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Last week was a record-setting one for the Cal State Northridge baseball team. In defeating Chapman and sweeping a three-game series from Southern Utah, the Matadors equaled or broke 11 school records.

In Northridge’s 6-0 win over Chapman on Wednesday, senior right-hander Kenny Kendrena tied career records for shutouts (three) and complete games (22) and set a strikeout mark with 257.

In a 30-1 rout of Southern Utah on Saturday, Northridge broke single-game records for runs (30), runs batted in (29), home runs (eight), home runs by both teams (nine), home runs in an inning (three) and margin of victory (29).

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Scott Richardson tied the record for most RBIs in a game with eight and tied the career record for triples (13).

Baseball: In scoring 63 runs and racking up 55 hits in three games against Southern Utah, Northridge raised its batting average from .278 to .295. . . . Northridge had 10 hits--all but one of them singles--in a 3-1 loss to California in 13 innings Tuesday. But Golden Bear pitchers did not exactly fool Matador hitters, who struck out only once.

The Northridge pitching staff started the week ranked fourth among NCAA Division I teams in earned-run average. The staff has a 2.55 ERA with a strikeout-to-walk ratio of more than 4 to 1. In four games last week, Northridge pitchers struck out 59 and walked five.

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Cal Lutheran will play a three-game series with Redlands this weekend that could determine the outcome of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference race. The first-place Kingsmen (30-2, 14-1 in SCIAC play) lead second-place Redlands (16-11-1, 12-3) by two games. Cal Lutheran’s Rich Hill needs one win for his 150th Kingsmen coaching victory. . . . Darrell McMillin leads Cal Lutheran starters with a .432 batting average (51 of 118). McMillin has 17 home runs and 42 RBIs and has scored 45 runs.

Men’s volleyball: Northridge set the school record for kills with 2,549, breaking the 1991 mark of 2,365. CSUN also broke records set last year for service aces (185, 171 was the old mark); digs (1,380, old mark 1,266), and assists (2,392, old mark 2,142).

Additionally, Northridge set records for kills in a match (124 against Hawaii) and for home winning streak (14 matches, from Jan. 18, 1991, to March 23, 1992.) . . . Other firsts for the Matadors included defeating USC, beating UCLA on the road and upsetting a No. 1-ranked team, Cal State Long Beach.

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Junior setter Matt Unger became Northridge’s all-time assist leader with 3,649. Coley Kyman, a junior, became Northridge’s all-time kill leader with 1,562. . . . In the final NCAA rankings, Ken Lynch finished fourth in kills-per-game average (5.94) and Kyman was sixth at 5.63. Axel Hager was ninth in service aces at .404 per game, and Craig Hewitt was 12th in hitting percentage at .421.

Softball: First baseman Tamara Ivie of Northridge boosted her team-leading batting average to .337, batting .600 on the six-game trip to Utah with three doubles and a home run. . . . Shortstop Beth Calcante is the top home run hitter in the nation with 10 and is the team leader in RBIs with 27 and runs with 34.

Catcher-designated hitter Missy Cress is batting .446 with runners in scoring position. . . . Freshman Kathy Blake has lowered her ERA to 0.66 and is 22-5 with 11 shutouts.

Track and field: Quincy Watts of USC, a three-time state sprint champion at Taft High, moved to 14th on the all-time U. S. performer list in the men’s 400 meters when he timed 44.46 seconds to finish second in the Mt. San Antonio College Relays on Saturday. Watts’ time was also a USC record, bettering the 44.84 run by Billy Mullins in 1980.

Dave Bunevacz of UCLA, a former standout at Paraclete High and Glendale College, is No. 2 on the 1992 collegiate list in the men’s javelin with a personal best of 246 feet 10 inches. Arne Indrebo of Norway and Texas El Paso is the collegiate leader at 249-6.

Marty Beck, a former standout at Glendale College, moved to fourth on the all-time UCLA performer list in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles when he placed third in 49.90 in the Mt. SAC Relays. Beck placed fourth in the NCAA championships last year.

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Statistics current through Tuesday.

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