But the Tigers prevented the Blue Devils from scoring at will from the paint as they had in four previous games " We played them last year and had some trouble with their height " Duke' s 6- 3 Williams said " They got a lot of blocked shots last year, so we focused in practice on counter moves, and they worked for us today " Duke led 33- 23 at the half and blew the game open with a 20- 0 run early in the second half " We have spurts of greatness " Duke' s Gail Goestenkors said " The way we started the second half is the way I' d like to see us play for 40 minutes " Auburn went scoreless for stretches of 6: 26 and 4: 10 in the second half The Tigers went without a field goal for the last 7: 52 Duke made just 27 of 66 shots from the field( 40 9 percent, its worst shooting of the season. Tennessee( 12- 16, 5- 10) hung with the Wildcats for most of the game and were tied 55- 55 with 8: 25 left after freshman guard Chris Lofton- Kentucky' s high school Mr Basketball in 2004- hit his fifth 3- pointer. Y( AP- Rashad Bell scored 19 points, and Boston University never trailed in a 65- 47 victory over Stony Brook on Saturday. She was on crutches and will be re- evaluated when Stanford returns home.
We were reminding them that there was a court order, that we were not above the law. IRVINE, Calif( AP- Jeff Gloger scored 20 points to tie his career best and lead UC Irvine to a 77- 66 victory over UC Davis Saturday night. At UCLA, at that point in the match we'd probably be doing the same thing" The Bruins fared better than expected against the top half of the Bulldogs' singles lineup Farrow defeated Al Parker, 6-4, 7-6, at No 1 singles, and Brian Garrow, ranked No 40, rallied to defeat No 16 Stephen Enochs of Georgia, 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, at No 2. "All of a sudden the race was over and I was thinking there was another lap to go Cashion made up for her mistake an hour later in the 3,200.
Following a Jarrod Jakubiak 34- yard field goal for Utah State that cut the lead to 31- 23 with 1: 56 left in the third, the Aggies had two more chances in the fourth. The pressure, naturally, has increased, but Mayne remains rather undistracted by his feat. Texas A& M put together a 13- 2 run to go up 32- 15 on Starks' 10- foot jumper with 9: 43 left in the first half and led by 13 at intermission. Smith scored 11 consecutive BC points as the Eagles cut it to 26- 23. But Burbank scored in the bottom of the seventh and won the game on Wayne Schull's run-scoring single in the ninth "Well, we're in the playoffs and we'll take it" Knaggs said.
Rutgers cornerback Derrick Roberson said Henry never stopped talking " He was talking trash the whole game, and right in front of the official' s face " Roberson said " They chose not to call it " Ryan Hart threw three touchdown passes for Rutgers, which made the game interesting by scoring twice after Henry was tossed. Five teams were in contention for three playoff slots and the conference crown with about two weeks left. But Zach MacDowall' s pass into the end zone on a fourth- and- 7 was incomplete. We have to sustain and stay with what works " The Sun Devils were swept by Cal for the first time since 1998- 99, also losing 64- 51 at home on Jan 17, when Hampton scored a career- high 28 points. RALEIGH, N.
Jack McClinton had 21 points to lead Miami( 10- 16, 3- 9, which trailed by 11 points with 1: 11 to play before hitting two 3- pointers in the final minute. In a 5-A game, Beverly Hills scored seven times in the fifth inning and held on to defeat top-seeded El Dorado of Placentia, 13-11, at Beverly Hills. Nichols' opened the second quarter with a 27- yard field goal to pull Ole Miss to 14- 6. Hammond hit three 3- pointers early in the second half to help break a 37- all tie at halftime. Wisconsin used an 8- 0 run to pull to 52- 41 with 14: 22 remaining. Richter missed a baseline runner and a 3- point attempt, and Lauren Kohn failed on a long 3. She set meet records in each event to help Point Loma to the team title, 167-162, over Azusa Pacific.
He then cut back across the field and slipped past a tackler into the open for the longest Kansas punt return since 1971. The Spartans led by as many as 20 points in the second half. The nation' s longest homecourt winning streak ended at 32 games when Kirk Walters, displaced in the starting lineup by freshman Marcus Williams, made a free throw with 5 1 seconds to go. Dowdell' s third 3- pointer of the first half pulled the Hokies within 24- 23, and then North Carolina got serious, exploiting the Hokies inside May had 11 points in the half and Jawad Williams nine. Although the ending was unlikely, with a freshman tight end cradling a perfect pass from a quarterback who was mostly terrible otherwise, the final result was no shock to Cal( 9- 4. Once Reid stepped in front of a pass by Hall and sprinted untouched for a touchdown, the Seminoles were up 37- 14 and the blue- clothed fans who packed LaVell Edwards Stadium sat silently as a small contingent of FSU fans chanted and chopped in the northwest corner.
HARRISONBURG, Va( AP- James Madison players were tired of hearing about Kristi Toliver' s homecoming, and they were determined to shut her down They succeeded. Associated PressSTANFORD, Calif- Nobody will overlook Marist anymore. Now even if I get my brain bashed in again, I'll still know I can pitch in this league" Hawkins pitched even better than Glavine for six innings, blanking the Braves on four singles. But Ron Lashl reached base when his one-bouncer was misplayed by Milligan for an error. Because you never encounter the kind of conditions that forced him to learn those shots' "He's right On all our courses, all those bad lies are lined off. Memphis answered with the 9- 0 run to rebuild the lead to double digits " This team plays hard; this team is playing well " Memphis coach John Calipari said. Both offenses struggled on a raw, windy day, but Iowa State( 4- 4, 2- 3 Big 12) made enough plays on defense and in the kicking game to forge its first two- game winning streak since starting the 2003 season with two straight victories.
He lost it all on two pitches-the home run by Trammell and an earlier homer by Chet Lemon that gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the fourth Swindell hadn't allowed a home run in 44 innings. At least that's what Isiah and Magic were saying after the game They're still friends, they said Still the NBA's Bob and Bing. Pittsburgh finally started to hit some shots and after missing its first nine 3- point attempts, Carl Krauser and Antonio Graves made consecutive 3s to get the Panthers within 46- 39 with 7: 50 to play. After Alex Tyler hit a jumper at 16: 59, Cornell missed 11 straight shots before Dale drained a 3 from left wing to snap a scoreless drought of more than 5 1/ 2 minutes.
This is the first time it has been played in Southern California. IRVINE, Calif( AP- Guillaume Yango made a 15- foot jumper for Pacific with 3. LSU never trailed by more than four- and wasn' t behind at all in the second half " When they start out well and the crowd gets behind them, they' re tough, and it' s hard to play from behind " Brady said " So it was important for us, in the first 10 minutes particularly, to start as well as we did " But the combination of Bass and Davis- a 6- foot- 9, 310- pound freshman nicknamed " Baby Shaq- was too much for Mississippi State to contain- even on its home floor, where the Bulldogs had been unbeatable during the past 12 months. 14 AP( 9- 2) jump all the way to the top spot in the women' s college basketball poll " It doesn' t matter what they think " Rutgers guard Nikki Jett said " We believe we' re No 1 " The victory capped a remarkable week for coach C. But we want to be a revenue- producer the way Connecticut and Tennessee have been " That atmosphere gave the Spartans an added advantage they probably didn' t need in beating the inexperienced Wolverines( 6- 8, 0- 2) for the seventh straight time " With about 13 minutes to go, we looked a little shellshocked " Michigan coach Cheryl Burnett said " But it was a great environment You want your players to revel in that. 25 Texas to a 74- 55 win over Texas State on Tuesday night in Jody Conradt' s 999th game as the head coach of the Longhorns.
