Updates: Other Sports

USC picked up its first ever national championship in women’s soccer on Sunday when the second-seeded Women of Troy edged third-seeded Florida State, 2-0, in College Station, Texas. It was a tournament record-setting fifth shutout for the Trojans, and their 15th shutout overall this season under first-year head coach Ali Khosroshahin. USC finished the season […]

For the second consecutive year, USC’s water polo team fell just short of a national title, losing another close match to the California Golden Bears. The Bears’ 13th national championship in water polo came during an 8-6 victory which saw the Trojans threatening to tie the game repeatedly in the closing minutes but ultimately coming […]

USC announced its 2008 baseball schedule on Wednesday, with the Trojans opening the season February 22nd with the first of three games at Florida International. Led by second-year head coach Chad Kreuter, USC will play 25 games at home at Dedeaux Field and 56 in all, including a pair against UC Irvine and their first-year […]

USC’s fourth-ranked women’s volleyball team fell to 14-2 (3-2 in the Pac-10) on Friday with a loss to crosstown rivals UCLA. The fifth-ranked Bruins (14-2, 4-1) took three out of four games from the Trojans, and earned the first five points in the 2007-08 “Lexus Gauntlet” competition between the two schools.
No. 5 UCLA Defeats No. […]

Ground was broken today on a new million-dollar training facility for the USC baseball team, with the building given the lofty title of Rod Dedeaux Research for Baseball Institute. To be completed by the end of the year, the RDRBI will provide the team with new batting cages, replacing the existing cages on the third-base […]

USC’s men’s water polo team begins its 2007 season on Saturday with a home contest (at McDonald’s Swim Stadium) against #12 Loyola Marymount. The Trojans enter the season ranked first in the nation after falling to Cal in last year’s national championship game, losing with just under 2 seconds left in the contest.
Reloaded and refocused […]

Former USC pitcher Ian Kennedy is scheduled to make his major league debut on Saturday for the New York Yankees, with a start against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in place of the struggling Mike Mussina, the Yankees announced today. A first-round draft pick in 2006, Kennedy began this year in single-A ball, but quickly […]

Trojan baseball recruits Mike Stanton and Mike Moustakas each agreed to contract terms with the teams that selected them in this year’s MLB draft, narrowly beating a midnight Wednesday deadline–which, if not met, would have seen the players attending USC in the fall. Stanton, an outfielder (who was also asked to play football at USC) […]

NC State first baseman Mike Roskopf has decided to transfer to USC, reports Scott Wolf (and confirmed by Rivals). The 6′7″ senior-to-be hit .316 with 13 home runs and 42 RBI last season for the Wolfpack.
Big Bat (Scott Wolf)

USC alum Tom House, who posted a career 3.79 ERA in parts of eight major league seasons after pitching for the Trojans in 1967, was named to head baseball coach Chad Kreuter’s staff as an assistant today. He joins assistant Doyle Wilson, who was hired in June. House has been a major league pitching coach […]