San Diego State

Corona del Mar High senior defensive end Tim Reinhardt has accepted a preferred walk-on spot with the San Diego State football program, said Bill, his father, in an email on Wednesday. "We believe this is the best fit for Tim," said Bill, adding that his son received preferred walk-on offers from Oregon, Utah, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of San Diego. Reinhardt, a 6-foot-3, 225-pounder, earned All-CIF Southern Section Southern Division accolades for the second straight season.

BASEBALL UC Irvine 3, San Diego State 0 IRVINE — Andy Lines led four Anteaters pitchers who combined on a three-hit shutout in the nonconference game Tuesday at Anteater Ballpark. Lines allowed one hit in four innings. He struck out seven and walked one to improve to 2-1. Nick Hoover pitched three no-hit innings, fanning three, while Jimmy Litchfield and Brian Hernandez each allowed one hit in their one inning. Hernandez notched his seventh save. Senior right fielder Sean Madigan was two for three with a run batted in and junior first baseman Jordan Leyland was two for four with a run driven in to pace the eight-hit attack for UCI (21-8)

The UC Irvine women’s volleyball team will open its season Friday by facing host San Diego State at 7 p.m. in the first of three matches at the San Diego State Tournament. Coach Charlie Brande’s Anteaters, coming off a 21-11 season, are scheduled to meet the University of San Diego Saturday at 10 a.m., then conclude tournament play Saturday at 4 p.m. against Albany. UCI, with all but one starter returning, is led by two-time first-team All-Big West Conference senior outside hitter Lauren Kellerman, as well as sophomore opposite Kari Pestolesi.

CHULA VISTA — UC Irvine sophomore Hillary Packard won her first collegiate tournament capturing the Aztec Invitational as the Anteaters placed second at the Salt Creek Golf Course Tuesday. Packard claimed medalist honors with a two-over 218 (68-77-73), three shots ahead of Long Beach State’s Lee Lopez and San Diego State’s Malin Enarsson (221). Her first-round 68, which was the low score of the tournament, is tied for the seventh lowest round in program history.

IRVINE — In addition to knocking off the top-ranked team in the country Saturday night, the Virginia Cavaliers also beat the odds. And with four errors and an atypical lack of timely hitting, some might suggest UC Irvine helped beat itself. The Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament champions, ranked in the top 10 in several polls, posted a 5-0 victory over UC Irvine in the winners bracket semifinal of the NCAA Regional at Anteater Ballpark. The loss drops the Anteaters (44-14)

They can say that they were part of the longest NCAA women's water polo championship game in history. More importantly for Newport Harbor High graduates Kaleigh Gilchrist and Nicolina McCall, as well as Newport Beach native Chelsea Silvers (Mater Dei), they can say they're national champions. USC freshman Anni Espar scored from long distance in the third sudden-death overtime period, lifting the Trojans to a 10-9 victory over Stanford in the NCAA title match Sunday at Harvard University.

IRVINE — As its revered senior shortstop, Ben Orloff, said when it had ended, the top-ranked UC Irvine baseball team “emptied the tank” in the first home regional in the program’s suddenly storied history. But it was No. 7–ranked Virginia that just kept pouring it on. The Cavaliers opened the four-team regional by beating what many consider the best pitcher in the history of the college game, San Diego State’s future multi-millionaire Stephen Strasburg.

SANTEE — The UC Irvine men’s golf team finished eighth in the NCAA Southwest Regional that concluded Saturday at Carlton Oaks Golf Club in Santee. Oregon won the 13-team regional with a 54-hole score of 870. Augusta State placed second at 880 while UC Berkeley, Tennessee and UNLV tied for third at 886. Those five teams advance to the NCAA Finals in Chattanooga, Tenn., June 1-6. UCI and San Diego State tied for eighth at 899. Nick Delio of Cal State Northridge was the individual champion at three-under-par 213 after he shot a 73 in the final round.

IRVINE — In his fourth year in the UC Irvine baseball program, Kyle Hooper knows that there are consequences to less-than-stellar pitching. Among them is a conversion, more of a monologue really, with Anteaters' veteran coach Mike Gillespie. Such was the case after Hooper's last outing on Thursday at BYU, in which he allowed two runs in one-third of an inning. Tacked on to his previous appearance on March 2 against Portland, Hooper had given up six runs on seven hits in his last six innings.