La Verne played a tight defensive game Saturday at Claremont Mudd-Scripps. The Leopards led the game by 14 points until the Athenas came back in the second half. La Verne’s defense stood strong and they held on for an 82-77 win.

After a season of rebuilding, head swimming and diving coach Pat Skehan and the Leopards are ready to make a splash in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The women’s soccer team embraced its revamped home with its third shutout victory of the season, winning 6-0 Saturday against Bethesda at Ortmayer Stadium.

The humidity in the air wasn’t the only thing bringing the heat in this seasons opening men’s soccer game between the Whittier Poets and the Leopards.

The sophomore anthropology major has been pole vaulting for five years and is this year’s Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Confer­ence champion in the event.

At the end, a swing and a miss set the team into a frenzy as they secured their 20th Southern California Intercolleg­iate Athletic Conference title with a 3-0 senior day win over Whittier Friday at Mt. SAC’s Mazmanian Field.

La Verne junior Paul Turner leaps for first place with a distance of 15.15 meters in the triple jump at the SCIAC Championships Saturday at Redlands.

The golf team has had quite a successful season after winning the 2012 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Confer­ence golf championship for the sixth consecutive year.

The Leopard baseball team put one hand on the SCIAC title with a dominating 13-0 seven-inning mercy-rule win over the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags Saturday at CMS’ Arce Field.

The Leopards beat the Caltech Beavers in their final regular season match with a score of 12-5 Saturday at Las Flores Park.