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County Connections: Cal’s Ashtyn Davis wins MPSF hurdles title
Brianna Cueva (Watsonville), CSU-Northridge, Sr. >> Took seventh in the shot put (48-8) at the MPSF Indoor Championships in Seattle on Saturday. -- Santa Cruz Sentinel
Sims places for Holy Names University men’s golf team
Nathalie Brewster made the start at goalkeeper and recorded 12 saves for the Cal State Northridge women’s water polo team in Sunday’s 8-6 win over Loyola Marymount at the Barbara Kalbus Invitational at Corona del Mar Pool. -- Napa Valley Register
Big West basketball: UC Irvine stays tied with UC Davis entering final stretch
UC Irvine took nine Big West Conference victories into Saturday’s game against Cal State Northridge. Only one – a 66-62 win Jan. 12 at UC Santa Barbara – could be considered close. Orange County Register
Los Alamitos, Gahr and Lakewood baseball and softball teams on CIF-SS watchlist
Junior shortstop Michael Perez, who is verbally committed to attend UCLA, leads the Gahr offense while senior pitchers Josh Haley (University of Arizona), Joel Casillas (Cal State Northridge) and junior Darius Garcia (UC Irvine) lead the pitching staff. The left-hander Haley was the 2016 SGVL Pitcher of the Year and was named All-CIF-SS after going 10-1 with a 1.00 ERA. -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
Italian sophomore getting hot at just the right time for St. John’s
St. John's guard Federico Mussini (right) drives to the basket against a CSU Northridge defender. -- New York Post
Baseball: Danny Pimienta of Poly strikes out 14 in eight innings
Cal State Northridge signee Danny Pimienta of Sun Valley Poly struck out 14 in eight innings on Friday in a nonleague baseball game against San Pedro. He's a senior left-hander. -- Los Angeles Times
Bill Russell Leaves Lasting Impact on Kings
“It was always just sort of surreal in some ways because I grew up watching Bill play,” said Theus, now the head basketball coach at Cal State Northridge. “Being a student of the game, I go back to (watching him on) ‘NBA Action’ when I was in junior high school. He was just a joy to be around, and it was an absolute honor to be coached by him.” -- Kings.com
Seattle Thunderbirds clinch playoff berth with win over Everett
• Cal State Northridge (6-8) downed Seattle U 3-0 at the Libby Matson Tournament in Stockton, Calif. Paige Bouska and Susanne Morris each had two hits for the Redhawks (3-11). -- The Seattle Times - WA
Badgers Announce Hiring of Bob Bostad
Bostad coached the offensive line at Cal State Northridge in 1995-96 and spent three seasons (1992-94) as an offensive line graduate assistant at Minnesota under head coach Jim Wacker. --CBS Sports
Sara Dempsey a title-game veteran for Riverside Poly's girls water polo team
Those nerves have turned to steel over the years as Dempsey has continued to excel on the Riverside Poly girls water polo team. Dempsey, who signed with Cal State Northridge earlier this week, will start a section final for the fourth time in her stellar career today at the Woollett Aquatics Center in Irvine when the Bears face Montebello Schurr in the Division 2 championship match at 11:30 a.m. -- Press-Enterprise