Baseball

Central California Showcase

It goes down as the worst season in CSU Bakersfield's 11-year history of women's basketball.

But Saturday's dramatic come-from-behind 89-87 win over Seattle University in the Icardo Center will be used as a springboard to the future, not the wrap up of a long season.

Casey Pierro-Zabotel scored an extra attacker goal with under a minute remaining, on an assist credited to Erik Burgdoerfer and Kyle Calder, and the Bakersfield Condors were perfect in a shootout as they stunned the Idaho Steelheads 6-5 Saturday at CenturyLink Arena.

The Steelheads took a 1-0 at 5:40 of the first period.

LOS ANGELES -- USC scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday to rally past CSU Bakersfield, 9-8, the second straight game the Trojans beat the Roadrunners with a two-run ninth.

USC (11-3) took advantage of wildness by CSUB relief pitcher James Barragan.

NEAR TEHACHAPI PEAK -- Footprints in the snow made it pretty clear last week that someone continues to trespass on the Wyman family's land atop Tehachapi Mountain.

Ordinarily that might not raise an eyebrow. Hikers have long tramped through the property on their way to Tehachapi Peak, a nearly 8,000-foot summit said to offer sweeping views of the Mojave Desert, Central Valley and the southern Sierra Nevada.

LOS ANGELES -- USC rallied from behind with two unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat CSU Bakersfield 6-5 Friday night.

The Roadrunners (7-7) had five errors in the game and USC's six runs were unearned.

The fastest full-bodied cars on dirt -- Late Models -- roll into Bakersfield Speedway today for the first of nine races at the third-mile clay oval.

For many of the drivers, it will be their first race of the season. Others kicked off their season in a race at Las Vegas on Thursday night.

NORTHRIDGE -- CSU Bakersfield's softball team had the greatest margin of victory in its Division I history Friday in shutting out Maine 14-0 at the Northridge Classic.

Emily Bliss and Bree Sandoval each had three hits, three RBIs and three runs scored for the Roadrunners (5-12). Sophomore Marissa Hiller pitched two innings for her first collegiate victory.

Boys soccer

CIF Southern California Regional Championships

BOISE -- The Bakersfield Condors received a 40-save performance from goaltender Bryan Pitton, but the Idaho Steelheads got the extra point in a shootout for a 2-1 victory on Friday night at CenturyLink Arena.

Playing in his first period of hockey in over a month, it didn't take long for Jesse Gimblett to give the Condors a 1-0 lead.

Kara Frankhouser was 2-for-2 with a home run, two RBIs, and three runs scored to help lead Bakersfield College to a 11-3 home victory over L.A. Mission in a game that was called after five innnings.

Kaila Williams also had a big game for the Renegades (14-4, 1-0 Western State Conference), going 3-3 with a double and 2 RBIs. Bakersfield has won 10 straight games.

Baseball

Central California Showcase

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Today

High-scoring Bakersfield College made it close Thursday, but the Renegades had too big a deficit to overcome.

The Renegades fell behind 9-0 after four innings and pulled within two runs before dropping a 10-7 Western State Conference South Division game to L.A. Valley at Gerry Collis Field.

Ten former Bakersfield College track and field coaches and athletes will be inducted into the BC Track and Field, and Cross Country Hall of Fame at the 30th annual dinner on March 22.

Tickets are $35 each and are on sale through Monday, and must be picked up no later than Wednesday. They are available at the BC ticket office. The event will be held in the BC cafeteria.

Kern County, southern San Joaquin Valley

LAKE ISABELLA: The trout bite has been improving with some very nice catches of quality fish at the auxiliary dam for bait anglers fishing floating baits, Power Mice Tails, or inflated nightcrawlers. DFG plants this week and two weeks ago. Fly anglers are still reporting fair to good dry fly bite on midges in most coves in the mornings. Catfish are fair on frozen shad at Engineerís Point. Not a lot of big fish, but pretty fair numbers on fish around two or three pounds. Few reports on crappie, and the bass and bluegill action is also slow. The 23rd Annual Isabella Lake Fishing Derby will be held March 31-April 2 with over $250,000 in potential prize winnings.

Last fall, Bakersfield's Kurt Tobi won the Eastman's Hunting Magazine sweepstakes and a wonderful array of prizes associated with the honor. Also included in the prizes was an all-expense-paid elk hunting trip, complete with all the necessary gear. During the five-day hunt, Kurt managed to kill a very exceptional bull, and on March 20 and again on March 27, his hunt will be featured on Eastman's Hunting TV, broadcast on Outdoor Channel. Viewers might want to record the show--it'll be worth watching.

Locals win bass tournament at San Antonio Lake

Boys basketball

CIF playoffs

There Vanessa Mancera was again: At the free throw line in a tie game, mere seconds left, season on the line.

And again, she figured, why not keep playing? Mancera sank the front end of a one-and-one to lift Independence's girls basketball team to a 44-43 victory over Oxnard-Rio Mesa in the first round of the CIF state Division III playoffs Wednesday.

Liberty junior Cole Mazza, ranked the top long-snapper in the country by one service, has the first of what should be many scholarship offers.

UCLA broke the ice for Mazza, who Chris Rubio's long-snapping service ranks the top junior in the country.