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Show - t n. Sunday, April 6, 2008 DAILY HERALD D2 AM BRIEFING ' TENNIS Cougars Continued from Dl : trainer Barclay Tagg a leading Derby contender .Court Vision Serena Williams wins finished third, 1 14 lengths behind War Pass. Tale of Ekati Key Biscayne title paid $19 for a $2 win bet. KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. It At Arcadia, Calif., Colonel took a long time on a hot day John added to his credentials for Serena Williams to claim as the West Coast's top her fifth Key Biscayne title. when he rallied late in the She blew a big lead, battled stretch to win the $750,000 . Santa Anita Derby. jitters, threw a tantrum and -finally "finished off Jelena Striding smoothly and Jankovic 3 to win the strongly when jockey Corey Nakatani asked him to turn Sony Ericsson Open it on, Colonel John blew past The elusive victory tested Williams' temper in the pacesetter Coast Guard and then sunshine. She broke her pulled ahead of Bob Black Jack racket and screamed at herself near the wire to win by a a before putting away an overCoast Guard held on for head slam on her eighth chamthird, another length behind. El Gato Malo, sent to the post as pionship point. "I thought I had like 15 the favorite in what was billed e match points. I'm glad to know as a matchup with ft wasn't," Williams said. "I got Colonel John, finished fifth. At Cicero, ILL, Recapturethe-glor- y tight. I guess you can classify that as nervous. ... It's me just pulled off an upset in the $500,000 Illinois Derby at feeling like, Tm almost there. I would hate to lose this match Hawthorne Park, beating y after being up so much." favorite Denis of Cork, Williams battled a bad case who finished fifth. The Kentuof butterflies down the stretch cky-bred colt covered the 1 before winning for the second : miles in 1:49.01, and emerged as year in a row, matching Steffi a contender for the Kentucky Graf's record of five women's Derby in four weeks. titles at Key Biscayne. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Bidding for the men's championship today will be Rafael Nadal and Nikolay Davydenko. On the - 6-- 5-- 6-- half-lengt- h. two-hors- air bat," said Parker of that homer. "We battled back each inning and tried to pick away at their lead." The Rebels started the game scoring three runs in the first inning. BYU narrowed the gap to 1 when Brandon Relf homered to left field in the third. Bryce Ayoso followed with a sola homer in the third, making the score UNLV touched up Cougar starting pitcher Blake Torger-so- n for three more runs in the fourth. "I was wondering how we were going to respond after a tough night last night," said BYU coach Vance Law. "We ' started out slow and sluggish. When we fell behind, I knew six runs wasn't going to beat us." In a fashion which pleased coach Vance Law, BYU answered those runs the next inning. Walton hit a no-osingle, advancing to second on the thow as Relf scored, making the score A passed ball in the sixth inning allowed Ayoso to score for the fourth of an eventual six consecutive scoring in-nings, and Jonathan Quff scored on a ground out to take the lead for the first time in the Relf laced a hit to game, right field to score J.C Leach and put the Cougars up &6. Television Arena Football Chicago st Orlando Noon Auto Racing Bahrain GP 5 SamsunoSDO 11,30 am, 6P 12 30 St. PetersboTfl c ESPN2 m SP0 FOX Qpen.de Portugal. SuCapGana . LPeAKradNshsco PGA. Houston Open p.m. ESPN TGC 1pm, 1pm NBC Houston ChiSox at ChiCut at Detroit St at New .. ESPte Or!. 2 r.jh,, SPD a m, 11 1:30 ABC p.m. ABC 10;30a.m, NBC 11a.m, CBS NHL Chicago at Detroit , Tennis Sony Ericsson Open . Women's NCAA Basketball Tourney UConn vs, Stanford ESPN 5 p.m, . even-mone- LSU vs, Tennessee .7pm, ESPN 1 Montgomery officially crosses the Bay Horse Racing cant enjoy the same success. Montgomery replaces Ben Braun, who was fired last week after 12 mostly unsuccessful years at Cal Tale of Ekati caught a tiring War Pass in the vich final strides for a tory in the $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on Saturday. The loss was the second e straight for the Derby favorite, but it may still be good enough to earn the champion a trip to Churchill Downs on May 3. Tale of Ekati, though, is on his way after a thrilling stretch run under Edgar Prado. While War Pass tried to hold on, Tale of Ekati took the lead about six jumps from the finish and gave half-lengt- coach thinks a few victories one-tim- should resolve even the oldest grudges in Berkeley, where he's in charge of raising the 0-- 6-- Bears to the same heights he reached at Stanford. Wearing a blue shirt and gold head coachgeneral manager tie Saturday after 18 years in Danny White. "I am very pleased Cardinal red, the veteran coach with the effort put forth tonight. contract at If we keep playing like this, we agreed to a Cal nearly four years after he will win games this year." r, 1. ik 1 overall, 164 MPSF. The Cougars are tied with Cal Northridge for first place in the MPSF. Long Beach State is a half game back at 154. The Cougars own the four-gam- 17-1- 5, v 4 21-- 4 3-- 7-- 0 A 30-2- 30-1- 9, 31-2- 9, of the ninth, Tyler Garretson ted off the bottom of the inning with a walk and moved over to third on Jones' single to left. Utah reliever Tyler Chimpky got Brinkerhoff swinging, before Hatch sacrificed Garretson home. Croshaw was UVSCs last hope but was retired when his hard liner was hit right at Blanc in centerf ield. The Utes now lead the season series 2 and also earned a split of this week's series. The two teams will play a sixth and final time this season on April 15th at 3pm on Ute Field in Salt Lake City. Up next for Utah Valley is another rival, Southern Utah,' on Monday at 7 p.m. and Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Brent Brown Ballpark. The Wolverines will then travel to Reno to face Nevada for four games next weekend. . 