Cal State Bakersfield

IRVINE - It was '80s night at Anteater Ballpark on Tuesday. Very few dressed the part for UC Irvine's baseball game. But in the bottom of the third inning, Cal State Bakersfield starter Taylor Aikenhead showed up throwing in the low 80s. The Anteaters finally undressed him. They collected four hits, half of them for extra bases, and four runs, two on a home run by junior Dominique Taylor. That was all the No. 21-ranked Anteaters needed. They took the lead and never looked back, winning the nonconference game, 6-1. It took the Anteaters (11-2)

Pat Douglass will face his former team for the first time in a regular-season meeting tonight at 7:05, when the UC Irvine men’s basketball team plays host to Cal State Bakersfield in a nonconference game. Douglass, in his 12th year with the Anteaters, was the head coach at Cal State Bakersfield for 10 seasons (1987-97), compiling a 257-61 record and winning three NCAA Division II national titles (1993, 1994 and 1997). Douglass was inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Cal State Bakersfield 104, UC Irvine 92 BAKERSFIELD - Jacquelyn Marshall scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Anteaters in the nonconference game Wednesday. Jazmyne White added a career-high 23 points to go with 10 rebounds, while Methlyn Onogomuho had nine points and 10 rebounds for UCI (0-3). The Anteaters, who shot 51.3% from the field, trailed at halftime, 52-51. Cal State Bakersfield is 2-1.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Cal State Bakersfield 85, UC Irvine 63 IRVINE — Junior guard Mary Has scored a career-high 20 points and also had a career-best three blocks for the Anteaters in the nonconference game Tuesday at the Bren Events Center. UCI (1-2) led by 13 with 4:27 remaining in the first half on a Kirian Ishizaki three-pointer, but Cal State Bakersfield (2-1) rallied to take a 34-33 lead into halftime. Ishizaki scored 14 points, while freshman Kiara Belen came off the bench to total 12 points and lead the team in rebounds with seven.

The Vanguard University softball team split two games against visiting Cal State Bakersfield, earning a 3-2 win and picking up an 8-4 loss in a nonconference doubleheader Tuesday. The Lions' victory featured no-hitters for both teams until the sixth inning. Vanguard scored a run on Lisa Jackson's triple in the sixth, but Bakersfield (13-2) tied the score in the top of the seventh and added a run in the eighth to tie take a 2-1 advantage. Vanguard (8-5-1)

MEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 58, Fresno State 51 FRESNO - The Anteaters finished strong, scoring the game's final 12 points to earn their first road win of the season Saturday night. The victory was UCI's first nonconference road win since a 76-73 victory against Cal State Bakersfield on Jan. 19, 2011. Will Davis II tallied a career-high 15 rebounds to help the Anteaters improve to 5-6. Chris McNealy scored a game-high 13 points and Alex Young added 12 for UCI. Fresno State fell to 5-6.

SAN DIEGO — The Orange Coast women's soccer team shut out Southwestern, 4-0, in a nonconference game Tuesday to improve to 2-1. Sophomore Nicole Huff led the Pirates with two goals and an assist. She scored the Pirates' final goal in the 87th minute. She also scored 20 minutes earlier off an assist from sophomore Rachel Ronquillo. Ronquillo, a Costa Mesa High product, opened the scoring in the 10th minute with an assist from freshman Loren Kortizija. Ashley Boyer gave the Pirates a 2-0 lead with a goal in the 48th minute with Huff getting the assist.

BREN EVENTS CENTER - When the game was on the line, Jordan Harris and Jerry Green rarely missed. Harris made 12 free throws of 12 attempts and Green made nine of 10 from the free-throw line to lead the Anteaters to an 81-56 victory over Cal State Bakersfield in an exhibition game Saturday. Green, who led the Big West Conference in free throw percentage last season (123 made out of 144 attempts), scored 24 points to lead the Anteaters. Second in the scoring line for the Anteaters was Harris, who pitched in with 21 points.

