University of La Verne Women's Water Polo tops Redlands, advances to semifinal

REDLANDS, Calif. — Guarina Garcia scored five goals, Megan Little added four and the University of La Verne women's water polo team took care of Redlands, 13-9, to advance to the semifinal of the 2016 SCIAC Championships.

The Leopards will play the winner of the Pomona-Pitzer versus Cal Lutheran matchup on Saturday (today) at 1:45 p.m.

La Verne scored four of the game's first five goals and led wire-to-wire.

Annie Kinney scored the last goal of the first quarter for Redlands and Rachel Nelson opened the scoring in the second to get the Bulldogs within 4-3, but that was as close as it would get. The Leopards responded with eight unanswered goals stretching into late third quarter to grab a 11-3 lead and seal the win. Little and Garcia each had three goals during the stretch.

Rosero finished with three goals and Emily Randall added one marker for the Leopards.

Cambria Serrano made 10 saves, including four in the fourth quarter as the Bulldogs attempted a late rally.

Fans can follow all the action at the championships at SCIAC portal and the tournament's home page.

University of La Verne Softball shuts out Occidental in Game 1

Photo by Katie Pyne
LOS ANGELES — The Leopards are showing no signs of slowing down.

Seven different Leopards notched a hit, Katherine Kibbe pitched her second straight shutout and the University of La Verne softball team beat Occidental, 7-0, on Friday at Bell Field for its eighth win in a row.

The Leopards improve to 23-9 overall and 19-3 in the SCIAC. Oxy falls to 11-23 and 7-15.

Kibbe (14-4) scattered six hits and struck out two to win her seventh straight decision. She hasn't lost a game since March 16.

The Tigers managed to keep the Leopards quiet for 2.2 innings but the Leopards used a two-out rally in the third to open the scoring and never looked back. Carly Condon and Victoria Baltazar hit back-to-back singles to set the table for Mackenzie Dutton and the La Verne slugger delivered. Dutton smacked a double to deep right to score two runs and came around to score herself on an error by the second baseman.

Then with a runner on in the fourth, Melissa Garcia cranked a homer to deep left center to extend La Verne's lead to 5-0.

Kibbe added an RBI infield single in the fifth and Raeleen Tellez doubled in Krystal Smith in the top of the seventh to cap off the Leopards' scoring.

Tellez led the Leopards with two hits.