Santa Ana College dominated Palomar College in a doubleheader, winning the California Community College Athletic Association and denying the Comets a rare sweep of the 3C2A championships. Palomar entered the event as the only unbeaten team in the baseball championships, but Santa Ana advanced to the finals by eliminating Feather River and then beating Palomar in two games.
player ready... Santa Ana College dominated Palomar College in a doubleheader Monday to win the California Community College Athletic Association and deny the Comets a rare sweep of the 3C2A baseball and softball championships.
Palomar entered Monday as the only unbeaten team in the baseball championships. The Comets had defeated Santa Ana 4-3 Sunday in the winners’ bracket finale of the four-team, double-elimination tournament at Great Park in Irvine. But Santa Ana advanced to the finals by eliminating Feather River Sunday night, then beating Palomar by scores of 19-3 and 7-4 Monday. Palomar finishes the season with a 43-8 record in a failed attempt to win its first state baseball title.
Santa Ana finished 44-7-1. The doubleheader loss also prevented Palomar from becoming only the fourth school in 44 years to win both the baseball and women’s softball titles in the same season. Over the course of the two games, Santa Ana scored 26 runs on 32 hits and had nine walks against 11 Palomar pitchers.
The lone bright spot for Palomar was designated hitter Elijah Stephens, who went 4-for-8 with three home runs and five RBIs in the two games — accounting for five of the Comets’ seven runs. The 6-foot-7, 245-pound freshman from Sage Creek High School finishes the season with 20 home runs and 85 RBIs in 51 games with a .474 batting average, a .581 on-base percentage and a .862 slugging percentage for a 1.336 OPS.
Three local college teams will be involved in NCAA championships later this week. Point Loma Nazarene’s baseball team and the Cal State San Marcos softball team will take part in the NCAA Division II championships. And the University of San Diego men’s golf team will compete in the NCAA Division I championships starting Friday at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad.
PLNU is seeded sixth among the eight teams competing in the NCAA Division II baseball championships, which start Friday in Cary, N.C. PLNU will play third-seeded Catawba in the opening game of their four-team pool at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Each four-team pool has a double-elimination format. The two pool champions will then meet in a best 2-of-3 series for the title.
CSUSM is seeded fourth in the NCAA Division II softball championships, which also begins with two, four-team, double-elimination pools. The Cougars will face fifth-seeded West Texas A&M in their opening pool game Thursday at 10:30 a.m. The two pool champions will meet in a best-of-three series June 2-3 to decide the champion. The Division II finals are being held in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The USD men, who won a playoff for the final spot at the Corvallis Regionals last week, will be one of 30 teams teeing off Friday in the Division I golf championships. The field will be reduced to 15 teams after three days of stroke play. A fourth round on Monday will reduce the field to eight teams for the match play championships.
The quarterfinals and semifinals of match play will be played June 2 with the championship match on June 3. The 30 qualifying teams: USD, UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Stanford, Arizona, Arizona State, Brigham Young, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Louisville, Auburn, Georgia, Chattanooga, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Memphis, Florida State, Arkansas, Purdue, LSU, Arkansas State, Duke, Virginia, Mississippi and Mississippi State.
Cal State San Marcos redshirt freshman golfer Liam Weaver has been named to the NCAA Division II All-West Region team. Weaver led the Cougars with a 72.6 scoring average and finished in the top 10 in three tournaments, including finishing second in the NCAA Division II Regional. He is the sixth golfer in program history to earn Division II honors.
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