COLLEGE ROUNDUP: UCLA'S FREED SETS CAREER VICTORY RECORD.Byline: Daily News Amanda Freed Amanda Louise Freed (born December 26, 1979 in Fountain Valley, California) is an American softball player. She attended UCLA where she played softball. The Bruins have one of the best softball traditions in the nation, having won 10 of 24 championships. became the 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 softball team's all-time winningest pitcher Thursday as the top-ranked Bruins defeated Liberty 3-0 in the opening game of the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Tournament at Columbia, S.C. Freed pitched a complete-game one-hitter with 10 strikeouts, placing her in third place on UCLA's career strikeout list with 747. She also improved her record to 97-18 for UCLA (50-1), which will play today at 7 p.m. against and opponent yet to be determined. A fifth-inning home run by first baseman Tairia Mims, her 12th of the season, put the Bruins up 2-0. They added another run in the sixth when Natasha Watley's single drove in Stephanie Ramos from second base. The Bruins recorded at least one hit in each inning, leaving just one runner at third base in the second. In women's tennis: --UCLA 4, USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. 1: With the victory over the 10th-seeded Trojans, the seventh-seeded Bruins advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . The Bruins (19-4) will play second-seeded Georgia today at 8 a.m. ``It's like having your heart cut out,'' USC coach Richard Gallien said. ``It's ferociously painful.'' USC's lone win came from No. 1 singles player Jewel Peterson, who defeated Megan Bradley 7-5, 1-6. 6-4. Sara Walker, UCLA's No. 2 singles player, defeated Luana Magnani in straight sets 6-1, 6-2. She also won her doubles match with partner Petya Marinova over the duo of Peterson and Tiffany Brymer. UCLA's No. 2 doubles team of Bradley and Lauren Fisher defeated Magnani and Anita Loyola 8-3. Fisher also recorded a singles win over Brymer 2-6, 6-1, 7-5. The Women of Troy finished second in the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members this season, the third time in the last four years. They beat Oral Roberts Noun 1. Oral Roberts - United States evangelist (born 1918) Roberts and Oregon before reaching the round of 16. The Bruins handled Southern University in the first round and defeated Washington 4-1 in the regional final. Since the NCAA Tournament began in 1982, UCLA has finished in the top five 13 times. The Women of Troy lose only one player next season and expect to add the No. 1 junior in South Africa. ``She'll be coming in January,'' said Gallien, who wouldn't reveal the player's name. |
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