4-- n six-ye- ar 13 Hawaii to improve its record to before Arendse doubled him home. Jake Rickenbach Continued from Dl capped the scoring in the inning with a double to the gap huge day with two home runs in scoring Adam and five RBI on a three-hi- t Openshaw and Cole Anderson. afternoon Corey Shimada led Utah kept the pressure on the Utes with four hits and though, scoring three times in he also scored twice, drove the fourth before getting a solo in a run and stole two bases. shot from Hennis and a two-ru- n Dust in Hennis had three hits blast by Blanc, his second of the day, in a three-rufifth. including a home run while Austin Jones and DC Legg The Utes took a 17-- 9 lead afalso had three hits each. ter tacking on four seventh inAfter Utah scored four in ning runs, thanks in large part the first and three more in the to three Utah Valley errors. second to take a The Wolverines trimmed lead, the the deficit to two, Wolverines got back into the with the six-ru- n eighth. Croshaw game with six in the third on five hits including two triples had an RBI single while Ar-and two doubles. endse delivered a two-ru-n After Jones walked with single up the middle before one out Brinkerhoff tripled Anderson capped the inning him home and then scored with his home run to right. on a Hatch single. Croshaw After Brinkerhoff came on in relief to pitch a perfect top followed that with his triple 5-- right-cente- The Blaze fell to while Philadelphia improved to "Compared to last week, this was a night and day difference in terms of energy," said Blaze I Men's volleyball: At Honolulu, Hawaii, the No. 3 men's volleyball team swept No. " 11-1- 2. Utah Spectrum. Friday's late match I Women's tennis: At Laramie, Wyo., the BYU women's tenremained nis team (13-8- , unbeaten in MWC play with a 2 victory over Wyoming. The men's and women's teams will next be in action at the Missouri Tom Botts Invitational in Columbia, Mo., on April 7-- 64-5- Next week the Cougars travel to take on New Mexico andTCU. tiebreaker against Northridge, but Lone Beach has the tiebreaker over BYU. Senior Jonathan Charette led all attackers with 11 kills. Trent Sorensen had 10 kills (hitting .562), two digs and six blocks.BYU held Hawaii standout Joshua Walker, who had 29 kills on Thursday against the Cougars, to 10 kills on 42 swings and a .000 attack percentage. The Cougars held the Warriors to a .102 attack percentage. There were 11 ties and four lead changes in the first game. BYU was down late in the game, but rallied for the win. BYU dominated the final two games. 6-- Mike BERKELEY, Calif. Montgomery knows his surprising move across San Francisco ARENA FOOTBALL Bay won't sit well with certain fans of both Stanford and Blaze remain winless California. He's now a traitor to some Cardinal supporters, and PHILADELPHIA -- The Utah Blaze lost to the undefeated he's still a carpetbagging enPhiladelphia Soul 7 on emy to other Golden Bears. But Cal's new basketball Saturday night at Wachovia Tale of Ekati, Colonel John win Derby preps NEW YORK left Stanford for a dismal stint with the Golden State Warriors. Montgomery won 393 games and four Pac-1- 0 titles at Stanford, and he sees no reason the Cardinal's archrivals race today," said Patrick Shane, the BYU women's distance coach. "The Stanford Invite is a wonderful meet for distance runners. Between today and yesterday our women had sbc qualifying marks." Freshman Katie Palmer fell just short of a qualifying time in the 1,500m, but set a personal best (42820). On the men's side, senior Tyrel Jensen qualified for regional in the 1,500m (3:47.43). Stephan Shay crossed the line just one second away from a regional qualifying mark in the 5,000m, finishing sixth in his heat (14:13.29). Jon Kotter finished third in the next heat (1420.53). At the Texas Relays, Whitney Neves nabbed a regional ). mark in the pole vault 3-- TBS . 6 p.m at Phoena Dallas CBS 12:10 p.m. WGN MotorSports FiM wodd Superb NBA Golden TGC Elle Carney. MWCthisseasoa "Katie really ran a great 3-- Bam, 11 am, Major Laagu Baseball Boston at Toronto Noon second- , Golf The two teams dispensed with doubles play and went straight to singles. The Cougars got wins from Anastasia Surkova, Kristina Doerr, Chie Hayasaka and I Trade At Palo Alto, Calif., BYU sophomore Katie Bowen, of Alpine, qualified for regional in the 5,000 meters at the Stanford Invitational with a time of 16:43.07. 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