Moments later, Sooners punter Blake Ferguson dropped the snap- his second dropped snap in two weeks- and Cowboys backup safety Grant Jones fell on it in the end zone after a scramble. McCauley, a backup cornerback, put the Bulldogs up 17- 0 early in the second quarter, sneaking in front of Wiser' s pass to a curling receiver and strolling into the end zone. "I remember when my dad took me to watch Gene Romero and Jim Rice race there in 1972" Filice recalled. The sophomore center swatted her tournament- record ninth shot in three games when she blocked Hampton midway through the first half and finished with 12. Benes, a 6-foot 5-inch right-hander, had a 16-3 record and a 1. 42 earned-run average for Evansville this season. Erin Lawless grabbed the ball and sent it ahead to Malone, who swished a 3- pointer from the wing. Javier Mojica added 21 points and Justin Chiera 12 for Central( 12- 15, 8- 10 Rob Monroe' s 29 points led Quinnipiac( 10- 17, 6- 12.
That followed her 3- for- 20, 0- for- 11 on 3s against the Blue Devils last week. Southern stretched its lead to 30 points in the second half before the Wildcats rallied against reserves. Carta- Samuels completed eight of 17 passes for 101 yards, while Benjamin was eight of 14 for 87 yards. Auburn was forced to foul after the misses, and Arkansas' Leslie Howard sank two free throws to give Arkansas its final margin The Tigers got the ball back with 4. A 1-handicapper, Wilson qualified for nationals the hard way by rallying to win the NAIA District 3 individual title over teammate Chris Morgando. At the time he took office in 1977, Ziegler said, "we were into disaster and heading for worse" Competition from the World Hockey Assn had "diluted the product" Ziegler said. TUCSON, Ariz( AP- Arizona' s opponents know they have to cope with Jerryd Bayless and Chase Budinger.
Winston and Shelton combined to hit seven 3- pointers in the second half and Alabama( No 17 ESPN/ USA Today, No. Y( AP- Mike Popoko scored 16 points and Mitchell Buford added 14 as Stony Brook beat winless Army 68- 54 on Wednesday night for its first win of the season. The Huskers capitalized on 12 turnovers in the first half, converting them into 17 points. "This is the trip we got buried on many times" So why aren't the Angels smiling now? For one, this team didn't need to travel east to get buried. Swain, of Huntsville, Ala, had a career high five catches for 80 yards.
"I really feel good talking and I want to publicize our program and all the work the coaches have done" he says by way of introduction. DeAndra Cobb' s 100- yard kickoff return gave control back to Michigan State and the Spartans( No 18 ESPN/ USA Today, No 15 AP) beat the Gophers( No 19 ESPN/ USA Today, No 25 AP) 44- 38 on Saturday. Eastern never trailed and put the game away with a 16- 0 run in the first half, turning a 9- 8 lead into a 25- 8 advantage with 6: 45 left in the half The Colonels, who shot 62. Delaware converted good field position into three first- half touchdowns to take a 21- 0 halftime lead. But Gonzaga responded with a 12- 4 spurt of its own, keyed by five points from Elliot. The Gamecocks drove to the Georgia 18, but Greg Blue stuffed Dondrial Pinkins, forcing a fumble. A career- long 38- yard touchdown run by Perrilloux stretched the lead to 53- 3 to open the fourth quarter.
And Bailey's heavyweight crew, split into two fours, will have a berth in the Intercollegiate Rowing Assn's nationals in Syracuse, N. Y, on Thursday. I think a homer finds a way to overlook that" On the other hand, he says: "I do want the Angels to win and that's the basis from which I begin every broadcast. Ross Morin scored 14 points and Sam Kaplan added 10 points for Yale. Belmont never trailed after Goodwin' s layup made it 35- 33 with 2: 47 left in the first half Navy was 10- of- 10 from the free throw line. Anderson' s three- point play with 3: 15 to play gave the Rams a 49- 43 lead and it was their only field goal over the final 7 minutes.
STONY BROOK, N. It was Stafford's first dual match loss of the season and Nicholson's second -There were also two improbable comebacks. Brewer was 5- of- 14 from the field and went 6- of- 8 from the free throw line. She had eight points, six rebounds and four blocks in the rematch. D- Ryan Crawford threw two touchdowns, including one for 62 yards, Saturday as South Dakota State won its season opener against Georgia Southern 44- 6.
