BRIEFLY: BRUINS WOMEN GAIN SEMIFINALS.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Reports Breana Boling's goal in the 60th minute gave the sixth-seeded UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX women's soccer team a 2-1 victory over No. 3 Clemson on Saturday and a berth in next weekend's NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association semifinals. The Bruins (18-3-1), reaching their first College Cup, will play Portland in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. on Saturday. North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame are in the other semifinal. Boling scored on an assist from her sister, Krista. Lindsay Greco scored the Bruins' first goal, in the 16th minute, off a cross from former Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. player Stephanie Rigamat. --Bottles and rocks hurled at players and fans forced officials to abandon the soccer game between South Africa and Nigeria in the African Women's Championship in Voslodrus, South Africa. Nigeria won 2-0. Irate South African fans started throwing beer bottles, rocks and bricks on the field and at Nigerian fans after Nigeria's Stella Mbachu scored her team's second goal in the 72nd minute. TENNIS: Thomas Johansson reached his second final since 1998 in the Stockholm Open, beating top-seeded Magnus Norman 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 in an all-Swedish semifinal in Stockholm. Johansson, who lost the championship match to American Todd Martin two years ago, will play No. 2 seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the best-of-five-sets final today at the Royal Tennis Hall in Stockholm. The Russian advanced without playing the semifinal, getting a walkover when Sebastien Grosjean pulled out after the death of his grandmother in France. --Second seed Dominik Hrbaty yielded just one game to Wimbledon semifinalist Vladimir Voltchkov to cruise into the final of the Samsung Open in Brighton, England. The Slovakian will meet top-seeded Tim Henman of Britain, who outclassed out·class tr.v. out·classed, out·class·ing, out·class·es To surpass decisively, so as to appear of a higher class. Adj. 1. South Korea's Lee Hjung-Taik 6-2, 6-1 in a little over an hour. FIGURE SKATING: Alexei Yagudin overcame the flu and scored three 6.0s to win the men's singles title at the Lalique Trophy skating in Paris. Russians also won the women's and pair events. Former world champion Maria Butyrskaya took the women's championship although she was outjumped by American teen-ager Jennifer Kirk, who finished third. Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won the pairs title with a routine to the music of Charlie Chaplin with comical poses and pauses mixed with the traditional skating. |
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