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Monarch High School Softball Team. Courtesy

The postseason is underway for some teams, and it has gotten off to a successful start.

The North Broward Prep baseball team opened Regional play with a pair of 4-3 wins over American Heritage High School to move on to the Semifinals. The Eagles trailed 3-2 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning on Monday, but responded with two runs to go back in front. Julian Rodriguez had two RBIs while Josiah Haslem knocked in one.

Logan Bristol started and pitched 5.1 innings with seven strikeouts. Nate Hernandez recorded two outs in the sixth and was the winning pitcher before Kiernan O’Neil registered the save. NBP then won on Tuesday behind Jack Rostock, also tossing 5.1 innings. Filippo Baldassarri got two outs before O’Neil earned his second consecutive save, while Rodriguez added two more RBIs.

The Eagles will move on to play Calvary Christian High School in the Regional Semifinals in another best-of-three series after they swept Jefferson High School in the opening round of Regionals. They come into the game with a record of 26-3.

In track and field, the Eagles had the girls team come in second place and were led by three wins, with Ella Munoz taking first in the long jump and triple jump. Ysamar Pimentel also won the high jump. Nina Sanguino came in second while Ivory Edgecomb finished third in two events, along with Chelsea Ventura and Sanguino. NBP also had their 4×100 relay team of Nina Sanguino, Ivory Edgecomb, Ella Munoz, and Ava Austad finish in third place, while their other relay teams placed fourth and seventh. Lucia Casacci, Kaiden O’Neil, Ava Austard. Marianna Lander, Victoria Depenbrock, and Caitlyn Espinosa all contributed to the Eagles.

The boys team had Danylo Babinchuk come in second in the 400 hurdles. Eric Levy and Boston Nguyen each came in third. They had two relay teams place fifth and one come in seventh, while Ayo Ogunyebi, Zach Amelchenko, and Brodie Rush all recorded points.

Monarch High School placed 12th at the District Championship, highlighted by the team’s third-place finish in the 4×100 meters, with contributions from Dominick Brannon, Amari Deer, Jabari Brady, and Jayden Henry. Jayden Joselin, Jabari Brady Henry, and Amari Deer came in sixth in the 4 x 400 relay. At the same time, Tyler Hilton, Adrian Graham, Patrick Scott, and Brian Colquhoun placed eighth in the 4 x 800 meters. Rickenson Doizer also came in seventh in the discus, with  Amari Deer coming in ninth in the 100 meters.

The girls team came in tenth after Sasha Rodriguez, Kennedi Stephenson, Chelsea Dumas, and Zykeria Ruthledge placed fifth in the 4 x 100 relay. Kennedi Stephenson, Zakiah Peterson, Silvia Guzman Serrano, and Katrice Burke placed seventh in the 4 x 400 relay. Silvia Guzman Serrano came in seventh in the 400 hurdles while Sasha Rodriguez finished ninth in the 100 hurdles.

The Monarch High School softball team finished the regular season with a 7-4 loss against South Plantation High School on Tuesday. The Knights scored all their runs in the fourth inning following RBIS from Jayden Uzzo, Sammie Rice, Elana Ramirez, and Camryn Piskun.

Monarch is 9-10 and will open the District Tournament as the second seed, facing Olympic Heights Community High School on Monday, April 28, at 4 p.m. Monarch won 17-1 in their first meeting. The winner will play either West Boca Raton or Coral Springs High School.

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LOS ANGELES – No. 1 UCLA (19-4) won its MPSF Semifinal match over No. 4 California (18-5) on Saturday at Dirks Pool at Spieker Aquatics Center. The Bruins won the match 15-14 to advance to the MPSF Championship on Sunday. With their fifth-straight win over the Golden Bears, the Bruins improved to 67-14 in the series history.

A total of six Bruins scored in the win over the Golden Bears. Juniors Bia Mantellato and Taylor Smith (tied season high) led the team in scoring with four goals apiece. Both players completed their hat tricks in the first half of play. Molly Renner, Genoa Rossi, and Anna Pearson each notched two goals in the match. Emma Lineback added a goal to contribute to the Bruins’ 15 goals.