Unfortunately, I was coaching the other team " Knight responded " We aren' t reading the same poets " The Aggies came into the game second in the conference in field goal percentage at 50 percent. 22 at Texas, 69- 55 " When you reach the NCAA Tournament, you correct things but you must move quickly to the next opponent " Mulkey- Robertson said " Not much time is going to be spent going back to the Illinois State game " The Redbirds were making their first tournament appearance since 1989. Kaylor's goal was to play in a major-college baseball program, but his only offers have come from Chapman and UC Riverside, Division II programs in the California Collegiate Athletic Assn. They all seem to take the losses a lot worse than we do " In a season that featured injuries that eliminated any chance at having any depth and painfully close losses including one in overtime, another in double overtime and two others by two points, it figured that the Rams would have to close the regular- season schedule with games against the top four teams in the conference " The double- overtime loss to Saint Louis would have to have been the toughest to take " Andruzzi said " Honestly, these players don' t know how to win yet and you owe it to the players to be realistic with them ". Any NBA player with seven years or more experience whose second contract has expired is a free agent.
Oklahoma State, which travels to Kansas for its Big 12 opener on Jan. Zolman, whose seven treys Sunday were a career single- game high, has scored in 20 or more points eight times this season and 17 times in her career. If Game 5 is necessary next Tuesday, Channel 2 will carry it live at 8:30 Elsewhere, it will be televised at 11:30 Of course, 11:30 is live for East Coast viewers. Associated PressCEDAR CITY, Utah( AP- Justin Allen hit a buzzer- beating 3- pointer while falling out of bounds to give Southern Utah an 87- 85 overtime win over Oakland on Saturday night.
The Jaguars had a 29- 21 halftime lead, but were held to 32 percent shooting in the second half The Bulldogs hit 52 percent in the second period. A sign had been missed and catcher Mike Bible wanted to let pitcher Pablo Suarez know about it And in such a way that he likely would not forget Bible had called for a pickoff and Suarez failed to execute Now it appeared Bible might execute Suarez. Talor Battle added 12 points, all in the second half, for the Nittany Lions( 27- 11, who were spurred on by raucous chants of " We are. But that was with the ranking American team competing at the Pan Pacific meet in Australia. Ann Strother, one of three Huskies who finished with 12 points, countered with a 3- pointer to trigger an 8- 2 run to end the game " I think we could be a little more aggressive on the offensive end, but it' s a positive step " UConn coach Geno Auriemma said " It seems everything we have to get we have to work really hard for " The Eagles led briefly with about 14 minutes left on consecutive layups from Kathrin Ress to make it 42- 39. "I'm not as sharp as I could be as I missed a month of training"EUGENE, Ore.
Fantasia Goodwin added 20 points and Chandrea Jones had 13 for Syracuse( 19- 4, 7- 3 Big East, which handed the Pirates their fifth straight loss and are off to their best start in school history The 19 wins are the most since 1987- 88 Tasha Harris dished out 11 assists. COLUMBIA, Mo( AP- Christelle N' Garsanet scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as Missouri beat Texas Tech 65- 51 on Saturday. When he finally reaches Grant, the conversation goes like this: Dobson: "You know that guy up there with the bat? He's got one thing on this mind He wants to yank one He's dying to yank one way, way out of here That's all he's looking to do. It just shows how much heart we have " The Flames took the lead for the first time on back- to- back three- point plays.
The Spiders( 11- 2) set a school mark for wins this season when Hightower found the end zone. As a freshman at Fullerton, he was 8-1 and hit . 500 for the junior varsity. It was very, very slippery and if that wasn't enough, there were pieces of paper blowing all over the track. Alexis Hornbuckle set the tone for how we were going to play on the defensive end " Summitt said. After she hit the game- winning basket, the Irish mobbed Duffy and Courtney LaVere picked up her teammate. 2 North Carolina, the tournament' s top seed, on Saturday The Tar Heels beat Clemson 97- 77 in the quarterfinals.
