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Mike Klan

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KEYT) – After grinding out a narrow win on Saturday night, the UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (30-15, 16-8 Big West) made sure there was no doubt about Sunday’s result, pouring on 14 runs over the final five innings at Cal State Bakersfield (20-28, 9-15 Big West) to run away with a 19-9 victory and a series sweep.

The Gauchos’ 19 runs are a season high and the most they have scored in one game since hanging 20 on UC Riverside in May of 2024. Their seven doubles are also a season high and the most since 2024, when Santa Barbara tallied eight two-baggers in a March meeting with Cal Poly. Five different Gauchos had multi-hit games, all of them tallying three or more, but the three hottest bats belonged to Noah Karliner, Corey Nunez and Rowan Kelly, each of whom matched or exceeded their career-best hit totals. The three of them are the first Santa Barbara trio to all have four or more hits in the same game in the Andrew Checketts era.

Nunez’s four matched his career best, Kelly set a new high-water mark in his young career with four more, while Karliner smacked five to beat his previous career best. The slugging right fielder finished a triple shy of the cycle and drove in seven runs, also a career high for him. The last Gaucho to tally seven RBIs in one game was their previous slugger, Jack Holman, who did it against the Roadrunners last May.

HOW IT HAPPENEDThe game did not start as a rout, at least not one in the Gauchos’ favor. The Roadrunners got out of the top of the first unscathed for the first time all weekend, then hung four runs on the board in the bottom of the inning. Instead, the game started as a back-and-forth slugfest, as Santa Barbara answered with a three-run second inning. With runners on the corners and two outs, Cade Goldstein’s decoy steal of second drew a throw which allowed William Vasseur to steal home, with Goldstein safely taking second on the play. That not only got the Gauchos on the board but also extended the inning for Karliner, who drove his third home run of the week out to straightaway center field, bringing Santa Barbara back within one.

After Nathan Aceves took over on the mound in the second and delivered a perfect inning, the Gauchos took their first lead of the afternoon in the third, with doubles from Nate Vargas and Kelly tying the game, then Vasseur’s single plating Kelly to put Santa Barbara in front. That lead lasted just one out into the bottom of the third before a double tied the game for Bakersfield then another gave the hosts the lead back.

The Gauchos struck the next blow, in the top of the fifth, with three two-out walks loading the bases for Karliner, who just missed his second home run of the game and had to settle for a three-RBI double off the top of the right-field wall, giving Santa Barbara an 8-6 lead. This time, the Gauchos held their advantage. Nunez led off the top of the sixth with a double and scored on Kelly’s second two-bagger of the day, then Nick Husovsky’s single into center field brought home Kelly and put Santa Barbara into double digits. Goldstein smacked the third double of the inning to right center, and Husovsky came home with Santa Barbara’s 11th run.

Bakersfield responded with two runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth, but the Gauchos just kept on scoring to prevent any threat of a comeback. Karliner led off the seventh with a single and scored on Nunez’s RBI base hit, then Vargas kept himself within touching distance of Karliner in Santa Barbara’s home run leaderboard, driving a two-run shot out to left field. That homer brought up seven homers for Vargas on the year and 14 runs for the Gauchos on the day.

The Roadrunners scored for the final time with a triple and a double to start the bottom of the seventh, but Chase Hoover was summoned from the bullpen and he put an end to that. A pair of strikeouts put out the fire in the seventh, then two more got him out of a two-on, no-outs jam in the eighth.

In the Gauchos’ half of the eighth, another hit from Karliner had scored Husovsky, but Santa Barbara had its best offense saved for the last inning, scoring four runs in the ninth. Vargas plated Nunez with a double to make it 16, Kelly singled home Vargas for run number 17, Husovsky’s single drove in Kelly with the 18th, and who else but Karliner put the cap on things with a single to score Husovsky.

AJ Krodel took the mound for the bottom of the ninth and wrapped up the sweep with a zero on the board.

UP NEXTThe Gauchos return home on Tuesday, May 5 to host Pepperdine at 4:35 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. Santa Barbara remains a game behind Cal Poly for first place in The Big West standings, with a road trip to CSUN on the Gauchos’ calendar for next weekend.

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Tracy Lehr

ISLA VISTA, Calif. (KEYT) A Pardall Carnival took place in Isla Vista on Sunday.

Associated Students helps put on the annual carnival to bring students and families who live in the community together.