Sophomore Lauren Steele was effective in the cage, finishing with 18 saves, tying her season best total and added one steal. 

The Bruins led through the first quarter, finishing with a 3-2 lead. The Golden Bears and the Bruins played to a 6-6 draw in the second quarter to take a 9-8 lead into the break. Renner and Smith each scored goals off assists from Lily Gess. Smith scored again with two seconds left on the clock with an assist from Steele.

UCLA outscored Cal 4-3 in the third period thanks to goals from Mantellato, Pearson, and a late power-play goal from Lineback. The Bruins put forward a dominant performance on both ends in the fourth quarter to finish the game on top. Smith scored a power-play goal to notch the Bruins’ 14th goal, and Genoa Rossi scored the eventual game-winning goal and the Bruins made a couple of stops in the end to secure the Bruins’ win.

UP NEXT: The Bruins have advanced to the 2025 MPSF Women’s Water Polo Championship where they will face No. 3 Stanford tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. PT at Dirks Pool at Spieker Aquatics Center.

 

6×5 – UCLA – 4/7 – CAL – 2/8

Penalties – UCLA – 2/3 – CAL – 1/2

CAL Goals: Julia Bonaguidi 4, Feline Voordouw 3, Miriam Bogachenko 3, Elena Flynn 2, Ruby Swadling 1, Abbi Magee 1

CAL Saves: Talia Fonseca 5

UCLA Goals: Taylor Smith 4, Bia Mantellato 4, Molly Renner 2, Genoa Rossi 2, Anna Pearson 2, Emma Lineback 1

UCLA Saves: Lauren Steele 18

 

No. 4 seed Pepperdine Hosts No. 2 Seed USC for MPSF Title

4/26/2025 12:32:15 AM

Photo: Cole Hartke, Pepperdine (by: Pepperdine Athletics)

2025 MPSF MEN’S VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT

 

Host: Pepperdine University

Firestone Fieldhouse; Malibu, Calif.

April 22-26, 2025

MPSF Championship Central:  https://mpsports.org/tournaments/?id=46

The 2025 MPSF Men’s Volleyball Championship Tournament will be contested in its entirety at Pepperdine University, April 22-26, with the champion receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The 32nd edition of the conference tournament features eight matches spanning through five consecutive days, both record-highs for the MPSF. Tournament ticket information is located at https://tickets.pepperdinewaves.com/.

 

The Big Ten Network will televise the MPSF Championship match, Saturday, April 26, at 7:30 pm PT.  All other MPSF Tournament matches will be live streamed on B1G+ (https://www.bigtenplus.com/). Digital coverage will be available via the @B1GVolleyball accounts on X, Instagram, Bluesky and YouTube. All television programming on BTN also streams live via the FOX Sports App.

 

MPSF First Round: Tuesday, April 22

Match # 1: No. 8 seed Concordia 3, vs. No. 9 seed Vanguard 1 (16-25, 25-16, 27-25, 25-22)

Stats: VAN 1, CUI 3 – FINAL

Recap by CUI: CUI Moves On To Round Two at MPSF Tournament – Concordia University Irvine Athletics

MPSF Second Round: Wednesday, April 23

Match # 2: No. 5 seed  Grand Canyon 3, No. 8 Concordia 0 (25-19, 25-20, 26-24)

Stats: CUI vs. GCU

Recap by GCU: Lopes move past CUI in opening tournament match – Grand Canyon University Athletics

Match # 3: No. 6 seed  Stanford 3, No. 7 seed Menlo 1 (21-25, 25-20, 28-26, 25-23)

Stats: Menlo College vs. Stanford

Recap bt Stanford: Stanford Gets Past Menlo – Stanford Cardinal – Official Athletics Website

MPSF Quarterfinals: Thursday, April 24

Match # 4: No. 4 seed Pepperdine 3, No. 5 seed Grand Canyon 0

Stats: Grand Canyon vs. Pepperdine

Recap by Pepperdine: Waves Make Quick Work of Lopes in Quarterfinals – Pepperdine University Athletics

Match # 5: No. 6 seed Stanford 3, No. 3 seed BYU 2 (25-23, 19-25, 27-25, 19-25, 15-10)

