MOORPARK, Calif. (March 2, 2026) – The 2026 portion of the Western State Conference (WSC) North basketball season concluded with a seventh straight title for the women's program while the men placed second. Both teams earned bids into the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Postseason. Spring sports continue to compete and many have opened conference play. Read on for more updates.

Men's Basketball (19-7, 10-2 WSC)
The men's basketball team closed out the regular season with four straight wins and earned a spot in the California Community College Men's Basketball Coaches Association (CCCMBCA) Feb. 15 poll at No. 28 while wrapping up second place in the WSC. The squad earned a bid into the 3C2A Southern California Regional as part of the 3C2A State Championships Tournament.

The No. 14 Raiders hosted the First Round game, but fell, 66-58, in a close game against No. 19 Irvine Valley College to end the season and postseason run.  You can take a peek back at Sophomore Day and Postseason play.

Six members of the 2025-26 team, Josh Castaniero, Eric Kubel, Roman Finney, Dominique Brutus, Jake Field and Tidiane Sy, were selected to All-WSC North teams as well.

Women's Basketball (26-3, 12-0 WSC)
Women's Basketball became the WSC North Champions for the seventh straight year after going undefeated, advancing to the 3C2A State Championships Tournament. After a First Round bye, the Raiders slipped past Bakersfield in an intense 55-53 victory inside Raider Pavilion in the Second Round to advance to the 3C2A Southern California Regional Final (Round of 16), which No. 3 Moorpark will host on Saturday night, March 7 at 7:00 p.m. against No. 6 Cypress.

Ticket prices are $12 for adults (13+) and $8 for students. Faculty, staff, senior citizens, military veterans and children (5-12).

Last week, five members of the squad, which was ranked No. 5 in the final California Community College Women's Basketball Coaches Association (CCCWBCA) Poll of the season on Feb. 15, were announced as All-WSC recipients with Maleyni Tolliver being selected as the Most Outstanding Player and Hannah Lising being honored as the Defensive Player of the Year. Both Alyssa Saldana and Keilani Peralta were named to the First Team alongside Lising and Tolliver and Dayzia Mendoza took home Honorable Mention. 

Baseball (6-12, 1-5 WSC)
The baseball squad picked up its first WSC victory, 4-3, of the spring in extra innings over Santa Barbara on the road on March 21 behind two-hit days from Ty Nicolay and Joshua Brown while Cullen Hirtensteiner earned the pitching decision after throwing 5.0 innings in relief and striking out six.

Despite the record, the Raiders have played some competitive baseball, dropping a pair of one-run decisions in an 8-7 loss to SBCC and a well-played 1-0 loss to Ventura on Feb. 24.

Nicolay has started WSC play hot and currently holds a .438 average (7-for-16) with a .550 on base percentage. Of his seven hits, three are homeruns and he also has three RBIs and three walks. Chris Hemphill also has seven hits for a .318 average, including a team-leading six RBIs. Brendan McClure is hitting over .300 at .308.

The Raiders are in action a trio of times this week against Allan Hancock in more WSC action.

Women's Beach Volleyball (7-3, 0-0 WSC)
Beach Volleyball strung together five straight wins, producing 5-0 victories over Irvine Valley, El Camino, Cerritos, Mt. San Antonio and San Diego Miramar.

Against Miramar, the No, 1 pair of Natsune Makino and Alesia Thomas won 21-6, 21-16, Daylin Saiki and Natalia Galstian teamed up for a 21-8, 21-19 victory at No. 2, Kaylin Currie and Mia Paculan earned a pair of 21-11 wins at No. 3, Eva Velarde and Laila Velu won 21-7, 21-12 at No. 4 and Mina Williams-Vargas and Samantha Nehme battled to a 21-17, 23-21 win in the five spot.

Most recently, MC was shutout by MiraCosta and came up just short against San Diego Mesa, falling 3-2. No. 1s and No. 4s earned 21-9, 19-21, 15-11 and 21-15, 21-11 victories, respectively. That rounded out preseason play for the Blue and White.

The Raiders open WSC play on Friday, March 6 at 10:00 a.m. at Ventura. 

Softball (6-6, 0-0 WSC)
Rain in February forced some schedule changes and the Moorpark College softball team played to a doubleheader split against Riverside on Feb. 24 defeating the Tigers 7-6, before falling 5-4. 

