D8
ROUNDUP
Mercury starts title defense with close win
Associated Press by Amy Shipley
Penny Taylor made two free throws with 1.5 seconds left to lift the defending WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury to a 78-77 victory over the vis- iting Los Angeles Sparks in the league’s season opener Saturday. Taylor caught the ensuing long inbounds pass and held the ball until the buzzer. Noelle Quinn had hit a 12- foot bank shot with 4.7 sec- onds left to give the Sparks a 77-76 lead after Phoenix’s Di- ana Taurasi made two free throws with 17.8 seconds re- maining. Taurasi scored five of her 14 points in the final five min- utes, Candice Dupree had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Taylor added 16 points. Candace Parker scored 24 points for the Sparks, includ- ing a key basket in the final minute, and grabbed 12 re- bounds.
Rookie Andrea Riley scored 16 points and DeLisha Mil- ton-Jones had 10 for Los An- geles.
Phoenix opened up a 10- point lead in the third quar- ter, but Los Angeles ran off nine straight points to keep it close.
SUN 74, SKY 61: Tina
Charles had 17 points and 10 rebounds in her pro debut as Connecticut opened its sea- son with a home win over Chi- cago. Charles, the national player of the year at U-Conn. and the top pick in the WNBA draft, had 15 points and nine re- bounds at the half as the Sun built a 42-33 lead. Sylvia Fowles led the Sky with 16 points and nine re- bounds. Connecticut started four
players who were not on its roster at the end of last sea- son, including Charles and her former college teammate Renee Montgomery. Anete Jekabsone-Zogota was 4 of 6 from three-point range and led the Sun with 18 points. Kara Lawson added 10 points.
Connecticut led by as many as 19 in the fist half, before Fowles sparked an 11-0 run to cut the deficit to 38-30. The Sun broke off a 16-2 run in the third quarter and a 12-0 surge to open the fourth and put the game away.
tulsa — Just less than two years ago, Marion Jones got out of jail, her six-month sentence for lying about her steroid use to fed- eral investigators over. Ten years ago, she won five Olympic track and field medals that she was forced to give back because of her drug use. Even farther back than that, a full 16 years, Jones won a national title in college basket- ball at the University of North Carolina.
Somehow on Saturday night,
Jones, 34, brought all of those ex- periences on the court with her when she entered a highly antici- pated WNBA game in a sold-out arena jammed with a stomping, screaming crowd of 7,500. With 5 minutes 50 seconds left in the first quarter of the Tulsa Shock’s inaugural game, against the Minnesota Lynx, Jones, wear- ing No. 20 and her long hair in braids and a bun, sprinted out to the court, stepping back into pro- fessional sports after a four-year absence. “How do you come from where I was a few years ago?” Jones said before the game. “I’m just so thrilled. Thrilled doesn’t even touch the surface of how happy I am.” The performance was as raw as
Jones’s emotion (she was so excit- ed, she could not nap before the game, she said). She committed a foul three seconds after she took the court, then allowed her de- fender to drive past her seconds after that. In her brief, three- minute appearance in the first half (the game had not ended as this edition went to press), she played aggressive defense, throw- ing arms, legs and body at the ball, but she did not score and handled the ball only once. Jones, though, had officially concluded an excruciating jour- ney that took her from sport’s
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Jones makes return, on quite a different stage
Former world-class sprinter, 34, debuts as WNBA role player
tember 2008, she has been living in Texas with her kids and hus- band Obadele Thompson, a for- mer Olympic sprinter from Bar- bados, still on probation and obli- gated to perform 800 hours of community service. In 2007, she pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators when they asked her about using steroids during her track career. “This, for me, is a new begin-
ning, doing a sport that I love and am passionate about,” Jones said, adding, but “I would have loved to have done this all quietly, and have it not be as big of a deal as it is.”
