Morning Links 5/21/12

One weekend left of Big West Baseball and three teams are vying for the conference title.  Fullerton has a one game lead over LBSU and a two game lead over Cal Poly.  Theoretically if Fullerton loses the series 1-2 to the Dirtbags and Cal Poly sweeps UCR, there will be a three-way tie for first.  More on that later, first, the links.

LBSU's series win sets up for conference finale against Fullerton
Mark your calendars, and the location:  this Friday through Sunday at Blair Field (LBSU's stadium).

LBSU softball eliminated against No. 25 Syracuse
After falling to the Orange the first time, the 49ers beat LIU-Brooklyn 5-4 to eliminate the Blackbirds.  In the finale, the 49ers took Syracuse to 8 innings before Erin Jones-Wesley gave up a solo shot.  The Orange shut down the 49ers in the bottom of the 8th to win 2-1.

Baseball recaps
UCR won the rubber match with a 1-0 win over the Titans, Cal Poly came back from down 7-1 to sweep UCSB 9-8, Matadors took Senior Day 6-3 to avoid the sweep, Dirtbags won the series 2-1 with a 5-1 win over Pacific and UCI took the series against CSU-Bakersfield with a 15-6 pounding on Sunday.

Golf NCAA results
LBSU's Philip Chian finished in a tie for 4th place in the Athens Regional to advance to the NCAA Championship while LBSU finished 8th as a team, UCD finished 12th in the Stanford Regional, Pacific's Alex Edfort finished the Stanford Regional in a tie for 27th and UCI's Allen Jun finished 44th, finally Cal State Northridge's Chris Russo finished in a tie for 44th in the Greensboro Regional.

No news on conference expansion, so all is quiet on the Big West front.  See anything I missed? Comment below!