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Rutgers lacrosse coach reinstated after suspension

Associated Press — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:11:50 -0400

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers has reinstated men's lacrosse coach Brian Brecht after suspending him with pay on April 19, following allegations of verbal abuse.

The decision was announced and made effective Tuesday, nearly a month after a university investigation found that the coach used inappropriate language and exhibited unprofessional behavior on occasion at practices. The instances, though, were infrequent and not directed at individual players, the school said. The university also found no criminal or university policy violations.

Bethune-Cookman sweeps PGA Minority Collegiate

Associated Press — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:01:14 -0400

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Bethune-Cookman rallied to win the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship on Sunday, and the Wildcats took their record 10th women's title on the first hole of a playoff with Texas-Pan American.

"It was a long and a very stressful day out there," Bethune-Cookman coach Scooter Clark said. "But both teams really grinded and I am just thrilled to take home both titles in this incredible tournament. It is really satisfying."

Oregon tennis player Alex Rovello drowns

Associated Press — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:46:00 -0400

EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon says that tennis player Alex Rovello died in a diving accident Saturday at Tamolitch Falls in the Willamette National Forest.

The Linn County Sherriff's Department says friends and bystanders tried to rescue Rovello after he failed to surface in the Blue Pool at the base off the falls, but they were hampered by the depth of the pool and 37-degree water.

Rovello had a 21-8 match record this past season as a No. 3 and No. 4 singles player. He and partner Daan Maasland also won 16 doubles matches.

NCAA lacrosse roundup: Duke, Syracuse advance

Associated Press — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:38:55 -0400

DURHAM, N.C. — Case Matheis scored with 1:40 left in the second overtime to help Duke beat Loyola (Md.) 12-11 on Sunday in the first round of the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament.

Matheis finished with three goals while Josh Dionne had two goals and an assist and Jordan Wolf scored two goals for the seventh-seeded Blue Devils (13-5).

Duke will face second-seeded Notre Dame on May 19 in the quarterfinals.

Southern Conn., URI run to titles

John H. Connolly, N.e. Track Championships — Sun, 12 May 2013 07:21:44 -0400

Easton — The Southern Connecticut men and the Rhode Island women claimed team titles at the 126th annual New England Outdoor Track and Field Championships yesterday at Stonehill College.

Southern Conn. compiled 159 points to easily outdistance runner-up Stonehill (66) and third-place Northeastern (621⁄2) in the 67-team men’s field. The URI women posted 911⁄2 points to turn back runners-up UMass and UMass-Lowell, both with 80 points.

Cornell's Rob Pannell ready for lacrosse playoffs

Associated Press — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:44:21 -0400

ITHACA, N.Y. — When he was a budding freshman lacrosse star at Cornell, attackman Rob Pannell watched his lifelong dream vanish in a flash in the national championship game.

The Big Red squandered a late three-goal lead against perennial power Syracuse and lost the 2009 Division I men's title to the Orange in overtime.

In retrospect, Pannell says that may have been a blessing in disguise as he leads Cornell (12-3) into the NCAA playoffs against Maryland (10-3) on Sunday.

UMass familiar with foe

Rich Thompson, Women’s Lacrosse — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

UMass coach Angela McMahon helped assemble the neighboring monster her team will oppose in the opening round of the NCAA Division 1 women’s lacrosse tournament.

The Atlantic 10 champion Minutewomen (17-2) will face UConn (13-4) tonight (6) at Penn State Lacrosse Stadium in University Park, Pa. The victor will face the winner of the game between seventh-seeded Penn State and Canisius on Sunday.

In N Dakota, golf hazards include the weather

Associated Press — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:26:48 -0400

FARGO, N.D. — The women's golfers at North Dakota State say they're often pegged as members of a winter sports team, given the fact that most of them are measured in the 5-foot-10 range and look like they haven't seen the sun. Turns out they haven't.

The Bison, who will be making the team's first Division I postseason appearance, are the northern-most school in the West Regional and won the Summit League title without having a single practice session outdoors because of brutal weather in North Dakota.

Healthy run by Katie Matthews

Rich Thompson — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:32:00 -0400

Katie Matthews obtained her master’s degree at Boston University while simultaneously establishing new records for the women’s track team.

Attending BU graduate school was always at the top of Matthews’ academic agenda, but it was a goal she intended to pursue while branching out into new areas of distance running.

UNH names student-athletes of the year

Associated Press — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:29:06 -0400

DURHAM, N.H. — University of New Hampshire students Matt Evans of the football team and Keely Maguire of the women's cross country and track and field teams have been named the school's athletes of the year.

Evans and Maguire received the Jim Urquhart Student-Athlete of the Year award at Tuesday night's Senior Awards Banquet.

Evans, of Hanover, Mass., graduated in December with a degree in business administration. The football team's co-captain became UNH's all-time tackle leader in November. He's had 460 stops, including 266 solo tackles.