Stats: Stanford vs. BYU

MPSF Semifinals: Friday, April 25

Match # 6: at No 4 seed Pepperdine 3, No. 1 seed UCLA 2 (19-25, 25-22, 15-25, 25-23, 16-14)

Stats:Men’s Volleyball vs UCLA on 4/25/2025 – Box Score – Pepperdine University Athletics

Recap: #8 Waves Send Home #2 Bruins, Advance to MPSF Championship Match – Pepperdine University Athletics

Match # 7: No. 2 seed USC 3, No. 6 seed Stanford 1 (23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 25-19)

Stats: Stanford (13-15,4-8 MPSF) -vs- Southern California (21-6,8-4 MPSF)

Recap: USC Men’s Volleyball Blocks Out Stanford to Move Into MPSF Championship Match – USC Athletics

 

MPSF Championship: Saturday, April 26

Match # 8: No. 2 seed USC at No. 4 seed Pepperdine—7:30 pm PT (Live TV: BTN)

IRVINE, Calif. — The University of Hawaii women’s water polo team will look to claim back-to-back Big West Championship titles when the top-seeded Rainbow Wahine face Long Beach State on Sunday, April 27 at the Anteater Aquatics Complex in Irvine, Calif. The conference championship match is set for noon Pacific Time (9 a.m. Hawai’i Time) and will be streamed on ESPN+.

The defending Big West champion Rainbow Wahine defeated Cal State Fullerton 16-6 in the tournament opener on Friday and advanced to the title game with an 11-9 win over UC San Diego in the semifinals on Saturday. No. 2 seed Long Beach State routed CSUN in the quarterfinals and held off UC Irvine to set up a rematch of last year’s Big West final. The winner will claim the Big West’s automatic bid to the National Collegiate Women’s Water Polo Championship set for May 9-11 in Indianapolis. 

ALL-TIME SERIES RECORDHawai’i leads Long Beach State 38-7 (15-2 neutral)
Last Meeting: Hawai’i 9, Long Beach State 8, OT (March 15, 2025; Honolulu)

OPENING SPRINT

• UH is making its 10th appearance in the Big West Championship final and seventh in a row. The Rainbow Wahine are 5-4 in the conference title match. 
• UH is on a 19-game winning streak against Big West opponents (regular season and conference tournament) dating back to last season.
• The Rainbow Wahine are ranked No. 4 in the Collegiate Water Polo Association and the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches top 25 polls. Long Beach State is No. 6 in both polls.
• Freshman Ema Vernoux leads the team and ranks third in the league with 73 goals. She enters the Big West Championship final tied for the fifth highest single-season total in program history.
• Jordan Wedderburn posted hat tricks in UH’s first two Big West Championship games this week and moved up to ninth on UH’s career goals chart with 157. She has 64 goals this season, tied for the ninth highest single-season total in program history.
• Bernadette Doyle, last year’s Big West Championship MVP, tied her career high with five goals and posted the program’s highest steals total since 2002 with eight against UC San Diego on Saturday. On Friday, she became the second player in program history to reach triple digits in career goals, assists and steals, joining Paula Chillida Esforzado, who had 150 goals, 107 assists and 111 steals from 2013-15. 
• Sophomore goalie Daisy Logtens leads the Big West in goals-against average at 9.16 and ranks fourth in the conference with 179 saves (47.4 SV%).
• Bernadette Doyle leads the team and is second in the conference with 50 steals. She also leads the team and ranks fifth in the Big West with 13 field blocks.

THE MATCHUP
Long Beach State

• UH is 38-7 all-time against LBSU, including 8-1 in the Big West Championship. 
• UH has won the last 14 matchups with the Beach dating back to April 7, 2018. 
• LBSU last defeated UH (8-7) on April 29, 2017 in Davis, Calif.
• UH defeated LBSU 9-5 in last year’s Big West Championship title game in Davis, Calif.
• UH won this season’s regular-season meeting 9-8 in overtime on March 15 in Honolulu. Bernadette Doyle scored the golden goal to secure the victory.
• LBSU goalie Chelsea Oliver leads the conference with a 50.6 SV%. Attacker Martina Cardona leads the team and ranks fourth in the league with 68 goals. 

#WahineWP