15 Texas' 110- 38 victory over Prairie View A& M " I' ve missed 20 days and have only been practicing the last three days " Buckman said " I wasn' t going down, I had to play through and get back into the game " P J. He is batting . 308, and his home run and a third-inning bunt single extended his hitting streak to seven games. Associated PressAUBURN, Ala( AP- Rasheem Barrett had 18 points to lead Auburn past Mercer 68- 59 Wednesday night. HONOLULU( AP- No. Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Texas( AP- Ryan Bright had 14 points and 11 rebounds in Sam Houston State' s 63- 51 victory over Stephen F Austin on Wednesday night. Edison's Terry Carpenter gave up 6 hits and struck out 30 of the 62 batters she faced in 19 innings. 9 percent in the second half, held UNO to a 36 percent night.
PISCATAWAY, N J( AP- In a split second, beating Notre Dame( No 7 ESPN/ USA Today; No. "The best part is you're in a small boat, you don't have to go very far and you're not out on the ocean getting beat up If the wind comes up you can slip into a cove. It was 3-1, 30-30 in the second set when the rain came, and it seemed to be a new Navratilova who greeted the capacity crowd and Zvereva when play resumed. So we wanted to focus on what we did wrong in the first half and come out with a different mentality in the third quarter " The schedule gets tougher for Cal beginning with a trip to Minnesota next week. But the normally automatic Nugent misfired, with his 40- yard field- goal attempt sailing wide right on the first overtime possession " It was probably one of the best balls I hit tonight " Nugent said " I thought it was going to be dead- center " Instead, the Wildcats got a second chance to put the Buckeyes away and they made the most of it.
Mike Williams taught and coached for eight years at Corona del Mar, Fountain Valley, Ocean View and Troy high schools. Tim Quintanilla came on in the ninth inning and got the final two outs after Washington State's Jim Connor hit a home run to move the Cougars to within a run The Trojans meet Fresno State today at 3:30 p. m in a matchup of the tournament's only unbeaten teams. After going 7-0 with Toronto in 1985, he did not pitch in the majors until he was called up by the Brewers last month. Micaela Cocks hit a pair of free throws to give Oregon its largest lead, 60- 38 with 1: 21 left " We' re a team and there are just some things we need to work on together " Hampton said " Just because our shots aren' t falling on offense we still have to grind it out on defense Tonight our defense didn' t quite get it ". He crashed into the wall in left after making a spectacular catch of Vince Coleman's line drive Hatcher was stunned, but held on to the ball If he drops it, Coleman gets an inside the park home run "I didn't know nothing for about 30 seconds" Hatcher said.
In the women's competition, Prairie View A&M of Texas, shooting for its seventh consecutive title, held a 27-25 lead over Wayland Baptist, also of Texas. The Cougars had 27 points off turnovers, compared with 15 for Chicago State. I' m happy for Aggies everywhere " A& M came in ranked for the first time since winning the old Southwest Conference tournament in March 1996 " It feels good " Franklin said " A& M hasn' t really beaten people at their home " The Longhorns( 12- 9, 6- 5) played without leading scorer Tiffany Jackson, who missed the game with a sprained right ankle. The win avenged last season's semifinal loss to the Eagles and handed Bell (19-1) its first loss of the season Reseda struggled with Bell for most of the 2 1/2-hour match.
Carter's two-out homer started a four-run first inning that chased Walt Terrell, and he doubled and scored one of two second-inning runs. Sacred Heart led 50- 43 with 15: 43 to go before Matt Preston and Brett Loscalzo led a 15- 8 run that tied it at 58 on Preston' s rebound of his own miss. Two other events, a Sports Car Club of America regional championship July 3-4 and the SCORE International off-road closed course championship race Aug. "We didn't produce at the right moment" first-year Westlake Coach Jaime Barajas said.
Penn took a 61- 55 lead on a 3- point shot by Bernardini with 3: 26 left in the game. "He had good off-speed stuff and he had our hitters off stride" Helms said, before turni. When he's trying to advance a runner, hit to the opposite field, he aims for the little peach tree down the right-field line. They' re a team you don' t want to play from behind " Alabama led 30- 20 at halftime and maintained a double- digit lead the rest of the way.
Jesse Pellot- Rosa led Virginia Commonwealth with 14 points, B A. Loara 13, Katella 7-Loara scored 7 runs in the fifth inning to break a 5-5 tie at Boysen Park. Stewart, who had gone 57 innings without giving up a home run, yielded consecutive homers to Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn in the fourth inning, and the Orioles went on to beat the Oakland Athletics, 4-1. The Jaguars, who forced 13 turnovers in each half, pulled within 48- 42 on a layup by Peter Cipriano with 4: 48 remaining.
