The Saint Mary’s men’s basketball team’s dominating regular season continued with a near-miss of a sweep of the top individual West Coast Conference awards, with Gaels taking five of the six honors.

Randy Bennett was named WCC Coach of the Year for the fourth straight season, while Augustas Marciulionis and Mitchell Saxen repeated as Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively. Paulius Murauskas was named Newcomer of the Year and freshman Mikey Lewis (a grad from Oakland’s Prolific Prep) was named Sixth Man of the Year. Portland’s Austin Rapp was named the WCC’s Freshman of the Year in the vote of WCC head coaches that was announced Tuesday.

Marciulionis, Murauskas and Saxen were also named first-team All-WCC.

Santa Clara’s Adama-Alpha Bal and USF’s Malik Thomas and Marcus Williams also were first-team selections, along with Gonzaga’s Nolan Hickman, Graham Ike and Ryan Nembhard, and Oregon State’s Michael Rataj.

Gonzaga took home four of the six awards on the women’s side, including Player of the Year (Yvonne Ejim) and Coach of the Year (Lisa Fortier), but ceded the other two honors to Saint Mary’s.

Kennedy Johnson earned Newcomer of the Year and Emily Foy was voted the Sixth Woman of the Year.

Additionally, Santa Clara senior Olivia Pollerd and San Francisco senior Freja Werth were voted first-team All-WCC, while USF senior transfer Emma Trawally Porta earned second-team honors and USF’s Angeliki Ziaka was named to the all-freshman team.

Cal, Stanford earn second-team all-ACC honors >> Cal senior Ioanna Krimili and Stanford sophomore Nunu Agara were named to the All-ACC second team after each program’s inaugural season in the conference, which announced its awards Tuesday.

Notre Dame sophomore Hannah Hidalgo earned Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors and led the all-conference polling with 2,257 votes; Krimili, who averaged 14.6 points per game, received 711 votes, and Agara, who averaged 15.6 points and 7.6 rebounds, received 550.

Charmin Smith, who led the Golden Bears to an unexpected seventh-place finish, finished third in Coach of the Year voting, while Stanford junior Tess Heal finished third for Sixth Player of the Year.

College football

CFP committee set >> Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades will lead the College Football Playoff selection committee next season.

Other new members of the 13-person committee will be former Michigan State and Cincinnati coach Mark Dantonio, Maryland AD Damon Evans, Middle Tennessee State AD Chris Massaro, former Mississippi tight end Wesley Walls and sports writers Ivan Maisel and Steve Wieberg.

The committee is in charge of ranking the teams to set them into the 12-team postseason bracket that debuted last season. Still undetermined is whether there will be changes to the system in 2025.

NHL

Oilers strike >> The defending Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers made their first big move ahead of the NHL trade deadline Tuesday, acquiring hard-nosed forward Trent Frederic from the Boston Bruins.

Edmonton sent a 2025 second- and a 2026 fourth-round pick and prospect Max Wanner to Boston for the 6-foot-3, 220-pounder, with the Bruins retaining half of Frederic’s $2.3 million salary. The New Jersey Devils retained another quarter and received the rights to unsigned draft pick Shane Lachance from the Oilers and Petr Hauser from the Bruins in return.

Trading Frederic is the first sell-off by the Bruins, who are three-quarters of the way through an underachieving season but remain among the playoff contenders vying for the final couple of spots in the Eastern Conference. Captain Brad Marchand, like Frederic, is a pending unrestricted free agent, though he has said he would like to play his entire career with Boston and also was injured last weekend and is considered week to week.

Getting Frederic, 27, provides Edmonton some much-needed toughness with the aim of helping Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and company make another long playoff run this spring, a year after reaching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final and losing to Florida. Frederic, also week to week with a lower-body injury after getting hurt Feb. 25 against Toronto, has 15 points and 44 penalty minutes in 57 games this season.