MEN'S TENNIS

No. 22 Warrior Men’s Tennis opens postseason play this week in San Antonio at the NAIA Unaffiliated Group Tournament. The event is the equivalent to the conference tournament for schools that do not have a conference affiliation. 

Play opens on April 17. A full preview will be available later this week.

TRACK & FIELD

LC State Track and Field will be in action in two meets over the weekend with the end of the regular season beginning to creep into view. Freshman Cameron Carrara and junior Trenton Johnson open postseason actions Apr. 17-18 at the Cascade Conference Multi Championships, while the rest of the Warriors will continue the hunt for national standards at the Whitworth Twilight on Thursday. 

Carrara ranks seventh in the CCC in the decathlon with season with his 4,791 points at the Bucs Scoring and Multi. The combined event will be the first of Johnson’s career. They will compete in the first five events of the multi on April 17 with the 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m. April 18 will feature the final five events in the 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500m. 

LC State hit three national standards last week at the Jeff Rahn Classic at Whitworth with Griffen Parsells in the 800m, Perry Severijnse in the javelin and Sydnie Zywina in the triple jump. All three Warriors rank in the top 10 of the NAIA in their events. LC State is back at Whitworth for the Whitworth Twilight for the one-day meet.

BASEBALL

LC State Baseball has won nine straight with sweeps of Warner Pacific (Ore.) and College of Idaho, as well as a non-conference win over NCAA Division III Whitman, to sit in a tie atop the Cascade Conference standings. Just two series remain in the regular season and both have playoff implications. The Warriors wrap up their regular season road slate this weekend at Bushnell (Ore.). 

LC State is 11-6 against Bushnell since 2022 but dropped both postseason matchups last season. The Beacons won the CCC tournament in 2024. 

Heading into the week, Bushnell’s pitching staff leads the Cascade Conference in ERA (4.14), opposing batting average (.244) and saves (15).

The Warriors lead the conference in slugging (.537), on-base percentage (.437) and RBI (332). Charlie Updegrave leads individually in slugging (.798), hits (66), RBI (56) and home runs (16), while Ike George leads in runs scored (53). On the mound, Jadon Williamson leads in ERA (2.26), opposing batting average (.200) and strikeouts (73). Kolby Solomon is tied for the CCC lead in saves with four.

LC State and Bushnell, along with British Columbia and Oregon Tech, have all secured their spots in the CCC postseason tournament. The rest of the conference is in a race for the fifth and final spot. The Warriors are tied with UBC for the top spot with OIT in third and Bushnell in fourth. The top seed will host the tournament. LC State closes out the regular season against UBC at home.