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Dominican University’s Keyonee Neal, left, blocks a shot against Point Loma during a Jan. 1 game in San Rafael. (Dominican Athletics)<\/p>\nDominican University’s Keyonee Neal, left, blocks a shot against Point Loma during a Jan. 1 game in San Rafael. (Dominican Athletics)<\/p>\n
The Santa Rosa Junior College baseball begins its 2026 campaign as a top-10 team in the state.<\/p>\n
The Bear Cubs ranked No. 7 in the year\u2019s first California Community College Athletic Association poll, released Tuesday.<\/p>\n
SRJC split its first series of the year last weekend with No. 22 Chabot, losing 3-1 and then rallying for a stunning 9-8 win. The Bear Cubs scored six runs over the final three innings in their comeback win on Saturday, including three in the bottom of the ninth. RJ Johnson had the game-winner, a two-run single with two outs. Brett Neidlinger contributed offensively with a double, a triple and two runs scored, while Evan Sandoval, Kessler Koch and Aaron Davainis combined for four scoreless innings in relief with nine strikeouts and a hit.<\/p>\n
Then, on Tuesday, the Bear Cubs nearly knocked off No. 1 West Valley, last year\u2019s CCCAA state runner-up, but succumbed to a late rally in a 6-4 loss. Anane Wilson and Caze Derammelaere each hit home runs and Zach Fiene went four shutout innings in the start.<\/p>\n
The Bear Cubs (1-2) are back in action this weekend with a two-game series against Marin on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
SRJC basketball<\/p>\n
The SRJC women\u2019s basketball team fell to No. 7 San Joaquin Delta 75-48 in a top-10 CCCAA showdown last week. The loss ended a five-game winning streak for the No. 6 Bear Cubs (17-4, 7-2) and dropped them a game-and-a-half back of the top spot in the Big 8 conference.<\/p>\n
San Joaquin Delta is currently tied with No. 2 Folsom Lake for first place in the standings.<\/p>\n
The SRJC men, meanwhile, bounced back from their loss to Modesto with two comfortable wins last week.<\/p>\n
They defeated American River 100-62 on Tuesday and then dispatched San Joaquin Delta 8-66 on Friday to improve to 17-4 on the year and 7-2 in the Big 8.<\/p>\n
Travis Hightower scored 24 points with nine rebounds and three blocks against SJD, while Gavin Early added 17 points off the bench and Spencer Langowski chipped in 14 points.<\/p>\n
The SRJC men are only a game back of conference-leading Sierra and a half-game back of Modesto and Cosumnes River.<\/p>\n
Alumni check-in<\/p>\n
Keyonee Neal, Dominican University women\u2019s basketball: The Rancho Cotate grad helped the Penguins extend their winning streak to five games with strong showings in two more wins last week. She led posted a double-double of 16 points and 11 rebounds in a 69-5 0 win over Jessup last Saturday. Dominican is now 15-3 on the year and 9-3 in the PacWest.<\/p>\n
Kylin DeVries, The Master\u2019s University women\u2019s basketball: The Montgomery grad had a couple solid games to help the Mustangs to two more wins last week. She scored a career-high 11 points with five rebounds in a 68-43 win over Park-Gilbert on Thursday and then grabbed 10 rebounds in a 67-53 win over Benedictine Mesa on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Meredith Gilbertson, CSU East Bay women\u2019s basketball: The former Windsor, SRJC and SSU standout scored seven points with a team-high 10 rebounds in a 74-52 win over CSU San Marcos last week.<\/p>\n
SRJC schedule<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
SRJC men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving, intersquad scrimmage, 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC baseball at Marin, 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC men\u2019s basketball vs. Diablo Valley, 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC women\u2019s basketball vs. Diablo Valley, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
SRJC men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving at NorCal Relays, 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC baseball vs. Marin, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
Tuesday<\/p>\n
SRJC softball at Butte (doubleheader), 1 p.m., 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC baseball at Cosumnes River, 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC men\u2019s basketball at Folsom Lake, 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
SRJC women\u2019s basketball at Folsom Lake, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominican University’s Keyonee Neal, left, blocks a shot against Point Loma during a Jan. 1 game in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1703,1694,2341,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-544985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-college-baseball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-baseball","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115981391689867051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}