They were well prepared, and they looked like a championship team. 24 AP) win its first game as a ranked team, 72- 66 over UC Santa Barbara on Friday night. Some of the things we preach, we didn' t get accomplished " Fresno State should keep its first ranking since 2001, when the Bulldogs upset three BCS conference teams on the road. Longwood( 3- 10) and Virginia Intermont exchanged the lead 16 times throughout the game. Snow and the Loyola team returned from NCAA regional play in Oklahoma on Monday.
HOUSTON( AP- Michael Hill threw for two touchdowns, leading Prairie View A& M to a 25- 7 win over Texas Southern on Saturday night. Afterward, Barkley said his corner had told him to "go for it" in the third. Olayinka Sanni added 15 points for West Virginia and Sparkle Davis and Meg Bulger scored 11 apiece. 25 Virginia Tech rebounded from its first loss with a 91- 52 victory against High Point. Kiera Hardy missed a long 3- point shot at the buzzer that hit the rim and bounced off. Valenzuela had planned on making his first riding appearance in more than a month at the Downs at Albuquerque, N. M, last Saturday. Last Friday in the first round of the Southern Section 4-A playoffs, Arias, the kid who used to lob pitches to his brothers and uncles, tossed a no-hitter against Leuzinger.
RENO, Nev( AP- It was sloppy, even ugly, but Nevada coach Mark Fox said he' ll take the Wolf Pack' s 56- 46 win over Norfolk State " Not all wins are pretty but the bottom line is it was a win That' s the object of the game " Fox said as Nevada( No 21 ESPN/ USA Today; No 20 AP) overcame 37. Harris Mansell had 17 points and Terrance Mouton added 16 points for the Broncs. The Lady Vols played in front their third straight sellout crowd " The hard part would be to get this team to play well when we didn' t have a lot of people in the stands " Summitt said " I think they thrive on it ". But Franken does not have to apologize for a 110-meter high hurdles field that includes two-time world champion Greg Foster, 1984 Olympic champion Roger Kingdom and 1987 Mobil Grand Prix overall champion Tonie Campbell. The Falcons had no one to match up with the 7- foot- 1 Nevill, so they relied on the quickness of Burtschi, who was giving up 7 inches, and Welch, 5 inches shorter " It was hard to get the ball inside to me " said Nevill, who came in averaging 17. Green, Magic Johnson and Mychal Thompson-have 70 rebounds combined.
North Carolina was the only school to have both its men' s and women' s basketball teams earn No 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. We just kept running, running, running " she said " Sarah' s just amazing as a point guard. Murray's run-scoring single in the first gave the Orioles a 1-0 lead. Thompson, who will have a tough matchup against Cal' s Pac- 10 Player of the Year, Devanei Hampton, had 10 points and four boards in the second half and made all five of her free throws in the Sun Devils' eighth straight victory Arizona State shot 26- for- 28 from the line. Beck (10-4, working the outside corner, walked 3 and struck out 13, two short of his career high.
Texas State outscored Rice 20- 8 over the first 6: 45 of the game. The Arizona State guard had a season- high 18 points and Kristen Kovesdy added 14, leading the Sun Devils to a 61- 50 upset of No. 6 points per game, and this was their lowest yield of the season. The one- time running back spun around one defender and shook off three arm tackles while cutting back across the field for his first touchdown catch since 2007 " It was kind of a scramble " Little said. As for Joyner-Kersee, she has had to make her last shot at the record her best one. Coach told us in the locker room to come out and play tough. Then I saw something moving in the bushes" Until then, Purcell hadn't seen the cub "I brought it down to Rich" Purcell said.
Stephens says the horse is too tired by the results of his controversial decision to send Forty Niner out to challenge the filly on the lead of the Preakness. Ohio State' s fans pointed at Michigan' s bench and chanted " N- I- T! N- I- T " in the final minute. The fifth- seeded Blue Demons led 35- 15 in the first half and 47- 30 with 17: 48 left but needed a late comeback- and a great play by Dant- to dispatch the 12th- seeded Hokies. But those fans were nervous until the Bears took a big lead in the third quarter. Hodges made six of 10 shots as the 49ers( 6- 18, 4- 10 Big West Conference) won their third consecutive game for the first time since February 2002. Carter lost the state discus title Saturday to John Wirtz of San Jose Leland, but he used the defeat as motivation in the shotput at the California Interscholastic Federation state track and field championships in Norwalk.