UCSB senior Everett Manan appreciated the work that went into it.

“I love it. That’s one of my favorites about iv actually, is how like the soltopia thing they just threw like, that was sweet. There’s I mean, they got a whole Farris wheel.”

It had free food and games and prizes and rides

It gets it name from the location.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Big West Baseball:

UCSB 4, Bakersfield 3: The UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (29-15, 15-8 Big West) relied on two veteran leaders to get across the line Saturday night at Cal State Bakersfield (18-27, 9-14 Big West), with four-year Gaucho Corey Nunez driving in three of his team’s four runs and Santa Barbara native Chase Hoover locking down a five-out save to secure the 4-3 victory. Nunez’s three hits and three RBIs are both season highs, with Hoover’s save his joint-team-leading fourth of the year.

HOW IT HAPPENEDThe Gauchos did all the damage they needed to do early, getting on the board with their first two plate appearances of the night. Liam Barrett walked, took second on a wild pitch, third on a failed pickoff attempt, then home on Nunez’s RBI double. Nunez would advance to third, then score on Rowan Kelly’s sacrifice bunt.

The Roadrunners responded with a solo home run off of Gaucho starter Calvin Proskey in their half of the first, but that would be all. Noah Karliner helped preserve Santa Barbara’s 2-1 lead with a laser beam throw from right field, cutting down Bakersfield’s lead runner trying to reach third base.

Even better, the Gauchos got that run back in the top of the second. Xavier Esquer punched a single through the left side of the infield, then made a good read on a ball in the dirt to get to second base, setting him up to score on Nunez’s RBI single.

Nunez was involved again when Santa Barbara extended its lead to 4-1 in the fourth, with Barrett’s one-out single preceding yet another RBI double for the Gaucho shortstop.

Proskey made that lead stick with perfect second and third innings, then by working around a pair of walks in the fourth. After the lead-off man got on to start the fifth, Cole Tryba replaced Proskey on the mound and retired the next three Roadrunners he faced on strikes, needing just nine pitches to do it — an immaculate inning.

Walks got more ‘Runners on the bases against the Gauchos in the sixth and the seventh, though Tryba got out of the trouble both times. It was relatively easy in the sixth, with the lefty retiring three batters in a row with two more punchouts, but the seventh was more dramatic. Tryba faced loaded bases with two outs, but got out of it. His night finally ended in the eighth, though he left two runners aboard. Both of them would come home to score on a one-out double that cut the margin to one run and brought Hoover out of the bullpen.

A strikeout and a groundout got the former San Marcos Royal out of the eighth with the lead still intact, and he was perfect in the ninth. After starting the inning with a strikeout, a grounder and pop fly both went right to Nunez and the Gauchos slammed the door.

UP NEXTElsewhere, Santa Barbara got more help in The Big West standings, with UC San Diego and Cal State Fullerton both 0-2 in their weekend series and two games adrift of the Gauchos. Santa Barbara will look to complete a sweep of the Roadrunners in Sunday’s series finale, with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m. from Hardt Field. Fans can catch all the action live on ESPN+ or by following along with live stats and a free audio-only broadcast at ucsbgauchos.com.

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Cal Poly 11, UC Irvine 2: Five shutout innings by Carson Turnquist and a 15-hit offensive attack led by five Mustangs with multiple hits powered Cal Poly to an 11-2 victory over UC Irvine on Saturday, evening the best-of-three Big West baseball series at a game apiece.

On Cicerone Field at Anteater Ballpark, shortstop Nate Castellon and center fielder Casey Murray Jr. each produced three hits while right fielder Dylan Kordic and second baseman Jake Downing both drove in three runs for the Mustangs, who remain alone atop the conference standings with a 16-7 record.

Cal Poly is 26-19 for the season while UC Irvine slipped to 20-24 overall and 10-13 in the Big West.

Also in the Big West on Saturday, Cal State Fullerton fell at home to UC Davis 11-5, UC San Diego dropped an 11-1 decision at Long Beach State and UC Santa Barbara edged host Cal State Bakersfield 4-3. The Mustangs lead the Gauchos (15-8) by one game, the Tritons (14-9) by two games and the Titans (13-10) by three games.