In the year after she walked out of a halfway house in San Anto- nio where she served the end of her term of incarceration, she said, “most of my time was dedi- cated to just really reconnecting to my family, just being there ev- ery moment of the day.” It was last summer that her agent and longtime attorney contacted Orender, trying to get Jones back in the pro sports work force. Orender recalled telling Jones,
“We will support you, but you have to be able to play.” Richardson, who led the Uni-
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Former Olympic champion sprinter Marion Jones, left, passes around Minnesota Lynx center Nicky Anosike, right, in her WNBA debut with the Tulsa Shock. She last ran as a professional four years ago.
peak to its abyss. With this new undertaking, Jones is not at- tempting to return to her former glory as the world’s premier female athlete, a starlet who after she won her three gold and two bronze medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 appeared on the covers of Vogue and Sports Il- lustrated.
At the moment, she will settle for her apparent role: a cog in a relatively small wheel, playing her second-best sport for the smallest-market team in a league that still struggles for attention. It was interesting that the loudest cheers in the first half came not for Jones, but for the Shock — when the team overcame a dou- ble-digit deficit to tie the game at 36.
Though Jones supported the comeback mostly with wild
cheering, she found out Friday she had made the final 11-player roster, so her concerns about job security were put to rest. “It’s a really gratifying feeling to know I made the right decision to attempt this,” Jones said. “I really feel like I’m here [because], in fact, I can play basketball . . . not just pack the house or get [the media] to come here.” Pack the house, she did. (Well, she helped anyway. Tulsa Coach Nolan Richardson, who coached the University of Tulsa men, is considered a local legend around these parts.) The game drew Oklahoma’s governor and attor- ney general as well as Tulsa’s cur- rent and a former mayor, and a smattering of national and inter- national media members. The Shock, which relocated in the offseason from Detroit, sold
out the game, though the arena’s upper level was curtained off and closed to ticket sales. WNBA Commissioner Donna Orender, who also attended, said she was “curious to see at what level [Jones is] going to contrib- ute. We want to see how it all plays out.” Though she still boasts the broad-shouldered, lean physique she carried in her youth, Jones’s face confirms that she is the el- dest on the Shock roster, and her game has more frenzy and rough edges than that of some of her teammates. Jones played the least of any player on the roster in Saturday’s first half.
She is, of course, a decade older than many in the league. She has three children, ages 6, 2 and 10 months. Since her release from a six-month prison term in Sep-
versity of Arkansas’s men’s team to a national title in 1994, invited her for a pair of private workouts in January, wondering just what he would see. “I really didn’t know if she could play or not,” he said. But “I’m not into testing vertical jump; I throw up the ball and see where you go. . . . She’s as good as any athlete we have on the team. In most cases, better.” Richardson speculated she could play both guard positions and small forward. Shock Presi- dent Steve Swetoha figures she will assume some other roles, too. Two nights before the opener, she went to a local soup kitchen. “During our first meeting after she signed [in March], after ‘Hel- lo, and happy to be here,’ she said, ‘I just want to tell you I want to be involved in this community as much as I can,’ ” Swetoha said. “She beat us to the punch, and we were impressed with that.”
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Currie, Langhorne get Mystics started in right direction, 72-65
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indianapolis — Monique
Currie scored 21 points and Crys- tal Langhorne added 19 to help the Washington Mystics beat the Indiana Fever, 72-65, on Saturday night in the season opener for both teams. Katie Smith added 12 points in
her first game for Washington af- ter pestering Indiana for years as a member of the Detroit Shock. Tamika Catchings and Tammy
Sutton-Brown each scored 12 points, and Katie Douglas added 10 for the Fever. Four of Indiana’s starters
played in the Turkish League fi- nals and practiced together only once before Saturday’s game.
The Fever raised the Eastern Conference championship ban- ner from last season before the game, but there was little to cel- ebrate afterward. Washington shot 50 percent and never trailed after the middle of the second quarter. Washington outrebounded In- diana, 43-35, to make up for com- mitting 26 turnovers.
