Neither rain nor darkness nor extra innings prevented Westmont Baseball (3-3) from completing three games and 30 innings of baseball over the weekend at San Francisco State (2-2). The Warriors outscored their host by a combined 23-16 but captured only one win in the three-game series.

A single game on Saturday – originally scheduled for Friday but moved due to the rain – was suspended due to darkness with the scored tied at 11 after 10 innings. The two teams met at 10:30 the next morning to complete the unfinished game. In the bottom of the fourteenth, the Gators’ second baseman Drew Andersen hit a lead-off double off of reliever Kyle Noe. An RBI single by left fielder Sean Proni brought Andersen home and ended the four hour, 28 minute game.

“We brought Jacob Regalado into pitch (when the game resumed) and he did a great job for us,” said Westmont Head Coach Robert Ruiz. “He gave us a chance to stay in the game.”

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Depth has been a concern for Westmont Women’s Basketball in recent weeks, but tonight the Warrior bench provided the fire-power and the spark needed to propel the Warriors to a 92-88, double-overtime win against the Royals of Hope International on Saturday night.

Freshman guard Vanessa Farias played just 15 minutes for the Warriors but went four for five from beyond the arc to score 14 points. Senior Kelsey Hardeman came off the bench to lead the team with ten rebounds, proving why the Warriors list her as a forward on the roster despite being the shortest player on the team. Hardeman added seven points to the Warriors’ totals.

“That was a great college basketball game,” said Westmont Head Coach Kirsten Moore. “There were a lot of great plays on both sides. They hit big shots and we hit shots. It was really fun to be a part of it. I’m really proud of the way my team played and gutted it out. Ultimately, we finally got the stops on defense that we needed to in the second overtime.”

Both teams got off to a slow start with Westmont holding a 6-5 lead seven minutes into the game. Adding to the Warriors’ woes was the loss of freshman post Tawny McCain.

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Dan Rasp scored 25 points and pulled down six rebounds as Westmont Men’s Basketball recorded an 82-61 Golden State Athletic Conference win over the Royals of Hope International on Saturday at Murchison Gymnasium. As a result of the victory, the Warriors improved to 15-7 on the year and 7-6 in GSAC play.

“Danny played the way he has played a good portion of his career,” said Westmont Head Coach John Moore. “Before the game, I said to the team, ‘Do you notice that when Dan gets a lot of shots early in the game how our lead goes from six to sixteen really quick? So let’s get Dan lots of shots early in the game and Dan, let’s have you be a little more aggressive.’ He was very aggressive. We looked for him and we found him.”

The 6-5 junior forward is averaging 13.9 points per game this season which is a bit of a dip from last year when he averaged 16.0 and even his freshman year when he put up 14.1 points per contest.

Asked about the change in Rasp’s production, Moore said, “We are a much, much better team this year. We are much better because Blake Bender is a much greater threat, Evan Haines is a bigger threat and CJ is a much bigger threat. John Miller is having his career season and Matt LeDuc has been very, very good. Andrew has been consistently good throughout his career and early in this season was hitting at a very high percentage from the three-point line. Dan is the kind of guy who is going to be encouraged by his teammates’ success and wants to let them have their touches.”

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Westmont Men’s Tennis started the year with a road trip to UC Santa Cruz but fell to the Banana Slugs 8-1. The Warriors played without Carlos Lima who was ineligible for the first match of the year.

The Warriors dropped all three doubles matches, though Diego Almeida and Aaron Cooke went to a tiebreaker before falling 9-8 (6) to Erich Koeign and Ian Stanley at number two. Bryan Cox and Mattias Neuman lost 8-5 at number one doubles to Brian Pybas and Marc Vartabedian. On the number three court, Parker and Larsen and Ulrisch Capaul defeated Tiago Hayashi and Arthur Kalayjian 8-3.

Hayashi earned the Warriors’ only win with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Pybas at number one singles. Cox battled Marc Vartabedian at number two. After losing the first set in a tiebreaker, Cox came back to win the second set 6-2. However, Bartabedian won another tiebreaker in the third set to take the match.

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Westmont Baseball scored in each of the first seven innings and took an 11-10 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning, but the Warriors gave up a single run to the host Gators of San Francisco State to send the game into extra innings. After a scoreless tenth inning, the game was suspended due to darkness. The contest will resume at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, prior to a doubleheader which was moved from today to tomorrow due to rain in the Bay Area.

The Warriors opened the game with two runs in the top of the first inning on a two-RBI single by designated hitter Tim Leary. But the Gators answered back with a two-RBI double by Greg Kline in the bottom half of the inning. In the top of the second, Westmont center fielder Terrell Wong sent a two-run homerun over the left field wall to give Westmont a 4-0 lead.

Westmont Men’s Basketball made 72% of their shots in the first half (13 of 18) and took an 11 point lead into the intermission (44-33), but it wasn’t enough to defeat #4 Concordia (21-2, 11-2 GSAC) on the Eagles’ home court. The 84-77 Golden State Athletic Conference loss drops the Warriors to 14-7 overall and 6-6 in conference play.

Down by a point early in the first half, Westmont went on a 15-2 run to take a 21-9 advantage. A three-point bomb by senior guard Matt LeDuc started off the Warriors’ run which was capped by a jumper from junior forward Dan Rasp. For the fourth game in a row, LeDuc led the Warriors in scoring by posting 17 points. Eight of his points came at the charity stripe off of nine attempts. Rasp tallied 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field and pulled down eight rebounds.

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After starting the game with a 26-2 run, Westmont Women’s Basketball held on to post a 72-71 Golden State Athletic Conference victory over the Eagles of Concordia in Irvine. Westmont led by as much as 28 points (42-14) when Elizabeth Evancoe hit a three-pointer with 7:29 remaining in the first half.

Senior guard Jessica Case, who was celebrating her birthday, scored 10 of the Warriors first 26 points on two long-range shots and two baskets from within the arc.

The Eagles, however, dominated the rest of the half, outscoring the Warriors 20-4 to narrow the lead to 12 (46-34) at the half.

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Despite leading for most of the game, Westmont Baseball (2-1) dropped its first game of the year on Wednesday afternoon at Russ Carr Field, falling 12-8 to #20 California Lutheran (3-0) in nine innings. Tim Leary, the Warriors’ designated hitter, went four for four at the plate with a solo home run, two-doubles, a single and a walk. The sophomore had two RBIs and scored three times.

“Leary did a good job,” said Westmont Head Coach Robert Ruiz. “He is staying aggressive in the right counts like we have asked him to do.”

The Warriors jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second after Leary led off with a double down the left field line. One out later, third baseman Mark Magdaleno was hit by a pitch to give the Warriors runners on first and second. That brought up the bottom third of the Warriors’ lineup with all three spots manned by freshman.

Catcher Evan Soliman loaded the bases with a single into right field. Right fielder Phil Prickett then singled into center to score Leary and move every one up 90 feet. Shortstop Evan Wadginski followed Prickitt’s lead, picking up two RBI’s with another single to center.

Pricket would go two for four on the day with two RBIs and a run scored.