"People think the 100 is an event where you just throw yourself out there and just streak It isn't It's a race where you use your experience. Alan Ashby's second home run of the game in the top of the ninth gave the Astros a 4-3 lead, but Larry Anderson couldn't hold it. Tech was coming off back- to- back road losses to unranked Rice and Mississippi, dropping the games by a total of six points. But they played like a tournament team Wednesday night, outrebounding the Wildcats 40- 16. It was like a country club" Nixon has removed the clubhouse TV and restricted the use of radios and stereos. Yale used an 8- 0 run to pull within six( 39- 33, but Carrier and Maxwell had back- to- back three- pointers to start the UMass pullaway.
The Longhorns used a full- court press for most of the first half to force a season- high 29 turnovers, and scored 43 points off those turnovers. Mitchell hit a 3- pointer and Jessica Summers made two foul shots to cut it to 41- 40 with 8: 56 left but the Lady Techsters scored the last 14 points of the game. Montgomery and Julie Briody scored 11 and Dionne Marsh added 10 for New Mexico " We need to credit their defense, they were outworking us " Briody said Wisconsin- Green Bay last lost on Nov. Cochell's regret, he said, is that he let the situation get the better of him. "I'm certain the Bruins, particularly the way they were playing tonight, would have preferred to finish this game tonight, but an act of God has changed that, so we must follow our bylaws" If the series continues beyond Thursday night, Game 5 would be played at Boston Saturday and Game 6 at Edmonton Monday or Tuesday. UAB had previously won 19 straight home games before the skid Stefon Jackson scored 22 points to lead UTEP( 13- 12, 5- 6.
The Buffs( 13- 13, 4- 10, who are in 11th place and now lead only Baylor in the Big 12, trailed by 16 with 5 minutes left, but got it down to two twice inside the last 20 seconds After Glean Eddy dunked to make it 84- 82 with 9. No, the coach of the Dallas Mavericks is sooooooo mellow, he should probably coach some team like, well, the Lakers maybe MacLeod dresses like Pat Riley and coaches like Perry Como. Keddric Mays led the Mocs with 13 points, followed by Ricky Hood with 12. Dailey scored on a 6- yard run less than two minutes into the game, then flipped a 5- yard touchdown pass to Herian. Wisconsin( 22- 8) will keep playing, too, facing Northern Iowa in a first- round game at Oklahoma City on Friday " You can' t get too down on yourselves after a loss. Following a basket from LSU' s Brandon Bass, Ford connected on two more free throws with 5. RICHMOND, Va( AP- Daon Merritt, Jermaine Bucknor and Peter Thomas hit free throws in the final 31 seconds to help Richmond hold off Dayton 61- 58 Saturday night.
Washington had several potential game- winning shots in the final seconds but couldn' t convert any of them Washington averaged 75 4 points per game entering Pac- 10 play. The defensive pressure also forced the Tigers to hurry most of their shots, and they were just 9- for- 29 from the floor in the second half. San Diego State, the preseason pick to win the Mountain West Conference, never got closer than eight points the rest of the way. Cincinnati 5, Houston 3-Eric Davis hit a two-run homer in Riverfront Stadium's third deck and Chris Sabo had three hits to give Tom Browning the victory in his first start against Jim Deshaies, his college teammate for three years at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N. Y. Again, the exhausted Badgers defense couldn' t catch a breather, this time because cornerback Cory Dious recovered the onside kick for Northwestern. But even as Durant started to cut loose, the Wildcats kept bombing away from 3- point range and led 49- 48 on Martin' s shot from the left corner. In its previous visit to the Carrier Dome, ETSU lost 120- 81 in the 1988 Carrier Classic, and the Buccaneers suffered a similar fate in this one, allowing the most points in school history Morehead State scored 124 in 1972.
Cleveland tied the score four times, the last on Craig Allen's goal with 1:59 remaining to send it into overtime. Foye and Ray each hit three 3- pointers, helping the Wildcats finish 12- 1 at home this year " I thought we played hard every night in here, which is hard to do for everybody " Wright said " At the end of the year, I' ll talk about all this stuff ". The team with supposedly so much promise is now one with so many problems Take pitcher Willie Fraser He began the season with a 3-0 record as a starter That was April In May, Fraser is 0-4 after four starts You figure it; the Angels can't Rojas has tried everything He placed Fraser firmly in the starting rotation. Huffman made three 3- point shots and Skrelja sank 9 of 10 from the free throw line in addition to knocking down 3 of 6 field goal attempts. Kyle Campbell batted down a Maine pass to the endzone as time expired. Ted Chapman of Torrance, fishing at Rocky Point aboard the Redondo Special, pulled an 11-pound yellowtail out of the kelp and brought it to gaff.
She then followed with a desperation 3- pointer that topped Newman' s heave, spinning to her right while being closely defended by La' Tangela Atkinson and tossing the ball toward the backboard with the shot clock set to expire. The Cubs had five players with eight or more kills, led by Jimmy Klein's 13. Pargo had 17 and David Pendergraft had 11 for Gonzaga( 18- 10. STANFORD, Calif( AP- Tara VanDerveer' s motivational technique for getting her team to rebound is working.
Associated PressFORT WAYNE, Ind( AP- Jaraun Burrows scored 21 points and three others scored in double digits to lead IPFW to a 79- 70 victory Saturday over Missouri- Kansas City. Said Worthy of the matchup against Perkins: "It's been a great rivalry between us for the last four years I've known Sam since college. Still trailing 48- 43, the Badgers then missed five straight shots that could have cut into the lead, including a 3- point miss by Tucker with just over a minute to go. "That was when the match turned" said Mandlikova, who won the French in 1981 and was second twice at Wimbledon and at the U. S Open. He didn' t make his first basket until connecting for a 3- pointer with 14: 05 left in the second half. Four Southern California teams were selected (Loyola, Pepperdine, USC and Cal State Fullerton) and were sent to different sites. Loyola will face the loser at 7 tonight, with the loser of that game going home in the double-elimination format.
Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS- It took a few minutes for Iowa State and its fervent fan base to settle in at Williams Arena. When referee Richard Steele leaned through the ropes, he waved off Barkley and the World Boxing Council championship had changed hands. The Wolverines marched 86 yards in seven plays, capped by Navarre' s 41- yard strike to Edwards. Ross Mouton' s baseline bank shot made it 62- 52 and after Lyndale Burleson missed a free throw, Mitchell scored in the lane to make it 62- 54 with 43 seconds left.
The game, postponed from Saturday because torrential rains flooded Sacred Heart' s field, was the first collegiate win for Pioneers coach Paul Gorham. The Cardinals led 10- 2 less then three minutes into the game, but Chaminade just wouldn' t go away. They beat Florida Atlantic, Arkansas State and Lafayette by a combined 142- 12. Orange County qualifiers for the fourth round were: Dan Kennedy of San Clemente, Chris Schutte of San Juan Capistrano, Christian Fletcher of San Clemente, Joe McNulty of Capistrano Beach, J. P. Florida State, appearing in its sixth NCAA Tournament, ended the first half with the 11- 4 run to take a 43- 32 lead at halftime.
