Stanford just scored to take a 55-21 lead with two minutes to play at the Coliseum.

It's the most points the USC football team has ever allowed at home.

Toby Gerhart has 178 yards and three touchdowns rushing.

The biggest previous home loss in the Pete Carroll era was by 5 points.

Stanford has now won in consecutive trips to the Coliseum. It has been the visiting victor in USC's last three home losses.

Bouncing back from Tuesday night's 1-0 loss to rival Moorpark, the Ventura College women's soccer team punished visiting Hancock College with a school record 16-0 win Thursday night at the VC Sportsplex.

Sophomore attacker Jazmarae Strozier set a school record by scoring an incredible seven times, including five times in the first half and four times in a 14-minute stretch late in the first half that gave the Pirates a 9-0 halftime lead.

Yadira Toraya scored in the first minute, while Monique Orocio, Carissa Arce and Alyssa McDonald also had two-goal games.

Moorpark College freshman quarterback Ian Shultis was named SFCA Northern Conference Offensive Player of the Week after his record-setting performance in Saturday's 51-36 loss at Santa Ana.

The 6-foot-2 Thousand Oaks High product set school records for passing yardage and touchdowns by completing 25 of 38 passes with 432 yards and five touchdowns.

The net result of a wild, 50-point fourth quarter (27 points for Moorpark, 23 for Santa Ana) was Moorpark's fourth loss, but also a record passing day.

The Raiders passed for 461 yards, with quarterback Ian Shultis throwing for 432, setting team and individual marks for passing yardage. Shultis finished 25 of 38, with Justin Bradley catching 12 passes for 201 yards and a TD and Chris Gant collecting nine passes for 190 yards and three TDs.

Thanks to David Lassen for a great job with the updates.

The Moorpark College football team will make its second straight trip to Orange County Saturday for an afternoon game at Santa Ana College.

The Raiders hope this trip is less painful than Saturday's 70-14 loss at No. 4 Fullerton, which saw the Hornets break their 42-year-old record for points in a game.

Fullerton's 70 points were the most by a Moorpark opponent since a 73-40 to West Los Angeles in Sept. 1984.

"Their coach actually apologized to me," said Bittner. "I said, 'Hey, it's not your fault. You have to play the game.' "

Bittner continues to be optimistic despite the 0-3 start.

"I know that we can play," said Bittner. "We play for a while and then we stop playing.

"We're not being pushed around physically. We're just making small mistakes."

The Moorpark College football team's 70-17 loss at Fullerton Saturday didn't just bow the Raiders spirits. Fullerton broke a 42-year-old record for points scored in a game.

The previous record of 68 came in a 1967 win over Cypress, according to the Orange County Register.

A showdown for third place in the Western State Conference's North division Tuesday afternoon developed into Ventura College's biggest baseball win over rival Moorpark College.

A.J. Gallardo and Rey Garcia combined for six hits and nine runs scored and Ryan Plum allowed one run and six hits in seven innings as host Ventura battered Moorpark, 29-1, to win its sixth straight WSC North game.

Plum (2-1) scattered six hits and walked one, a severe contrast to the eight Raider pitchers who combined to allow 17 hits, 13 walks and nine hit batsmen.

Ventura's Colin LaVoie scored four runs without an official at bat. He was walked three times and was hit twice.

Gallardo and Garcia were both 3 for 4. Garcia added a two-run home run. Moorpark's Harrison Kain was 3 for 4 with the lone RBI.

Ventura (11-6, 6-3) opened the day a game behind WSC North leaders Cuesta and Hancock and a game ahead of the Raiders (8-12, 4-5).

Previously, Ventura's best day against Moorpark had been the 11-0 win at the tail end of last season. Moorpark swept a two-game series with Ventura in 2002 with wins of 24-8 and 36-12. It also defeated Ventura 23-2 in 1978.

The largest margin for a Ventura win remains 32-0 over Compton in 1984. Second baseman Dave Patterson was 6 for 6 that day. His son, third baseman Tyler Patterson, picked up an RBI as a late substitution Tuesday.

The two teams play again Thursday at Moorpark.

Saturday night's regional final win over No. 7 Canyons allowed Ventura College women's basketball coach Ned Mircetic to draw even with former San Mateo College coach Tom Martinez as California Community College women's basketball second-winningest coach.

