Cal State L.A. loses to Tampa

Cal State Los Angeles got off to a rough start in its first appearance in the NCAA Division II championship baseball tournament.

The Golden Eagles fell behind early and couldn’t recover in a 13-5 loss to defending champion and top-ranked Tampa on Friday at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Ala.

The Spartans (50-10) used three big innings -- four runs in the first, three runs in the fourth and five runs in the seventh -- to roll past the Golden Eagles.

The Golden Eagles (43-16-1) will play Kutztown (49-6) on Sunday in an elimination game. The Golden Bears lost, 5-4, to Nebraska Omaha on Matt Eikmeier’s walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning.

Tampa will play Nebraska Omaha (37-22) Sunday night in a winner’s bracket game.

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Devin Drag pitched Chapman (41-6) to an 8-4 victory over defending champion Marietta, Ohio, in the first round of the NCAA Division III baseball championship tournament at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wis.

Drag (16-0) pitched seven-plus innings. Despite giving up 14 hits, he held the Pioneers to four runs, striking out five while walking one.

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Duke won its third consecutive NCAA Division I women’s golf title, and Arkansas’ Stacy Lewis rallied to win the individual championship.

The Blue Devils held off Purdue for their fifth team title in nine years, shooting a two-over-par 290 to finish with an 18-over 1,170 total on LPGA International’s Legends Course at Daytona Beach, Fla. Purdue (1,185) finished at 33 over. UCLA (1,186) was third, followed by USC (1,196) and Stanford (1,197).

Lewis, six strokes behind Purdue’s Christel Boeljon after a third-round 74, shot a six-under 66 -- the best round of the tournament -- to beat Boeljon (76) and USC’s Paola Moreno (71) by four strokes.

Lewis, a junior, birdied the first five holes on the back nine to pull away. She finished at six-under 282. Boeljon and Moreno were at two-under 286. Duke’s Amanda Blumenherst (72) finished fourth at one-over 289, and UCLA’s Tiffany Joh (72) followed at three-over 291.

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Fourth-seeded Lindsey Nelson of USC advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I women’s tennis tournament at Athens, Ga., by defeating Florida’s Megan Alexander, 6-2, 6-4.

Tracy Lin of UCLA also advanced by beating Csilla Borsanyi of Florida, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

In the men’s draw, Pepperdine’s Andre Begemann, who was the only Southland player left after the first two rounds, lost his third-round match to sixth-seeded Arnau Brugues of Tulsa, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

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UCLA sophomore Rhonda Watkins set a Pacific 10 Conference record of 22-4 1/4 in winning the long jump at the NCAA West Region track and field championships at Eugene, Ore. That mark breaks the nearly 20-year old record of 22-2 1/2 set in 1988 by former Bruin Gail Devers.

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The top-ranked USC varsity eight easily won its qualifying heat on the first day of the NCAA Division I women’s rowing championships on Melton Hill Lake at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Trojans won in 6:39.00. UCLA (6:37.23) finished fourth in its heat and did not qualify for today’s semifinals.

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The UC Irvine women’s sailing team finished sixth in the Intercollegiate Sailing Assn. national championship on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Va. St. Mary’s won the 18-school competition with a three-day total of 132 points over 32 races.