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UCSB Women’s Water Polo Falls at Northridge, 9-8
No. 14 UCSB fell to No. 23 Cal State Northridge 9-8 in the Big West women's water polo regular season finale on Saturday at Northridge. -- Noozhawk
Flying Squirrels pitcher Jordan Johnson bears watching
He pitched 6⅔ innings as a freshman at Cal State Northridge before undergoing Tommy John elbow surgery. He pitched three innings in his second season. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch
County Connections: Nikki Hiltz runs fastest NCAA D-I time in 1,500
Brianna Cueva (Watsonville), CSU Northridge, Sr. >> Took third out of 22 in the discus (176-0) and fourth out of 28 in the shot put (50-1¾) at the Texas Invitational in Austin on Saturday. -- Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCLA Overtakes Number One Spot In Women's Varsity Top 25 Poll
Wagner College (30 points), Harvard University (24 points), Loyola Marymount University (20 points) and CSU Bakersfield (17 points) retain the No. 19-to-22 slots with California State University-Northridge (9 points), Marist College (8 points) and the Virginia Military Institute (4 points) completing this week's Top 25. -- USA Water Polo
Big West baseball: Sahid Valenzuela having fine freshman season for Cal State Fullerton
Juniors Albee Weiss and Kevin Riley of CSUN have seven home runs apiece to lead the Big West, along with freshman Connor Cannon of UC Riverside. Weiss has a conference-high 34 RBIs, Riley is second with 29. But the fifth-place Matadors (17-20, 4-5) haven’t pitched well, as their team ERA of 5.10 attests. Only ninth-place UC Riverside (5.30) and seventh-place UC Irvine (6.10) are higher. … Junior Keston Hiura of UC Irvine continues to lead the Big West with a .424 average, but the Anteaters (13-20, 2-4) have won just two of their past 17 games after getting off to an 11-5 start. … Long Beach State (22-12, 7-2), ranked No. 12 by Baseball America, had its eight-game winning streak snapped Saturday with an 8-5 loss to visiting CSUN. -- Orange County Register
Sports WebXtra: Destiny Brooks decides on Cal State-Northridge
Destiny Brooks has officially decided on where she will continue her basketball career. -- KLTV
HS Notebook: Changes in baseball and softball rankings, plus locals sign with colleges
Dennis Hicks, the 2016 BVarsity Track and Field Athlete of the Year last spring at Liberty, is having a standout freshman season at Cal State Northridge. -- Bakersfield Californian
Ty Nichols resigns at Sierra Canyon, will be replaced by Andre Chevalier
Chevalier has extensive coaching experience. He has been a head coach at Reseda Cleveland and Oaks Christian and was an assistant at Cal State Northridge. -- Los Angeles Times
Long Beach State narrows athletic director search to four finalists
Lucas is another Big West fixture, currently serving as the executive associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator at UC Riverside, where she’s been since 2006. Prior to that, she was at CSU Northridge, where she was interim AD for a year. Lucas has also served as the interim AD at Riverside. -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
Cal State-Northridge graduate transfer Kendall Smith to visit CU Buffs
Early Monday afternoon ESPN's Jeff Borzello reported that Cal State-Northridge graduate transfer Kendall Smith is scheduled to visit CU on Wednesday. A 6-foot-3 guard, Smith averaged 16.7 points for the Matadors this past season while shooting .448 from the floor. -- Boulder Daily Camera