The baseball team was unable to hold onto first place in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and now find themselves in the No. 2 seed of the conference postseason tournament after they were swept by the Chapman Panthers in their final series of the regular season.
After coming out of a rough start to the weekend series, the La Verne baseball team jumped on an early lead in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Ben Hines Field, eventually outscoring the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, 11-4.
The Leopards football team lost a close one to the Chapman Panthers, 35-32, in their last game of the season at Ortmayer Stadium on senior day Saturday.
The football team came back in the last seconds of the fourth quarter to win the Homecoming game against the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens in front of a packed crowd of alumni and supporters Saturday at Ortmayer Stadium, 38-37.
The football team’s offense was absent in its 51-7 loss to Redlands on Saturday at Ortmayer Stadium.
The Leopards last victory against the Bulldogs was in 2015.
La Verne notched a huge win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in its Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener Saturday, upsetting the defending champs in overtime, 20-17, at Ortmayer Stadium.