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Former UC Davis wrestler Urijah Faber will compete against featherweight champion Mike Brown for the second time in a World Extreme Cage fighting event on June 7. “Brown vs. Faber II” has been dubbed the greatest featherweight bout in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) history. “This is definitely the biggest fight we’ve ever done in our 10-year history,” said WEC General Manager and Founder Reed Harris. “It’s not often that you get to see the No. 1 and No. 2 fighters in the world compete in the same weight division.”

Event:NCAA West Regionals Where:Hayward Field – Eugene,Ore. When:Friday and Saturday; all day Who to watch:Newly crowned Big West Conference110m hurdle champion Jazz Trice is ready for the NCAA West Regional Championships. While most athletes struggle all season to hit the regional mark,Trice has met or exceeded the14.30standard in every race he’s run this season.His best of13.65puts him at No.3in the region,as well as No.11in the nation.

Event:NCAA West Regionals Where:Hayward Field – Eugene,Oregon When:Friday and Saturday; all day Who to watch:Just like last year,senior Kim Conley qualified in both the1,500m and the5,000m for the West Regionals. Unlike last year,she will compete.

UC Davis standout Alice Kim,who capped her impressive season with an eighth-place finish at this week’s NCAA Division I Championship,has been named an All-America honorable mention by the National Golf Coaches Association. In addition to her All-America honor,Kim was named to the All-West Region team as the UC Davis sophomore established her name among collegiate golf’s elite players.The awards announcements were made during the awards banquet following the championship at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills,Md.

It was a big weekend for the UC Davis baseball team. The Aggies ended their season in style, taking two of three from visiting Cal State Northridge at Dobbins Stadium. The series victory pushes UC Davis’ record to 13-42 overall and 5-19 in Big West Conference play. More importantly, though, it gives a youthful Aggies baseball team some momentum heading into the offseason and the 2010 campaign.

UC Davis sophomore Alice Kim played at par after an early double-bogey to shoot a 2-over 74 and tie for 12th on Tuesday after the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Md. Kim qualified for the NCAA Finals by finishing the NCAA West Regional on May 9 at Arizona State as the top individual. She is being joined at this week’s tournament near Baltimore by five other individual qualifiers and 24 teams.

Teams: UC Davis vs. Cal State Bakersfield; Cal State Northridge Records: Aggies, 11-40 (3-18); Roadrunners, 11-35; Matadors 22-30 (6-15) Where: Dobbins Stadium When: Thursday and Friday at 2:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. Who to watch? The Aggies will honor their four seniors before Sunday’s matinee matchup against Cal State Northridge. Cleanup hitter Ryan Scoma departs as one of the best batters in the UC Davis lineup. He’s second on the team in average (.301) and RBI (29). Grant Hirneise has played four years in an Aggie uniform at various spots in the infield and as a designated hitter. On the year, Hirneise is batting .238 in 126 at-bats. Jeremy McChesney also played four years at UC Davis. The righty has started 10 games this season, posting a 2-6 record. Right-hander Adam Bennett joined the UC Davis baseball team after spending four years as a decorated water polo player for the Aggies. Bennett’s 16 appearances this season tie him with a handful of other pitchers for most on the team.

It’s no secret that Davis is a bike-friendly town. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the UC Davis Club Cycling team captured wins in both the men’s and women’s team time trial events to take home the National Collegiate Cycling Association Division I team title at the USA Collegiate Road National Championships in Fort Collins, Colo. on May 10. It was UC Davis’ fourth national championship. It also won the event in 1994, 2001 and 2006.

Justin Schafer has been on a tear as of late. A native of Los Gatos, Calif., Schafer is working off a 12-game hitting streak, nine of which have been multiple-hit games to push his average to a UC Davis-best .351 on the season. Schafer, known as “Chief” by his teammates, missed the majority of last season recovering from Tommy John surgery. This season, Schafer suffered an ankle injury in preseason that kept him out of the Aggie lineup for the first nine ballgames.

When looking for words to define a football team’s running back situation, you’d hope to have the luxury of using words like “stable,” “set”or “fixed.” For UC Davis, you could use “an embarrassment of riches.” “We’ve got a lot of depth at that position,” coach Bob Biggs said. That could be an understatement.

Student-athletes to host ‘Aggie Idol‘ tonight The UC Davis Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will host its third annualAggie Idol competition today at Freeborn Hall.The event is scheduled to start at7p.m.with tickets costing$8at the door.

UC Davis’ novice eight women’s crew overcame Gonzaga over the final 500 meters to claim first place in the petite final at the Pac-10 Championships at Lake Natoma on Sunday afternoon while the varsity eight took fifth in its petite final. The Aggie novices crossed the finish line of the 2,000-meter course in six minutes, 57.1 seconds, beating Gonzaga by less than a second and third-place Sacramento State by almost two. The Aggies’ varsity eight was timed in its petite final in 6:56.8.