A glimpse of the future will be on display and a tribute to the past will be made at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center tonight. The UCI men's basketball team begins the season against Saint Mary's in a nonconference game at 7:05 p.m. The Anteaters were 25-5 overall last year and won the Big West Conference championship for the first time. Tonight the Anteaters, ranked No. 1 by coaches and media in the Big West preseason polls, will take the first step in molding their future.

IRVINE - It was '80s night at Anteater Ballpark on Tuesday. Very few dressed the part for UC Irvine's baseball game. But in the bottom of the third inning, Cal State Bakersfield starter Taylor Aikenhead showed up throwing in the low 80s. The Anteaters finally undressed him. They collected four hits, half of them for extra bases, and four runs, two on a home run by junior Dominique Taylor. That was all the No. 21-ranked Anteaters needed. They took the lead and never looked back, winning the nonconference game, 6-1. It took the Anteaters (11-2)

MEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 58, Fresno State 51 FRESNO - The Anteaters finished strong, scoring the game's final 12 points to earn their first road win of the season Saturday night. The victory was UCI's first nonconference road win since a 76-73 victory against Cal State Bakersfield on Jan. 19, 2011. Will Davis II tallied a career-high 15 rebounds to help the Anteaters improve to 5-6. Chris McNealy scored a game-high 13 points and Alex Young added 12 for UCI. Fresno State fell to 5-6.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Idaho 73, UC Irvine 55 IRVINE — Junior Camille Buckley had 13 points and seven rebounds to lead the host Anteaters in the nonconference game Wednesday at the Bren Events Center. Junior guard Kelly Meggs had nine points for the 'Eaters, who fell to 2-6. The Vandals (2-6) posted a 48-35 rebounding edge and committed just seven turnovers, five fewer than UCI. They made seven of their 12 three-point field goals in the second half. Buckley was five for seven from the field and three for three from the free-throw line.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Cal State Bakersfield 104, UC Irvine 92 BAKERSFIELD - Jacquelyn Marshall scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Anteaters in the nonconference game Wednesday. Jazmyne White added a career-high 23 points to go with 10 rebounds, while Methlyn Onogomuho had nine points and 10 rebounds for UCI (0-3). The Anteaters, who shot 51.3% from the field, trailed at halftime, 52-51. Cal State Bakersfield is 2-1.

UC Irvine junior Matt Summers always wanted to be the center of attention on the baseball field. He just always figured he could do so without operating in the middle of the diamond. But after reluctantly giving up his center-field dreams this season, he has become the Anteaters' ace starting pitcher, an All-American candidate, and the likely Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound right-hander is 9-2 with a 1.90 earned-run average entering his final regular-season start, Friday at 6:30 p.m. against Long Beach State in the first of a three-game series at Anteater Ballpark.

BASEBALL UC Irvine 11, Cal State Bakersfield 6 BAKERSFIELD — Freshman Andrew Thurman and sophomore Kyle Hooper combined for 8 1/3 shutout innings to key the Anteaters in the nonconference road game Saturday. Thurman entered in the first inning in place of starter Crosby Slaught, who gave up six runs, five earned, on six hits while recording two outs. Thurman allowed six hits in six innings to improve to 2-3 and Hooper threw 2 1/3 hitless innings to record his first save.

IRVINE — Coach Pat Douglass saw his UC Irvine men’s basketball team go old-school against his old school Wednesday night. The Anteaters, trailing, 38-35, at halftime, after the Roadrunners had their way with the hosts’ defense, turned up the heat on defense, which led to some easier second-half shots, en route to an 85-72 nonconference win before 933 at the Bren Events Center. “Once we started to get some stops, then we got a little bit of a lead,” said Douglass, who coached Cal State Bakersfield to 257 wins and three NCAA Division II national championships in 10 seasons, before moving to UCI after the third NCAA crown in 1997.