Former UCR striker Michael Salazar officially signed his first professional contract with Montreal Impact over the weekend. Salazar was the 24th overall pick in the second round of January’s MLS SuperDraft. This makes him the sixth Highlander to step up to the professional league and the fifth year in a row that a Highlander was drafted into the MLS.
Salazar...
The UC Riverside baseball team (4-5) lost a tough one in the opening game of a four-game away series against the Portland Fliers (6-3) on Friday, March 4. Austin Sodders took the mound for the Highlanders in his third start of the season and had a rough outing, which lasted only two and one-third innings. Sodders gave up three...
UCR’s softball team continues to dominate this season, with a 12-6 record overall and a 7-1 mark at home and the team was poised to continue its success in this weekend’s Highlander Classic hosted at the Amy S. Harrison Softball Field. The Highlanders did not disappoint the crowds, sweeping both Utah State and Santa Clara University in the two-day...
The UC Riverside men’s basketball team played two hard-fought games this week, one against UC Santa Barbara and one against conference and Southern California rival UC Irvine. Yet in both, the Highlanders came up short.
In the first game of the week on Thursday, March 3, the Highlanders were in prime position heading into halftime. The Highlanders were just behind...
The crowd stood and applauded as senior forward Annelise Ito walked off the Student Recreation Center’s floor for the final time in her UCR career on Saturday, March 5. It was Senior Night for the Highlanders and Ito, who has been out since early February with a torn ACL, was announced as part of the starting lineup before being...
For their first outdoor and fifth overall meet of the season, the UCR track and field team competed in a four-team event at Riverside City College (RCC). Taking part in the meet were Pepperdine University, RCC, UCR and Cal State Fullerton.
On the men’s side for UCR, notable finishes included Justin Parker’s and Matthew Reyes’ first-place finishes in heats one...
The UCR women’s tennis team lost both matches on Saturday, March 4 against Villanova and UC Davis. Against Villanova, the women put up a respectable match, ultimately losing by one set, with the score resting at 4-3. The girls split the singles matches against Villanova, but failed to gain one victory in the doubles sets to win them the...
After delivering their best performance of the season at the Battle at the Rock last week, with an overall team ranking of second place, UCR returned this week at the Red Rocks Intercollegiate on Saturday, March 5 to reproduce yet another phenomenal performance.
Riverside dominated in the first two rounds with an overall finish of second place (296, eight-over-par). Three...
As Rejane Verin stood at the free-throw line, the crowd of 623 stood in silence with their finger-constructed “R’s” raised in unison. The first one is up ... and good. The silence is broken. The second one follows suit. The crowd erupts.
Those two clutch free throws gave the first-ranked UC Riverside women’s basketball team their biggest lead of Saturday’s...
If you were to ask UCR head men’s basketball coach, Dennis Cutts, if this is where he expected his team to be with two games remaining on the season, he would likely tell you no, if not scoff at the question entirely.
I mean, of course not. The team did an excellent job of recruiting over the summer, bringing in...