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Patricia “Trish” Malaspina will ride a plane to Los Angeles this weekend to see her boyfriend. If all goes according to plan, the College of San Mateo sophomore also will grab the attention of a four-year coach to continue playing basketball at the next level.

The opener of the 2011 College of San Mateo baseball season marked a homecoming of sorts for starting pitcher Daniel Chavez, a former Serra Padres standout who spent his freshman year at the University of San Francisco, but has since returned to play baseball closer to home.

Daniel Nava of the Boston Red Sox remembers where he has been. Nava, CSM 2004/2005 alumnus showed up at College of San Mateo yesterday and presented each CSM baseball position player with two pairs of Cutters batting gloves.

Head Baseball Coach Doug Williams has been named 2010 Diamond Sports ABCA Regional Coach of the Year for Pacific Association Division.

Over the years, numerous CSM baseball players have made their mark in the major leagues and the tradition continued during the 2010 season. Among the many CSM alums in professional baseball, three in particular have had notable accomplishments this season.

Renowned baseball broadcaster Jon Miller, who this summer received the prestigious Ford C. Frick Award at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, has been the play-by-play man for ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcasts for the past 20 years. He has spent more than 40 years broadcasting sporting events, starting with his first semester as a 17-year-old freshman at San Mateo Junior College (now College of San Mateo) in 1969.

Wanting to help, the coaches contacted one of their vendors that supplies athletic clothing for the team to ask if they could make a donation. The vendor, who wishes to remain anonymous, offered 20 boxes of slightly blemished, new t-shirts.

It’s been a season of love thus far for San Francisco Giants broadcaster Jon Miller, who will be inducted into the broadcasters’ wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame later this week.

The Bulldogs couldn’t force a winner-take-all game, losing 16-10 at Fresno City College. CSM capped one of its most successful seasons in school history at 37-11, finishing as the state runner-up for the fourth time.

College of San Mateo ran the board in the weekend’s Super Regional tournament, winning three straight to qualify for the California final four — aka, the California Community College Athletic Association State Tournament, as per tradition hosted by Fresno City College — culminating yesterday in a 12-5 win over Sacramento City.