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The schedule for the CIF Southern Section championship games Friday and Saturday at Deanna Manning Stadium in Irvine.

UCLA is hosting the Los Angeles Regional that includes UC Irvine, while USC ends its postseason drought with a trip to the Corvallis Regional.

UCLA loses to Nebraska, 5-0, in the Big Ten final, while UCI loses to Cal Poly, 6-4, in the Big West title game. The 64-team NCAA tournament field will be revealed Monday at 9 a.m. PT.

The top-seeded Anteaters can't slow the second-seeded Mustangs in a 15-5, eight-inning loss, setting up a winner-take-all game on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The scores from Saturday's CIF-SS softball semifinals and the matchups for the finals on May 30-31 at Irvine's Bill Barber Park.

The top-seeded Anteaters crush second-seeded Cal Poly, 15-3, in a run-rule victory and will face an opponent to be determined on Saturday night with a chance to win the tournament.

The top-seeded Anteaters beat fourth-seeded Hawaii, 7-5, and will face No. 2 seed Cal Poly in a winner's bracket game on Friday at 3 p.m. Third-seeded Fullerton loses to the Mustangs, 7-2, and will ...

Irvine, Calif., and Cincinnati have muscled into the elite tier, according to annual rankings by the Trust for Public Land.

UC Irvine baseball coach Ben Orloff has made the Anteaters one of the top programs in the country, something coaching great Mike Gillespie knew he was capable of achieving.

Softball notes: Westminster, University, Katella, Orange and Irvine have shown improvement while advancing to the CIF-SS quarterfinals on Wednesday.