Tag: Baseball

"It ain't over, till it's over" is an old cliche made famous by Yankee Hall of Famer, Yogi Berra. What the quote by Berra best describes is the University of La Verne baseball team's present situation.

by Ed Castro Staff Writer If the University of La Verne baseball team has any hopes of winning a game in post-season action this...

Tim Wells, a ULV sophomore, was released from the Pomona Valley Hospital (PVH) a week ago, after suf­fering a fractured skull. Wells, a player on the junior varsity baseball team, was injured while pitching during a game against Occidental College on the evening of April 22.

In the 72-year history of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), only two teams have ever gone undefeated. The first was in 1954 when the Occidental College Tigers went 8-0. The second happened Tuesday when the Universi­ty of La Verne Leopards completed an 18-0 sweep of the conference.

All the University of La Verne baseball team needs to do to end its season with an undefeated record in league competition is defeat the Caltech Beavers, something the Leopards have managed to do in the team's 45 previous confrontations.

Even rain delays could not stop the University of La Verne baseball team from moving closer to its 14th Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) cham­pionship in the last 16 years.