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MEN'S VOLLEYBALL Pepperdine def. UC Irvine MALIBU — Senior Kevin Tillie finished with 15 kills for the No. 2-ranked Anteaters in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match that No. 4 Pepperdine won, 26-28, 25-23, 26-24, 25-20, on Tuesday. UCI fell to 16-5, 13-5 in MPSF play. Pepperdine improved to 11-6, 10-6 in conference. UCI's Connor Hughes recorded 13 kills and four total blocks. Collin Mehring had six blocks. The Anteaters are at No. 14 USC on Friday at 7 p.m. * BASEBALL Orange Coast 2, Saddleback 0 COSTA MESA — Freshman David Wilson pitched seven shutout innings and three OCC pitchers combined on the three-hit home shutout in Orange Empire Conference play on Tuesday.

Chemistry students across the nation and the world will have free and open access to videotaped, online classes from UC Irvine under an unusual initiative starting Monday. UC Irvine's “OpenChem” program will allow curious visitors and serious science scholars to watch 15 quarter - length undergraduate chemistry courses and some graduate-level lectures, according to a campus announcement. It is not for degree credit but is expected to help students and the public prepare for examinations, review material before taking credit courses or just explore things for knowledge's sake.

UC Irvine junior forward Camille Buckley was named to the All-Big West Conference second team by the league coaches. Buckley led the Big West in rebounding at 9.9 per contest and was 12th overall in scoring at 12.1 points per game overall. She also ranked sixth in field-goal percentage with a .452 mark. In Big West games-only, she is the only player to average a double-double with an 11.9 points and 11.5 rebound average. Buckley grabbed a career-high 22 rebounds at UC Davis which is tied for seventh in the country this year.

MEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 88, UC Davis 85 DAVIS - Sophomore Will Davis and senior Mike Wilder both scored 18 points to lead the visiting Anteaters in the Big West Conference game Saturday. The win secures fourth place for UCI (18-14, 11-7 in conference). The Anteaters will face fifth-place Hawaii in the opening round of the Big West Conference Tournament on Thursday at approximately 8:30 p.m. at Honda Center. UCI split with Hawaii, a first-year Big West member, this season.

Police are investigating a 23-year-old Irvine resident's death as a suspected suicide, according to the county coroner. The man was found dead Friday afternoon at 4300 Campus Drive on the UC Irvine campus after university police received a call at 5:01 p.m., according to the coroner's office. UPDATE: The UCI LGBT Resource Center and campus police are reporting that the resident was a transgender male known for his activism in the university's LGBT community. We previously reported the gender as female, based on information provided by the coroner's office.

Andy Roddick is coming to play against the Orange County Breakers July 13 at the Bren Events Center on the UC Irvine campus. The marquee event featuring the former world No. 1-ranked player is among the dates on the Breakers' schedule that was released Wednesday. The Breakers open the 38th season of Mylan World Team Tennis presented by GEICO on July 7 with a home matchup at the Bren Events Center against the Philadelphia Freedoms. Roddick, who will play for the Springfield Lasers, was the top pick in the Mylan WTT Marquee Draft and returns to competitive tennis with Mylan WTT this summer for the first time since his final professional match at the 2012 U.S. Open.

Darren Fells, a former UC Irvine men's basketball standout who has not played football since high school, was signed to a three-year contract as a tight end by the Seattle Seahawks, according to NFL.com. The 6-foot-7, 230-pound Fells, the story said, worked out for the team on Tuesday. Fells played professional basketball the last year for Libertad Sunchales in Argentina. His pro basketball career also included stops in Mexico,, France, Finland and Belgium. A four-year starter at UCI, he earned second-team All-Big West honors as a senior in 2006-07, when he averaged 14.2 points and 6.8 rebounds in the regular season and led the Big West in field-goal percentage (.566)

BASEBALL Doubleheader IRVINE - The No. 21-ranked Anteaters swept the nonconference doubleheader, winning 3-1 and 8-7, on Saturday. Junior pitcher Matt Whitehouse (2-0) went the distance in the first game. He allowed one run, three hits, one walk, and struck out five. In the second game, UCI (9-2) scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to come from behind and win. Dominique Taylor drove in the game-winning run with a hit over the left fielder's head. Taylor went two for four with two runs batted in. * WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Pacific 65, UC Irvine 53 IRVINE - Sophomore forward Camille Buckley finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds, but it wasn't enough for the Anteaters to topple the top team in the Big West Conference on Saturday.

IRVINE - UC Irvine women's basketball coach Doug Oliver has seen the scoring droughts from his team throughout the season. A four-game winning streak headed into Thursday night's crucial Big West Conference game against UC Davis still provided confidence to the Anteaters. A six-minute stretch at the end of that game probably took some of it away. There was no opportunity for the 'Eaters to shoot themselves out of the latest scoring drought. The final buzzer sounded first, as the Aggies ended the game with 13 unanswered points to shock the hosts, 47-43, at the Bren Events Center.

UC Irvine senior Adam Folker has been named the Big West Conference Player of the Week in men's basketball. He was also named Player of the Week by College Sports Madness. The 6-foot-9 post player, from Markham, Ontario, Canada, averaged 14.5 points and 10 rebounds in UCI's victories over visiting Pacific on Feb. 20 and at UT Arlington on Saturday. In a 68-59 triumph over Pacific, Folker had 13 points and 13 rebounds. He made seven of eight field-goal attempts to produce 16 points, added seven rebounds, and tied his career high with five assists in the 77-70 BracketBusters win over UT Arlington.