COLLEGES: PEPPERDINE PULLS OFF UPSET VS. SANTA CLARA IN OVERTIME.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Chase Griffin scored a career-best 34 points, including eight in overtime, to lift Pepperdine to an 89-82 victory over Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. on Monday at Firestone Fieldhouse Firestone Fieldhouse is a multipurpose arena located in Malibu, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It was built in 1973 as the home of the Pepperdine University Waves basketball and volleyball teams, who still play at the Fieldhouse today. . Griffin, who scored three 3-pointers, shot 11 of 16 from the field for Pepperdine (8-22, 4-10 West Coast). Kingsley Costain had 12 points, all on 3-pointers, and Shane Griffin added 10 for the Waves. John Bryant John Bryant may refer to:
Scott Dougherty scored 16 points, all in the second half, while Sean Denison and Danny Pariseau added 15 points apiece for the Broncos. The Waves trailed, 75-72, when Willie Galick's 3-pointer with nine seconds remaining in regulation tied the score. The Broncos followed with two failed shots as time expired and the game went into overtime. WOMEN'S GOLF With her best two rounds of the season, junior Dewi-Claire Schreefel helped guide the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. women's golf team to a third-place finish Noun 1. third-place finish - a finish in third place (as in a race) finish - designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the after two rounds of the 2007 Arizona Wildcat Invitational hosted by the Arizona National Golf Course in Tucson, Ariz.. Arizona State leads with a combined nine-over 577 and was followed by Duke (588) and the Trojans (590). Pepperdine is fifth with a score of 597, and 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 is 12th at 612. Schreefel tied her season-low of the year with a 72 in the first round, then equaled that in the second round that featured four birdies. Schreefel's two-over 144 has her in a four-way tie for sixth that includes UCLA's Hannah Jue. Misun Cho is in a three-way tie for 11th after shooting a five-over 147 for Pepperdine. MEN'S GOLF Cal State Northridge's Luis Kim fired a three-over 147 over the first two rounds and is in sixth place after two rounds at the 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. Invitational at Big Canyon Country Club in Irvine. Kim opened with a two over-par 73 in the morning round and came back with a second-round 73. He is six shots off the pace set by Domingo Jojola of San Francisco who carded a two-round three-under 141. Host UC Irvine leads the 10-team field after the Anteaters posted a 36-hole score of 596 to lead the Arizona "B" team by four shots. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge is sixth. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Pepperdine freshman Teena Wickett was voted to the All-West Coast Conference first team as well as the 2007 All-Freshman team. Wickett is averaging 9.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. CAPTION(S): box Box: COLLEGE BASKETBALL top 25: DOHN'S PICKS, AP POLL |
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