Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball coach Kamansky gets 450th win

Cal Poly Pomona men’s basketball coach Greg Kamansky picked up his 450th career victory.

A little more than 24 years from his first win for the Broncos in 2000, Kamansky hit the milestone with a 61-55 victory Saturday night over Cal Poly Humboldt in a California Collegiate Athletic Association game at Kellogg Arena.

Bam Johnson, Michael Ofoefbu and Jaden Winfield all scored in double digits, teaming up for 44 points as the Broncos came from behind to end a two-game losing streak.

Cal Poly Humboldt led 25-21 at halftime and led by as many as seven points in the second half before Winfield hit a 3-pointer to take the lead with 4:12 remaining in the game.

Winfield, a King High graduate, had 14 points and led the team with six rebounds. It’s the fifth time the 6-foot-5 junior guard has totaled at least 10 points and five rebounds this season.

Ofoegbu (15 points) ended the game with an explosive dunk in the final seconds to put an exclamation point on the win, just the Broncos’ fourth in nine home games.

The Broncos have won just three of their last six games and now go on the road for games at San Francisco State on Thursday and Cal State Monterey Bay on Saturday before returning home for their final two against Stanislaus State (Feb. 24) and Cal State San Bernardino (Feb. 29).

Kamansky’s 400th win came against Humboldt State in 2019 at Kellogg Arena, where he holds a 239-61 home record.

The five-time CCAA Coach of the Year has produced 19 winning seasons, four West Region titles (2003, 2005, 2009, 2010), a .690 winning percentage and his win total ranks him 29th among active NCAA Division II coaches.

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Kamansky has been joined on the bench by associate head coach Damian Hill. The former Broncos player has been part of 415 of Kamansky’s 450 wins, including all 14 NCAA Tournament appearances and the national title run in 2010. CMS TAKES DOWN REDLANDS >> Josh Angle had 17 points and eight rebounds, and Will Householter sank two clutch free throws as the Claremont-mudd-scripps men’s basketball team defeated Redlands 69-65 in a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at Currier Gym.

CMS (17-5, 11-2) built a 15-point second-half lead and had to hold off several comeback efforts from Redlands (12-9, 4-8), which got to within two points late in the second half but came up short.

Householter made backto-back free throws with less than 10 seconds to play and finished with 10 points. The freshman guard was 5 of 5 from the line and has currently made 22 consecutive free throws. He is 34 of 35 from the line this season.

Robert Power had a teamhigh 14 points for Redlands, which went on a 13-0 run to get to within two points at 56-54 with less than 7 minutes to play.

CBU OFF TO 3-2 START TO SOFTBALL SEASON >> The California Baptist University softball team started its season splitting a pair of doubleheaders at home before taking a nice road trip to San Diego.

The Lancers (3-2) swept a season-opening doubleheader against Farleigh Dickinson at John C. Funk Stadium on Thursday before turning around and dropping both ends of a doubleheader at home to Idaho State on Friday.

Playing in La Jolla against UC San Diego on Saturday, CBU’S Merissa Borkowski went 3 for 4 with two runs in an 8-3 victory. On the weekend, the senior left fielder hit .500 (8 for 16) with two RBIS and four runs.

The Lancers put their two-game winning streak against UC Riverside on the line this week in the Crosstown Showdown.

SMITH SHINES FOR MT. SAN JACINTO AT CLASH >> The Mt. San Jacinto College baseball team won two of three games at the Clash at Canyons Tournament with some big performances from sophomore outfielder Christian Smith.

The Great Oak High graduate totaled four home runs and eight RBIS for the Eagles (7-1), whose only loss of came in 10 innings against Allan Hancock in the tournament final.

Smith started the weekend going 3 for 5 with two home runs and five RBIS in an 11-8 win over College of the Canyons on Thursday. He added a solo shot in an 8-4 win over Cosumnes River on Friday, and added another home run and two RBIS but MSJC lost in extra innings 6-5 to Allan Hancock.

Smith is batting .548 (17 for 31) with four doubles, 12 RBIS and 11 runs scored in eight games.

ALSO >> Cal Poly Pomona’s multiple-time indoor and outdoor All-american Ayana Fields returned to the oval after a long break at the Maverick Premier meets hosted by Minnesota State at Myers Field House in Mankato, Minn. Fields was fifth in the 400-meter final on Saturday with an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 56.43 seconds. … University of La Verne’s baseball team received seven first-place votes and is top ranked in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference preseason coaches’ poll. Pomona-pitzer was picked to finish fourth, followed by CMS in fifth and Redlands in sixth. … The Riverside City College baseball team, five-time California Community College Athletic Association champions, has won six consecutive games heading into a home-andaway series against Ventura this week. The Tigers (7-2) beat Palomar 4-3 in 11 innings on Friday.