Mark Leiter Jr. fans 20 in college game

Associated Press — Sat, 04 May 2013 09:17:08 -0400

NEWARK, N.J. — Mark Leiter Jr. had 20 strikeouts in a complete game in New Jersey Institute of Technology's 5-3 victory over Chicago State on Friday night.

The senior right-hander, the son of former major league pitcher Mark Leiter and nephew of former major league pitcher Al Leiter, got his last eight outs on strikeouts. He gave up Dylan Sterrett's three-run homer in the seventh and allowed four hits and two walks.

UC Irvine, BYU advance to NCAA volleyball final

Associated Press — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:03:29 -0400

LOS ANGELES — Kevin Tillie had 14 kills to help defending champion UC Irvine sweep Loyola of Chicago 3-0 in the NCAA volleyball semifinals Thursday night at Pauley Pavilion.

The third-ranked Anteaters (24-7) will face the No. 1 Brigham Young in the final Sunday night. The Cougars beat Penn State in the late match, also in three sets.

Irvine took control in the first set, though had to go an extra point to win, 26-24. The Anteaters cruised in the second set winning, 25-18.

BC women only lax a foe

Rich Thompson — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:29:09 -0400

Acacia Walker, Boston College’s first-year women’s lacrosse coach, has been the beneficiary of a recruitment windfall.

Walker’s predecessor and former boss Bowen Holden scored a blue chip coup when she lured scholastic All-Americans Covie Stanwick and Mikaela Rix to Chestnut Hill in the fall of 2011.

The All-ACC sophomore tandem erupted for a combined 106 goals and 30 assists while guiding the Eagles to a 12-7 record this season, equaling the previous standard for wins.

NCAA, Emmert face tough agenda at board meeting

Associated Press — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:30:42 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA President Mark Emmert looks and sounds increasingly frustrated.

Some of the fast-track reforms he championed in August 2011 have been slowed down by the governing body's legislative process. Simplifying the rule book has proven trickier than expected. His own enforcement staff got swept into a major scandal earlier this year, and Emmert has come under increasing scrutiny for presiding over all of this.

Yes, it's been a rough start to 2013.

Temple AD Bradshaw will retire in June

Associated Press — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:22:36 -0400

PHILADELPHIA — Temple athletic director Bill Bradshaw will retire in June.

Bradshaw said Wednesday that he's turning his full attention to unspecified family issues. He will take a personal leave of absence Friday.

Kevin Clark is the interim athletic director.

Bradshaw spent 11 years at Temple. He hired basketball coach Fran Dunphy after Hall of Famer John Chaney retired, and also led the football team through several periods of transition, including two stints in the Big East.

A-10 lax title goes to Minutewomen

Rich Thompson — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:17:31 -0400

AMHERST — Sam Rush netted six goals and Cori Murray added four to lift the top-seeded UMass women’s lacrosse team to its fifth straight Atlantic 10 title with a 14-7 victory over No. 2 Duquesne yesterday at McGuirk Stadium.

The Minutewomen (17-2) and will be in the field of 26 when the NCAA Div. 1 pairings are announced next Sunday.

Veteran Yale hockey coach Tim Taylor dies at 71

Associated Press — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:29:00 -0400

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Tim Taylor, a veteran Yale University hockey coach with the most hockey wins at the Ivy League school, has died of cancer. He was 71.

Taylor's wife, Diana Cooke, confirmed he died Saturday, two weeks after Yale won its first national championship.

He was active internationally through January when he served as director of player personnel for the U.S. Junior National Team, which won gold at the World Junior Championships in Russia.

The New Haven Register reported at Harvard in the early 1960s where he was an assistant.

ACC schools agree to grant TV rights to league

Associated Press — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:33:07 -0400

The Atlantic Coast Conference will retain the media rights of any school that chooses to leave the conference before 2027, essentially locking its schools into the league through the length of its current television deal.

The league said Monday that presidents of 15 current and soon-to-be member schools have agreed to and signed the deal, which is effective immediately and could slam the brakes on years of realignment around college athletics.

Olympian Sam Mikulak adds 2 more titles at NCAAs

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:15:49 -0400

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Olympian Sam Mikulak didn't miss a beat Sunday, even after capping a busy weekend with two more NCAA men's gymnastics titles.

The Michigan standout won individual crowns on the parallel bars and high bar — scoring an impressive 16.1 points on the latter apparatus — a day after taking the all-around competition to help the Wolverines claim the team title.

2 more titles for Florida at NCAA gymnastics

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:05:36 -0400

LOS ANGELES — Not content with the NCAA women's gymnastics team title, Florida's Bridget Sloan and Alaina Johnson added to the Gators' haul on Sunday.

Sloan won the balance beam, defeating Katie Zurales of Michigan and Hanna Nordquist of Minnesota, who each scored 9.8875.

Johnson won the uneven parallel bars after she wasn't sure she'd be able to compete. Three meets into the 2013 season, Johnson was diagnosed with a stress reaction and stress fracture in her lower back and was ordered to rest.