especially after the way it began. Pi'ikea Kitamura's four-year Hawaii career has been book-ended by two vastly different experiences. On Sunday, he will be honored after his 220th start in a Rainbow uniform...

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...

Dustin Torchio's senior season hasn't gone as well as he had expected, but he has been playing his best baseball over the past two weeks. Torchio, who has played third base since April 20 after playing the first 31 games of the season at shortstop, is...

BASEBALL UCLA 8, UC Irvine 1 LOS ANGELES — Connor Spencer went two for four with one run batted in and Chris Rabago was two for four for the visiting Anteaters in the nonconference game Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Stadium. UCLA (28-13) broke...

Rick Vanderhook learned one valuable lesson during his first trip to Hawaii as the Cal State Fullerton head coach. "I'm coming in Wednesday next time, I'll tell you that," he said. The fourth-ranked Titans bounced back from ace Thomas Eshelman's worst...

Alex Edfort has a champion's confidence heading into the Big West Conference Championship beginning today in San Jacinto. The senior from Somerset, N.J., is hoping to repeat as the conference's individual winner, while also leading the Pacific men's...

IRVINE — The middle of the UC Irvine batting order drove in five runs, but it was the success of the middle of the weekend pitching rotation that was perhaps most noteworthy in UC Irvine's 8-2 Big West Conference home win over UC Davis on Saturday....

WOMEN'S WATER POLO UC Irvine 7, San Diego State 5 IRVINE — The No. 2-seeded Anteaters advanced to Sunday's Big West Conference Tournament final behind 13 saves from Jillian Yocum and two goals apiece from Michaela Pierandozzi and McKenna...

IRVINE — There was the bunt and the blast, but UC Irvine's 5-4 Big West Conference baseball victory over visiting UC Davis on Friday would not have happened without the backbone of Anteaters starting pitcher Andrew Thurman. Thurman, who threw 73...

Pacific's final season in the Big West Conference is wrapping up with four spring sports holding their championships this weekend. The men's and women's tennis teams begin play today in Indian Wells, and the women's water polo team opens play at noon...

WOMEN'S GOLF Big West Championships SAN LUIS OBISPO — Junior Ronnie Valerio finished tied for fifth and senior Michelle Park tied for seventh in the event completed Tuesday at San Luis Obispo Golf and Country Club. The Anteaters had a 54-hole...

SAN DIEGO — In his 26th season, having pulled the strings in more than 1,500 Division I college baseball games, UC Irvine Coach Mike Gillespie apparently knows when he has seen enough. Gillespie hit his breaking point for the second time in three...