COLLEGES: NO. 8 STANFORD OVERCOMES ABSENCE OF WIGGINS, TOPPLES UCLA.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Jayne Appel scored 24 points to help No. 8 Stanford overcome the absence of leading scorer Candice Wiggins and clinch at least a share of its seventh straight 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 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. title with a 65-54 victory over 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 on Thursday night. Stanford (24-4, 16-1 Pac-10) is already assured the top seed in next week's Pac-10 Tournament because it swept second-place Arizona State. The Cardinal can win the title outright with a Sun Devils
Wiggins, the two-time conference Player of the Year, missed the game with an injured hamstring. She could also miss Sunday's regular-season finale and next week's Pac-10 Tournament as coach Tara VanDerveer said the priority is making sure Wiggins is healthy for the NCAA Tournament. The Cardinal did miss Wiggins against UCLA (13-16, 7-10), but used a late 11-2 run to take a 60-50 lead with 1:23 left and put the game away. Noelle Quinn scored 17 points to lead the Bruins, who have lost four straight games. Teammate Lindsey Pluimer added 15 points. California 86, USC 79 (OT): Ashley Walker scored a career-high 32 points, including two crucial free throws at the end of regulation, to spark the Golden Bears to the Pac-10 win. Devanei Hampton added 25 points and eight rebounds for Cal (21-7, 10-6), and Natasha Vital had a double-double with 14 points and 10 assists. Walker also had 11 rebounds for her 10th double-double of the year, and made 14 of 16 free throws. Eshaya Murphy scored 19points for the Trojans (16-11, 10-7) and Jamie Hagiya had a career-high 16, but it was not enough for USC to pull off a win it needed to assure a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Trojans play Stanford on Saturday. Though teams have gotten at-large bids with 12 or 13 losses, they usually have some big wins, and USC's best victory is against unranked Notre Dame. Saint Mary's 70, Pepperdine 64: Maija Lahde had 22 points, nine rebounds and seven steals to lead the Gaels to the West Coast Conference win. Teiosha George (Palmdale) led the Waves (12-16, 5-8) with 11 points. MEN'S VOLLEYBALL No. 1 Pepperdine 3, Stanford 0: Paul Carroll's 15 kills on .423 hitting helped lead the host Waves to a 30-14, 30-22, 30-23 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. victory. It was the ninth straight win for Pepperdine (12-1, 10-1). WOMEN'S WATER POLO No. 1 UCLA 16, No. 4 Hawaii 7: Katie Rulon and Jillian Kraus scored four goals apiece to lead the host Bruins (7-0, 3-0) to the MPSF MPSF Mountain Pacific Sports Federation victory at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. MEN'S SWIMMING Pac-10 Championships: USC's Larsen Jensen, who has won Olympic and World Championship medals as well as NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association and U.S. national titles, finally has added a conference crown. Jensen won the 500-yard freestyle in a meet record 4 minutes, 13.52 seconds in Federal Way, Wash. USC is in fourth place midway through the meet with 159points. Stanford leads with 352 points. HANDBALL handball Any of a variety games in which a small rubber ball is struck against a wall with the hand or fist. It can be played in a three- or four-walled court or against a single wall by two or four players (in singles or doubles games, respectively). -- Howie Eisenberg |
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