Sports

UCI has a proud and illustrious career as a chronically underrated sports school. However, during the summer there is one team on campus that can’t be ignored.

Game one of the final road series for the Anteaters went off without a hitch, as the Anteaters defeated the UC Davis Aggies 5-3 Thursday afternoon in Dobbins Stadium.

Senior Persis William-Mensah concluded her historic run as an Anteater this past weekend at the NCAA West Preliminaries in Sacramento, California, where she competed in the 100m, 200m and 4x100 relay.

The men’s golf team, claiming their second Big West title since 2015, earned a spot in the Pacific Regional NCAA Tournament where they were seeded No. 12.

Anteater sophomore Andre Pallante’s pitching mastery and hot bats gave UCI baseball a 12 - 2 victory over conference contenders UC Riverside Highlanders on Friday night.

Junior Barbara Coward and senior Persis William-Mensah were familiar faces up at the podium, clutching gold-plated plaques and representing UCI women’s track and field well at the Big West Championships this past weekend in Northridge.

UCI baseball split their first two matches in San Luis Obispo over the weekend, first picking up a 3-1 victory Friday before the Mustangs came back the following day with a vengeance, bringing down the ‘Eaters, 4-3.

After winning the Big West Conference tournament, UCI headed to USC to compete in the NCAA tournament.

The Lady ‘Eaters’ Polo squad is again heading to the NCAA Tournament, thanks to a nail-biting victory over Hawaii in sudden death to claim the Big West championship for the second year in a row.

After five sets of high-adrenaline, national championship tournament volleyball, the Anteaters lost to last year’s national champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes, in the first round of the 2018 NCAA tournament. (19-25) (25-22) (23-25) (25-22) (14-16)

UCI Baseball (27-18, 8-7) duked it out against the visiting Oregon Ducks (21-23, 8-13) this past weekend, defending Anteater Park in a pair of close contests Friday and Saturday.

UCI women’s track and field honored eight seniors — Simone Buchanan, Michelle Figarella, Tyra Jones, Olympia Martinez, Alison Meegan, Jenessa Reyes, Persis William-Mensah...