ANN ARBOR, Mich( AP- Daniel Horton went from horrendous to tremendous in less than a week in the opinion of his coach Horton' s three- point play with 20. But I believe that we'll be fortunate soon" Forward Danny Manning, who led Kansas to the 1988 National Collegiate Athletic Assn. Byles and Miller fouled out along with a third starter, Brandon Cole. Rogers and Morales scored 33 of UM' s 44 first- half points. COLUMBUS, Ohio( AP- Southern Cal had a plan to stop Jessica Davenport So the Buckeyes decided to share the load. San Jose State's dropping of track and field evokes decades-old memories of powerful Bud Winter-coached teams with world-class athletes. He had been 7- for- 8 on field goals since winning the job but missed the chip shot wide right, leaving the crowd of 40, 626 in a gloomy silence that matched the gray, overcast sky on this raw, blustery Midwest afternoon " I just pushed it " Culbertson said " Once I made contact, I knew it.
That' s another advantage that we' ve got with Jason this year " Following a 3- yard touchdown run by Jackie Battle for Houston( 0- 2) on its opening drive, the Sooners scored touchdowns on each of their first seven possessions to take a 49- 7 halftime lead. Pepperdine made only three shots the rest of the way and Sean Morris finished the Waves for good with a 3- pointer with 1: 13 left. "They play a very physical and defensive brand of hockey and they move the puck up to their gunners. Pinch-hitter Joel Youngblood got the run-scoring single off Smith.
Rashanda McCants finished with 17 points and Rebecca Gray scored a career- high 15 points as the Tar Heels wore down the Hurricanes with two first- half runs. He hit Johnny Walker on a 22- yarder early in the fourth quarter. Candace Parker scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and top- ranked Tennessee bounced back from a home loss with a 81- 68 victory over Vanderbilt( No. STILLWATER, Okla( AP- Only one other player in Oklahoma State history scored her 1, 000th point before the end of her sophomore season, and she ended up being perhaps the most special player ever at the school That' s the kind of territory Andrea Riley is entering. UConn came in winning by an average of 43 points, and had beaten its past three opponents by 49, 50 and 50 points. So Kaylor, who batted . 420 and stole 26 bases as a senior, will play second base for Cypress College in the fall. Back home about 45 miles south in Provo, the Cougars have been unbeatable for more than two years and tied No 2 Memphis for the longest home winning streak on Wednesday.
21 AP) season opener Wednesday night, and it mattered little in a game pitting a nationally ranked team against a Division I newcomer. The title that eluded the Sockers a year ago for the first time since 1981, is now only a game away after the Sockers took a 3-0 lead in the Major Indoor Soccer League championship series with a 3-2 victory over the Cleveland Force in overtime here Tuesday night. The move will put the league office within 500 miles of six of its 11 franchises: Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis, St Louis and Wichita, Kan. One of the Padre kids on the way up, shortstop Mike Brumley, stole three bases Thursday and has 18 for the season in triple-A Las Vegas. Those two missed free throws? That' s another matter " That' s something in the fall, I' ve missed a couple, too " the NCAA' s career leader in free- throw percentage said " I' m going to have to put in some extra work " The rest of his game sure looked good.
Detroit( 4- 3) trailed 74- 70 with 2 minutes to play in overtime but tied the score when Cotton made a free throw with a minute to play. Princeton quarterback Matt Verbit completed 23 of 39 passes for 205 yards, becoming the 12th player in Ivy League history to pass the 5, 000 yard mark with a total of 5, 049. The Padres will carry a four-inning streak of steady boos into their game with Philadelphia tonight. Walters, 27, started 46 games for the Chargers since they chose him in the fourth round of the 1983 draft. 1, and the Mountaineers didn' t need late- game heroics like Corey Lynch' s blocked field goal that clinched that shocking upset. Travis Smith added 16 points and Dante Terry had 14 for the Bulldogs( 3- 1, who led by nine at halftime and pulled away in the final 20 minutes They led by as much as 21 points with 1: 48 remaining Roland Brown led the Braves( 1- 5) with 14 points Isaac McCall and Marcus Artis added 10 points apiece. But their fast start ended Wednesday night with a 72- 69 loss to Georgia.
Benson finished with 22 points on 7- of- 10 from the field and 4- of- 4 from the line. The teams made just one more shot from the field each, but the Irish were 7- for- 10 from the free- throw line- including Chris Quinn going 4- for- 4. Army shot just 12- for- 42 from the field on the game, and turned the ball over 21 times. Temple( 23- 6, 13- 1) had a nine- game winning streak broken, and according to coach Dawn Staley, it was a case of nerves " We said that the team that gets rid of the jitters the quickest would get out to a lead " Staley said. Romar took the blame, saying he didn' t have his team prepared " We can put this one on me.
Williams made three 3- pointers in the first half as the Commodores raced to a 15- 0 lead. "We've got to say we like the bowl structure as it is, but have we ever explored that (a playoff, can you do a playoff in the bowl structure? It's a big issue" One reason bowl executives fear a playoff is that any type of championship game will cut into the money spent on the bowls by television, advertisers, and fans. The Aztecs also bounced third- seeded Wyoming and ninth- seeded Colorado State upset host UNLV and top- seeded Utah. Anyway, Olbermann, who, a la Pat Riley, has been wearing mousse in his hair this week in his latest attempt at offbeat humor, may be taking his act from Channel 5 to Channel 2 later this year At least, that old rumor is beginning to heat up again. better team" Because of Rasmussen (3-6) and a Padre offense that pecked away at Sutton (3-4) for single runs in the second and sixth innings, the Padres have won three straight games and four of their last five The Dodgers, meanwhile, have lost four of their last six. LOGAN, Utah( AP- Jaycee Carroll scored 22 points and Spencer Nelson added 21 Saturday to lead Utah State past UC Irvine 87- 49. but we' ve been to a Sweet 16 now and we' d like to go a little bit further " Baylor, the No.
