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Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
UCLA falls to LSU in men's CWS game delayed by storms, preps for elimination game
UCLA first baseman Mulivai Levu runs to first base during a recent Men's College World Series game against Murray State. The Bruins lost to LSU on Tuesday morning and face an elimination game Tuesday night. (Cory Eads / Associated Press) UCLA waited 15 hours to bat in the fourth inning of its winner's bracket game of the Men's College World Series against Louisiana State. Now, the Bruins have five hours to regroup or else their season is over. An early lead disappeared once LSU came to bat in the first inning. Those bats stayed hot through a strong thunderstorm that delayed the fourth inning until Tuesday morning, lifting the Tigers to a 9-5 win at Charles Schwab Field. Advertisement UCLA will play Arkansas in an elimination game at 4 p.m. PDT Tuesday. The game will air on ESPN. Read more: UCLA versus LSU Men's College World Series game suspended until Tuesday Monday night started promising for the Bruins. RBIs from Roman Martin, AJ Salgado and Payton Brennan gave them a three-run lead in the first. For the 29th time this season, UCLA scored first. The Bruins were 27-1 in such scenarios before the loss to LSU. The Tigers answered with three straight singles and a 368-foot bomb from Jared Jones to claim a 4-3 lead in the first. The Tigers added another run in the third before the overnight weather delay. That didn't dampen the LSU bats, which responded with two runs when play resumed Tuesday morning. Advertisement The Bruins rallied in the eighth inning with RBIs from Brennan and Blake Balsz before Phoenix Call, the potential go-ahead run, grounded out with the bases loaded. The Tigers plated an insurance run in response. Get the best, most interesting and strangest stories of the day from the L.A. sports scene and beyond from our newsletter The Sports Report. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Washington Post
02-06-2025
- General
- Washington Post
Levu's 3-run HR helps UCLA beat UC Irvine 8-5 to sweep Los Angeles Regional
LOS ANGELES — Mulivai Levu hit a three-run home run, Dean West and Payton Brennan added two RBIs apiece and UCLA jumped to a big lead and then held on to beat UC Irvine 8-5 on Sunday night and win the Los Angeles Regional. UCLA (45-16) clinched its first trip to the super regionals since 2019.
Associated Press
02-06-2025
- General
- Associated Press
Levu's 3-run HR helps UCLA beat UC Irvine 8-5 to sweep Los Angeles Regional
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mulivai Levu hit a three-run home run, Dean West and Payton Brennan added two RBIs apiece and UCLA jumped to a big lead and then held on to beat UC Irvine 8-5 on Sunday night and win the Los Angeles Regional. UCLA (45-16) clinched its first trip to the super regionals since 2019. UC Irvine (43-17) beat Arizona State 11-6 in a loser-out game earlier Sunday. The Anteaters made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time since they went to six straight tourneys from 2006-11. Roman Martin's RBI single off Finnegan Wall (0-1) in the first inning made it 1-0 and the Bruins led the rest of the way. Cashel Dugger hit a single in the second that drove in Brennan, who doubled to lead off the inning, and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Roch Cholowsky to make it 3-0. Dugger and Phoenix Call drew back-to-back walks to lead off the fourth and West followed with a bunt single to load the bases. Dugger scored on another sacrifice fly by Cholowsky and, after Levu's homer, Brennan added a sacrifice fly to make it 8-0. James Castagnola and Alonso Reyes each had an RBI for the Anteaters in the fourth, Anthony Martinez hit a two-run double in the fifth and Reyes hit a lead-off home in the sixth to cap the scoring. Chris Grothues (3-1) came on in relief of starter Wylan Moss with one out and the bases loaded in the fourth. Grothues got Reyes to groundout, driving in Martinez, and struck out Blake Penso to limit the damage. Easton Hawk pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his sixth save of the season. ___ AP college sports:
Associated Press
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
No. 15 overall seed UCLA eases past Fresno State 19-4 behind a season-high 22 hits
