One of USD baseball coach Rich Hill's favorite phrases is: “Stay in the moment.”

At the moment, the No. 11-ranked Toreros have won a school-record 15 straight games, the latest yesterday's 6-4 West Coast Conference victory over Loyola Marymount at Cunningham Stadium.

Highlights for the first-place Toreros (34-11, 12-2 WCC) included starting pitcher Josh Romanski improving to 8-0 on the season after allowing five hits and four runs – all in the fifth inning – over seven innings with nine strikeouts. Sophomore closer A.J. Griffin finished off the Lions (20-22) in the ninth for his 10th save of the season and 21st of his career, a school record.

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TCU scored early and often in a 16-5 Mountain West Conference win over San Diego State at Tony Gwynn Stadium. The Aztecs (25-18, 11-6 MWC) slipped to third place in the conference, just behind New Mexico (27-18, 11-4) and TCU (28-15, 12-5). . . . UCSD (39-11, 23-8) swept host San Francisco State 9-1 and 5-3 in a California Collegiate Athletic Association doubleheader. UCSD had 18 hits in the first game (led by Vance Albitz's 4-for-6) against SFS (7-42-1, 1-30) . . . Cal State San Marcos (22-15-1) beat visiting Cal State San Bernardino 5-3, then lost 13-7 in a doubleheader at Escondido High. CSUSM's Austin Way was 2-for-4 in the opener and hit one of eight home runs (four by the Cougars) in the second game.

Men's golf

Aaron Goldberg (La Costa Canyon High) finished tied for second at 1-under-par 212, but SDSU ended up seventh overall at 19-over 871 at the MWC Championships at Tucson National Golf Resort. Colorado State won the event at 2-under 850, four strokes ahead of second-place TCU. Medalist honors went to UNLV's Eddie Olsen, who finished at 4-under 209. Goldberg was voted MWC Golfer of the Year. SDSU's Matt Hoffenberg, the MWC Freshman of the Year, finished tied for 26th at 7-over 220, four strokes behind teammate Johan Carlsson, who tied for 14th.

Softball

Despite managing just three hits off southpaw Christina Ross (24-12), Utah edged visiting SDSU 2-1 in eight innings to drop the Aztecs (37-15, 9-5) into a tie for second place in the MWC with the Utes (26-21, 9-5).

Women's water polo

No. 16 UCSD lost to host Loyola Marymount 4-3 in the semifinals of the Western Water Polo Association Championships. LMU (20-10) faces UC Davis for the championship today; UCSD (18-17) will face No. 17 Santa Clara for third place.