How do you chase the dream of big league baseball when the dream doesn’t chase you back? Part two of our series profiles UCSD’s all-time hits leader Vance Albitz, who spent the summer playing independent league baseball:
Stuck in jury duty on a cloudy Wednesday, 619Sports.Net’s Craig Elsten is daydreaming about the Top 5 moments so far in the San Diego sports year. What will he pick for #1, and what would your pick be?
ShareThe 2009-2010 school year has come to an end, and at UC San Diego, so has a season of spectacular athletic achievement. From the baseball team’s appearance in the national championship game to record setting seasons for women’s basketball and women’s volleyball, UCSD had a string of tremendous team performances. Individual student athletes brought home [...]
The #1 Tritons year-long quest to win the D-II national baseball championship came up just short, as UCSD lost to Southern Indiana 6-4 in the title game on Saturday in Cary, NC. The complete 619 Sports recap:
Evan Kehoe’s 2-run double spurred a 3-run 6th inning, as the #1 ranked UCSD Tritons came from behind to beat Franklin Pierce University 6-3 and claim a berth in the Division II College World Series championship game. Watch exclusive video highlights!
Tritons senior Matt Rossman pitched an 11-inning complete game two-hitter, and Kellen Lee’s RBI single in the 11th helped UC San Diego (53-7) to a 2-1 win over #2 Central Missouri in the Division II College World Series. Watch exclusive video from the game:
#1 ranked UCSD won their D-II College World Series opener 3-2 over Georgia College when Evan Kehoe (pictured) brought home the game-winner on a 9th inning RBI single by Grant Bauer. Watch exclusive video of the game-winning hit in the 619 Sports recap!
ShareCOMPTON–Ranked #1, winners of 51 games, and NCAA Division II West Region Champions, the UCSD Tritons are just now getting to where they wanted to be all season long.
The College World Series in Cary, North Carolina.
Using a complete game from junior right-hander Guido Knudsen and a seven run, two-out fifth inning outburst, the Tritons (51-7) [...]
ShareCOMPTON–Brandon Gregorich was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, forcing across the game-winning run from third base in a 4-3 UC San Diego walkoff victory over Cal State Dominguez Hills. The win gives #1 ranked UCSD (50-7) a berth in the NCAA Division II West Regional finals [...]
#1 UCSD is heading back to the NCAA Tournament once again. They are the top seed in the Division II West Regional, which starts Thursday in Compton. Watch our video preview, plus a video interview with head coach Dan O’Brien:
ShareThe #1 ranked UCSD baseball team has been the standard of West Coast college baseball this year in Division II. Now, the Tritons (48-7) are conference champions once again.
UC San Diego used both of their opportunities to clinch the CCAA conference tournament yesterday in Stockton, losing to Cal State Dominguez Hills 6-3 before coming back [...]
ShareSan Diego sports broadcasting icon Cookie “Chainsaw” Randolph has agreed to join 619 Sports as a minority owner, columnist and contributor. Randolph, the widely self-proclaimed “Dean of American Sportscasters”, will begin by writing a weekly column for 619Sports.Net.
“We couldn’t be happier to welcome Chainsaw to 619 Sports,” said company co-founder and president Craig Elsten, “Cookie’s [...]
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At 619 Sports we bring you the San Diego sports stories that others let slip beneath their noses. That’s why stories like Stephen Strasburg, the Park View Little League team, the Aztecs women’s basketball team, and the San Diego Sockers’ 11th indoor championship have all taken hold first at 619Sports.Net, [...]
Will SDSU find its way into the NCAA Tournament this year? College basketball Hall of Fame writer Frank Burlison joins 619 Sports to talk about each of our local teams.
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Halfway Through 2010, A Top-Five List
July 7, 2010Stuck in jury duty on a cloudy Wednesday, 619Sports.Net’s Craig Elsten is daydreaming about the Top 5 moments so far in the San Diego sports year. What will he pick for #1, and what would your pick be?