Mircetic is 563-84 (.870) in 19 seasons coaching Ventura. Martinez, who coached multiple sports and was also known as Tom Brady's personal quarterback coach, was 563-103 in 21 years at College of San Mateo.

"It's an honor to be in that type of company," said Mircetic. "With all that he's accomplished, not just basketball, but all the sports that he's coached, he's one of the best coaches in multiple sports.

"I think if he had concentrated on basketball he might have 1,000 wins."

Martinez was credited with more than 1,100 wins in football, softball and women's basketball at San Mateo until his retirement in 2005. During a five-year span in the mid-1980s, he coached all three sports simultaneously.

Martinez entered the season as California Community College women's basketball's all-time winningest coach. He was passed in January by Karen Welliver, who is 572-287 in 27 years at Cerritos.

Mircetic began the year in the fifth position, but moved past Colleen Riley, who won 559 games in 25 years at Fullerton, and Caren Franci, who was 560-316 in 33 years at Santa Rosa JC.

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Hicks broke Pam Parizo's Ventura College javelin record of 138 feet, 7 inches set in 1978 with a toss of 142-8 in the WSC minimeet at Moorpark College.

This mark makes her an automatic qualifier for the SoCal Prelims and currently leads the state in that event.

Ventura College sophomore Randi Hicks set the 30-year-old school javelin record when she threw 142 feet, 8 inches Thursday at a Western State Conference mini-meet at Moorpark College.

"I know its only the first or second week of the season, but that would have won the state championship last year," said coach Tom Lawrence.

As all eyes were on the thrilling conclusion of the men's basketball game in the Ventura College Athletic Event Center Wednesday night, Erika Ward was alone next door in the small gymnasium shooting.

"I went in there alone after halftime to shoot," said Ward.

Swish. Swish. Swish.

"I've done it a couple of times before," said Ward.

The pregame ritual of Ferraro's pasta and a shootaround has new reverence after Ward had made 19 of 23 shots, including 10 of 12 3-pointers, to set the Western State Conference scoring record with 51 points.

Highlights of the sharpshooting exhibition included a 30-footer at the first half buzzer and a 4-point play in the second half.

"Never in my life," said Ward, whose high school high was 26. "It was the craziest game for me. Everything was going in and my teammates trusted me and kept passing it."
Point guards Michelle Santizo and Amanda Padilla combined for 20 assists on the night.

"All the credit goes to my teammates," said Ward.

With a previous high of 18 points, Ward saw her scoring average climb two full points from 11.1 to 13.1.

Megan Iloff of East Los Angeles and Rachel Gregory of Cabrillo shared the state's previous high game with 39 points pierce. Moorpark sophomore Tiffany Hurd also dropped 37 points on Riverside.

Amanda Padilla told Erika Ward to keep shooting.

The freshman from Royal High couldn't figure out why.

Until the announcement came over the public address system.

Ward scored a Western State Conference-record 51 points, including a school-record 10 3-pointers, as the No. 1 Ventura College women's basketball team roared to a 114-36 win over visiting Cuesta Wednesday night at the VC Athletic Event Center.

Highlights of the sharpshooting exhibition included a 30-footer at the first half buzzer and a 4-point play in the second half.

"I've never done that in my life," said Ward, whose previous collegiate high was 18 points.
"My dad (Jim Ward) had been waiting for me to score 20 and I got all the way to 50."

Ward's 19-of-23 shooting performance, including 10 of 12 from 3-point land, trumped records of two Ventura all-time greats -- Julie Hardy's 14-year-old 49-point performance and Renae Hofmann's 9-year-old seven 3-point performance.

No other Ventura women's player has broken the 40-point barrier.

The bench was aware of the records in danger shortly after Ward buried a 30-footer at the first half buzzer for 30 points, six 3-pointers and a 61-16 Ventura lead.

"We all knew and no one told her," said center Julie Heurung.

Ventura's 15 3-pointers, on 31 attempts, also set a school record.

Ventura's 114 points were the sixth-most in school history and the most allowed by Cuesta (5-14) in a game.

Terrence Austin broke UCLA's single-season record by reaching 1,870 all-purpose yards today.