Trey Gilder, who entered the game with a 17- point average, missed eight of 10 field goal attempts and scored only seven points. "The back-door play Earvin got us was the game" Laker Coach Pat Riley said, "no doubt about it" Magic, remember, is still playing with a nagging groin injury, and life is tough enough without your groin nagging you. "Palmer was an eccentric thoroughbred and they enjoyed that" Miller said. Rudy Gay had 22 points and three steals and Ed Nelson dominated down low with 11 rebounds in UConn' s 86- 44 victory on Sunday " We' re bigger, we' re stronger and we' re quicker. Backers hope it will lead to the permanent return of the Big 12 tournament, which returns to Dallas next year and will be played in Oklahoma City in 2007 " I tried to lobby the best I could to get that new arena " Sutton said " But this arena' s been good for the Cowboys, and I think it' s been good for college basketball ".
Associated PressCHARLESTON, Ill( AP- Amadi McKenzie had 15 points to lead Tennessee Tech to a 72- 53 Ohio Valley Conference win over Eastern Illinois on Thursday night. She took just one shot before picking up her second foul four minutes into the game, didn' t play again before intermission, and picked up her third foul just a minute into the second half. Arizona made a brief run at the Cardinal, closing within 33- 24 on Malia O' Neal layup with 2: 11 left, before Stanford closed out the half with a 7- 2 run capped by Cissy Pierce' s 14- foot jumper at the buzzer made it 40- 26. Whorton then nailed a 3 to give Drake the lead, and Jones followed with a putback to put the Bulldogs ahead by five with 2: 02 left Down 3 with 39. First baseman Clem Melendez is batting . 468 and is a two-time all-league selection Shawn Bowen (5-0, 2. 64) will start for Chatsworth Cleveland (7-12) vs Sylmar (12-10) At Sylmar 3 p. m. At 5- 0, this is believed to be Nevada' s best start since the team began the 1951- 52 season with 14 straight victories, but some of the school' s records prior to that year are incomplete. She is expected to rejoin the team early next week and assistant Lindsay Gottlieb coached in Boyle' s place " Joanne is in the right place " Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour said.
"I was the pitcher, but we would just throw underhand to each other" Arias, The Times' player of the week, said. Knight played on Ohio State' s national championship team in 1960 and was interested in coaching there after O' Brien was fired in June. But Tre Kelley and Josh Gonner made a foul shot each to close it out. It includes Kevin Bass of the Houston Astros, Alvin Davis and Mike Moore of the Seattle Mariners, Ron Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds and Jack McDowell of the Chicago White Sox. The Athletics have won 22 of their last 26 games to take a solid grip on first place in the West. Stanford( 2- 3) lost both games of its weekend road trip to the Southeastern Conference, falling to No 4 Tennessee 77- 60 on Friday The Cardinal are below.
Although only one run was earned, it was the worst outing of the season for Knepper In eight innings he gave up two runs. Keenum put the Cougars up early with a 6- yard touchdown pass to James Cleveland in the first quarter. But Zerman was steady in the second round. SAN DIEGO — Manny Zerman slammed a club into his bag It was not an act of frustration, but one of satisfaction "A graduation present" Zerman said to nobody in particular. A 10- 0 run gave Michigan State a 64- 46 lead with 13: 20 to play, and Brown scored six straight points to make it 73- 53 with 8: 13 left. 12 AP) went on from there to beat the Bruins 83- 73 Saturday " Once we got that timeout, the guys came out and made it tough for UCLA to score " Olson said. "What am I supposed to say" "Say something outrageous" someone teased him "Well, this was a big win for us" Dumars said "Say something real outrageous" the someone persisted.
One of the hits was a three-run home run by Jose Oquendo, just his third in 984 at-bats in the majors. After the San Francisco Giants won the National League West last season, Manager Roger Craig assured the fans that the club would do even better this season. Fittingly, it would come down to the 1,600-meter relay, the final race of the day, for the boys before a crowd of 5,450 at Cerritos College. Called up last Monday, he shut out the heavy-hitting Detroit Tigers Tuesday night on five hits He came right back to pitch another five-hitter. 500 mark in conference play for the first time in six seasons.
Ivan Radenovic added 10 points " We are far and away the best we' ve been all year " Arizona coach Lute Olson said " But we' re going to get better " Nick DeWitz and Jason Fontenet scored 16, and David Lucas had 15 for the Beavers( 14- 11, 6- 8, 0- 7 on the road in the Pac- 10. "He is such a great competitor and has just the right temperament for this game. Cincinnati opened with a 6- 0 run and then got run over by UConn' s fast- paced offense. We' re happy that he' s here for us, and we showed some fight for him too " Croom' s Bulldogs( 3- 6, 2- 4, 17- point underdogs, were still flirting with a third straight win midway through the fourth quarter. They (the Lakers) are up one game, but it's not over by any means". Judkins gathered his team just before they shook hands with the victors and told them to remember how the Utes poured it on until the very end, leaving their starters in to get more baskets and records " I told them remember the classy way that we handled it and the unclassy way that Utah handled it. Neither team scored until Portland State' s Keith Sconiers converted a shot at the 16: 40 mark.
