UC Irvine Anteaters

UC Irvine senior Kevin Tillie and sophomore Michael Brinkley have been named first-team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation to lead four Anteaters recognized by men's volleyball coaches. Juniors Collin Mehring and Scott Kevorken were second-team...

IRVINE — A pair of errors led to two unearned runs in the 12th inning to help visiting UCLA earn a 6-4 nonconference baseball victory at UC Irvine on Tuesday. The loss was the first in six Tuesday games this season for UCI (23-10), ranked No. 21...

IRVINE — The No. 4-ranked UC Irvine men's volleyball team has been showing its dominance, its depth and its season-long preparation for the opportunity to defend its 2012 NCAA championship. But in its regular-season finale Saturday night against No....

IRVINE — There is a difference between missed opportunities and blown opportunities. And, based on the decibel level of UC Irvine baseball coach Mike Gillespie's postgame address to his players, the latter had more to do with the Anteaters' 2-1...

IRVINE — Taylor Sparks has been more explosion than ignition lately for the UC Irvine baseball team's offense. But it was perhaps his least impressive hit of late that proved to be the difference in the Anteaters' 4-3 triumph in 11 innings over...

IRVINE — First-year coach David Kniffin has said all season that his UC Irvine men's volleyball team has been searching for its identity. But maybe what it needed instead was a little attitude. Playing with a revamped lineup that did not include...

UC Irvine junior Andrew Morales was named was named Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week after blanking Hawaii on one hit through seven innings on Sunday. Morales, who lost a perfect game on a single to open the seventh inning, struck out six and...

LOS ANGELES — It was supposed to be an honor when USC, where he played and was the head baseball coach for 20 seasons, named the scoreboard at Dedeaux Field after current UC Irvine head man Mike Gillespie. Instead, it has been more of a curse...

BASEBALL UC Riverside 3, UC Irvine 2 RIVERSIDE — The host Highlanders broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning to close out the sweep of the three-game Big West Conference series on Saturday. Sophomore shortstop Chris Rabago went...

RIVERSIDE — The UC Irvine baseball team gave new meaning to the term seventh-inning stretch Friday. And, like a rubber band pulled to its limit, the Anteaters' bullpen snapped to help host UC Riverside claim a 7-5 Big West Conference triumph at...

RIVERSIDE — UC Irvine ventured to UC Riverside for the Big West Conference baseball opener on Friday and a telethon broke out. How else to describe the spirit of giving that pervaded in the Highlanders' 4-3 victory at the Riverside Sports Complex?...

BASEBALL UC Irvine 5, Cal State Bakersfield 4 (10 innings) BAKERSFIELD — Sophomore Jerry McClanahan's two-out single plated Connor Spencer with the winning run in the 10th inning to lead the visiting Anteaters in the nonconference game Tuesday....