In the 7-5 win, the Raiders rallied late to score six runs in the bottom of the fifth and staved off a comeback bid by RCC in the top of the seventh. A pair of errors aided in the MC scoring in an inning that Daniela Isarrararas connected for an RBI double and Alyssa Morales singled in the ultimate game-winner to aid her own cause. Morales (5-2) earned the victory in the circle, throwing 7.0 innings, and striking out seven.

The Raiders have played five one-run games this spring to date and MC came out on top a trio of times. Through preseason play, MC is batting .352 as a team with 86 runs in 12 games. Isarrararas and Riley Furnace had two homeruns apiece and Furnace leads the way with 10 RBIs. Lily Kougher is batting .500 with 18 hits, in 26 at-bats, including seven doubles and nine RBIs along with five walks. Morgan Casillas has also collected 18 hits and is batting .474 with eight doubles and eight RBIs, also drawing five walks. Rylee Redmond and Kailey Greene have 16 and 12 hits, respectively, and the pair is batting .432 and .429.

WSC play opens on Tuesday, March 3 at College of the Canyons.

Men's Track & Field
The men's track and field team competed at the Mt. SAC Ron Kamaka Open and Cerritos Open the last two weekends.

At Mt. SAC, the throwers had some great improvements with Jaxon Potter throwing the Hammer 30.21m (a four-foot, two-inch improvement) and Logan Clark marking at 36.14m (three-feet, seven inches better than earlier this season). Clark (10.51m) and Angel Ortega (10.08m) threw Shot Put better, improving marks by 8.5 inches and 10 inches, respectively. An outstanding performance came from JJ Bittner who continues to improve his throws and made monster movement with an eight-foot, five-inch progression in Discus, marking at 34.21m.

In his first race of the season, Desmond Winbush was the fastest 100m runner out of Moorpark, finishing in 11.05 and Nasir Enilolobo ran a 23.24 200m. In the 400m, Dominic Perez (51.53) and Blake Boucher (51.57) placed 13^th and 14^th, respectively. The top 800m time went to Tommy White in 2:00.22 in 10^th and the sophomore went on to place 10^th in the 3000m with a time of 8:47.28 in his first race of that distance this spring, which also happened to be the top community college time of the meet. Christian Brady-Breton ran to a three-second personal record of 9:02.04 in the 3K and Isaiah Bergara also ran the same race for a two-second PR of 9:34.13. Trent Williams ran the 1500m in 4:02.45 to finish 13^th. Powell Williams ran his way to fourth in the 400m Hurdles with a time of 57.40. MC had two 4x400m Relay teams and they finished back-to-back.

Jumping, Quion Williams cleared 1.90m in High Jump and also Long Jumped (6.06m) for the Raiders. Bittner high jumped, clearing 1.75m and Tyler Kratt Pole Vaulted 4.0m.

At Cerritos on Feb. 28, Ray Carmel was the fastest sprinter, clocking a 10.86 to place second while Makhi Hooker was fifth in 10.91. Winbush ran a 22.18 in the 200m race to place seventh and Hooker was the next Raiders runner across the line in 22.54. Winbush was also the top MC finisher in the 400m (49.48) with Dominic Perez running to ninth in 51.39.

Bittner completed the 110m Hurdles in 16.23 for second place while Andres Uribe ran the 400m Hurdles in 1:07.34. Williams High Jumped 1.95m to win the event and went on to leap 6.31m in Long Jump for fifth. Kratt and Bittner both Pole Vaulted for the Raiders.

Potter improved his Hammer again, with his best mark of 31.25m earning 13^th place. Uribe was the top Javelin thrower for Moorpark with a 33.59m mark and Potter was 10^th at 31.71m. Alex Rivera was the top Shot Put thrower for MC, earning 10^th with his best mark of 10.51m.

Rounding out the meet, the 4x400m Relay team of Perez, Williams, Boucher and Winbush combined for a 3:21.39 to place second in a season best time.

The team will compete again this Friday, March 6 at 11:00 a.m.

Women's Track & Field
The Raiders traveled to the Ron Kamaka Open at Mt. SAC where the team put up some great performances.

