BOSTON( AP- Notre Dame( No 7 ESPN/ USA Today, No. Doug Saunders of Esperanza went 2 for 3 with a double and 2 runs scored Tuesday in a 12-3 semifinal victory over Beverly Hills. Andrei Capusan also had 8 points for Lafayette, followed by Jamaal Douglas with 7 and two other players with 6. It was only the seventh loss Marshall has had at home since it opened its stadium in 1991, and its first season- opening home loss since 1977.
The central character in this latest case is Chris Mills, a do-everything player from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles who signed with Kentucky last November. With the crowd of 16, 618 evved up for " Paint the Hall Orange " night- even Illini coach Bruce Weber sported a dayglo orange blazer- Illinois took a seven- point lead five minutes into the game and Wake Forest never recovered. Oklahoma was only 1- for- 11 on 3- pointers in the first half but still led 32- 28 at the break. Wichita State forced 21 turnovers, including the late inbounds pass, and Braeuer had four steals. Michigan State scored the first 12 points of the second half, including a pair of three- pointers by Keane, to take a 33- point lead. STILLWATER, Okla( AP- Oklahoma State kept leaving Morenike Atunrase open behind the arc, so she just kept shooting. "There is a chance that we'd win three games in one day, and we want to go the finals" Hicks indicated that Lucio Chiadez, who threw one-third of an inning in relief on Saturday against Cypress after starting and exiting early in Friday's loss, would probably pitch the remaining two innings of Saturday's game.
The regional winners advance to the College World Series, Friday at Omaha. Temple will play Rutgers, a 62- 37 winner over Hartford, in a second- round game Tuesday. COLLEGE PARK, MD( AP- The Maryland Terrapins started their game against UMBC with an onslaught of 3- pointers They never stopped Marissa Coleman scored 18 points and No. Calhoun said he thought his team played looser once he left the bench " We just had to come together " said Jerome Dyson, who played all 40 minutes for Connecticut " We had a lot of stops and we played good team defense " Dyson led UConn with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Dudley also had 10 rebounds to help BC to a 39- 31 advantage.
Larry McWilliams (4-0) was the winner and Todd Worrell gave up one run in the last 2 innings for his 14th save. Purdue led 26- 19 in the first half before Louisville rallied. A little more than an hour before tipoff, Cincinnati announced that senior point guard Chadd Moore would sit out the first five games for playing in a summer league without clearance Instead, two of Huggins' former assistants ran the game. David Dees scored 21, Leo Lightbourne had 14 points and 11 rebounds and Glyn Turner added 10 for Liberty( 9- 13, 7- 4 Liberty outrebounded Winthrop 43- 33, but shot only 36 5 percent on the night. The inside- outside combination of Pondexter and Wright helped the Scarlet Knights pick up the tempo " I know what I can do This is my fifth year.
Pfister paced the Cowboys with his second 70 that put him in a four-way tie for second at 216 with Steve Stricker of Illinois, Chris DeMarco of Florida and O. D Vincent of Washington. Rushing made all five of his field- goal attempts, including four 3- pointers, and tied a school record for career 3- pointers with his 190th. She had not expected any great things, she said " Not with the way I' ve been shooting " she said " Sometimes it felt like I was 0- of- 36 from the 3- point line " Carrem Gay and Lindsey Harding had 16 points apiece for Duke( 17- 0, 3- 0 Atlantic Coast Conference. Travis Parker scored 17 points to lead the Nittany Lions, who also got 14 points from Claxton and 13 apiece from Smith and Aaron Johnson. They haven' t been in the Top 25 since the end of the 2003 season " We have something special going here, so we' re just going to keep going " Taylor said. The Pistons, who shot just 12 free throws to the Lakers' 34 on Sunday, went to the line twice that many times in the first half alone and finished with 46 free throws, converting 36 The Lakers made 28 of 37.
The Cyclones led by 37 at halftime and cruised through the second half when the only question was whether coach Wayne Morgan would leave his regulars in long enough for Iowa State to score 100 He didn' t. From Hall of Fame basketball player Rick Barry: "If I were a young player today, I would practice shooting from outside the three-point circle I would shoot, shoot, shoot that shot. He had only 2 hits in his last 13 at-bats, and of his last 14 hits, only two went for extra bases Armas came into Tuesday night's game batting just . 219. Tyler McGinn scored 12 points to lead the Mustangs, who have lost 13 of their last 16 road games.
