While San Diego State’s basketball teams were splitting their Mountain West Conference games last week, Aztecs athletes were making their marks in other sports.
San Diego State senior Justin Hastings won the Latin America Amateur Golf Championship Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hastings, 21, a native of the Cayman Islands, shot a 16-under-par 272 to qualify for The Masters and U.S. Open.
“It’s still crazy to think about this,” said Hastings. “I don’t think it’s totally kicked in. I’m proud to see how far my mental game has come in the last few years.”
Meanwhile, Lauren Harper defeated 215 other runners to win the Open Division of the indoor Mile City Mile in Seattle. Her time of 4 minutes, 55.33 seconds is the fourth-fastest in SDSU track history.
Harper and Isabella Fauria (4:57.90) became the fourth and fifth Aztecs women ever to run a sub-five minute mile. In total, six runners recorded times that ranked among the top 13 ever in San Diego State history. Emily Van Valkenburg (5:02.81) produced the seventh-best mark ever followed by Vanessa Cabello (ninth, 5:05.33), Samantha Wood (11th, 5:07.96) and Sara Jones (13th, 5:08.32).
Harper also set an Aztecs senior record with a time of 2:09.43 while finishing second in the 800-meter run on Friday. Shaquena Foote finished second in the 600 meters with the third-fastest time (1:30.28) in Aztecs history. Anna Mager (1:31.51) had the fifth-fastest time ever by an Aztec in the same race and Cabello (9:50.38) and Van Valkenberg (9:57.09) and the third and fourth-fastest times ever by an Aztec in the 3,000 meters.
And in basketball, freshman guard Nat Martinez set a Mountain West mark as well as a San Diego State record when she became the first women’s player in conference history to have as many as 22 points, nine rebounds and seven assists in the same game. The Aztecs scored an 85-66 win at Utah State on Saturday after losing to Colorado State (62-58) at Viejas Arena last Wednesday. The Aztecs (14-6, 3-4) host San Jose State on Wednesday and UNLV on Saturday.
Elsewhere:
Both the Point Loma Nazarene men’s and women’s basketball programs remain atop the NCAA Division II Far West Conference standings with 9-1 marks at the midpoint of the conference season.
The Sea Lions’ men (16-4) have a three-game lead on Academy of Art after wins at Biola (76-70) and Chaminade (97-84) stretched their winning streak to six straight games. Guard Zack Paulsen scored 52 points in the two wins on 17-for-25 shooting, including 8-for-11 from three-point range.
The PLNU women (14-4) defeated Chaminade 75-57 at home Saturday after losing at Biola 73-65 last Thursday to slip into a tie for the PacWest lead. Guard Tavia Rowell had 29 points for the two games on 10-for-20 shooting, including 6-for-10 from three-point range. Point guard Kaylee Byon had 23 points and 14 assists for the week while forward Alli McDonald had 24 points and 15 rebounds.
Both PLNU teams will play at Vanguard on Thursday before returning home Saturday for a doubleheader against Hawaii-Hilo.
• Guard Tony Duckett (Carlsbad High School) scored a University of San Diego freshman-record 31 points Saturday night in the Toreros’ 77-70 loss at Loyola Marymount. The 6-foot-5 Duckett’s points were the most by a Torero since Wayne McKinney’s 31 last Feb. 10 against Pacific. USD (4-16, 1-6) suffered a sixth straight loss.
• UC San Diego’s women’s basketball team scored home wins over Long Beach State (79-68) and UC Riverside (59-58) last week to improve to 8-11 overall and 4-3 in Big West Conference play. Guards Sabrina Ma (34 points in the two games) and Gracie Gallegos (29 in two games) paced the Tritons. Meanwhile, the Tritons men suffered a 85-81 loss at UC Riverside Saturday despite 32 points from Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones. UCSD is 15-4 overall and 5-2 in Big West play, placing them two games behind UC Irvine in the conference standings.
• The MiraCosta College men and Palomar College women had big weeks in Pacific Coast Athletic Conference community college play. The 13-6 Spartans scored two-point home wins over 14-5 San Diego City College (52-50) and 13-6 Palomar (72-70) to force a three-way tie for the PCAC lead among the three schools at 6-1. Ramel Bethea scored 38 points in the two wins.
After losing to MiraCosta, SDCC defeated Southwestern (12-7, 5-3) 76-73. Palomar defeated winless Grossmont 86-66 at home. Southwestern defeated Mesa (4-4) 81-53.
At least part of the tie for the PCAC lead will be broken Wednesday night as Palomar hosts SDCC.
Originally Published: January 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM PST
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