Show Sectlpn Monday JMarch 18 2002 r Sports briefs Os® Dsm©® AUANTA INDIAN WELLS Calif (AP) — Ueykm Hewitt cruised to a 6-- 1 6-- 2 victory over Tim Henman on Sunday for the championship of the Pacific Life Open and his second ' title in three tournaments this year Hewitt lost just one set the entireweek at Indian Wells He also ran his overall streak to 34--4 in matches dating back to his championship run through the US Open last year Australian made The 21 -- year-old who is 0-- 8 Henman of work quick players against ed Bruins Salukis upset way into Sweet 16 Terps win - By the Associated Press nois A Runyan dies at 93 regular season or seeding don’t seem to mean a thing to the Bruins in March and ' Sunday they reached the round of 16 by knocking off Cincinnati the West Regional’s No 1 Playing with the sense jof purpose that 11 previous UCLA teams displayed en route to national titles the No Bruins weathered two overtimes to upset the Bearcats 103-10- 1 The Bearcats never before had a top seeding in the NCAAs and became the first No 1 team sent home this year Southern Illinois hasn't been big on the national scene since Walt Frazier led it to the 1967 NIT championship but the Salukis are building momentum Undaunted by an early SIU came back to ' deficit 1 77-7in the East 3 stun No 3 Georgia Regional The only other time the Salukis made the round of 16 was 1977 — when just 32 teams participated That was also the only other time SIU won an NCAA tournament game The Salukis got 23 points from Jermaine Dearm an on Sunday and advanced to play No 2Connecticut which got past North Carolina State 77-7- 4 behind Caron Butler’s 34 points and nine rebounds “They were the aggressor early We became the aggressor and then Jermaine got us back into to it” SIU coach Bruce Weber said PGA Paul Runyan the two-tim- e champion known as “Little Poison” for beating the biggest names in golf with his crafty short game died Sunday morning after a short bout ' with pneumonia He was 93 ' Jeff Runyan said his father died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs Calif He had been hospi- talized a week ago with pneumonia in both lungs “He still had so much he wanted to do” his son said “He was look- ing forward to going back to the Masters again this year’’ Runyan had been one of the few survivors who played in the first Masters in 1934 finishing two shots behind Horton Smith in a fie for third so-s- ld o - ’ 19-po- int lth-seed- ed Gold medalist off to strong start at Worlds NAGANO Japan (AP) — v Olympic gold medalist Alexei Yagudjn of Russia opened with a flawless routine Monday to lead the early qualifying at the World Figure Skating Championships Skating to music from the movie “Gladiator” Yagudin opened with a toe combination in quad He early qualifying at the received all 38s and one 39 for techni-xmerit and all 59s for presentation Also in the men’s qualifying Russian Alexander Abt was second and Takeshi Honda of Japan- who finished fourth in the' men’s pro--' gram at last month’s Salt Lake City Olympics fell on his first quad attempt but landed his second smoothly and placed third ' toe-trip- le ve al SAN JOSE Calif (AP) — Dana Quigley made a par putt on' the final hole holding off Fuzzy Zdeller and Bob Gilder for a d' victory at the Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley ' 71 in the final With a round Quigley got his sixth Senior PGA Tour victory while fighting1-tweager challengers and a steady rain at Coyote Creek Golf Club 212 Quigley finished at and won $210000 10-fo- ot ke rain-soake- $ AP photo NHL at Bay Y- New-Jersey- On television NBA DEVELOPMENT 2 LEAGUE pm Huntsville WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4:30 pjn ESPN2 — NCAA tournament seo-on- d round teams and pite TBA 5 pm ' ESPN — NCAA tournament seo-’on- d round teams and site TBA ! - ' ESPN2 — NCAA tournament second round teams and site TBA i ’ ' O'Y 7pni EsPN — NCAA tournament seo- - v - a ond round teams and site TBA 8:30 pm NCAA tournament secESPN2 ond round teams and site TBA V ' 10 pm ' ESPN — NCAA tournament seo- ond round teams and site TBA : ' : - Pittsburgh held ed Indiana which both AP photo UCLA center Dan Gadzuric (50) dunks the ball over dnebmatfs Immanuel McElroy during the Bruins' double-overtiupset of the Bearcats on Sunday afternoon point deficit in die second half then outscored Cincinnati 15-1- 1 in die sec-movertime It’s the first time since 1986 that a single NCAA tournament had two games go to two Oik Leonard Stokes had s career-hig- next opponent is Missouri Tie Bruins were led Sunday by Dan Gadzuric’s career-hig- h 26 points while Jason Kapono added 19 “That’s as talented an eight seed as there’s ever beat in die history of the tournament’’ Cincinnati coach ' Bob Huggins said : West 39 points but h Steve an Logan was held to 18 on shooting for the Bearcats (31-who have lost in the second round five tunes in six years At Dallas Oklahoma 78 Xavier 65 Sticking mosdy to outside shots Aaron McGhee scbred ll of Oklahoma’s first 18 points and finished with 25 helping the Sooners (29-3) AtPtttsburgh UCLA 105 Cincinnati 101 20T UCLA (21-1rallied from an 11- - -- id win their 10th straight game Xavier’s David West a second-scored only one team basket the first 17 minutes but Romain Sato kept die Musketeers ' (26-6- ) in it with 16 points early Midwest At Dallas Ifcxas 68 MtasWppi State (4 Texas (22rll) was up 1 about 7 minutes before halftime but the Longhorns didn’t put sway the Bulluntil Deginald Ersldn’s dogs (27-three-poiplaywith 1:52 to go Tbxas is in the final 16 for the