Rico Leads Baseball in Hitting, Pitching and Track Happenings

Westmont baseball returns from a soggy trip to Hawaii, where they won all three games against Chaminade, to play Hawaii Hilo in back-to-back doubleheaders March 25-26, beginning at 11 am on Carr Field. The Warriors, ranked No. 23 by the 2026 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II Poll, have been led by Visalia junior Joey Rico, who leads the Warriors in batting average (.388) and as a starting pitcher with an ERA of 2.40. 

Heavy rains on Oahu over the last week prevented the playing of five of the eight games the Warriors had scheduled. They wrapped up with road trip playing two games at Les Murakami Stadium on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Track Hosts Combined Events

Westmont hosts the Klein/Nwaba Combined Events consisting of the men’s decathlon and the women’s heptathlon on March 26-27. The college then hosts the Westmont Classic on Saturday, March 28, at Thorrington Field. 

Jim Klein, who coached the Warriors from 1960-77, established an impressive tradition of excellence, coaching numerous All-Americans, several national champions and two Olympians.

Olympian Barbara Nwaba-FitzSimons, a former Westmont track and field coach, represented the United States at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, placing 12th in the heptathlon. She is a three-time U.S. champion, twice in the heptathlon and once in the indoor pentathlon.