USD’s baseball team has won eight straight games to climb back into the West Coast Conference race entering a crucial weekend series, while runners Rasha Badrani (Cal State San Marcos) and Shaquena Foote (San Diego State) continue to lower their nationally ranked marks. Among the local highlights: San Diego State men’s golf team won the Western Intercollegiate Tournament for the first time since 1960; the seventh-ranked USD men’s tennis team won the West Coast Conference title for a fourth straight year while San Diego State’s women’s tennis team won the Mountain West regular season title. The Toreros (14-24, 9-3) swept a three-game series from Portland (17-23, 9-6) at Fowler Park last weekend to move to within a game of WCC leader Gonzaga going into a three-game series against the Zags. Jack Gurevitch went 7-for-13 in the three games with two doubles and two RBIs. Rex Watson hit a two-run homer. And right-handed starter Cal Scolari allowed two hits and a walk with three strikeouts over five scoreless innings. But Austin Smith (Granite Hills High School) saw his 22-game hitting streak snapped. San Diego State (14-26) swept San Jose State to improve to 14-26 and 10-8 in Mountain West play. Senior right-hander Omar Serrano was named the conference pitcher of the week for throwing a four-hit shutout in the series finale. He issued one walk with six strikeouts. After defeating San Diego State 14-3 last Tuesday behind five home runs, UC San Diego took two of three games from UC Riverside to even its baseball season at 19-19. Point Loma Nazarene (30-12, 26-10) has won six straight games to climb back into second place in the PacWest Conference, although the Sea Lions have dropped out of the national NCAA Division II top-25 rankings. Palomar College (27-10, 18-4), which is ranked seventh in California, has opened a two-game lead over Grossmont College (26-10, 16-6) and five games over Southwestern College (22-15, 13-9) in Pacific Coast Athletic Conference baseball play. In PCAC softball action, second-ranked Palomar College (35-3, 14-0) is on a 10-game winning streak and has won 37 straight PCAC games. San Diego State’s softball team (29-15, 13-6) remains 1 ½ games behind Nevada in the Mountain West race. Quinn Waiki hit a pair of home runs for four RBIs in one of the Aztec wins to be named the Mountain West Freshman of the Week. The 18th-ranked Cal State San Marcos softball team (34-15, 20-12) dropped three of four games last weekend at Cal State Dominguez Hills. San Diego State’s men’s golf team, ranked 18th in the nation, won the Western Intercollegiate Championship in Santa Cruz for the first time since 1960. The Aztecs finished five strokes ahead of Stanford. USD’s men’s tennis team (22-3) wrapped up its fourth straight WCC tennis title (and seventh in eight years) with a 4-2 win at 28th-ranked Pepperdine. Meanwhile, the USD women lost their regular-season finale to share the WCC title. San Diego State’s women’s tennis team (16-6, 9-1) defeated UNLV 4-3 to win the the Aztecs’ first Mountain West title in tennis since 2013. UC San Diego’s women’s water polo team (16-13) defeated No. 21 San Diego State (14-13) 18-16 in the highest-scoring Harper Cup in the 23-match history of the city rivalry. Caroline Christi led UCSD with five goals. Claudia Valdes led the Aztecs with five goals. Mimi Stoupas scored three for the Aztecs to top 100 for her career. Turning to track and field, both the Aztecs and Cougars had strong individual performances at several meets. Badrani knocked 1.95 seconds off her own Cal State San Marcos women’s school record with a run of 52.72 seconds in the 400 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays. It was the fastest time by an NCAA Division II woman this year and the 23rd-fastest ever. Nick Melanese set an NCAA qualifying mark of 1:50:36 in the 800 meters at Mt. SAC. Melanese (1:51.59), Braden Oberg (1:51.83) and Mateo Saldana (1:52.00) then posted top-10 times ever for a Cougar in the 800 meters at the Bryan Clay Invitational. Ziggy Nacco won his section of the 1,500 (3:54.66) while Will Prouty (54.83 meters) fished second in the Division II hammer throw at the Pacific Coast Invitational and Kalathan Laiwa-McKay had shot puts of 16.98 meters and 16.79 meters at two different meets. Foote finished fifth in the Invitational 400-meter race at Mt. SAC in 52.74 in her first outdoor race of the season at the distance. Foote later anchored the fifth-place Aztec 4×100 relay team (following Mikaela Warr, Jada Pierre and Aji Mbye) to a time of 44.67 seconds. Lauren Harper ran the second-fastest 800 meters in Aztec history (2:05.00) while Sophia Wolf turned in the seventh-fastest (2:06.67). Pavana Nagaraj set an Aztec freshman record with a long jump of 20 feet, 9 inches.