first 7) nt See DANCE on All Ags end with near staff writer Hill ( ' nessee State Kristin Horn-mLindsay Janssen and Ramirez combined to allow one bit in more than nine innings of work Problem was that hit did USU in a the Lady Raiders prevailed 0 in 10 innings Sunday aftqnoon to win die ednsobdon bracket BfcmreintrrMHvWl tidxeaker rules were in place wee diecontest reached extra innings a nm-nwas placed on second base to start each extra ' ' frame' But even with the lead runner aboard andin ' scoring position neither run : squl Could muster aarid during iiwinp eight el : Say what you want about the Utah State sofdiall team 'but don't call the Aggies quitters Y ' Jurt doesn't apply totfaem ' s record Though its 1-- wm-fes- issless-than-stellar3-- ke on 34-1- USUlsoftball By DavM Cordaro inmossi-ble"Mickels- ca 4) 1) ’ 6:30pm 1 third-seed- California scoreless for about 10 minutes and won 63-3- 0 The Pan-- ! diets will play Kent State The other third-roun- d matchup in die South features No 1 Duke and ORLANDO Fla (AP) — Tiger Woods began his march to the Masters in style hitting smart shots and playing bogey-ne-e golf down the stretch in the Bay Hill Invitational for his first victory of the year a margin that felt a lot tighter Phil Mickelson only rinsed more questions about his game — and his decuions In a duel between die top two players in the world ranking the Woods became die youngest player in PGA Tour history with 30 victories closing with a 3- -' under 69 on Sunder to win at flay Hill for ' the third consecutive year “It was quite a fight out there” Woods' said after finishing at 275 "I tried to hang in the)? arid give myself a lof of looks at birdie and not make any bogeys You need- ed to play smart and I was able to do thSL” Mickelten could hardly saV the sme Leading by one stroke Leftybogeyed four of the hut five holes including s dubious decision to go for the green on the par--5 16th hole from under the trees ' Y “It wasn’t easy but it wasn’t said Ultimately it decided the tournament Mickelson said he had no shot to the fair-four-stro- ESPN2— North Charleston at ' day wins Mickelson NBA v £ ed Southern Minots’ ‘Jermaine Dearman right and Jason ward celebrate their win Over Georgia Sunday afternoon ' Orlando 105 Philadelphia 103 Indiana 85 Atlanta 68 New Jersey 87 Memphis76 Sacramento 11 6 Toronto 113 Utah 96 Minnesota 89 Cleveland 1 04 New York 99 LA Lakersl05 Pallas 103 Phoenix 2 Minnesota 2 tie Detroit 5 NY Rangers 3 Colorado 5 Nashville 4 Ottawa 2 Florida 0 Buffalo 2 Tampa Ray 2 tie OT Vancouver 3 St Loujs 3 Anaheim 2 ed 23-poi- nt ' Sunday's scores V 4 won Saturday “We’ve been up and down all season” said UCLA’s Matt Barnes who scored all 17 of his points after halftime and had 11 assists “Especially with the high expectations we’ve had But we usually get hot at tourney time” UCLA beads to die round of 16 for the fifth time in six years and its Quigley wins Siebel one-jstro- - Sweet 16" Southern Illinois joins Missouri (12th in the West) and Kent State (10th in the South) to put three teams with double-dig- it seedings in the final 16 the same total as in 2001 The Big 12 leads all conferences with four teams (Kansas Oklahoma Tfexas Missouri) — up from one last year — while the Pac-1- 0 has three still in it (Oregon Arizona UCLA) The ACC Big Ten and Big East each have twd In a smaller-scal- e surprise sixth-seedTexas Jet a lead shrink all the way to two before beating No 3 Mississippi State 68-6- 4 in die Midwest Regional Texas next faces No 2 Oregon Also in die Midwest fourth-seede- d Illinois topped Creighton 72-6- 0 with Rank Williams scoring 20 all in the second half The Dlini move on to play No 1 Kansas The East’s No 1 Maryland had no problem at all with Wisconsin setting a school mark for NCAA tourney ' margin of victory by winning 87-5- 7 Juan Dixon’s 29 points allowed him to break two school career records held by Len Bias: most points in the NCAAs (197) and overall (2172) Maryland plays No 4 Kentucky next OklaIn the West second-seedhoma advanced to a matchup with No 3 Arizona by defeating Xavire 78-6- 5 And in die South’s lone game Sun- fifth-seed- ed - o W' ' “We set a goal — it sounded crazy back in the spring — to make the Nevercount out UCLA in the NCAA tournament Suddenly the same could be said for Southern Illi- top-rank- ed ' The Herald Journal 2002lNCAATournament Hewitt cruises to title at Pacific Life Open Top-rank- Page 8 20 USU has managed to peree- vere through the season as evidenced in its 0 win over San Jose State Sunday morning at the Capital Classic in Sacramento Calif Breanne Smith’s twonm homer in the bottom of the fourth was aQ the Aggies’ r needed offensively and senior Xochitl Rvnirez's four-h- it shutoui did the trick ' oil die mound ensuring die 2-- AP photo Amok) Palmar right presents the Bay HW Trophy is handcrafted swordt to Tiger Woods 4 : Way because die ball would have run into on the other side He saw an opening eleVat-- 1 198 yards to die pan on a brick-lared green 180 yards to dear the water roui d “I had to catch it a little min to get under neath tire breaches” he said “I caught it a little too thin I don’t fed like the dt Was bad I just didn’t execute it” ThebaUneverhadachsnce sdashingin the rniddkd the pood He walked off with deficit then bogeyed bogey' and a the lasttvro holes and tied for third two-stro- ke ( 1 ‘i - r f See BAY on All er - - Y' oneoutinthe Rnallywidi bottom of die XOdii MTSU’s Erica Buhl singled off of Ramirez scoring lindsayY ’nine"-'- ' 1 victory! 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