This Saturday six different Cal Lutheran programs will participate in home athletic competitions as part of CLU "Sports Fest." The day begins with swimming and diving in its final home meet of the season against Whittier at the Samuelson Aquatics Center starting at 10:30 a.m.
Cal Lutheran baseball hit the road for the first time this season on Wednesday afternoon and used a four-run eighth inning to provide the margin in a 12-8 victory over Westmont College. A late two-out rally capped off by two-run hits from K.C. Judge and Travis Dadigian completed the come-from-behind win.
Senior Jordan Ott went 4-for-6 on the day with two home runs and seven RBI as the Cal Lutheran baseball team overwhelmed La Sierra University in a season-opening doubleheader at CLU on Sunday, winning 14-0 in the first game and 18-0 in the second. Nine Kingsmen pitchers combined to allow no runs and just seven hits over 16 innings.
The Cal Lutheran women's tennis team will travel to Occidental College on Saturday morning initiating the 2010 spring sports schedule. The CLU baseball and softball teams will provide the first home spring contests with both hosting Sunday doubleheaders against La Sierra at 11 a.m. and Noon, respectively.
Last season the Cal Lutheran baseball team made the NCAA postseason for the first time this millennium and finished with 32 wins, its highest victory total since the 1999 season. Entering the 2010 campaign the Kingsmen have garnered a No. 20 national ranking in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper preseason poll.
After reaching the NCAA West Regional last season this year's Cal Lutheran baseball team earned recognition with its Collegiate Baseball Newspaper preseason national ranking of No. 20. CLU will return many of its featured players from a 2009 squad that finished 32-11 and made its first postseason appearance since 2001.
Into the later evening and early morning hours of Wednesday and Thursday will the longstanding CLU tradition of Midnight Madness, where students will celebrate the beginning of the Kingsmen and Regals basketball season, also begins Homecoming Weekend October 15-18.
At a time when college athletic departments across the country are cutting teams, Cal Lutheran has added some.
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Baseball vs. George Fox (OR)
10:00 a.m. - Away
Baseball vs. Pacific Lutheran (WA)
2:00 p.m. - Away
Baseball vs. Linfield (OR)
2:00 p.m. - Away
Baseball vs. Whitman (WA)
10:00 a.m. - Away
Baseball vs. Occidental
2:30 p.m. - Home
Baseball vs. Occidental
11:00 a.m. - Away
Baseball vs. Occidental
2:00 p.m. - Away
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