COLLEGES: USC WATER POLO TRIES TO DOUBLE UP.Byline: Daily News Jovan Vavic last fall guided USC's 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. team to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association title, and now he has the Trojans' women in position to capture their third national championship. Top-ranked USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. (21-0), the likely favorite at next month's NCAA Championship in Davis, on Saturday takes on No. 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 (21-2) at McDonald's Swim Stadium. Both teams are unbeaten in 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. play, but the Trojans snapped the Bruins' 39-game winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" in the Stanford Invitational championship in February. Junior Brittany Hayes is USC's top scorer, with 39 goals, and has climbed to sixth on the all-time school list. --Also: Guards Kinsley Mittel (Royal High of Simi Valley) and Grace Tappe were first-team NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes All-Americans after the Mustangs' women's basketball team went 28-8 and reached the final four. ... UCLA guards Nikki Blue, Noelle Quinn and Lisa Willis were Associated Press All-America honorable mentions in women's basketball. ... UCLA's ninth-ranked women's gymnastics team competes Saturday at the NCAA South Central Regional in Fayetteville, Ark. The Bruins will take on No. 3 Florida, No. 18 Arkansas, Illinois, Ill.-Chicago and Southeast Missouri State for one of two berths at the April 20-22 NCAA Championships in Corvallis, Ore. ... The Bruins' women's golf team won the PING/Arizona State Invitational for the third successive year as Jane Park and Amie Cochran combined for an 11-under-par final round. ... UCLA's and Cal State Northridge's men's and women's track and field teams finished 1-2 at the Cal-Nevada Championships last weekend at Fresno State. The Bruins' men won 13 events and more than doubled the second-place Matadors' team score. UCLA's women, with senior Chelsea Johnson clearing a season-best 14-61/4 in the pole vault, captured nine events en route to an easy triumph. CSUN's Raquel Sola (women's hammer throw) and Jere Summers (women's shot put) won their events. - Scott French |
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