In girls' basketball, which has 64 teams competing, Los Angeles Locke will be playing for its third straight championship. Curry had only two points and four fouls in 17 minutes in the first Bedlam game, then made his first career start in the Cowboys' next contest In his four starts, he' s averaging 16 5 points. Bryan Cupito, who has slumped since starting strong in his first season as a starter, finished 9- for- 16 for 73 yards and two interceptions. Forty-six minutes later, just before midnight, the game was restarted and McCullers was gone. The Warriors had taken the lead with 5: 27 left on Alex Green' s 2- yard touchdown run. Instead, the top- ranked Trojans seemed thrilled to be in a close game- and they rode a wave of halftime emotion to a 31- 28 victory Saturday night " I don' t think it was anger.
ATHENS, Ga( AP- Christina Wirth scored 18 points to lead Vanderbilt to a 61- 54 win over Georgia( No 14 ESPN/ USA Today, No 17 AP) on Sunday. After sinking a 3- pointer from the top of the key, she scored a basket in transition off Melissa Jones' steal and then hit two free throws that extended Baylor' s lead to 66- 59 with 8 minutes remaining. A blonde got my attention" Quotebook American League umpire Joe Brinkman on why an ump must never hope to be liked: "If (Earl) Weaver saw you on the street, he'd still think you were a bad guy, the scum of the earth". Even if, in the process, Downing is providing a bit of suspense, however negligible. The Bernie Milligan All-Star Game game did not exactly end as Mark Cavarretta had hoped, but maybe he can take solace in the fact that nobody from the victorious East team is sitting in Hawaii right now. 17 DePaul in the San Juan Shootout 74- 73 on Thursday night.
The Padres will carry a four-inning streak of steady boos into their game with Philadelphia tonight. Jody McLeod added 11 points and 11 rebounds for Montana, which led 33- 22 at halftime Center Hollie Tyler had 10 points and five blocked shots. Brown then punted after going three- and- out, and on the first play from scrimmage Verbit found a wide open Shields down the left side for a 50- yard touchdown pass. Katie Gearlds led Purdue( 4- 2) with 14 points and 11 rebounds but also committed seven of the Boilermakers' 21 turnovers Erin Lawless added 13 points for Purdue. Radziejewski' s jumper with 26 seconds left in the second overtime made it 80- 80. Y( AP- Darnell Wilson had 16 points and seven rebounds as Canisius snapped a five- game losing streak and beat Siena 67- 50 Sunday. TORONTO-Dan Berthel (El Camino College, of; Eric Brooks (La Mirada HS, c; Greg Davis (North Torrance HS, p; Rich Holifield (Ganesha HS, of; Jason Hutson (Arizona St, p; Tom Irwin (Victor Valley HS, p; Christian Kerr (Cal Baptist, p; Jeff Kidwiler (Chapman, inf; Jeff Lawrence (Fallbrook HS, p; Anthony Mills (Taft HS, inf-of; Jeff Mooney (Chapman, p; Rich Nowak (San Diego St, p; Greg Ohalloran (Orange Coast College, c; Brad Raulston (La Jolla HS, of; Ed Sprague (Stanford, inf. .
Bynum was ridiculous " Virginia Tech, which has won four straight, including three ACC games by a total of four points, was up by 11 midway through the second half. The Leuzinger loss, McKeon says, was the most devastating of the season. The Jaspers( 0- 1) scored the next 10 points to get within eight with 5: 55 to go, but Whitney and Nutter both scored down low in a 6- 2 run that made it 56- 44 with 4: 21 left Gaines had 13 points for the Pirates Sophomore forward C J. The ball was in-bounded to Abdul-Jabbar, who spotted Magic, who dusted off Dumars. He had shoulder surgery in December and won the starting job despite missing spring practice in Gus Malzahn' s newly installed offense. Asked to name his best baseball experience to date, he thought back on his World Series championship and his first big league homer and his first big league at-bat, then gave his answer "Now" he said. .
James Chappell and Grandgirard each hit two 3s in the first half. Mark Jones and Brian Roberts each scored 13 points for Dayton( 6- 4, which saw its five- game winning streak snapped Trent Meacham added 10 points The Flyers entered the game allowing 60 2 points per game. It's a perpetual roadtrip broken only by a two-week vacation. BOSTON — EDITOR'S NOTE-A major league umpire tries to be the unnoticed man on the field. The Jaguars( 13- 13, 6- 6) had their three- game winning streak snapped. Segota scored once in each of the first two periods and twice in both the third and fourth to tie the single-game scoring mark set by Juli Veee in 1982. The Wolverines used a 19- 9 run- including 10 points, four rebounds, an assist and a steal by Fairbanks- to take the 81- 71 lead.
TUCSON, Ariz( AP- The 3- point line has been extended beyond 20 feet as an experiment in the Preseason NIT That hardly mattered to Salim Stoudamire. Langhorne scored 28 in Maryland' s regional semifinal win over Vanderbilt " They made us work for any shot that we got " Maryland coach Brenda Frese said " They made everything extremely difficult " Added Langhorne " They had a great game plan and did a great job " Toliver did her best to rally Maryland and matched Wiggins, both scoring 24 in the second half, this night was about Stanford' s star " We' ve had great teams and great individual players " VanDerveer said " I don' t know that there' s been anyone that does more for their team than Candice does " It was Wiggins who ignited the Cardinal' s decisive run early in the second half. Game 1 of the Major Indoor Soccer League championship series had as much intensity and drama as an old western in which everybody keeps getting shot in the leg, but nobody dies What's worse, it took overtime to decide. We didn't do that, and we were lucky to win" That's because when Clavijo scored his second goal of the game in overtime, the Force wasn't afforded a second chance. Henson (4-4, who was academically ineligible the first half of the year, survived a scare in the bottom of the seventh when Richard Ortiz's looper to left field landed foul by a few feet with Jesse Romero, the tying run, at second.
John Tudor, Danny Cox, Joe Magrane and Greg Mathews, the key starters on the team that won the National League pennant last season, have all been injured Only Tudor is healthy now At first McWilliams was a reliever But lately he's been a valuable starter. We approached this game like it was a live or die situation " The title game between the Huskies( 22- 7) and regular- season champion Rutgers is a matchup of the two best defensive teams in the league. Kansas State never trailed in the second half, but its lead dwindled to 53- 51 on a basket by Jackie McFarland midway through the half. Carter also placed second in the discus with a throw of 186-2, a personal record by six feet. Veee was busy executing a series of back-heel passes in traffic, and Branko Segota was trying slicing shots with the outside of his foot.
A basket by Rob Kampman with 1: 36 left gave Wichita a 60- 58 lead, but two free throws by Southwest Missouri' s Blake Ahearn with 1: 10 left tied it again at 60. Since then, Evert has shown the performance was no fluke as she already has defeated Navratilova twice in 1988. Versatile Jose Oquendo, a third baseman in this game, also singled to drive in the final run and send Maddux to the showers "I've had my share of breaks this year" Maddux said. But he's still a force and a team leader" Yet despite his lower average, Bible's intensity has not waned. Although the Bulldogs (17-6) are ranked just one spot ahead of the Bruins (17-9, the home-court advantage made Georgia that much more of a favorite. All of that was the result of a new computer program that helped the NCAA rules committee decide not only what teams were selected, but where those teams will play.
being the genius that he is, the great coach" in an attempt to joke that for Boston, it was all a designed play. 9 Stanford stayed unbeaten in the conference, extending its winning streak to 16 games with a 73- 65 victory over No. It' s tough to put a finger on why we played so poorly " said coach David Cutcliffe " There have been things all year long to plague us. Without Humphrey, Georgia relied on three 3- pointers from Chambers. They shot a miserable 3- for- 17 and went nearly eight minutes without scoring. He retired the first 21 Minnesota Twins he faced before Gary Gaetti spoiled his dream with a lead-off double in the eighth Kilgus settled for a one-hitter and a 3-0 victory. 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.