Reece Trice ran a 13-second season best time of 5:09.97 in the 1500m to place 19^th in a competitive field, which included eight other teammates. Daniela Sanchez was the first MC finisher in the 800m, crossing the line in 2:42.16 in a race that six Raiders ran. In shorter distances, Keira Wyatt clocked a 12.99 in the 100m and Joey Tobi finished in 13.39 before posting a 27.72 200m time. The longest race of the day, the 3,000m, saw Hailey Ortiz run a 12:08.46.

Jumping for the Raiders, Nadia Smith had an incredible season-best in Pole Vault, clearing 2.75m, which is a foot better than earlier this spring.

In the field, Madison Thai competed in several events, including the Long Jump (4.82m), Javelin (19.48m) and Shot Put (7.53m), while also running the 100m Hurdles (17.92). Thai teamed up with Tobi, Kaelyn Walsh and Cristal Lopez to run the 4x400m in 4:20.33.

Throwing for Moorpark, Liliana Coleman recorded a Discus mark of 22.02m, a foot and 10 inches further than her previous best. She also improved her Hammer throw by two feet with a best throw of 20.63m.

Last weekend at the Cerritos Open, Thai won the High Jump at 1.60m and was sixth in the 100m Hurdles (17.13), improving on her time from a week ago. Wyatt ran the 100m (12.65) and 200m (26.66). Leilah Strother (13.47), Lopez (13.92) and Smith (14.21) also ran the 100m. Tobi ran the 400m in 1:07.91 and led off the 4x400m Relay with Lopez, Thai and Wyatt, finishing in 4:21.05.

Coleman threw the Hammer further in Cerritos at 20.95m for another new season best. Katelyn Aguilar competed in the Discus (24.05m), placing 13^th, Hammer (30.42m), placing ninth, Javelin (23.73m), placing eighth, Shot Put (9.72m), placing seventh. Thai was ninth in Shot Put with a best mark of 8.35m.

Smith matched her Pole Vault 2.75m at Cerritos and Lopez cleared 2.15m.

The Raiders return to competition this Friday, March 6 at 11:00 a.m.

Men's Volleyball (4-6, 0-2 WSC)
Preseason saw the Raiders go 4-4 with wins over Santiago Canyon, Irvine Valley, San Diego Miramar and Paolmar.

On Feb. 20, Moorpark traveled to Grossmont where the Blue and White dropped a 3-0 decision to the host before taking out Palomar on neutral turf. MC combined to hit an incredible .714 in the final game after hitting at a 4.00 clip in the second and .348. to open the match. Nicholas Songco notched 10 kills and Sinjon Laughton went 5-for-7 without an error.

Last week, the Raiders opened league play. MC came out on the wrong end of a five-set battle at Long Beach. Moorpark took the first two sets, but were unable to stave off LBCC in the final three games and fell 3-2. Sean Nelson collected 11 kills and five service aces. Songco finished with 10 kills and Marco Farabolini handed out 27 assists. Against Santa Monica on Friday night, Moorpark fell short 3-1. The teams battled to a 27-25 first set score and MC stole the second, 25-17, but came up short 25-21 and 25-23 in the final two games of the match as SMCC hit at high clips of .213 and .345, respectively.  MC was led by an incredible 19-kill showing from Songco as S. Nelson added 14. Farabolini dished out 37 assists and had four of the six service aces in the match. Owen Peterson finished with 16 digs, to finish one kill shy of a double-double. Songco and Reagan Sager notched five block assists apiece.

Moorpark will be back in action on Wednesday, March 4 when the Raiders travel to El Camino for a 6:00 p.m. first serve.

Women's Wrestling
The first rankings of the spring were released by the California Community College Women's Wrestling Association (CCCWWA) last week and six student-athletes landed on the Top-10 lists in various weight classes.  

235 weight class:
No. 3 Natalia Cervantes
No. 8 Itzel Perez

207 weight class
No. 7 Avalynn Ramos

131 weight class
No. 7 Emily Hernandez

110 weight class
No. 8 Alondra Avila

103 weight class
No. 8 Martha Ha

The Raiders have been out of competition since early February and will suit up again this week when the squad travels to Victor Valley on March 4 for a Tri-Dual with Bakersfield and Victor Valley.

Video (select home contests): Live Video
Instagram: @mcraiders_athletics
Facebook: MC Raiders