RIVERSIDE, Calif – UC Riverside Athletics faces quite the upcoming week with postseason basketball, softball, baseball, home track & field and men's tennis.
UC Riverside Men's Basketball will begin play in its first National Invitational Tournament (NIT) in program history on Tuesday when the Highlanders travel to Santa Clara. UCR and the Broncos are meeting for the second time this season following an early season matchup in the Bay Area.
UCR Softball is off to its best six-game Big West start in program history at 5-1 under first-year head coach Brittney Matta, and will look to keep it rolling this weekend with three games at UC San Diego. Also on the diamond, Baseball returns to the Riverside Sports Complex for a three-game set against Cal State Fullerton beginning Friday night.
Men's Tennis rounds out the home schedule with a Sunday matinee against Dartmouth, and Men's Golf will begin the UC San Diego Invitational on Sunday afternoon at the famed Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla.
Weekly Schedule (Mar. 18-23)
Tuesday, March 18
Friday, March 21
Saturday, March 22
Sunday, March 23
- AWAY - Men's Golf at UC San Diego Invitational | Live Scoring
- HOME - Men's Tennis vs. Dartmouth | Parking
- HOME - Baseball vs. Cal State Fullerton | 1:00 pm | Tickets | Parking
- AWAY - Softball at UC San Diego | 1:00 pm | Live Stats
- AWAY - Softball at UC San Diego | 3:00 pm | Live Stats
This week's UCR Athletics Student-Athlete of the Week presented by Transit Physical Therapy is Leilani Juan!
- .625 average in sweep of Cal State Bakersfield
- Two HR in record-breaking 18-2 game two win
- 2 for 2, 4 R, 3 RBI in game two
#GoHighlanders
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In Case You Missed It...
- UCR Softball completed a three-game sweep of Cal State Bakersfield this past weekend at Amy S. Harrison Field.
- Paced by UCR Athletics Student-Athlete of the Week Leilani Juan, the Highlanders improved to 5-1 on the year and sit atop the Big West standings heading into this weekend's series at UC San Diego.
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