Julia Paquette added 13 points and a game- high nine rebounds for the Wildcats Mercedes Robinson had 10 points. But we knew they were going to come out and play us tough " The Jayhawks, who haven' t started a season No. After Bryce Taylor' s layup, Kent got his 3- pointer, jumping up and down in celebration when it fell. We won't quit" Canoga Park (11-7, 10-5 in league play) already had clinched second place. And to complement that, Memphis shot 7- of- 13 from 3- point range. NATCHITOCHES, La( AP- Tyronn Mitchell recorded his fourth steal as Cedric Isom went up for a potential game- tying 3- point shot just before the final buzzer and Northwestern State escaped with a 77- 74 win over Division III East Texas Baptist Friday.
Colorado was in the bonus with 13: 32 left in the half and outscored the Aggies 9- 1 from the stripe. Pirkl finished the regular season with 9 home runs and a school-record 38 RBIs. Ganiyat Adeduntan grabbed 11 boards to help Florida State outrebound Lipscomb 50- 27 Adeduntan also had five of the Seminoles' 13 steals Katie Beth Pate led Lipscomb( 10- 8) with 15 points. The ball' s being spread around by everybody " Wake Forest got a boost from Ellis, a junior who missed the opener and much of the second game after he was suspended for violating team rules. Coach is always on me about going hard, I guess it paid off " Arizona had a foul to give, cutting the clock to 1. Fellow freshman Gabe Pruitt added 19 points for USC( 9- 11, 2- 7. Roussel had subjected Delahoussaye to some strange requirements in the days before the Derby.
Freshman point guard Chris Warren added 16 points and five assists for the Rebels( 6- 0, who are off to their best start since 2000- 01, when they advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. But Anderson noted that his players too often settled for the outside shot. The Wildcats hit five of their first six 3- point attempts, just three days after going 1- for- 7 from beyond the arc against Denver. Wojdat, who was swimming in the lane next to countryman Podkoscielny, was racing Podkoscielny and did not realize that Benner, one lane over, was in the lead. That was such a gutty performance " And it was one Dockery was ready for " That' s what I do best, get after people " Dockery said " I kept turning their guards and got after Gibson I think he got frustrated a little and that helped us I was real excited to play this team.
Arizona State( 14- 5, 6- 3) went on a 19- 6 run to take a 47- 36 lead with 8: 14 left and the Ducks never got closer than six. It began as an afterthought, became a footnote and is now something much more For a time, Mayne was in a groove Three times, he went 4 for 4 Later, he struggled. As is too often the case on network television, there was just too much camera-switching. However, Wyoming ran off 88 plays that consumed 38 minutes, 57 seconds of the game clock, compared to 69 plays and 21: 03 for the Falcons.
Still, she was far from satisfied " We' ve really gotten away from being the blue- collar team we' ve always been " Shimek said " We' ve got to come out and make the hustle plays to win the Big Ten, And to outrebound a team by five the way we did tonight is unacceptable " Casey Manning led the Chippewas( 9- 2) with 15 points, seven assists and six steals but committed eight turnovers. In the second half, Washington had another withering run, scoring 21 straight points to go ahead 93- 40 with 8: 31 left It was the first meeting between the schools. The win is A& M' s sixth straight over the Bears and is Baylor' s 24th straight Big 12 conference road loss. The one thing you can' t do is feel sorry for yourself " The Blue Devils cut a 20- point deficit to 58- 52 before Ekene Ibekwe and Mike Jones had two baskets apiece in a 10- 2 spree that made it 68- 54 with 3: 33 left. The Huskies( 4- 0) tipped off against the Saints just hours after learning that reserve guard Nicole Wolff was lost for the season with a torn ligament in her left knee.
Towson head coach Pat Kennedy said his team needed to execute better " That takes some time when you have as many new faces as we do " Kennedy said. Scott Hazelton led Rhode Island with 14 points and Terrence Mack added 12 Dayton led 27- 24 at halftime. Kevin Henderson scored 11 points and was 3- of- 4 on 3- pointers. Who goes through the turn first depends on whatever order we're lined up in. With 9: 29 remaining in the first half, Fowles stole the ball from Bronson Rodgers and drove slightly more than half the court before dunking from the right side " I did it probably because[ LSU assistant] coach[ Bob] Starkey didn' t let me do it today in pre- practice " Fowles said " It made me feel good It can happen again. 8 seconds left and two defenders on her to give the second- seeded Huskies a 77- 75 win Sunday night over Georgia in the Bridgeport Regional semifinal " It was a zone and it kind of broke down to a man- to- man " Turner said " I noticed the defense was kind of shifted towards the other end of the court and I called for the ball and took the shot " UConn will play top- seeded Duke in the regional final Tuesday night.
