DAY IN SPORTS: UCLA'S COSTELLO WINS TITLE.Byline: Daily News The conditions weren't ideal, but it didn't matter to UCLA's Alison Costello, who won the 2004 USA Junior Women's Cross Country individual championship Saturday in driving snow in Indianapolis. The freshman completed the 6-kilometer course at Fall Creek Fall Creek is the name of several places in the United States:
``There's about three inches of snow on the ground and it was snowing during the race,'' 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 cross country coach Eric Peterson For the musician of the same name, see . Eric Neal Peterson (born October 2, 1946) is a Canadian stage and television actor, best known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland. said. ``But Alison did not let the weather bother her and she ran like a champion. She turned in an awesome performance today.'' The top six finishers from Saturday's 19-and-under junior women's competition qualify for the United States team that will travel to Brussels, Belgium, for the upcoming IAAF IAAF abbr. International Amateur Athletic Federation World Championships on March 20-21. ``I was trying to be conservative on the first lap,'' Costello said. ``The only girls I recognized were (two Stanford runners), and my goal was to stay with them. I was trying to work with them, and pretended that they were my teammates'' Last fall, Costello was one of the Bruins' top runners, helping her team automatically qualify for the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Pacific-10 Conference --Washington 72, USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. 70: The Trojans led by as many as nine points with five minutes left but allowed the Huskies to score consecutive 3-pointers down the stretch in a loss at Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. Arena in Seattle. Senior Ebony Hoffman scored 11 of her 16 points in the second half and finished with seven rebounds for USC (12-9, 9-4). Freshman Eshaya Murphy (Montclair Prep of Panorama City) added 10 points. MEN'S BASKETBALL Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is a college athletic conference that operates in the NCAA's Division III. It consists of eleven small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into eight athletic programs. --Cal Lutheran 115, Redlands 105: Zareh Avedian (Hoover High of Glendale), scored 48 points on 16-of-27 shooting from the field and 16 of 18 from the free-throw line in a home victory. The 6-foot-7 senior added 15 rebounds in 34 minutes for the Kingsmen (15-4, 6-2). PRIME-TIME PLAYERS Girls' water polo --Erica Dill (Notre Dame) 6 goals --Juliana Pasos (Louisville) 2 goals --Julie Calderone (Notre Dame) 2 goals Girls' basketball --Yosepha Greenfield (Harvard-Westlake) 17 points --Stefanie Clark (Harvard-Westlake) 13 points CAPTION(S): box Box: PRIME-TIME PLAYERS (see text) |
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