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SPORTS
MORNING DIGEST
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Monday, March 13,2006
Big East dominates NCAA tourney selections
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SPORTS
BRIEFING
before he threw down a left-hand-
ed dunk to make it 85-79.
Ginobili said the dunk was
about the only high spot for him.
lead, while Townley advanced to
third.
Michael Padgett followed with a
walk, and later when trying to steal
second, found himself in the middle
After a fourth inning in which
Hales recorded his seventh strikeout,
the Eagles brought out the artillery
to open up a commanding lead. After
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BY RANDY CUNNINGHAM
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MONT BELVIEU — Barbers Hill
Jams jump-start
Spurs’ stretch run
BY T.A. BADGER
Associated Press Writer
Duke gets top seed for
record-tying 10th time i
BY MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Duke was selected as a
No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament for a reCord-
tying 10th time Sunday, while Connecticut and
Villanova led the Big East’s unprecedented eight
teams in the field with top seeds of their own.
Memphis was the final No. 1 chosen among
tournament’s 65 teams.
Duke’s 10th No. 1 selection matched North
Carolina for the most ever. It is Connecticut’s
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High school baseball
I • Lee soph./JV at Westfield,
3:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m.
’ • Sterling soph./JV at
Spring, 4:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m.
• Westfield at Lee, 6:30 p.m.
• Spring at Sterling, 6:30
p.m.
High school softball
’ • Lee at Westfield, 4:30 p.m.
(JV), 6 p.m. (varsity)
• Sterling at Spring, 4:30
p.m. (JV), 6 p.m. (varsity)
and he created Finley’s 3 with his the Spurs’ defense.
Van Gundy said. “They have so
many great perimeter players, the
body trouble.”
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10 rebounds for San Antonio.
try to dunk,” he said. “I’m kind of kind of players that give every-
imcAt T rvMildn’t rln it Horty trouble.” ___
Tim Duncan had 20 points and almost in my eye a couple of
Yao had 25 points for the to find that open man."
James bolts Colts
for the desert
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) —The
Arizona Cardinals have
hollered to anyone who would
listen that they are serious
about building a winner.
They backed up the big talk
Sunday by signing Edgerrin
James to a four-year, $30 mil-
lion contract.
“I’m not scared to take a
chance,” James said at a news
conference. “I’m not scared to
go out there on a limb and do
something different. If I was
nervous, ! would probably
have done whatever it took to
stay back where I left.”
sophomore hurler Ross Hales with
home runs by Colby Townley and
Octavio Carmona into a 10-3 steam- Barrera to score from third for a 1-0
rolling of the Hardin-Jefferson
Hawks in the championship game of
the Barbers Hill Tournament
Saturday night.
The Eagles took the lead early, as
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bumps off
Texas for
Big 12 title
Bradley in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Their only loss since mid-January
was an 80-55 wipeout at Texas on Feb.
25 that players consider almost a fluke
because so many thin^ went wrong.
This time, so many things went right
that coach Bill Self called it “the best
we probably played all year.”
Kansas won its first Big 12 title .
since taking the first three, a run that
ended in 1999. The Jayhawks had only
been back to the finals once, in 2002.
More important is sticking around
the NCAAs longer than last year, when
they were bounced by 14th-seeded
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This year’s bracket features six teams each from
the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference. The
Atlantic Coast, Big 12, Missouri Valley and Pac-
10 each had four teams chosen. The Colonial
Athletic Association also got two bids, and Utah
State of the Western Athletic Conference, which
was left out two years ago despite finishing in the
Top 25, made it in this year as an at-large team.
Among the teams which had been mentioned as
possible at-large teams but weren’t selected were
Cincinnati, Creighton, Florida State, Hofstra,
Maryland, Michigan and Missouri State.
Not everyone, even among the mid-major con-
ferences, was pleased.
“1 thought it was a good day, but we’d hoped for
was named MVP of the tournament,
blasted a shot just to the left of the
375-foot mark in center field for a 5-
0 margin.
Hales then made quick work of the
THE WEEK’S GAMES
Today
High school soccer
• Lee boys at Memorial. 5
p.m. (JV), 7 p.m. (varsity)
• Kingwood boys at Sterling,
5 p.m. (JV), 7 p.m. (varsity)
• Memorial girls at Lee, 5
p.m. (JV), 7 p.m. (varsity)
» • Sterling girls at Kingwood,
5 p.m. (JV), 7 p.m. (varsity)
A-Rod leads U.A.
past Japan
: ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)—
Alex Rodriguez hit a bases-
loaded, two-out single in the
ninth Sunday to give Team
USA a 4-3 victory in the open-
er of Round 2 in the inaugural
World Baseball Classic.
Vernon Wells opened the
ninth with his third hit, and
Randy Winn sacrificed, but
reached first when second
baseman Tsuyoshi Nishioka
drew an error for coming off
the base while catching third
baseman Akinori Iwamura’s
throw.
Ken Griffey struck out
before Rodriguez appeared to
be jammed on a 1-1 pitch, but
his grounder got past Fujikawa
and Nishioka’s sliding attempt
behind second was unsuccess-
ful.
