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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UC Riverside 69, UC Irvine 52 RIVERSIDE — The Anteaters shot just 28% from the field and dropped the Big West Conference contest Thursday night in front of a school-record crowd of 855 at UC Riverside.   UCI junior Miranda Forry scored a team-high 15 points on seven-of-12 shooting, while junior guard Annie Mai added 13 points for UC Irvine (5-14, 2-3 in conference). Junior Stephanie Duda had six points and 10 rebounds for the Anteaters, who turned the ball over only 11 times while forcing 22 from the Highlanders.

UCI senior women's basketball forward Cindy Oparah has been named first-team All-Big West Conference for the second consecutive year. She joins former UCI standouts Cheri Graham, Allah-mi Basheer and Leticia Oseguera as the program's only back-to-back first-team honorees. Oparah led UCI, averaging 15.5 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. She was the only UCI player named all-conference. UCI faces No. 2-seeded UC Riverside in the first round of the Big West Tournament Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center.

TODAY Baseball College -- UC Irvine at UC Riverside, 6 p.m. Tennis High school boys -- Corona del Mar's Dustin Hladek and Fabian Matthews vs. Tyler Bowman and Jon Kazarian of Peninsula, semifinals of CIF Southern Section Individual Championships, at Seal Beach Tennis Center, 11:30 a.m., finals to follow Track and field College -- UC Irvine at NCAA West Regional at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.; Vanguard...

TODAY Baseball College -- Cal at UC Irvine, 6 p.m.; Bethany at Vanguard (doubleheader), 11 a.m. Basketball College men -- UC Irvine at UC Riverside, 3 p.m.; The Master's at Vanguard, 7:30 p.m. College women -- UC Riverside at UC Irvine, 7 p.m.; The Master's at Vanguard, 5:30 p.m. Softball Community college -- Orange Coast at Visalia tournament. Tennis College men -- Northern Arizona at UC Irvine, 11 a.m. Track and field College men and women -- UC Irvine at Northern Arizona Double Dual.