Times Staff | Posted: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:00 am
Hancock/s men/s tennis team just missed collecting its first win of the season Friday.
The Bulldogs (0-9 WSC, 0-10 overall) lost a Western State Conference home match 5-4 to Santa Barbara. The Vaqueros are 4-5, 4-5.
Hancock/s top two singles players, Davis Best and Lewis Smith, both won. Best defeated Quasim Kuhn 6-4, 6-4 at No. 1 and Smith downed Ian Suwara 6-2, 6-4 at No. 2.
The Bulldogs collected forfeit wins at No. 3 singles and No. 3 doubles. Best and Smith just missed winning at No. 1 doubles, losing 8-6 to Kuhn and Nicolas Santibanez.
At Santa Barbara, Hancock/s women rebounded from their first loss of the season, 5-4 at Cuesta Thursday, to sweep the Vaqueros 9-0 in a WSC match.
Hancock/s women are 9-1, 10-2.
The Bulldogs/ lineup of Lori Valadez, Monica Krier, Carlene Holst, Clairol Lozano, Carly Barnett and Amanda Urias in singles, and Valadez-Holst, Krier-Lozano and Barnett-Urias in doubles swept through Friday. Scores were unavailable at press time.
Cuesta 5, Hancock 4 (Thursday)
Jessie Ritchie reversed things on Valadez at No. 1 singles, and that was enough for the Cougars to snap the Bulldogs/ 18-match winning streak that dated back to last year.
The result left the teams with identical records as of Friday.
Ritchie, whose only loss this year was a three-setter to Valadez in the Bulldogs/ 5-4 win in the first round, defeated Valadez 7-5, 6-2. Every other result Thursday was the same as when the two teams played the first time.
Krier won 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2 for Hancock. Holst won 7-5, 7-5 at No. 3.
Valadez and Holst won 8-2 at No. 1 doubles, and Krier and Lozano prevailed 8-6 at No. 2.
Barnett and Julie San Jose rallied from 5-2 down at No. 3, but eventually lost 9-7.
"It/s hard to maintain that level after a really close match," Hancock coach Ginny Barnett said. "It was a good match. Our No. 3 doubles, who lost 8-1 the first time, came all the way back before they lost."
Baseball (Thursday)
Hancock 10, Santa Barbara 3
At Hancock, the Bulldogs (7-3, 10-6) re-gained first place in the WSC with a five-run splurge in the seventh inning.
The run burst put the Bulldogs ahead 7-3. Eric Bowman hit a three-run home run that inning after Jason Carlson hit a solo homer.
Adam Cole hit a solo home run in the second for Hancock. Pat Dolan had two hits and drove in two runs for the Bulldogs. Cole was a double away from hitting for the cycle.
Jimmy Van Ostrand had two hits for Hancock. Jacob Kougl (4-0) came on in relief of Adam Campbell in the seventh inning and earned the victory.
Hancock is at home against Cuesta at 1 p.m. today, weather permitting.
Basketball
Camp scheduled
The first annual Bulldog Easter Basketball Skill Camp takes place April 5-7.
Hancock College men/s assistant basketball coach Rich Hughes is the camp/s director. The camp takes place at Hancock from 9 a.m.-noon each day and is for boys and girls ages 7-13.
Call Hughes at 805-922-6966, ext. 3790 for more information.
Cal Poly Baseball
Mustangs beaten by No. 1 Stanford
PALO ALTO - Mark Romanczuk pitched seven strong innings and No. 1-ranked Stanford put together a 14-hit offensive attack en route to a 16-4 victory over Cal Poly in the opener of a three-game non-conference baseball series Friday night before 1,893 in Sunken Diamond.
Romanczuk allowed four runs and seven hits in seven innings to improve to 5-1 on the season. The sophomore southpaw struck out four and walked three.
With the win, Stanford improves to 18-3 on the season and 9-1 at home. Cal Poly, which had won eight of its last 10 games, fell to 22-10-1. It was Stanford's eighth straight win over the Mustangs.
Cal Poly collected eight hits. Second baseman Adam Leavitt and left fielder Brandon Roberts each had two singles and an RBI while catcher Cory Taillon also singled twice. Leavitt had entered the game with a .156 average. Roberts has hit safely in 28 of his last 29 games.
The second game of the series will be played today at 1 p.m., with Cal Poly sending junior right-hander Jonathan Fleming (4-0, 2.43 ERA) against Stanford freshman left-hander Blake Holler (2-1, 3.65 ERA).
March 27, 2004