I try to get everybody involved " The Governors got within 10, but Alhaji Mohammed and Taquan Dean swished 3- pointers during another 8- 0 Louisville spurt. Together, this group paid $2. 7 million for Southern California TV rights. SOUTH BEND, Ind( AP- Notre Dame had the better second half Sunday Jacqueline Batteast made sure of that After Rutgers( No 7 ESPN/ USA Today, No 6 AP) held Notre Dame( No 10 ESPN/ USA Today, No. The court at Thompson- Boling Arena was named " The Summitt " after she passed Dean Smith to become the all- time winningest coach in NCAA history during last year' s NCAA Tournament. Well, that got us here" So much for reform school, which came as great news to Mahorn, who when he played with the Washington Bullets was dubbed McFilthy to Jeff Ruland's McNasty by Boston broadcaster Johnny Most"When he was lying on the floor" Salley said of Mahorn, who spreads out next to the Piston bench because of his bad back, "we were talking and he said, 'I've got back my license to hit.
On the second play from scrimmage, Bush zipped off tackle for 28 yards. The Rams actually did it better in the first half, going 4- of- 10 while Davidson was just 3- of- 13 and trailed 31- 28 at intermission. Former Stanford All- American Candice Wiggins, the reigning WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year following her rookie season with the Minnesota Lynx, attended her second in as many home games. Anna Petrakova scored 22 and Bernette Tolston added 19 to lead the Ragin' Cajuns( 7- 2. That race, though, proved just how close the Southern Section entrants are.
They combined to miss 10 straight 3- pointers before ending their droughts by making 3s that just beat the 35- second shot clock. The first home game of the season drew 30, 421 fans, roughly 5, 000 less than capacity in the conference' s smallest stadium The Redhawks also visited Cincinnati in 2007 and lost 59- 3. Associated PressHATTIESBURG, Miss( AP- Jeremy Wise scored 24 points and Southern Mississippi overcame a 14- point second- half deficit to beat Tulsa 70- 65 on Saturday. They hit the boards harder " Smith, who missed the first three games in the drought with a sprained right ankle, led Virginia with 21 points, and Elton Brown had 20 and 10 rebounds. It was an unbelievable game " Montgomery said " This is just another step in what' s turning out to be a doggone good season ".
The first matchup between the schools was closer than expected for the first 15 minutes, with the Spartans trailing only 23- 20. That' s who that post looked like, the way she moves her body and gets fouled and is great from the free throw line " Coale said " She was just a handful to guard " Whaley is Oklahoma' s career scoring leader with 2, 187 points, but Paris is closing in. Center David Padgett and forward Juan Palacios are out with knee injuries and forward Derrick Caracter is serving a suspension " It was like the first week of practice, with limited talent " he said " It was very frustrating to them, very frustrating for the coaches, but there' s not much you can do other than go out there and work hard, which they did " The missing players forced Louisville to focus on its outside game. Because of a bone scan on her heel Friday, Evert had been granted a one-day postponement of the match.
Ball got a little testy when the discussion turned toward his erratic play " What do you expect' he said " We play in the toughest conference in the country. "I think the New Orleans bookmakers got buried" Lamarque said. PROFESSIONAL TENNIS Monique Javer, who played tennis at San Diego State, will compete at Wimbledon June 20-July 3. Smith added 16 points for the Rams( 2- 0, who also got 10 points each from Harrison and Lewis. But Penn State shot 50 percent in the second half and outrebounded Texas A& M 21- 17 in the final 20 minutes.
They leave with a third straight tournament title at LSU' s expense, but this win is a little sweeter after the Lady Tigers defeated the Lady Vols 78- 62 in Knoxville on Feb 14. The Angels saw their starting shortstop get thrown out of the game for contesting a strikeout swing. "I told Rob to just throw strikes, but he made a mistake by getting a pitch up to (Neil) Carter for the (two-run) homer, then he hit the kid and I had to take him out. A 3- pointer by Chris Clark brought the Owls within 31- 30 at halftime. That race is like their Super Bowl" Eleven people who were on the team in 1984 will be going again on Monday. It was the first time in his last 32 starts that the hard-throwing right-hander had walked more than four batters in a game.
