COLLEGE ROUNDUP : La Verne Snaps CLU Streak at 30 Home Wins

J. D. Haendiges held Cal Lutheran to just six hits Friday in pitching La Verne to 6-3 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball win over the Kingsmen, snapping CLU’s 30-game home winning streak.

Haendiges (4-1), a transfer from Cal State Northridge, struck out three and walked four in a complete-game effort. CLU last lost at home March 4, 1991.

“We had some bad at-bats throughout the game,” Cal Lutheran Coach Rich Hill said. “We were popping up pitches all day.”

Mike Suarez gave the Kingsmen a 3-1 lead with a three-run home run in the second inning, but that would be the extent of the scoring for CLU (27-2, 12-1 in SCIAC play).

La Verne (16-10, 8-5), scored four runs in the seventh on Darren Murphy’s two-run double and a two-run home run by Keith Prager, his seventh.

“La Verne was sky high to play the No. 1 team in Division III,” Hill said. “We took the game for granted.”

In other baseball games:

The Master’s 7, Biola 0--Mike Smith tossed a two-hitter to guide The Master’s (10-20) to an NAIA District 3 win. Andy Martin was two for four with a home run for The Master’s, and Jeff Thomlinson and Joe Pence each had three hits to pace a 13-hit attack.

East L.A. 7, Mission 6--East L.A. scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth when reliever Canto Franco threw a bases-loaded wild pitch in a Southern California Conference game.

VOLLEYBALL

Cal State Long Beach d. Cal State Northridge, 14-16, 15-12, 12-15, 15-10, 15-13--Craig Hewitt and Jamal Thompson recorded career highs with 22 and 21 kills, respectively, but that was not enough to lift the sliding Matadors past the defending NCAA champions in a first-round match of the UCLA Classic tournament at UCLA.

The loss was CSUN’s fifth in its past six matches.

SOFTBALL

Moorpark 1, Cuesta 0 (11 innings)--Heather Santiago scored on Tausha Pico’s two-out infield hit to give the host Raiders (22-8, 7-0) a Western State Conference victory.