The Big West  announced today that UC Riverside starter Paul Bargas is the Conference Pitcher of the Week for games played from April 20-26. The 6-1 junior pitched a complete-game, seven-hitter at Cal State Northridge Friday evening in a 9-0 win over the Matadors.

With the win, Bargas’s record improved to 5-3 on the year with a 4.01 ERA. The Riverside native has allowed just five walks in 60.2 innings this season, and none over his last three starts.

The Highlanders, owners of a four-game winning streak, travel to San Diego on Tuesday, April 28 for a 3 pm meeting with the Toreros.

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Pomona-Pitzer (33-5, 17-1) locked up the SCIAC baseball title with its 8-5 win over Cal Lutheran in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader in Thousand Oaks. The Sagehens are three games up on Cal Lu with three games to go and own the tiebreaker by beating them in two of out of three in the recently concluded series.

That is reason for celebration but the Sagehens have loftier goals. In 2007 they won a SCIAC title and earned the right to play in the West Region tournament where they went 1-2.

This season the team is ranked No. 1 in Division III with a load of players who were on that team. Just getting to the regional won’t be good enough. This is a team with national championship aspirations.

As to the rest of the teams in the SCIAC, the conference has a possibility of getting another team in the regional as an at-large qualifier. Redlands, La Verne and Cal Lutheran are in the hunt so the last weekend of games will still mean something.

La Verne has the unenviable task of finishing with Pitzer. Cal Lutheran has Whittier and Redlands has Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

Stay tuned!

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San Bernardino Valley College Athletic Director Dave Rubio said despite the budget crunch the school could be adding a sport for the 2009-2010 school year.

The sport being discussed is women’s tennis. The move would be one way the school can address the gender equity inbalance the school is facing with an enrollment growing on the female side.

The sport wouldn’t be a very expensive one to add and the school already has courts at the school that are pretty much going unused right now.

Five schools in the Foothill Conference currently field teams – Victor Valley, College of the Desert, Mt. San Jacinto, Rio Hondo and Antelope Valley. Several other schools in close proximity also field teams so it wouldn’t be that hard to fill a schedule.

SBVC currently offers six sports for women – volleyball, cross country, soccer, basketball, softball and track.

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