GOLF

Warrior Golf competes in the final Cascade Conference event of the regular season this week at the SOU Spring Classic. The two-day event is being played at Strone Ridge Golf Club on Monday and Tuesday. 

The LC State men won their first two tournaments of the spring and look to carry the momentum into conference play. The Warriors will send Alex Navarro, Lucas Ortega, Oscar Behle, Sondre Andresen and Luke West as the top five with Jaxon Moon playing as an individual. On the women’s side, Giulia Belfontali, Isabella Barquet, Chase Caruso, Natalia Gomez and Dallis Shockey will represent LC State with Jane Barry playing as an individual. The Warrior women will carry momentum from their win at the home tournament.

LC State is currently second in the CCC in scoring average at 298.3 strokes per round. The Warriors hold a seven-stroke advantage over Southern Oregon and Oregon Tech. Navarro leads the team with a 74.3 average in CCC play. 

The Warrior women are third in the CCC in scoring average at 320 and hod a four-stroke advantage over SOU. Barquet leads the team with a 77.0 average in CCC play. 

TRACK & FIELD

LC State Track and Field earned three new national qualifying marks last weekend and return to Spokane on Friday in search of more. Sydnie Zywina punched her ticket in the triple jump, Perry Severijnse earned his first national mark in the javelin and the men’s 4x400m relay squad shattered the school record with its national qualifying time. Griffen Parsells earned his spot in March in the 800m.

The Warriors will compete at Whitworth’s Jen Rahn Classic in the Pin Bowl for the fourth time this season. It is one of five meets left in the regular season for LC State. 

BASEBALL

LC State Baseball is at home again this weekend after a four-game sweep of Warner Pacific (Ore.) to improve to 20-5 in Cascade Conference play. The Warriors host College of Idaho this weekend for another four-game CCC set scheduled for Apr. 11-13. 

The Warriors won the three-game rain-shortened series against the Yotes in Caldwell earlier this season 2-1. LC State is 99-17 against C of I since 2009. Charlie Updegrave has a monster series in Caldwell and went 7-for-7 in his first seven at-bats. The senior accomplished another milestone over the weekend with the 40th home run of his career to tie for the lead in the CCC record book. 

LC State leads the conference in slugging (.543), on-base percentage (.435), RBI (300), doubles (94) and home runs (58). Individually, Ike George leads the CCC in batting average (.424) and Updegrave in second (.407). Updegrave leads in slugging (.814), hits (59), RBI (52), doubles (14), home runs (15) and total bases (118), while George leads in on-base percentage (.536), runs scored (51) and stolen bases without being caught (15-for-15).

On the mound, The Warriors’ Jadon Williamson leads the Cascade in ERA (1.93), opposing batting average (.194), strikeouts (59) and wins (5). 

The Yotes are second in the conference in stolen bases (89) and lead the CCC in strikeouts 307. Oliver Massie is third in strikeouts (52) and leads in games started with 10. 

TENNIS

LC State Tennis hosts Treasure Valley CC in a pair of non-counting matches on Friday in the Tennis Center. The matches do not count towards the teams’ overall records but will count toward individual records.