Pacific Tigers

As Oklahoma City prepares to face San Antonio in the first game of the NBA Western Conference Finals Sunday (5:30 p.m. PT on TNT), fans may want to look closer at the Thunder bench as three members of their coaching staff have connections to the UC Irvine...

DAVIS — UC Davis pitcher Anthony Kupbens threw a five-hit shutout to out-duel UC Irvine sophomore Andrew Thurman to give the host Aggies a 4-0 victory in the opening game of a Big West Conference three-game baseball series on Friday. UCI (30-24,...

Estancia High's Jake Knapp, Sage Hill School's Ahmed Eltamami, Corona del Mar's Mike Moorhead, UC Irvine's Pete Fernandez and Costa Mesa resident Jordan McRobie made the cut at Oak Creek Golf Course in Irvine Tuesday and qualified for the 101st California...

Five more golfers will crash this year's Jones Cup. The neighborhood tradition will include players from Irvine's Shady Canyon Golf Club for the June 27 event at Newport Beach Country Club. The team of five will include director of golf Brian Gunson and...

DAVIS — The UC Irvine women's water polo team earned its fourth straight Big West Conference Tournament championship by defeating UC Davis, 10-5, Sunday at the Aggies' pool. The win gives the No. 6-ranked Anteaters (24-6) the conference's automatic...

The UC Irvine men's volleyball team shook its late-season slump to handle visiting UCLA in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament quarterfinal on Saturday at the Bren Events Center. The win ended the season for the No. 5-ranked and No. 5-...

The Vanguard University women's basketball team begins play in the NAIA Tournament on Wednesday at the Frankfort Convention Center in Frankfort, Ky. The Lions (23-6), ranked No. 13 in the final NAIA poll, are making their 11th straight appearance in...

IRVINE — The 17-5 nonconference victory that clinched the UC Irvine baseball team's first three-game series sweep of the season came with a little something extra against visiting Dartmouth on Saturday. The Anteaters (14-8), who have won a season-...

IRVINE — It was too little too late on two accounts Wednesday for the UC Irvine baseball team, which lost a nonconference game to visiting USC, 5-4, to halt a five-game winning streak. The Anteaters (14-9), who had scored in their final at-bat to...

IRVINE — UC Irvine sophomore Phil Ferragamo threw seven scoreless innings and Jimmy Litchfield finished off the Anteaters' third shutout of the season Sunday as the 'Eaters won, 6-0, to complete the Big West Conference-opening baseball series...

The Orange Coast College men's volleyball program will honor U.S. national men's volleyball team coach Alan Knipe, a former OCC player, during Wednesday's crucial Pacific Coast Conference home match against Golden West at 6 p.m. "Coach Knipe is a product...

Erik Komatsu, who played baseball at Vanguard University in 2006, opened the Major League Baseball season Wednesday as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. A rookie outfielder, Komatsu went 15 for 54 in 24 spring training games to earn a spot on the...