Coyotes’ Joy earns fourth all-conference honor

Palm Desert High School graduate, was an at-large selection on the nine-member first team picked by the CCAA coaches. She also earned first-team honors in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was the conference MVP in 2006 and its freshman of the year in 2005.

ALL-CCAA FIRST TEAM — Iona Comsa, Fr., (CSULA); Krishana DeSilva, Sr., (CSULA); Kimmi Dao, Fr., (UCSD); Justine Fonte, Sr., (UCSD); Molly Sullens, Sr. (UCSD); Jennifer Avila, Sr., (CSULA); Jennifer Joy, Sr., (CSUSB); Jenny Tsai, Sr., (Cal Poly Pomona); Natalie Varnay, Fr., (UCSD).

SECOND TEAM — Dalya Perelman, Fr., (UCSD); Mallory Brady, So., (Cal Poly Pomona); Jennifer Chow, Fr., (Cal Poly Pomona); Kaitlin Wooldridge, Fr., (Cal Poly Pomona); Casey O’Connor, So., (Sonoma St.); Jessica Winkler, Jr., (Cal Poly Pomona).

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CMS doubles team wins D3 title

Gui Schils (JR, Shaker Heights, OH) and Larry Wang (JR, Orange) won the NCAA Division III Men’s Doubles Championship on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Andy Bryan/Charlie Paukert of Gustavus Adolphus.

This is the first title for both and CMS’ fifth doubles championship. Schils and Wang reached the semifinals of the NCAA Championships in 2006 and the quarterfinals in 2007.

The pair had their most difficult match in the first round as they beat Dan Greenberg/Bret Thacher from Williams 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. They beat the #4 seed – Randy Loden/Kaz Murata of Mary Washington 6-2, 6-2 in the quarterfinals and the #1 seed – Jared Kamel/Marc Vartabedian of UC Santa Cruz 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) in the semifinals.

Wang and Schils had played all four teams earlier this season. They lost to the Williams (March 29) and UC Santa Cruz (April 13) teams and beat the Mary Washington (March 5) and Gustavus Adolphus (March 26) teams earlier this season. In the team championships, they beat the UC Santa Cruz team in third round play and the Williams team in the quarterfinal round.

Earlier in the week, CMS finished third in the team competition, beating Middlebury in the consolation final, one day after losing in the championships semifinals.

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Former UCR baseball player called up by Red Sox

 
UC Riverside baseball alum Chris Smith was promoted to the Boston Red Sox big league squad on Sunday. Smith will be wearing #59 in the Boston bullpen as the Red Sox host a four-game series with the Kansas City Royals beginning tonight.

Smith spent three years at UCR before he was taken in the third round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Amature Draft by the Red Sox. His final season was his best at UCR. In 2002 he set the school record for strikeouts in a season with 127 in 136 innings pitched. Also that year, he held opposing batters to a .249 average and produced a 2.91 ERA.

Smith had a 1.45 ERA in 10 appearances for the Triple A Pawtucket Red Sox before getting called up. He was second on the team with four saves and had struckout 28 batters in 31.0 innings pitched.

He is the second former Highlander to currently be in the big leagues, joining Troy Percival who enters the week fifth in the American League in saves with 11 for the Tampa Bay Rays.

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