ROUNDUP : Santa Clara Beats Loyola Marymount Women as King Scores 32

Melissa King scored 32 points to lead the Santa Clara women’s basketball team to a 75-52 victory against Loyola Marymount at Gersten Pavilion on Saturday night.

Santa Clara, behind 21 points from King, took a 33-31 halftime lead, then pulled away in the second half. King, the West Coast Conference women’s player of the year last season, made four of seven three-point shots.

The Lions, who have lost 13 of 14 games, were led by Joelle Longobardi, who had 16 points.

Loyola (6-15 overall, 0-8 in conference) play at Santa Clara (13-7, 5-2) on Thursday.

The Loyola Marymount and UC Santa Barbara baseball teams split a doubleheader at Loyola on Saturday.

The Gauchos won the opener, 10-6, as freshman catcher Matt Bazzani hit solo homers in the second and ninth innings. Santa Barbara had a 7-1 lead before Loyola rallied to cut the score to 7-6. The Gauchos (5-2) then scored three times in the ninth to secure the victory.

Loyola’s Matt Marks went three for five with a double and homer in the opener and Anthony Napolitano hit a solo homer in the seventh.

The Lions won the second game, 4-1, which was called after six innings because of darkness.

Shawn Hammett (2-0) went the distance, striking out five, walking two and allowing eight hits.

Loyola (2-5) scored twice in the fourth on a single by Naoi Yuen and bases-loaded walk to Rob Ickes.

The two teams play a single game today at 1 p.m.

The Brigham Young men’s volleyball team defeated Loyola Marymount, 15-12, 13-15, 15-3, 15-5, on Saturday. The 17th-ranked Lions are 1-7 overall and 0-4 in the Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn.

Andy Zimmerman of Manhattan Beach led the Lions with 17 kills and four blocks.

Loyola will play at Pepperdine on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

The Cal State Dominguez Hills women’s basketball team clinched its first-ever CCAA playoff berth with a 73-50 victory over UC Riverside at Toro Gym on Saturday night.

“I don’t know what to say,” fourth-year Coach Van Girard said after the victory. “This is a goal that we set for ourselves every year and this year the girls have worked very hard to achieve it.”

UCR scored the game’s first basket, but Dominguez Hills never trailed after that, leading by as many as 23 points in the second half. Senior center Cheri Bullet led the Toros with a game-high 18 points and had 11 rebounds.