Two long home runs by the catchers and a dominant pitching performance has Cal State Northridge baseball in an unfamiliar place this season: a conference series victory. The Matadors (20-25, 3-11 Big West) took the first two games of a three-game Big West series against UC Santa Barbara at Matador Field, snapping a six-series losing streak dating back to March 19. “We feel good right now. We had a great week of preparation and like I said before, we’ve been… Read more

Another Sunday loss and the Matadors are swept and brushed away by one more Big West Conference team. The Cal State Northridge baseball team dropped its sixth straight series by getting swept out of Dobbins Stadium at UC Davis as the Aggies took the series by winning the finale, 8-4, in the three-game weekend series. CSUN (18-25, 1-11 Big West) was playing catch up for the third straight game as the Aggies lead off the first inning after outfielder Scott… Read more

By Michael Davis Contributing Reporter The 2010-11 tennis year has come to an end and the CSUN tennis team won six of the last eight matches. “This season, we had high highs and low lows. A high point was beating San Diego State in Hawai’i. Some low points were all the injuries to our team,” head coach Gary Victor said. One key low was senior Nina Jaworowski’s injury, which caused her to be out for almost six weeks. Jaworowski is… Read more

The Matadors’ struggles continue and are now riding their worst stretch of the season after losing two in a row to Cal State Bakersfield over the weekend. “Times are hard right now, but I think we have to understand that this is still within our control. Most of the times when we got hit it was our honestly own doing, we fell behind in the counts, and we got hit,” senior pitcher Ryan Juarez said. The Cal State Northridge baseball… Read more

Coming off a two-week break, the CSUN water polo team will start Big West play starting this weekend when it will face the UC Davis Aggies and Pacific Tigers. Northridge (16 -11) is coming off two victories and players seem optimistic about going into conference play. “We feel really good. The two-week break was good for us before conference because we have been conditioning and we went back to working on our basics with our shooting, skill work and improving… Read more

The Cal State Northridge women’s basketball team will have its first opportunity to prove skeptics wrong when they open the season against Pepperdine University tonight at the Matadome. After a long offseason, one which welcomed a new coaching staff and new play scheme, the Matadors are still held to the same expectations as before as they were tabbed to finish last in the conference for the second straight year by the Big West’s preseason coaches poll. For the Matadors, the… Read more

From the start of the season, Northridge men’s soccer Coach Terry Davila has said that his team’s No. 1 goal is to get to the postseason. He cares little about accolades and hype or his team’s national ranking – only a chance, as he says, “To get to the big dance,” the NCAA tournament. The way to make that happen? Big West Conference play. The Matadors (6-3-1, Big West 1-0) came within one win or tie on the last game… Read more