Whenever the Cardinals sent extra bodies to double- team, the Hoyas simply kicked it out for open 3- pointers. LOS ANGELES( AP- Leon Powe led all Pac- 10 players in scoring and was second in rebounding going into Thursday night' s conference opener. Leading scorer Mardy Collins had just nine points on 3- of- 12 shooting for Temple and didn' t score in the first half. That was a proposal to give the teachers a total 8. 2% pay raise this year and a pledge of "not less than 4" in 1986-87. For the 10th straight time, he went at least seven innings. Larry McWilliams shudders at the thought of how close his career came to a premature end last fall Two things saved him First, there was successful rotator cuff surgery Next, Manager Whitey Herzog of the St Louis Cardinals invited him to spring training.
The 6-10 center-forward was in and out of trouble in college before turning pro after just his sophomore season at North Carolina State. 3 points per game, went only 3- of- 12 for seven points " We take pride in our defense " Raymond said " Our intensity is what we key on. He is the tallest player in the history of professional tallball. After Indiana broke to an early 16- 8 lead, the Eagles charged back. It's real satisfying" Conover's emergence as a competitive world-class runner was so sudden that it caught the commentators for the nationally televised race unprepared. With the lead, the Athletics naturally brought in Dennis Eckersley, and for the 17th time in 18 chances, the veteran right-hander earned the save. Syracuse ended Pitt' s 40- game home winning streak last season by becoming the first visiting team to win in the Petersen Events Center, which opened for the 2002- 03 season " It didn' t feel like we were down 17 " Pitt' s Levon Kendall said " We made a lot of mental mistakes that gave them open shots, and we knew that if we played as well as we could, it wouldn' t be a problem coming back It wasn' t anything to get worried about " Apparently not.
Now that he has taken Bowa's place in the dugout, McKeon has discovered that Marvell Wynne might be able to fill both voids. She hit the go- ahead jumper with 51 seconds left and outscored George Washington( No 14 ESPN/ USA Today, No 16 AP) by herself over the final 20 minutes. That' s the lowest by a Division I team since 1986, when the shot clock was implemented. The Cavaliers( 8- 2) have won their last 20 home games against in- state opponents and improved to 4- 0 all- time against Hampton( 5- 5 They returned to action after a 12- day break for exams.
The outcome might have been enough to give the Terrapins a No. And the Deacons did it with only nine turnovers, tying their fewest this season " That' s the best we' ve played in a while " Prosser said. Under race conditions, the weights were based on earnings, and the big three had won more than $7. 5 million between them, whereas Cutlass Reality had barely $500,000 to his credit. It felt great " The Wildcats( 7- 5) pulled within 36- 31 with 2: 29 remaining when Brett Basanez threw a 9- yard touchdown pass to Mark Philmore, but Breazell- a receiver lined up to make sure the Bruins kept the ball- returned the ensuing onside kick 43 yards. The Cougars, one of the worst shooting teams in the nation at 39 7 percent, nailed 55 3 percent of their shots Washington State' s only better effort this season( 57 4) came in a 69- 52 win at Southern Cal on Jan 8 Gabriel Pruitt led Southern Cal with 10 The Trojans shot just 41. Anderson completed 17 of 31 passes for 249 yards, all but 47 in the first half.
Airese Currie returned the kickoff to the Georgia Tech 31 with 3 seconds to go. He actually roots for his son not to play, at least as far as pinch-hitting is concerned "If he doesn't get in, that means we're winning" he said. He zigzagged into the end zone on his long run to help the Buckeyes take to a 21- 7 halftime en route to their third Fiesta Bowl victory in four years Holmes caught five passes for 124 yards Ohio State had a Fiesta Bowl- record 27 first downs. Then Prince stole the ball, passed upcourt to Tyler Smith who threw it crosscourt to Lofton in the left corner, and the senior finally got his first bucket with 44 6 seconds left in the half. Boddicker and Davis pitched better in the majors, under his eye, than they ever had in the minors. With Curtis Conway and Travis Hannah back from the team that suffered the heartbreak in 1987, the Cougars easily won their signature race in 3:13. 63, about 3 seconds ahead of second-place Muir The memories of last year served them well "It was in the back of everybody's mind" Courtney said "Especially mine "We talked about it before the race. Rasheem Barrett led Auburn with 19 points and Ronnie LeMelle added 12 Both teams hit seven 3- pointers Auburn had 45.