Rockets, 17 in the first half, and
Alston scored 15.
Yao said he had problems with
“They just double-team so
hard,” he said. “Usually I can at
least see the floor, find the open
man for a look at the basket. But
Bruce Bowen, his finger was
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Today
College basketball
• NCAA selection show
(women), ESPN, 6 p.m.
Pro baseball
I • World Baseball Classic:
Cuba vs Venezuela, ESPN2,1
p.m.
• World Baseball Classic:
Dominican Republic vs. Cuba,
ESPN, 1 p.m.
I • World Baseball Classic:
Venezuela vs. Puerto Rico,
ESPN, 7 p.m.
Pro basketball
■ • New Jersey at Rockets,
jfSNH, 7,30 p.m.
Pro hockey
; • NHL: Vancouver at Dallas,
OLN, 7:30 p.m.
tro tennis
’ • Pacific Life Open, ESPN2,
1 and 8 p.m.
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SAN ANTONIO — Michael
Finley was stuck in a comer with
the shot clock running down
when he found an escape route
along the baseline. Then he came
face to face with another obstacle
— all 7-foot-6 of Yao Ming.
But Finley, a foot shorter than
Yao, never stopped coming. His
powerful dunk over the Houston
Rockets’ center energized the San
Antonio Spurs, who went on to a
88-81 win on Sunday afternoon.
“I knew when I went to lay it
up that they had a chance to block
it, so I wanted to be aggressive,”
said Finley, wfio scored eight of
his 15 points in the final period.
“It was great timing for us. It was
something that we needed so far j
as to get us over the hump.”
The Rockets played without star
swingman Tracy McGrady, who
could miss five weeks with a sore
back.
Trailing by 11 after three,
Houston, closed within 79-77
when Rafer Alston drove the I
baseline for a layup with 2:52 |
remaining. -
But the Spurs’ Nazr
Mohammed set a screen on Rick j
Brunson that allowed Finley to I
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A minute later, Manu Ginobili Houston center Yao Ming, right, defends San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili (20),
tangled Yao’s feet with,,a crossover as he scores during the fourth quarter Sunday. San Antonio won 88-81.
a corner 3-pointer with 40 sec-
onds left.
w , "Ginobili had a crossover dunk
He finished with 14 points, but t "
shot only 5-for-15 from the floor. penetration,” Houston coach Jeff
“What I wanted to do was just
go strong and draw a foul, if not
BY JAIME ARON
AP Sports Writer
DALLAS — The Kansas Jayhawks
have only lost Once in the last two
months. Now that they’ve avenged that
and'won the Big 12 tournament, the
KU kids are heading into the NCAA
tournament believing they can do pret-
ty much anything. .
With freshman Mario Chalmers scor-
ing 15 points and fellow freshman
Julian Wright making the game-turning
steal and dunk in the final minutes, the
17th-ranked Jayhawks handled with
ease the big-game pressure that rattled
them in Austin two weeks ago and beat
No. 8 Texas 80-68 in the finals of the
conference tournament Sunday.
“We finally proved to people that we
can win tough games,” said Brandon
Rush, Kansas’ “other” star newcomer
— the one who became the first fresh-
man to make the coaches’ all-Big 12
team. “We wanted to prove we were
the best team in the Big 12. This gives
us momentum going into the tourna-
ment “
Kansas (25-7) rolls into the NCAAs
having won 15 of 16 games. The surge
earned the Jayhawks the fourth seed in
the Oakland Regional and a first-round
game Friday against 13th-seeded
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//VJ ™ j Wp ILf Villanova and Memphis.
II ~i □ IUI -JpH Eight Big East teams
broke the conference’s
own previous record of
seven, which it had
shared with the Big Ten. The Big East did it in
1991; the Big Ten in 1990, 1994, 1999 and 2001.
“In terms of what we saw with the Big East, it
created some very tough questions for us, specifi-
cally the imbalanced scheduling,” committee
chairman Craig Littlepage said of the 16-team
conference. “At the end of this process we felt the
eight teams that were selected were very good
teams.”
The other big winner appeared to be the mid-
major teams.
safe, while Townley scampered _ _r _ ________~_..o
across home plate for a 2-0 margin. a wa|fc t0 McDonald. Townley, who
Following Hales’ second consecu-
tive shutout inning, the Eagles
increased their lead. Armando
Fuentes rapped a single, later mov-
ing to second on a sacrifice bunt by
Kyle McDonald Townley then plated
Fuentes with an RBI single, giving
Barbers Hill a 3-0 lead.
Eagles cruise by H-J to win tournament
.a single by Chase Barrera, a walk by of a rundown. However, an errant
Townley, and a sacrifice bunt by throw by the Hardin-Jefferson
Derek Hulsey placed runners in scor- infielder allowed Padgett to remain
ing position. Cameron Campbell --f* —u;l-' t~.~i~,
combined a nine-strikeout effort by \ then popped out to the Hawk first
baseman, but the ball was caught
deep in foul territory, allowing
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