Coyotes name athletes of the month

            Each received a plaque from outgoing board president Robert Brendza, director of facility development for Burlington-Northern-Santa Fe in San Bernardino.

            Lowe was an all-CCAA conference first-team selection and was voted by coaches to the NCAA West Regional all-tournament team.

            The Norco resident who played for Norco High School and Cal Baptist University before transferring to Cal State for her junior year in 2006-07 played in all 69 games for CSUSB, batting .335 on the season with three homers and 30 runs batted in. She hit .349 in 30 CCAA contests.

            Lowe was listed among the top 10 players in seven CCAA statistical categories, leading the conference in sacrifice bunts (19) and walks (35).

            Her efforts helped propel the team to 36 wins, second most in the history of the program and a third-place finish in the CCAA during the regular season -- the team's highest finish since it joined the conference in 1991-92.

            The team reached the title game of the CCAA championship tournament and made its first appearance ever in the NCAA tournament, seeded No. 8 in the regional. Lowe drove in the winning runs in a 10-8 win over Seattle University at the regional and hit .454 (five for 11) in the tournament with four RBI.

            Webster Jr., a 2006 graduate of Arroyo Valley HS in San Bernardino,  had a strong finish to his 2007-08 season with the golf team. After finishing 11th at the CCAA conference tournament, Webster shot a four-under-par total of 212, including a second round 67, to wind up second in the NCAA West-Northwest Super Regional, missing medalist honors by one shot. He was the West Region medalist in 2007 as a freshman.

            His team won a playoff for fourth spot in the tournament and advanced to the NCAA National Championship for the third straight year. Webster shot back-to-back rounds of 69 to open the tournament and closed with a 73 and a 74 to finish in 20th spot in the field of 105 golfers.

            He earned all-CCAA first-team and all-West Region first team for the second year in a row and was named a Golf Coaches Association of America/PING all-America honorable mention. He was a third-team all-American in 2007. He averaged 73 shots per round in 2007-08.

            The CAA, an organization of volunteers that raises funds for student-athlete scholarships and helps develop support for the NCAA sponsored sports at CSUSB, has a new president of its board in Chehab (Shab) Elaawar, a San Bernardino businessman. He succeeds Brendza, the president for the past two years. Brendza was presented an engraved gavel and stand by Athletic Director Dr. Kevin Hatcher in recognition of his service to the board.