No. 21 USC Beats Cal 77-65 in Berkeley as Alijah Arenas Scores 19
Rodney Rice added 18 points as the Trojans improved to 3-0. Sammie Yeanay scored 14 and Nojus Indrusaitis 13 for the Bears, who fell to 2-2 at Haas Pavilion.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at night. Photo: Daniel L. Lu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
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Cal women's soccer lost 2-1 to NC State at Edwards Stadium on Senior Day. Soleil Dimry tied the game on a penalty kick early in the second half, but Daisy Duda scored the winner five minutes later. It was NC State's first win over Cal since 1989 and its first in Berkeley.
NASA said its two ESCAPADE spacecraft completed the first powered Earth flybys used to send a mission to Mars and are on course to arrive in September 2027. Principal investigator Rob Lillis of UC Berkeley said it will be the first science mission to choreograph two orbiters around Mars at once.
Raymond Allen Pearce was arrested near UC Berkeley and charged Friday with contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sex crime, extortion and other counts, police said. A parent reported the case on Oct. 12. The charges are allegations.
The presence of federal agents prompted immigration speculation on social media. Police Chief Jen Louis told the Police Accountability Board the FBI had notified the city in advance, and that BPD had no verified information ICE was in Berkeley that day.
The Berkeley High and UC Davis graduate died Aug. 8 after a long battle with cancer. He studied ceramics, worked as a carpenter and built his Hodgepodge Lodge studio, making painted art furniture and sculpture.