The UC Riverside baseball team made a statement two weeks ago with their 2-1 series win over nationally ranked Long Beach State (LBSU). The group carried this momentum into this past week, beating non-conference opponent University of San Diego, 3-2, and conference opponent CSU Northridge (CSUN), 6-4, before suffering a 2-7 loss the following game.
The win over CSUN on...
UC Riverside softball only has six games remaining on their schedule and dropped two games this weekend to conference opponent, CSU Northridge, in the Highlanders’ final home series of the year.
The series kicked off with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 30 and UCR was on the wrong end of a blowout in the first slate, falling 11-1. The game...
UCR men’s tennis played their first match of the Big West Conference tournament against the University of California, Irvine at the Indian Wells tennis arena on Wednesday, April 27. The Highlanders dropped the match, 4-0, bringing their impressive season to an abrupt close.
Despite the one-sided nature of the game, UCR’s men’s tennis played strong and competitive matches that were...
The UC Riverside women’s tennis team brought an end to a rather underwhelming season this past Wednesday, April 27 as they fell, 4-0, to No. 8 Cal Poly in the first round of the Big West Conference Championships. The proverbial writing on the wall was highly apparent from the outset as UCR fell in three, noncompetitive doubles matches early,...
I met up with Rejane Verin and Clemence Lefebvre — two of the newer members of UCR’s women’s basketball team — to ask them how they, as international student athletes, are handling their first year here at UCR. After we laughed about my ineptitude in pronouncing their names, we dove right into the interview.
Any avid fan will understand that...
UCR men’s tennis has had a 2016 season worth being very proud of. The team has totaled 13 wins on the season, two more than the previous school record. However, the record for season wins is hardly on any player or coach’s mind because the conference tournament kicks off on Wednesday, April 27 and playing well in that tournament...
Coming off a close 4-3 win on Friday, April 22 in game one of their conference series against nationally-ranked Long Beach State, UC Riverside baseball had a quick turnaround into Saturday evening’s matchup against the Beach. Yet UCR managed to prevail on top, 14-13, of the thrilling nine-inning slugfest, thanks to a walk-off single courtesy of Yeager Taylor.
The game...
After suffering back-to-back losses last week against Hawaii State, UCR softball came back this week to sweep a three-game conference series against Big West rivals, UC Davis.
The first slew of games took place on Friday, April 22 with UCR taking the win on both at 7-2, 3-0, respectively. The team wasted no time in bringing the heat during the...
The UC Riverside Highlanders competed against athletes from around the world on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23, at the UC San Diego Triton Invitational. On Friday, three Highlanders took part in the women’s hammer throw invitational and another participated in the women’s discus throw open. During the women’s hammer throw, Vesta Bell took home 10th place, throwing...
The conditions in Lahaina, Hawaii for the Big West Women’s Golf Championships were, by no means, perfect. Thirty-five mile-per-hour winds, cloudy skies, intermittent rain and yet, UCR emerged beaming as they took home the program’s first-ever conference title.
The group did so in suspenseful fashion, entering Tuesday’s final round three shots behind frontrunner Cal Poly until a series of bogeys...