Traore scored 17 of her 19 points in the second half and overtime to lead Purdue( No 11 ESPN/ USA Today; No 12 AP) to a 60- 56 victory over Minnesota( No 14 ESPN/ USA Today; No. The difference was, the Gamecocks never got back into the game against the Lady Vols No. Marshall Brown, the team' s third- leading scorer with an 11- point average, hit the game' s first basket but then finished with only three points " Where is Marshall Brown in this game " Anderson said " That' s what you say to yourself " The game came on the one- year anniversary of the forced resignation of Missouri coach Quin Snyder. Moments after the final buzzer, Westerberg took the public address microphone to thank the 4, 145 fans for their support. We just had to keep it going " Old Dominion coach Wendy Larry picked up her 500th career win at the school in the semifinals But win No. LAWRENCE, Kan( AP- Stephone Robinson scored the go- ahead touchdown on a 48- yard punt return and Lawrence Vickers added a late score to seal it, leading Colorado to a 30- 21 victory over Kansas on Saturday. Lewis Clinch led Georgia Tech with 22 points to match his career high.
3 percent of their field goal attempts, but were held to 32 7 percent shooting. Quinn went 10- for- 19 from the field and also pulled down eight rebounds. But Ryan Craig returned the ensuing kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown to give North Carolina Central( 2- 1) a 20- 17 advantage. Marquin Chandler led San Jose State( 4- 10, 1- 4) with 19 points, while Donta Watson added 14 and Alex Elam 13.
9 AP) trailed 32- 16 at halftime and were down 58- 57 after Larry O' Bannon hit two free throws for Louisville( No 14 ESPN/ USA Today, No 13 AP) with 15 2 seconds to go Smith called timeout with 4 8 seconds left to set up the decisive play. They are the first team to have two lottery picks in the same year and are guaranteed to get no worse than the fourth choice because they finished with the worst record in the NBA. At Redondo Sportfishing: The Sharpshooter fished Rocky Point and returned with 85 calico bass, 48 sculpin, 23 sand bass, 4 halibut and 3 barracuda. When this team understands that they can generate points off their defense, that will be good ". After Georgia let the shot clock expire, Courtney Paris added a basket underneath as Oklahoma started to gain a more comfortable cushion " We didn' t execute to the finish offensively, and we needed more productivity out of our inside people " Georgia coach Andy Landers said " I thought we got in good shape, I thought we executed to get in there and get them shots but we didn' t finish offensively " Ashley Houts made two free throws to cut the deficit to 57- 53 with 3: 14 to play, but that' s as close as it got.
He was 7- of- 9 from the free throw line and had four blocked shots " It' s not about points. But Harvard tied the game at 36 when Cusworth made a jump shot at the 16: 16 mark of the second half. So went another easy win for the Huskies( 9- 0, who extended the nation' s longest home- court winning streak to 30 games at Hec Edmundson Pavilion. The Sea Spray, fishing Twin Roads, brought in 100 barracuda, 37 bonito, 41 sand bass and 7 halibut to 10 pounds.
"I was rushing around like a madman and there was water everywhere. Purdue improved its record to 38- 23 all- time against Indiana The Boilermakers have won 16 of the last 18 meetings. Tye' sha Fluker had the answer " Every time they came at us, we came back with something stronger " said Fluker, who scored eight points in the final four minutes to lead a late surge for Tennessee in an 81- 71 victory over Auburn on Thursday night. The 66- point margin of victory isn' t a record for the Ducks( 6- 1, who beat Hawaii by 81 points on Jan 16, 1979 The Ducks, whose only loss this season was to No 21 Temple, are 8- 0 in the Pape Jam dating back to 1998. Southwest Missouri fought back, cutting the lead to 56- 46 on a 3 by Ahearn with 5: 38 remaining. Quintillion was 6 lengths behind Masterful Advocate entering the stretch.
She added two more 3- pointers in a 7- 0 run to start the second half, the last 3 giving Rutgers a 32- 15 lead. Smith had previously thrown four touchdown passes twice, against North Carolina on Oct. Iona( 4- 9, 0- 4) trailed 72- 69 when Charles Henson' s runner trimmed the lead to one with 53 3 seconds remaining. Oregon State held Santa Clara, the West Coast Conference co- champion, to 19 percent shooting in the first half and 25 percent for the game " They put a lot of pressure on us defensively " said Broncos coach Michelle Bento- Jackson " They were the aggressor early on.