She fell to sixth in the overall optional competition when she competed with a sprained right wrist and torn ligaments in her shoulder. Johanna Closson grabbed a game- high 11 rebounds for Montana. Kansas State went nearly six minutes without a basket and never got back in it " When they walked those five people out on the floor, I about had a heart attack " Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said " That was not what we had prepared for We really changed on the fly ". The Cornhuskers( 8- 2) led by as many as 13 points in the second half, but Oregon( 8- 2) kept coming back behind Porter, who scored 29 points.
But he'll be able to pay his bills and keep racing regardless of the outcome, thanks to his stunning victory on April 24. 800 put her in the company of Pat Summitt and Jody Conradt with No. Breland, who wears braces, left the game late in the second half after cutting the inside of her mouth. With the Dodgers losing, the Astros increased their lead in the West to 1 1/2 games, taking 2 of 3 from the Cardinals. Joseph' s was in danger of breaking its record for most lopsided loss " They came out on fire " St Joseph' s guard Dwayne Lee said. Ohio State, meanwhile, ran only six plays in Iowa territory in the first three quarters and one of those ended with an interception. Stony Brook hit 10 of 24 from the field in the second half, but were still held to just 30 4 percent shooting for the game Binghamton shot 42 7 percent from the floor.
We' ve done something no one else has done " Head said Saturday after the Illini' s 78- 66 win over Northwestern gave them an 18- 0 record- the best start in school history " Just to accomplish something no one has, we' ve got something to talk about. After rallying from 15- point deficits in each of the first two rounds, the Sun Devils got 16 points from last- minute starter Danielle Orsillo and led nearly the entire way to beat Bowling Green 67- 49 Saturday in the Greensboro Regional. Even so, it is a streak-part joy and part burden-that Mayne will try to maintain. To pick that thing off and run it in really picked us up " Swogger hit Darling in the end zone for a 24- 10 lead just before halftime Darling had five catches for 108 yards. Right now, though, I'm not taking advantage of anything, because I don't have a good approach" In that category, Joyner had company Saturday.
Sean Walker scored 20 points and Ike Count added 11 for Texas Southern, which had 24 turnovers and just three assists. The 6-foot 3-inch right-hander spent parts of the last two seasons with Montreal. The bottom[ Aggie] wing would go out to take a shooter and that left a lane open She did a nice job and got aggressive. It could have been three: He was running in the open field for what looked like an 80- yard touchdown that would have put CU up 31- 10. 5 percent in the game( 19- for- 55 " This week is just huge and this was such an important game for us going into the Rutgers game " Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said " Rutgers is a battle for first place, but this was really the more important game; one we really had to win to stay the course we' re on " The Eagles( 16- 7, 7- 5) dropped to 0- 6 this season against ranked opponents. Watching television, trying not to get speeding tickets and hoping his complexion didn't go haywire.
Hunter' s 3- pointer and a rebound basket by Melissa Dennett tied the game at 50 with 5: 17 remaining. He banked one off the glass, drove to the hoop for another basket, knocked down a 3- pointer and made a free throw to push the Georgia lead to 44- 29. "If he comes in here, I'll have to put him on his butt" Johnson said "I'm going for the world championship and so is he. Using an 11- 0 run in the second half, they pulled away from the Bobcats, who had knocked off three- time defending champion Bowling Green in the semifinals. Ever since I was little, I've always been lucky in athletic talent" During her freshman year, Maul decided to dive for the Santana swim team "I did it for fun" she said. Matthew Knight had 18 points for the Lions, who began the season with an 83- 71 victory over Brigham Young.
3 points per game, made up for the loss of his twin brother, Ronell, who was out with a broken foot The Blazers had gone 0- 3 since Ronell Taylor' s injury. The Angels don't have enough starting pitching themselves, so that's out of the question. "If you eliminate the metal woods and the square grooves, the rise in mediocrity will fall rapidly and the little Davids, the little mosquito players who are slaying the giants, will soon vanish" O'Grady finished a one-year probation last fall, which was the penalty assessed by Beman when he found O'Grady guilty of insulting a worker at a tournament in New Orleans in 1986 Beman also fined O'Grady $5,000 The two have been antagonists since. He has spent much of the season mourning the April 9 death of his father and twice was forced to leave the team to tend to family matters in Connecticut.
Khara Smith had 12 rebounds and five steals, and Jenna Rubino added 10 points for the Blue Demons( 18- 2, 5- 2 Big East. The sophomore is the Olympians' left fielder and backup pitcher. But the Gamecocks lost five of their next six and ended up in the NIT. Vanderbilt finished with 16 3- pointers, the most in the SEC this season Kelley led the Gamecocks 32 points. Nate Geiser scored 15 points to pace the Lumberjacks( 4- 3) while Kyle Landry added 14 points and 10 rebounds.
