With fans, coaches and student athletes scattered around the UC Riverside track, the Highlanders hosted the 2015 Big West Championships for the first time in the school’s Division I history. Curious gym-goers glanced over the chain-link fences as the starting gun sounded and some of the very best runners in the Big West vied for a chance to participate...
Friday, May 8
Highlanders 6 -- Mustangs 2
Highlanders 8 -- Mustangs 1
The Highlanders started their last series of the year with a doubleheader on Friday, with both teams trading runs in the early innings of the first game. Cal Poly added another run to the tally in the fifth inning to take the lead.
The Mustangs’ advantage was short-lived, as the...
For the first time in the program’s history, The UC Riverside track and field program hosted the Big West conference championships over the weekend. This weekend’s action consisted of the multi-events, in which athletes competed in multiple events over the course of the meet.
The championships had a bittersweet start as highly favored Danielle Littleton was not able to compete...
The 2015 NCAA St. George Regional kicked off Thursday, May 7, and while the UC Riverside women’s golf team was unable to earn a tournament bid as a whole, its star, Savannah Vilaubi was able to participate as an individual competitor, the first woman golfer in UCR history to do so. The tournament, now in its 23rd year, consisted...
May 7, 2015
Rainbow Warriors 6 - Highlanders 3
UCR’s baseball team finally made it to an even 20 last Thursday evening — 20 games under .500, that is. In the midst of a trying first season under first-year head coach and former major leaguer and Angels closer Troy Percival, the Highlanders could not put a string of hits together and...
Perhaps it was their underdog mentality or the overall chemistry of the team, but in a record-breaking season in which they have amassed a school-record 35 wins and maintained the highest batting average in Division I history, there is no question that this has been a season to remember for the UC Riverside softball team. A team that was...
April 28, 2015
Rebels 5 - Highlanders 4
The UC Riverside baseball team continued an underwhelming first season under Head Coach Troy Percival with a 5-4 loss to the UNLV Rebels on Tuesday afternoon.
Highlander pitcher Jesus Gonzales dominated the mound, not allowing a runner in scoring position in his six innings of work.
With Gonzales holding down the pitching fort, UCR piled...
The UCR track and field team bid adieu to the regular season as student athletes participated in three meets over the weekend, including the CSUN Challenge, the Adidas/Steve Scott Invitational and the Payton Jordan Invitational.
Justin Parker won the men’s 400-meter run at the CSUN Challenge with a time of 46.87, which was the second-best mark for a UCR athlete....
May 2, 2015
Highlanders 6 -- Gauchos 2
Gauchos 4 -- Highlanders 2
Fresh off a sweep against the UC Davis Aggies, the UCR softball team split a doubleheader Saturday afternoon against the UCSB Gauchos.
In the day’s first action, the Highlanders quickly jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. The first score of the day...
For the second consecutive year, the UCR’s men’s golf team finished third at the Big West Championship.
The Highlanders were only 11 shots back of first-place UC Irvine and 10 strokes behind second-place UC Davis in the Big West Championships at the San Luis Obispo Country Club on April 26 to 28. UCSB and Long Beach State were four strokes...