PHOENIX - Former UCLA standout pitcher Trevor Bauer earned his first major league victory on Sunday afternoon, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks past the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-1, in his third major league start.
The native of Valencia, Calif., pitched six scoreless innings and scattered just two hits as Arizona pulled within four games of the first-place Dodgers in the National League West standings. Bauer (1-1) finished with six strikeouts and one walk, retiring the final 12 batters he faced.
Bauer, 21, became the second-youngest UCLA player to record a major league victory. Dick Conger secured his first major league win less than three weeks after turning 21 years old with the Detroit Tigers in 1940.
Bauer made his major league debut for Arizona at Atlanta's Turner Field on June 28 and did not earn a decision on that start. In that game, he became the second-youngest UCLA player to make his major league debut (Conger's major league debut came at 21 years, 19 days).
Bauer became UCLA's first-ever Golden Spikes Award winner in 2011 after going 13-2 with a 1.25 ERA and nation-leading 203 strikeouts in 136.2 innings. The native of Valencia, Calif., was selected third overall in the 2011 MLB Draft by Arizona.
Earlier this season, Bauer went 11-1 with a 2.23 ERA in 16 starts between double-A (Mobile) and triple-A (Reno) this season. Pitching for triple-A Reno, Bauer went 4-0 with a 2.82 ERA, 56 strikeouts and 22 walks in 44.2 innings (eight starts).
Bauer finished his three-year collegiate career with a 34-8 record and 2.36 ERA, having logged 460 strikeouts in 373.1 innings. He established himself as UCLA's career leader in victories (34), strikeouts (460) and innings (373.1). As a starting pitcher, he posted a 32-5 career record in 44 starts.
Former UCLA basketball player Jrue Holiday has been added to the 2012 USA Men's Select Team that will train July 6-11 against the 2012 USA Basketball Men's National Team during training camp in Las Vegas, Nev.
A three-year point guard with the Philadelphia 76ers, Holiday has become the 15th player USA Basketball has named to the USA Select squad. As a freshman at UCLA in 2008-09, Holiday averaged 8.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, starting all 35 games for the Bruins.
"In naming Jrue to our Select Team, we've added an athletic guard who can get to the rim and someone who is also a good 3-point shooter," said Jerry Colangelo, USA Basketball chairman. "Both of those skills will be invaluable in helping prepare out National Team for this summer."
Holiday, the 17th overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft by Philadelphia, started for the 76ers in all 65 games in 2011-12 and averaged 13.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.6 steals. He shot 43.2 percent from the field, 38.0 percent from 3-point range and 78.3 percent from the foul line. In Philadelphia's 13 NBA playoff games in 2012, he averaged 15.8 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.2 assists while hitting 40.8 percent of his 3-point tries.
Holiday has two previous USA Basketball experiences. He was a member of the USA Junior National Select Team that rolled to a 98-78 win at the 2008 Nike Hoop Summit. Holiday registered 22 minutes as a starter in the game and finished with 13 points and five assists. One year earlier he was selected for the 2007 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival Blue Team that captured the silver medal.
Serving as co-head coaches of the USA Select Team are 2010 USA Basketball World Championship assistant coach Jay Triano and longtime Syracuse University assistant coach Mike Hopkins.
Below are links about UCLA's road to the College World Series:
Former Bruin and NFL standout James Washington will be joined by members of the
UCLA Football Coaching Staff who will conduct a free One Day Football Boot
Camp themed "Back to the Basics" on Saturday, May 19 from 9 am to 2 pm at LA
Southwest College (1600 W. Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles 90047). The camp is for
youth in grades five through eight (as of Fall 2012 and aged 9-13). Walk-up
registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Football Stadium.
Phil Steele's 2012 College Football Preview listed several Bruins in its pre-season All-America and All-Pac-12 teams released today. Punter Jeff Locke, a fourth-team All-American, was the lone Bruin to earn first-team all-conference recognition. Three Bruins were selected to the second-team All-Pac-12 squad - TE Joseph Fauria, LB Patrick Larimore, and CB Aaron Hester. Listed on the third team all-league unit were OT Xavier Su'a-Filo and LB Jordan Zumwalt. Fourth-team picks included RB Johnathan Franklin, WR Shaquelle Evans, OL Jeff Baca, DL Cassius Marsh, DL Datone Jones, and S Tevin McDonald.
UCLA football players Jeff Baca and Johnathan Franklin visit children every week at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. Fox Sports West came along during one of their recent weekly visits:
Thea Lemberger was recently named to the Jewish Sports Review's 2011-12 College All-America Basketball team. She started 29 of the Bruins 30 games last season and averaged 12.0 points per contest (15th in the Pac-12 Conf.). She was also listed in the conference rankings in assists (13th-3.0/g), free throw percentage (9th-.713), three-point field goals made (10th-1.3/g) and minutes played (5th-34.6/g).
UCLA's men's basketball player Larry Hollyfield, who lettered on
three John Wooden NCAA Championship teams (1971-73), and Bruin men's track &
field jumper George Henry Brown, Jr., a member of the 1952 U. S. Olympic team,
are among the inductees into the Compton Community College Athletic Hall of
Fame on Saturday, May 26. The event will be held at the Lakewood Country Club beginning with a 5 p.m. reception and silent
auction. The dinner and program follow at 6:30.
Hollyfield attended Compton College in 1969-70 before transferring
to UCLA the following season. As a three-year letterman and 6-4 senior starting
guard in 1972-73, Hollyfield helped lead
the Bruins to three consecutive national championships and an overall
three-year record of 89-1, including unbeaten 30-0 seasons in 1972 and 1973.
During his Bruin career, he appeared in 71 games and averaged 7.9 points and 2.7
rebounds. In the 1973 NBA Draft, he was a seventh round selection by the
Portland Trailblazers.
Brown attended Compton College prior to enrolling at UCLA in 1951. As a Bruin under head coach Elvin C. 'Ducky'
Drake, Brown was the NCAA long jump (broad jump) champion in 1951 and 1952 and the USA
Track & field long jump champion for three consecutive years (1951-53).
Brown's Bruin best 26-3 ¼ (1952) is No. 4 on the UCLA all-time long jump list,
and he was a 2007 inductee into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
Sports Illustrated began a recent feature on its website which looks back at the Top 100 U.S. Olympic Moments in pictures. Bruin Jackie Joyner-Kersee, one of the all-time greatest female track &
field athletes, won her sixth and final Olympic medal at the 1996 Games
in Atlanta. After pulling out of the heptathlon due to injury,
Joyner-Kersee focused on the long jump; her final jump of 22-11 3/4
earned her the bronze medal, making her the most decorated female
athlete at the time.
Team USA wrapped up its international women's basketball tournament in China with a 65-55 win over the Chinese National "B" team. The Americans, which featured several players from the Pac-12 conference, including UCLA's Rebekah Gardner, finished with an 8-1 record on the tour.
Gardner was named MVP of the Zhongxian stage of the tournament and was named All-Tournament in the first stage of the event in Fuling, China. She averaged 11.7 points on the trip and scored in double digits in seven contests.
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