Turnquist allowed just one hit, a first-inning double by Frankie Carney, while walking four and striking out five. The redshirt junior right-hander, who struck out 11 in each of his previous two outings, improved to 5-2 for the season, threw 104 pitches and topped out at 97 miles per hour with his fastball.

Josh Volmerding, making his first appearance on the mound since March 15 due to a lower body injury, retired all three batters he faced in the sixth inning, including one strikeout, while lefty Chris Downs earned a three-inning save, his first of the year, with four hits, two runs, no walks and three strikeouts to his credit.

UC Irvine starter Finnegan Wall (3-4) was removed from the game after giving up one run and two hits in 1 2/3 innings and suffered the loss.

Castellon singled three times for his 10th three-hit game of the year and 20th multiple-hit effort. Murray also notched three singles for his 13th multiple-hit game of 2026 and sixth three-hit contest. Both drove in one run — Castellon with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning and Murray with a bases-loaded walk in the first frame.

Kordic smashed a three-run home run in the third inning for a 4-0 Cal Poly lead and added a double leading off the seventh inning. He has 10 multiple-hit games this season, all two hits. Downing knocked in three runs with a bases-loaded walk in the fifth inning, a sacrifice fly in the seventh and a double in the eighth.

Kordic has six home runs this season, all in the last 19 games, and has gone 23-for-58 at the plate (.397) in those 19 contests with eight doubles and 25 RBIs, lifting his batting average 141 points to .308.

Third baseman Alejandro Garza is the team leader with 22 multiple-hit games after collecting a single and double Saturday and he drove in one run while catcher Ryan Tayman singled twice for his 19th multiple-hit contest of 2026. First baseman Gavin Spiridonoff notched a pair of RBIs by getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the fifth inning and doubling in a run in the eighth.

UC Irvine averted a shutout when center fielder Tommy Farmer, a transfer from Texas, homered down the left-field line in the seventh inning. The Anteaters, held to just one hit in the first six innings, also bunched together a double and two singles for a run in the ninth.

With 15 hits, Cal Poly reached double figures for the 12th time in its last 15 games.

Rubber game of the series will be played Sunday at 1:05 p.m. with Cal Poly to send Corden Pettey (3-2, 4.86 ERA) to the mound against UC Irvine’s Hunter Manning (0-1, 5.00 ERA) in a matchup of freshman right-handers.

Pettey is coming off his third quality start of the season last Sunday against CSUN at Baggett Stadium, allowing just two earned runs and scattering six hits over six innings with a pair of walks and six strikeouts in the 5-2 triumph.

Manning, a 2025 graduate of West Ranch High School in Stevenson Ranch, Calif., will be making just his second start of the season Sunday. He drew his other start last Tuesday against No. 21 USC and pitched two scoreless innings with one walk and five strikeouts.

Manning also has appeared in relief 13 times and has one save and 25 strikeouts over 18 innings this season.

(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

PacWest Baseball:

Game 1: Westmont 2, Menlo 0

Game 2: Westmont 5, Menlo 2

A dribbler in front of the plate and a throw to first by Westmont catcher Griffin Brown resulted in the final out of today’s doubleheader with Menlo and clinched a berth for the Warriors in next week’s PacWest Baseball Championship. Westmont’s two wins by scores of 2-0 and 5-2, gave the Warriors a final regular season record of 29-19 overall and 25-17 in PacWest play.

In the first game, Josh Hickey and Manny Soto combined for a shutout. Hickey pitched the first three innings, allowing just one hit. He struck out one and walked one. Soto, who improved his record to 3-0, allowed just three hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked one.

The Warriors recorded their first run in the bottom of the second. With two away, Zach Mora doubled to right center. That brought up Jesse Di Maggio who drove a deep shot to center. Mora scored what proved to be the winning run, but Di Maggio was thrown out attempting to stretch his RBI-single into a double.

In the top of the third, Menlo’s Brayden Wilson reached on a one-out walk before Shane Aldridge sent a moonshot to deep right field. Westmont right fielder Noah Williams tracked the ball to the warning track, waited at the base of the fence, then timed his leap to catch the ball before it hit the outfield wall.

Mora started things off for the Warriors in the bottom of the fifth with a single up the middle, then advanced to second when Di Maggio walked. After Mora stole third base, Brown sent a 1-1 pitch to right field for a sacrifice fly that provided Westmont a 2-0 lead. As it turned out, that would be the final score.

