March 26th, 2009 08:42pm
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The Cal Poly Pomona men’s basketball team, a member of the CCAA with Sonoma State, has reached the Division II national championship game after beating Augusta State, 74-70, on Thursday at the Final Four in Springfield, Mass.
The Broncos (25-7) will play the winner of Thursday night’s game between Central Missouri and Findlay in the national title game at 10 a.m. (PDT) Saturday.
A CCAA team has not won a men’s basketball …
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March 26th, 2009 08:15pm
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Senior guard Sean Vreeburg (El Molino) ended his career at Division III Chapman University by leading the 24-3 Panthers in three-point percentage.
Vreeburg shot .455 from three-point range (45 of 99) while averaging 5.6 points a game. He also led Division III independent league schools in three-point percentage.
A biology major with a minor in chemistry, he has also been nominated to become an academic All-American. He is on the ballot with …
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March 26th, 2009 07:50pm
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After winning 13 of their past 17 games, the Seawolves are ranked fifth in the first NCAA West Region poll. They are the second-highest CCAA team, behind first-place Humboldt State.
The top eight teams at the end of the regular season will advance to the NCAA West Regional Tournament. SSU (18-14) advanced to the West Regional in 2007 when it finished 32-32. But the Seawolves went 16-36 last year and have …
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March 26th, 2009 07:41pm
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Tyanna Helton (Analy), a junior first baseman at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa, has been named the Midwest Collegiate Conference Player of the Week.
Helton went 5 for 8 last week with a homer, two doubles, four walks and eight RBIs. Helton leads the Lady Statesmen (14-10) in batting average (.418), RBIs (23) is tied for the team lead with three home runs. She also has 11 walks and just …
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March 25th, 2009 01:11am
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Former Montgomery High and Boise State basketball star Tyler Tiedeman ruptured his achilles tendon last week while playing professionally in Spain.
Tiedeman, a 6-foot-7 forward, was averaging 10.0 points and 2.6 rebounds while shooting .357 from three-point range in 24 games for Basquet Mallorca. Tiedeman underwent surgery in Spain and will miss the rest of the season.
As a senior at Boise State, Tiedeman averaged 13.9 points and had a .488 …
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March 21st, 2009 01:37am
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In a scoreless tie in the top of the 11th inning against Cal State Stanislaus on Friday, Sonoma State’s Nicole Cordova hit a two-run homer.
Three batters later, SSU’s Ashley Britton hit a three-run homer.
That’s two homers in four at-bats.
Strange? The Seawolves, who won 5-3, entered the 11th inning with two home runs in 712 at-bats this season.
Their previous homers? They were also hit by Cordova and Britton.
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March 21st, 2009 01:22am
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The Sonoma State softball team is 16-14.
That may not sound like cause for celebration, but it’s a sign of progress in Rohnert Park.
The Seawolves, who went 16-36 last year, have had one winning season since 1998 and none since 2000. SSU did have a 32-32 record in 2007, but its record from 1998-2008 was 230-330-1.
Senior Linday Emmel leads the Seawolves with a 7-5 record and 1.73 ERA. Sophomore outfielder Brittany …
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March 21st, 2009 01:09am
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Cal sophomore Amanda Sims, a seven-time North Coast Section champion at Montgomery High, won the 100-yard butterfly tonight at the NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas.
Sims’ victory is a stunner. She entered seeded seventh in the event, which included a pair of American record holders and former Olympians in Stanford junior Elaine Breeden and Cal senior Dana Vollmer.
Sims won in a time of 51.28 seconds, more than two seconds better …
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March 18th, 2009 01:11am
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Santa Rosa Junior College freshman forward Matt Cousins and sophomore point guard Andrew Gipson have verbally committed to four-year schools.
The 6-foot-8 Cousins has committed to Division II Chaminade University in Honolulu. Gipson has committed to Division II Hawaii at Hilo. Chaminade and Hilo are both members of the Pacific West Conference.
Cousins, who attended Cardinal Newman, averaged 14.6 points and 7.3 rebounds this past season for the Bear Cubs. The 5-10 …
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March 18th, 2009 12:43am
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Cal sophomore Amanda Sims (Montgomery) has qualified for this week’s NCAA Swimming Championships in two events. The NCAAs begin Thursday in College Station, Texas.
Sims, who helped lead the Bears to their Pac-10 title in late February in Federal Way, Wash., qualified in the 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly.
Sims’ time of 51.59 seconds in the 100 fly is the ninth-fastest college time in the nation this season. Her time of …
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Eric Branch’s blog focuses on Sonoma State, Santa Rosa Junior College and former Empire athletes who are competing in college or professionally.
