CSUN’s sports teams achieved mixed results in the spring semester, as baseball fights for a postseason spot against perennial contender CSU Fullerton, men’s volleyball collapsed in their final 10 games, softball improved by leaps and bounds and water polo had their highest win season since 2010. Achieving multiple Big West nods among the sports, teams and players have helped etch their name in the CSUN record books throughout the season. These are the athletes that have been chosen as the… Read more

The punter of the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Kluwe, was released by his team after eight years of service, but was it for his skills or beliefs? If we measure Kluwe purely by statistics, he has been a very productive punter for the Vikings over the course of his career, though he has steadily declined with age. He has averaged 44.4 yards per punt over his career, but last season he was ranked 20th among punters in the NFL. I am… Read more

Putting its seven game winning streak on the line against the eighth-ranked UCLA Bruins in its final non-conference game of the season, the CSUN (30-18) baseball team defeated UCLA 4-1 Tuesday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Sending junior starter Brycen Rutherford to the mound, he kept a powerful Bruins (31-14) offense quiet through four innings of work, allowing one run on six hits while striking out two. “Bryce did a really nice job today; they were hitting some balls hard,”… Read more

Starting the season as the 17th-ranked team in the country, the Matadors women’s water polo team claimed fifth place in the Big West Conference Tournament in April to complete their season as the 15th-ranked team. Playing in one of the best conferences in the country that included six teams in the top-20 nationally, the Matadors battled their way to a 23-12 record, 3-4 in conference. The 23 wins for Northridge ranks third all-time in school history, and is the most… Read more

Opening their final homestand of the season against visiting UC Riverside (19-32, 3-17 Big West), the CSUN softball team swept Saturday’s doubleheader against the Highlanders 5-1 and 8-5 to give head coach Tairia Flowers a career-high in season wins with 23. Breaking a 1-1 tie in the first game with her first home run of her career at CSUN (23-29, 9-11), redshirt sophomore designated player Jennifer Tyler blasted a three-run home run over the left field fence in the sixth… Read more

IRVINE — A cross-cage lob goal shot over an approaching goalkeeper by junior attacker Melissa Doll with 24 seconds remaining in the game, gave the fifth-seeded CSUN women’s water polo team a Saturday second round 8-7 victory over eighth-seeded Pacific in the Big West Conference Tournament. With the Tigers (16-15) tying the score with two minutes left in the game after an exclusion gave them a 6-on-5 advantage, a rebound by Doll kept the Matadors (22-12) attack alive in the… Read more

The Matadors (22-18) baseball team’s three game winning streak came to a halt Tuesday night in historic fashion against Loyola Marymount University (21-19), losing 5-0. Loyola senior starting pitcher Matt Florer threw a no-hitter against CSUN, only the second no-hitter in Lions school history; the other coming in 1980. Facing four batters over the minimum, Florer was a little inconsistent at times on the mound, walking five Matadors and taking 134 pitches to complete the game. Coming into the game,… Read more

The Matadors women’s golf team wrapped up their spring season Tuesday afternoon at the Big West Women’s Championships at San Luis Obispo Country Club. Coming in seventh place in the eight team competition, CSUN finished with a total score of 954 over the three day competition. Ending the first day in fifth place, Northridge came out and fired a team total of 318 and had three of its five participants in the top-20. Leading the way was sophomore Elisabeth Haavardsholm… Read more