For the first time in program history, the University of San Diego\u2019s men\u2019s tennis team has advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
The 17th-ranked Toreros shut out 20th-ranked UCLA 4-0 Saturday at the Hogan Tennis Center at Alcala Park in their NCAA Regionals. USD (22-5) will play at No. 1-ranked Texas (26-6) starting Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a joyous day,\u201d USD coach Ryan Keckley said. \u201cWe had a heck of a region. We did a really good job early against UCLA capturing the momentum. The match Friday against UC Santa Barbara helped us because they punched us and challenged us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went out today and handled the emotions of the moment. It\u2019s what we were dreaming about.\u201d<\/p>\n
USD opened Saturday by winning the doubles point for the 23rd time in 27 matches this season. The Toreros\u2019 34th-ranked tandem of Adrien Berrut and Lambert Ruland and No. 2 doubles team of Oliver Tarvet and Stian Klaassen each won their doubles set.<\/p>\n
The 19th-ranked Tarvet defeated 56th-ranked Spencer Johnson in singles, 6-4, 7-5. Klaassen defeated 40th-ranked Emon von Loben Sels 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) in singles. Ruland defeated Aadarsh Tripathi 6-3, 6-2 to complete the sweep.<\/p>\n
USD was leading in two of the three unfinished singles matches with the third tied.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a massive accomplishment for this program,\u201d said Tarvet. \u201cIt\u2019s great to do it and do it in such a convincing fashion. I\u2019m sort of speechless about what happened. Winning the doubles point was massive for our confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
UCLA (18-8) defeated USD 4-3 in the season-opening match this season after winning the doubles.<\/p>\n
\u201dThis is storybook stuff,\u201d said Keckley.<\/p>\n
Palomar, Mesa advance<\/p>\n
The Palomar College and Mesa College softball teams have advanced to the second round of the California Community College Athletic Association Southern California Regionals.<\/p>\n
The top-seeded Comets (39-1) swept Ventura 6-2, 11-1 in their best two-of-three first-round series. Third-seeded Mesa (28-13) won two of three games from Mt. San Jacinto. Meanwhile, Southwestern College (22-18) was eliminated in a pair of shutout losses at Mt. San Antonio.<\/p>\n
The sweep extended Palomar\u2019s winning streak to 27 straight games. Pitcher Kiara Flaviana (La Costa Canyon High School) picked up wins in both games to improve to 34-1 on the season. Alexis Huey (Poway High School) had a double, a home run and two RBIs in the second game. Dominique Garcia (El Capitan High School) was 3-for-4 for the two games with a double and four RBIs. Ava Alvarez (Coastal Academy) had two doubles in four at-bats for three RBIs.<\/p>\n
Pitcher Olivia Anderson (Santa Fe Christian) picked up two wins for Mesa to improve to 22-7 and added three hits. Shortstop Itzel Soto (Otay Ranch High School) was 5-for-11 for the series with two home runs, a double, three RBIs and six runs scored. Madelyn Egan (Point Loma High School) and Sophia Sanchez (Patrick Henry High School) each had four hits.<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Palomar College (36-5) is undefeated at home going into Sunday\u2019s conclusion of the double-elimination, first-round series of the 3C2A state baseball tournament. Grossmont College (26-16) needs to sweep two games at Allan Hancock College to advance. Southwestern and Mesa are also facing elimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in program history, the University of San Diego\u2019s men\u2019s tennis team has advanced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,74,76,75,127,3425],"class_list":["post-297359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports","tag-toreros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}