With one win in the books, Westmont needed just one more to assure itself a place in the PacWest Tournament. Head coach Paul Svagdis sent Matt Vasquez to the mound and the freshman provided five innings of work, allowing two runs on four hits. As the winning pitcher, Vasquez improved his record to 4-4.

KJ Rieden earned his second save of the year by pitching two scoreless innings. Though he allowed two hits, Rieden induced two ground balls that turned into double plays to erase any threat.

Menlo scored first in the nightcap when Aldridge sent the first pitch of the game over the center field fence, giving the Oaks an early 1-0 lead.

However, a two-out rally in the bottom of the second put the Warriors on top. After Di Maggio singled through the left side, Brown and Jayden Mingus were both walked to load the bases. That brought up Williams who beat out a throw off a slow roller to short, driving in Di Maggio and keeping the bases loaded.

With the score tied, the Warriors benefited from some productive baserunning. Mingus induced a throw to second base by the Menlo catcher. As soon as the throw left the catcher’s hand, Brown broke for home. Mingus was ultimately thrown out at third, but not before Brown had put the Warriors on top 2-1.

Menlo responded in the top of the third with a solo home run to left by Jack van Gorkum, tying the game at two runs apiece.

That changed on the first pitch in the bottom of the fourth with Brown reversing the vector on a fastball and sending it 378 feet over the left field fence. The ball left Brown’s bat at 102 mph.

Then in the bottom of the fifth, Joey Rico added insurance runs with a 361-foot, two-RBI blast to right center. Rico’s home run left the bat at 104 mph and drove in Veal who had reached on an error.

Rieden and the Warriors made the score hold up through two more innings, securing that victory and the tournament berth.

The PacWest Tournament, which consists of a four-team double-elimination tournament, begins on Wednesday, May 6 at Russ Carr Field. The Warriors, who are the number four seed, will take on top-seeded Point Loma (41-10, 37-7) in the tournament’s first game at 11:00 a.m. Concordia (29-23, 27-17), the second seed, will take on third-seed Fresno Pacific (32-24, 27-17) at 2:30 p.m.

Three games, including two elimination games, are scheduled for Thursday, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Then on Friday, the first championship game will be played at 11:00 a.m. If needed, a winner-take-all game will commence at 2:30 p.m.(Article courtesy of Westmont Athletics)

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Cal Poly beach volleyball saw its incredible 2026 season come to an end Saturday after falling to No. 3 UCLA 3-1 in the NCAA Championship Quarterfinals.

The No. 6 Mustangs battled at all five courts with seven of the 10 sets being decided by three points or fewer.

It was the Bruins winning at the No. 1 pair to start the match and get on the board first. A short time later, just like they’ve done all season, it was Cal Poly’s No. 2 of Logan Walter and Izzy Martinez winning to tie the dual 1-1.

UCLA then just edged out wins at the No. 5 and No. 3 spots to clinch the dual 3-1.

Despite the loss, 2026 was still a season for the books for the Mustangs. They finish with a record of 31-9, their third season in a row with 31 victories. They also won the Big West Championship for the fourth time in program history and made the NCAA Championship for the sixth time in program history.

Four players were named AVCA All-Americans, the most by any school in the country. They also had nine players earn All-Big West honors and 10 who earned AVCA Top Flight honors. For two of the top players in program history, Ella Connor and Izzy Martinez, they each finish tied for the program record for career wins with 112.

Martinez and Walter finish as the winningest pair in program history. They set the program record for career wins by a pair with 66. This season, they also broke the program record for single season wins by a pair with 36.

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Tracy Lehr

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) The West Coast Outdoors & Sportsfishing Expo lures people to Ventura every year.

The expo opened Friday at the Ventura County Fairgrounds.

There are boats, fishing rods, outdoors business booths and areas for kids to learn about fishing.

Jamie Diamond of Santa Barbara Landing and Stardust Sportfishing had one of the biggest areas at the expo.

“We are really excited to share what is so great about Santa Barbara between fishing whale watching kayaking we get you across the islands, um and there’s so many people that don’t you can do that we want to be able to share that with you,” said Diamond.

“It is just the fishing Industry especially here in Ventura county and Santa Barbara, it is a big part of our community, there’s four landings here in the area, very different than most other counties and everybody they are like family, everybody knows everybody,” said the expo’s Richard Ramos.

Ramos said they are trying to keep prices low.

