BRIEFLY.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Top-seeded men falter at Hermosa Beach The eighth-seeded team of Hans Stolfus and Aaron Wachtfogel continued their run in the 2006 AVP AVP arginine vasopressin. Hermosa Beach Open with a upset over the top-seeded team of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers. Stolfus and Wachtfogel were able to fight off 12 match points to earn a 17-21, 30-28, 19-17 victory to advance to today's play. The loss was only the second for Dalhausser and Rogers in their past four tournaments on the beach volleyball tour. TRACK AND FIELD: Sophomore Xavier Carter of LSU became the first person to win the 100 and 400 meters at the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships, running down the competition in races just 31 minutes apart in Sacramento. He finished his day as the anchor of the winning 1,600-meter relay team. Combined with the winning 400 relay team the previous night, he had a share of four NCAA titles. BASEBALL: Georgia Tech ended its recent history of upset losses in NCAA Super Regionals by beating College of Charleston The College of Charleston (CofC) is a public university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The College was founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, making it the oldest college or university in South Carolina, the 13th oldest institution of higher learning in 12-3 in Atlanta, completing a two-game sweep to earn its first College World Series berth since 2002. Stan Widmann's two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning gave Clemson a 6-5 victory against Oral Roberts and put the Tigers into the CWS. Chad Flack hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and a two-run shot in the ninth, lifting North Carolina to an 8-7 victory against Alabama and into the CWS. CYCLING: U.S. rider Levi Leipheimer kept his overall lead in the Dauphine dau·phine n. The wife of a dauphin. [French, feminine of dauphin; see dauphin.] Libere, a tuneup for next month's Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and . Leipheimer was fourth in the penultimate stage and has an advantage of 1 minute, 48 seconds heading into today's 81-mile ride from Saint Jean-de-Maurienne to Grenoble, France. Belgium's Tom Boonen won a sprint finish to capture the first stage of the Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse (English: Tour of Switzerland) is a UCI ProTour stage race held annually in June. The race debuted in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship since then. in Baden, Switzerland. |
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