COLLEGE ROUNDUP: CSUN'S VICTORY IS FIT FOR A KING.Byline: Daily News LaJoyce King's 17-point, 13-rebound effort on Saturday not only helped the host Cal State Northridge women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team defeat UC Riverside 69-60 in Big West Conference play, it also placed her in the Matadors' record book. King, who tallied her fifth double-double in the past eight games, became the seventh player in program history to reach the milestone of 1,000 points and 600 rebounds. Ofa Tulikihihifo added 13 points and eight rebounds and Jamie McCaa had 12 points and five assists for the Matadors (5-10, 2-1 Big West). Kemie Nkele had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Highlanders (9-7, 3-1). MEN'S VOLLEYBALL UC Irvine 3, 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 0: The No. 3 Bruins fell 30-22, 30-26, 30-23 to the top-ranked Anteaters (4-0) in the final of the UC Santa Barbara/Elephant Bar Collegiate Invitational. It marked the second straight year UCLA (2-1) has fallen in the tournament championship, following its victory in 2005. UC Irvine's title was its first in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. since 2003. Irvine setter Brian Thornton Brian "Vegas" Anthony Thornton (born October 19 1979, in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a United States technology business entrepreneur, author and noted humanitarian. Mr. Thornton is involved with organizations based in Las Vegas and in the technology industry. was selected tournament MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. after recording 45 assists. Seniors Steve Klosterman and Paul George Paul George is a Canadian environmentalist living in Gibsons, B.C. He is married to Adriane Carr, former leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, for which he ran in 1991, receiving 0.82% of the popular vote in the riding of Surrey-Newton. were all-tournament selections for UCLA, which dropped its third consecutive match to the Anteaters. Klosterman had 11 kills and George added 10 for the Bruins, who hit .194 in the setback. Cole Reinholm, a Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. graduate, had eight kills for UC Irvine. UC Irvine 3, CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge 0: After a hard-fought five-game win Friday over Long Beach State, the Matadors showed signs of fatigue in a 30-19, 30-24, 30-22 loss to the Anteaters in Saturday's semifinals of the the UC Santa Barbara/Elephant Bar Collegiate Invitational. James Lischer, who was named to the all-tournament team, had a team- high seven kills. Eric Vance had six kills and Sean Pederson added 26 assists, eight digs and a block in the Matadors' loss. Jayson Jabonsky, the 2006 National Player of the Year, had 16 kills and Matt Webber had 18 for the Anteaters. CSUN (1-1) will play UC Santa Barbara at 4 p.m. today for third. MEN'S SWIMMING USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. 141, UC Santa Barbara 118: Joon Youm won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.41 seconds to help the Trojans defeat the host Gauchos in a nonconference meet. Seniors Gergely Mezaros and Viktor Bodrogi also won individual events for USC. Mezaros took the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 46.53, and Bodrogi finished first in the 100-yard backstroke with the time of 1:48.84. WOMEN'S SWIMMING USC 149, UC Santa Barbara 111: Rebecca Soni won two events for the Trojans in the nonconference victory over the Gauchos. Soni, a sophomore, won the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2 minutes, 17.03 seconds and the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:24.15. Teammate Katy Houston finished second behind Soni in both races. UCLA 104, UC San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. 57: UCLA (6-1) swept every event en route to the nonconference home victory, improving to 12-0 all-time against the Tritons. Shannon Hackett won the lone individual event, the 400-yard freestyle, clocking 4minutes, 34.64 seconds. The Bruins also captured the 200 medley, 400 freestyle, 500breaststroke, 500 butterfly and 600 medley relays. Amanda Blong was victorious in the 1-meter diving competition, scoring 169.25 points, and Sara Clark won the 3-meter event with 191.25 points for No. 14 UCLA. WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS UCLA 194, Washington 188.175: Senior Michelle Selesky won the floor exercise with a career-high 9.9 and took third on the vault with a personal-best 9.825 to help the Bruins win their season opener at Pauley Pavilion. Freshman Anna Li recorded the top all-around score with a 39.0, including a victory on the uneven parallel bars uneven parallel bars Event in women's gymnastics in which a pair of wooden bars supported horizontally above the floor at different heights is used to perform acrobatic feats. The apparatus allows a great variety of movements, but hanging and swinging exercises predominate. (9.850). Tasha Schwikert won the vault with a 9.9, contributing to her second-place all-around score with 38.75. Kristina Comforte tied for first on the balance beam (9.725) for the No. 5 Bruins. |
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