Discounts are being given to members of the military and first responders.

For more information visit https://venturacountyfair.org

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day.

Some people dressed up for the occasion.

Comic fans lined up to get inside Metro Entertainment in Santa Barbara .

The shop had a table full of free comics and people could take one of each.

“I love free comic book day because it encouraged reading encourages all ages moms dad kids grandparents random neighbors your dog everybody comes to free comic book day,” said Metro employee Carla Hoffman

Metro Entertainment also had deals on other items.

Comic book collectors can often find what they are looking for at the downtown store.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The first Santa Barbara Literary Festival took place over the weekend.

Festival founders Leslie Zemeckis and Lorissa Rinehart are utilized locations all over downtown.

The first panel brought crime writers together at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday morning.

They talked about the kinds of stories they tell.

“It was a great experience anytime you can get authors together as a group especially as a diverse group like this it is really magical,” said We Were Never Friends author Kaira Rouda.

A “Bad Girls” panel followed at the former Karpeles Museum space.

Sunday’s lineup include “romantacy.”

“To be here inaugural Santa Barbara literary festival is absolutely huge I feel so honored I am very excited. I think it is really fun that we are featuring romantacy in this way,” said Cursebreaker author R. M. Gray.

Leslie Zemekis looked out at a standing room only crowd and then signed books.

She intends to make the festival an annual event.

For more information visit https://www.santabarbaraliteraryfestival.org/

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Channel League: Dos Pueblos 10, Oxnard 5: The Chargers share the league title with San Marcos as both finish 10-4 in the Channel. Matti Di Maggio homered while Taylor Young and Marcus Carbajal each had 3 hits for DP. Spencer Holtz drove in 3 runs for the Chargers.

Citrus Coast: Carpinteria 7, Channel Islands 6: The Warriors won their 3rd straight one-run game. The CIF-SS playoff bound Warriors got a 2-run home run by senior Dallas Bartholic.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Heart of a champion!

San Marcos trailed for most of the game but erupted for 6 runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat rival Santa Barbara 10-5 and earn a piece of the Channel League championship.

The Royals share the title with Dos Pueblos who won at Oxnard. Both teams are 10-4 in league but San Marcos swept DP so the Royals will be the top-seed from the Channel League in the upcoming CIF-SS playoffs.

Trailing 5-4 the Royals loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the seventh inning and tied the game on a bases loaded walk issued to Gunner Martinez.

Pat Foster drove in the go-ahead run on a fielder’s choice to first but the Dons did not record an out on the play.

So with the bases still loaded and just one out, Levi Monson grounded to first base and the throw came home beating the runner but the umpire said that catcher’s foot was not on the plate for the force and it was 7-5 Royals.

(Game of inches as the runner is called safe and soon afterwards the Royals break the game wide open in the seventh. Entenza Design).

Quinn Melton followed with a two-run single to right field and Mason Crang finished off the scoring with an RBI fielder’s choice.

Miles Herbert closed out the Dons (11-14) and the Royals (16-11) celebrated another Channel League title, their fourth in the past six years.

The Dons Jetner Welch hit a first inning home run and Max Weddle added a 2-run triple in the fourth inning as Santa Barbara built up a 5-2 lead.

But the Royals chipped away scoring a run in the fifth on a hit batter with the bases loaded.

Melton ripped a single in the sixth inning and Pat Foster, who was running on the pitch, scored all the way from first base to bring the Royals within 5-4 and San Marcos finished off the comeback an inning later.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

CIF-Southern Section Division 3 Second Round: Servite 3, Santa Barbara 0

CIF-Southern Section Division 5 Second Round: Dos Pueblos 3, Hemet 0: Ben Wojogbe and Evan Daugherty each had 9 kills to lead the Chargers to the sweep (25-20, 25-22, 25-15). DP is at El Dorado in quarterfinals on Wednesday.

CIF-Southern Section Division 5 Second Round: Bishop Diego 3, La Quinta/Westminster 0: Damien Krautmann led the Cardinals attack with 21 kills while John Michael Flint added 11 in the sweep (25-20, 25-21, 25-18). Bishop Diego is at Brea Olinda in quarterfinals on Wednesday.

CIF-Southern Section Division 5 Second Round: Flintridge Prep 3, Ventura 1

CIF-Southern Section Division 7 Second Round: Foothill Tech 3, Bell Gardens 0

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