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roman Martin had a season-high four hits, including a solo home run, and Mulivai Levu added three hits and five RBIs to help No. 15 overall seed UCLA rout Fresno State 19-4 in the Los Angeles Regional on Friday. UCLA (43-16), back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years, will play Saturday against the winner between Arizona State and UC Irvine. Fresno State (31-28) will meet the loser in an elimination game. UCLA had a season-high 22 hits, topping its previous 19 against Purdue on March 30. Five different Bruins had at least three hits. Martin started UCLA's four-run first inning with an RBI single and Blake Balsz capped it with run-scoring bloop single. Martin finished with four hits and three RBIs and Balsz added three hits and two RBIs. UCLA starter Michael Barnett needed just eight pitches to set the Bulldogs down in order in the second. Barnett stranded a pair of runners in the fourth to get out of a jam. He allowed two earned runs and six hits over 4 1/3 innings. Chris Grothues (2-1) came on with runners at the corners and one out in the fifth and got Bobby Blandford to hit into a 3-6-1 double play. Grothues threw just 10 pitches — eight strikes — over 1 2/3 no-hit innings. Martin's eighth home run of the season made it 5-1 in the third. Balsz ripped an RBI single through the right side for a five-run lead. The Bruins sealed it with six runs in the seventh for a 10-run lead. Levu cleared the bases with a shot off the wall in left field. Payton Brennan hit his sixth home run of the season in a seven-run eighth. ___ AP college sports:
Washington Post
10-03-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
College baseball notebook: Oregon, UCLA and Washington win inaugural Big Ten series on the road
Three of the four West Coast schools came out of their inaugural Big Ten series happy. Southern California, not so much. Oregon ran its win streak to 11 games with a road sweep of USC, which has lost five straight since it knocked off nationally ranked Vanderbilt. UCLA made the 2,300-mile trip to Maryland and won two of three. Washington went to Nebraska and also won two of three. Oregon's Mason Neville hit his eighth homer of the season on the second pitch of Friday's 7-2 victory over the Trojans and went deep again in Sunday's 5-3 win. UCLA, after losing 13-3 on the run rule Saturday, scored all of its runs in the second inning in an 11-5 win Sunday. The Bruins had nine hits in the 11-run inning, with Mulivai Levu homering for the second time in the series. Washington swept a doubleheader over the Cornhuskers on Saturday. Braeden Terry hit a three-run homer in a five-run first inning in the 11-5 win, and Malakhi Knight and Blake Wilson went deep in a 6-3 win. The top three teams in the and Baseball America polls remained the same Monday. All went 5-0 last week. LSU (16-1), Tennessee (16-0) and Arkansas (15-1) are 1-2-3 by D1Baseball. Tennessee, LSU and Arkansas are 1-2-3 by Baseball America . Defending national champion Tennessee heads into SEC play with a three-game home series against Florida after sweeping St. Bonaventure, which was picked to finish last in the Atlantic 10. The Volunteers' 16-0 start is the best in program history, and their considerable talent on the mound and at the plate were on full display against the Bonnies. Liam Doyle and four relievers combined on a no-hitter — the program's first since 2002 — in Friday's 12-0 win. Manny Marin's grand slam Saturday ended an 11-1 win in the seventh on the run rule. It was the Vols' eighth slam of the season. The Vols hit five home runs in a 13-2 win Sunday and finished with 11 in the three games to increase their nation-leading total to 49. Stanford finished its inaugural ACC road trip in impressive fashion Sunday with Joey Volchko, Aidan Keenan and Toran O'Harran combining to allow six hits and strike out 14 in a 7-0 series-clinching win over North Carolina. The Cardinal won a series over a top-five opponent for the first time since taking two of three from Oregon State in April 2022. Stanford was the first team to shut out North Carolina in Chapel Hill since 2020 and the first ACC opponent to do it since 2019. California, the other West Coast ACC newcomer, dropped two of three games at Duke. Oklahoma State responded with a vengeance after losing the first game of its home series with Illinois State. The Redbirds' 12-6 win Friday marked their first victory over a ranked opponent in two years. Saturday's game was postponed because of weather concerns. The Cowboys came back Sunday to sweep a doubleheader 16-1 and 18-1. Colin Brueggemann was 5 for 6 with two homers and seven RBIs in the two games and Nolan Schubart had four hits and seven RBIs. Arizona, coming off a sweep of Pepperdine, has won 11 of its last 12 games and its 8-0 home record is its best since the 2018 team won its first 10 home games. ... LSU's sweep of North Alabama ran the Tigers' win streak to 11 games, their longest since winning 13 straight in 2023. ... TCU has had to come from behind in nine of its 12 wins. The Horned Frogs erased four-run deficits in wins over Fresno State Saturday and Sunday. ... Kennesaw State's 13-9 win over West Virginia on Saturday marked the first loss of the season for the Mountaineers, whose 13-0 start was their best since 1964. ... Arkansas has won 11 straight and is 15-1 for its best 16-game start since 2006. ... Penn State posted its first series win over Indiana since 2008 and won its opening Big Ten series for the first time since 2014. ___ AP college sports:
