Rod Davis, sailmaster for the New Zealand Challenge, said he was "quite happy" with the performance of the America's Cup challenger boat after it tested the waters off San Diego for the first time. BOSTON( AP- Cappie Pondexter put on quite a performance for someone who is still working her way into game shape. After Hill' s two free throws gave the Cardinal their only lead at 7- 6, USC pulled ahead 25- 16 with a 19- 9 run capped by Stewart' s 3- pointer and 16- foot bank shot. Abrams even saw time at safety in what was his final collegiate start. Huffman connected on three 3- point shots while Jeppesen contributed seven points. The Pirates( 8- 12, 5- 5 Mid- Eastern Athletic Conference) outshot Bethune- Cookman, making 49 percent to the Wildcats' 30 2 percent The Pirates also outrebounded Bethune- Cookman 38- 26.
Leading in the best-of-seven series, 3-0, the Oilers pulled even with the Bruins, 3-3, in Game 4 Tuesday night when the lights went out in Boston Garden at 16 minutes 37 seconds of the second period, leading to an evacuation of the crowd of 14,451 and eventually forcing postponement of the game That, in turn, led to a revision of the series schedule. Grace sparked a 14- 5 run with three 3- pointers and a layup to give South Florida a 30- 19 lead midway through the first half. NEW HAVEN, Conn( AP- Senior guard Edwin Draughan scored 20 points and added five assists to lead Yale to a 56- 43 win over Princeton on Friday night. It will be the Bulldogs' first postseason appearance since advancing to the Division II regionals in 1997. The Huskies, who have no seniors on their roster, stopped a four- game losing skid. Sherell Hobbs added 12 points for the Tigers, and Trevesha Jackson grabbed seven rebounds.
J( AP- Antoine Pearson scored 22 points and fellow guard Rashad Green added 16 points and seven rebounds to lead Manhattan over host Princeton 71- 66 on Sunday. Stanford shot 51 percent from the field( 25- 51) against the Pac- 10' s top- ranked scoring defense. Using a twist first-serve designed for consistency rather than power, Wilander missed exactly one first serve-out of 73-in the match. After Anne Salzman flied to center, Till singled to left, with Wills crawling home after colliding with catcher Louise Lee, who was trying to catch left fielder Patty Romero's throw. It was the only field goal Montgomery hit all night as the Bison had a defender shadow the Lobos' point guard all night.
He was efficient in the pocket as well, completing 7- of- 10 passes for 75 yards. The Wolverines outrebounded the Hurricanes 42- 27, getting 18 points on offensive rebounds Different players performed well in spurts for Michigan. Montana State reassembled offensively with a 23- 12 run to get within one point after the Bobcats' Marvin Moss completed a three- point play with 1: 27 left. Rod Davis, who skippered the Newport Harbor Yacht Club's ill-fated Eagle at Fremantle, grew up around San Diego but his wife, Liz, is a Kiwi. It was still tied, 60- all, when Kansas State' s Marlies Gipson hit a runner off the glass with just over 6 minutes left. 1 pick in the June, 1982, draft and the highest amateur pick in New York City history.
Kansas split a tackle wide again when Reesing completed a pass to convert a fourth- and- 1 situation, which led to a touchdown for a 17- 0 lead. Mercer' s floater in the lane made it 44- 41, but Kemp made a free throw and a 3- pointer to put Nevada ahead 45- 44 with 11: 43 to go. Florida Atlantic( 6- 13, 6- 6 Atlantic Sun Conference) was behind by as many as seven points in the first half, then made an 11- point run to take the lead and never trailed again. Sullinger got a hand on it but the ball rolled off and was rebounded by Robinson " The first option was any open man " Dials said " I had a good shot but I just missed it I thought J J. USC and UCLA are a combined 8- 0 " We will be a better offense " Neuheisel said " But given the way our offense was playing, I thought it was better to put it in[ the defense' s] hands " Trailing by 6, the Vols( 1- 1) had a chance to take the lead after driving 52 yards, but UCLA( 2- 0) held fast and Lane Kiffin lost for the first time as Tennessee coach. Vigo batted . 444 and had 5 doubles, 3 triples, 4 home runs, 29 runs batted in and a . 764 slugging percentage. Fans grew rowdy at the prospect that Penn State might win their first game since Jan 3.
Associated PressSAN DIEGO- The Brigham Young Cougars( No 22 ESPN/ USA Today; No 21 AP) never had a chance against San Diego State. Mark Goebel recovered the ball and Michigan State took over at the Gophers 36. The unusual part of Long's 16-inch, 6-pound bass was a rainbow shrimp clinging to its head. Chauncey Hardy' s dunk off a pass from Drew Shubik put the Pioneers up 17- 7 just seven minutes into the game, and SHU built that to 41- 23 at intermission Hardy finished the game with 11 points. Florida transfer Ingle Martin could drive the Paladins after the kickoff.
They both shoot the heck out of it " Pitino said of the Division II schools from Oahu " I don' t look at it as Division I and Division II The teams we played are good teams. The top- seeded Hawks( 26- 3) advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season and third time in five years under coach Jennifer Rizzotti, a former national player of the year at Connecticut. Purdue took its biggest lead at 66- 47 and Michigan State never came closer than 10 after that Kalika France added 14 points for Purdue. Hawthorne finished with 44 points to beat Long Beach Poly by 5 and Cerritos by 8.
Pitt pulled to 45- 44, before the Golden Eagles went on their final run with just under seven minutes left Neither team shot well. Western Kentucky shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half( 11- of- 22) to slowly pull away from the Blue Raiders( 12- 14, 7- 8 SBC. Georgia took some time to find its rhythm, missing six of its first eight shots. Scottie Rice scored 13, despite going 0- for- 5 from 3- point range. It was the second shutout and fourth victory this month for Kilgus, who has suddenly blossomed into a winner. Butch Leal, winner of the Winternationals pro stock final at Pomona and one of the National Hot Rod Assn's leading drivers, will be featured on Sunday's episode of Hidden Heroes, a motor racing program on Nashville Network.
"But when you get your first win, your confidence goes way up" Those who have watched him develop say Chieffo continues to win because of his improved driving and putting, which have complemented an already strong short game. Howell went 7- for- 13 from the field in 22 minutes for the Rockets( 9- 9, 5- 4 Mid- American Conference, who closed out the game with a 7- 0 run Justin Ingram added 12 points and seven rebounds. "Driving from one tournament to another was such an adventure" said Case, 26 "The animals just roam free There are so few people to bother them, except on the roads Everything runs across the road Birds, little rodents, kangaroos, everything It's something I just wasn't used to "In Los Angeles, you never see any wild animals. Ballard was admitted to the hospital late Thursday afternoon after complaining of chest pains. . But as the clock began to wind down, the 5- foot- 7 point guard drove the ball into the lane " I was supposed to get the ball to Ashley[ Lindsey " said Cortijo " She wasn' t open and nobody else was open.
But the Blue Devils did not, and Washington said the team looked over to her briefly with a mystified look " They just said' Well what do we do " Washington said " I said' Well, go " O' Rourke listened, driving the length of the court into the lane before finding Wolf. Germain Mopa Njila scored seven points in a 13- 3 run that gave Vermont( 5- 3) a 47- 42 lead halfway through the second half He finished with 13 points and T J Sorrentine added 15 for the Catamounts. She scored Purdue' s final basket of the first half and her team' s first nine points after the break to bring the Boilermakers within 33- 28. It was all too reminiscent of the Trojans' 34- 31, triple- overtime loss in Berkeley last fall. Which was also past media-appearance time, and past practice time.
A total of 53 fouls in the game made it difficult for either side to get into a rhythm, but the Phoenix took advantage of the situation by hitting 28- of- 33 free throws( 85 percent) compared to just 16- of- 26( 62 percent) for Northern Illinois " Obviously( them making) 28 of 33 free throws certainly sealed the deal " said Northern Illinois first- year coach Ricardo Patton " Sixty- one percent free- throw shooting for our team, I don' t know if you can expect to beat anyone shooting that poorly " The Phoenix snapped a two- game losing streak and won the only home game it played in the month of December. But that's not part of our business plan at the present time. He sat out his fourth straight game with a sore left hamstring, leaving the team without its second- leading scorer. 2 seconds left to lift Nebraska to a 62- 61 victory over Tennessee on Thursday night.
IOWA CITY, Iowa( AP- Ashlee Trebilcock scored 25 points to help Ohio State( No 20 ESPN/ USA Today, No 21 AP) beat Iowa 73- 65 on Sunday Ohio State built a 17- point halftime lead, shooting 61 3 percent from the field. Trailing by six at halftime, the Wildcats took leads of 36- 35 and 38- 37 before Ajavon' s 3- pointer forged the game' s 10th and final lead change. Packer led Ohio State with a career- high 19 points, shooting 5- for- 6 from behind the arc. Former Duke head coach Ted Roof was hired as the defensive coordinator, the latest man asked to turn this sieve- like unit around.
But the Spartans rallied, tying the score at 49 on Shimek' s 15- footer with 3: 52 to go, taking the lead on another 15- footer by Shimek and shutting out Minnesota for the last 4: 17. That was part of a 11- 2 Arizona State run, fueled by the absence of Hampton, who turned her left ankle with 7: 22 remaining. Nowadays, everything fits: caps and Cochell, Cochell and Fullerton, Fullerton and the College World Series. He had the Longhorns' only two field goals of the second half and went 8- for- 8 from the foul line as Texas scored 22 of its 27 second- half points on free throws " We got shots We got wide- open looks sometimes. Hardy had nine points as the Seawolves opened the second half with an 18- 5 run to take a 45- 37 lead with 5: 11 to play.
In between the two extremes are many general managers and coaches wondering where the money to pay the players an average salary of $900,000 six years hence will come from and if they'll be able to handle the athletes who'll be receiving it. "This is just another of those hard ways to go" The Lakers, who had fought back from nine points down, 96-87, with 6:59 to play to close within one, 99-98, on Michael Cooper's three-pointer with 3:38 to go, had a chance to tie when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rebounded a 12-foot miss by Rolando Blackman with 11 seconds to go. Don and Lori and the family's three other couples are sometimes together for Christmas at Dingmans Ferry, which has a 50-cent toll bridge-one of the world's few privately owned toll bridges-plus a post office, and not much else. Hopefully, we can celebrate in April " It was the third straight loss for the Owls( 13- 13, 7- 6 " A couple of times we missed out on assignments " Rice coach Willis Wilson said " We felt like there were a couple of( Memphis) guys that we needed to get to, and we didn' t get to them. Green scored 20 points in the second half and the Gators overcame an 18- point deficit to beat the Crimson Tide( No.
