COLLEGES: CAL SCORES MPSF WATER-POLO TITLE.Byline: Daily News The odds weren't in Cal's favor. The Golden Bears had lost 12 in a row to USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , including three this season, and trailed by a goal with less than six minutes remaining Sunday in the championship game of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I. men's water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. tournament. But a man-advantage goal by Spencer Warden and Jeff Tyrrell's penalty shot with 1:12 left lifted No. 2 Cal to a 6-5 victory at UC Irvine's Anteater anteater, name applied to various animals that feed on ants, termites, and other insects, but more properly restricted to a completely toothless group of the order Edentata. Aquatic Complex, snapping top-ranked USC's winning streak at 44. Warden scored twice for Cal (29-4), which rallied from a 4-2 halftime deficit to capture its first MPSF MPSF Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title since 2002. The Golden Bears also secured an automatic berth in the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four, which begins Saturday at Loyola Marymount. Gabor Sarusi scored twice, and Adam Shilling had 10 saves for the Trojans (25-1), whose previous loss came Oct. 1, 2005, against Pepperdine. Despite the setback, USC, which fell short of matching Stanford's 51- game winning streak in 1985-87, is expected to receive the lone at-large berth to join Cal, UC San Diego and Navy in the final four. 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 9, Stanford 8: Scott Davidson scored a man-advantage goal with 1:22 remaining in the second three-minute overtime period to lift the Bruins in the third-place game of the MPSF Tournament. UCLA (17-6) twice rallied from three-goal deficits to tie the score at 8-8 with 2:29 remaining in regulation on a goal by Logan Powell. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Nebraska 72, USC 65: Chloe Kerr had a career-high 25 points for the Women of Troy (2-3), but Nebraska's Kiera Hardy led all scorers with 32, including a 3-pointer with 45 seconds remaining, to lift the visiting Cornhuskers (5-1) to the nonconference win at GalenCenter. Kerr added seven rebounds and made all 11 free-throw attempts, including two with 1:15 left to cut the deficit to 69-65. Eshaya Murphy contributed 11 points, eight rebounds and five assists for USC. Texas Tech 75, No. 21 UCLA 60: Noelle Quinn had 16points and nine assists, and Lindsey Pluimer added 15 points for UCLA (3-4) in its loss to the Red Raiders (5-1) in the fifth-place game of the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu. |
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