SCOREBOARD NBA PLAYOFFS
Conference Finals
(Best-of-Seven) (x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Orlando vs. Boston
Sunday: Boston at Orlando, 3:30 Tuesday: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 Saturday, May 22: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 Monday, May 24: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 x-Wednesday, May 26: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 x-Friday, May 28: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 x-Sunday, May 30: Boston at Orlando, 8:30
WESTERN CONFERENCE
L.A. Lakers vs. Phoenix
Monday: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 Wednesday: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 Sunday, May 23: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 Tuesday, May 25: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 x-Thursday, May 27: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 x-Saturday, May 29: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 x-Monday, May 31: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9
NHL PLAYOFFS
Conference Finals
(Best-of-Seven) (x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Canadiens vs. Flyers
Sunday: Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 Tuesday: Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 Thursday: Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 Saturday, May 22: Philadelphia at Montreal, 3 x-Monday, May 24: Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 x-Wedn., May 26:Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 x-Friday, May 28: Montreal at Philadelphia, 7
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Blackhawks vs. Sharks
Sunday: Chicago at San Jose, 3 Tuesday: Chicagoat San Jose, 9 Thursday: San Jose at Chicago, 8 Saturday, May 22: San Jose at Chicago, 3 x-Monday, May 24: Chicago at San Jose, 9 x-Wednesday, May 26: San Jose at Chicago, 8 x-Saturday, May 29: Chicago at San Jose, TBD
TRANSACTIONS
Major League Baseball
Cleveland Indians—Placed INF Andy Marte on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 12. Recalled OF Trevor Crowe from Columbus (IL). Tampa Bay Rays—Designated DH Pat Burrell for assignment. Purchased the contract of INF Hank Blalock from Durham (IL). Texas Rangers—Recalled RHP Guillermo Moscoso and RHP Pedro Strop from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned RHP Doug Mathis and OF Craig Gentry to OKlahoma City. Colorado Rockies—Reinstated RHP Jason Ham- mel from the 15-day DL. Placed INF-OF Eric Young Jr. on the 15-day DL. Florida Marlins—Placed C John Baker on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 13. Recalled OF Bry- an Petersen from New Orleans (PCL). Milwaukee Brewers—Optioned OF Adam Stern to Nashville (IL). Recalled RHP John Axford from Nashville. New York Mets—Activated C Henry Blanco from the bereavement list. Optioned C Josh Thole to Buffalo (IL). San Diego Padres—Activated RHP Kevin Correia from the bereavement list. Optioned RHP Adam Russell to Portland (PCL).
Colleges
Vermont—Named Lori Gear McBride women’s basketball coach.
BASKETBALL
WNBA
Eastern Conference Team W L Pct GB
Connecticut .............................1 0 1.000 — Washington ..............................1 0 1.000 — xAtlanta ....................................0 0 New York ..................................0 0 Chicago .....................................0 1 Indiana ......................................0 1
Western Conference WL Pct
Phoenix ..................................... 1 0 1.000 — xMinnesota .............................. 0 0 .000 xSan Antonio ........................... 0 0 .000 Seattle ...................................... 0 0 .000 xTulsa ....................................... 0 0 .000
Saturday’s Results
Washington 72....................................... at Indiana 65 at Phoenix 78...................................... Los Angeles 77 at Connecticut 74.......................................Chicago 61 Minnesota at Tulsa............................................... Late Atlanta at San Antonio ........................................ Late
Sunday’s Games
Washington at Minnesota ........................................ 7 Chicago at New York.................................................. 4 Indiana at Atlanta....................................................... 7 Los Angeles at Seattle ............................................... 9
Mystics 72, Fever 65
Washington Min FG FT O-T A PF Pts.
Langhorne 35:36 8-14 3-3 1-8 0 1 19 Currie 31:01 7-12 5-5 1-7 0 3 21 Sanford 21:22 3-4 5-6 2-7 2 4 11 Harding 31:58 0-7 0-0 1-4 3 2 0 Smith 32:43 5-8 1-2 1-2 2 2 12 Coleman 24:39 1-2 1-2 0-1 0 3 3 Melvin 16:06 1-2 2-2 3-6 0 2 4 Ajavon 6:35 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 1 2
Totals 200 26-52 17-20 9-35 7 18 72
Percentages: FG .500, FT .850. 3-Point Goals: 3-6, .500 (Currie 2-3, Smith 1-2, Harding 0-1). Blocked Shots: 8 (Currie 3, Sanford 2, Smith 2, Melvin). Turnovers: 24 (Harding 5, Currie 4, Langhorne 4, Smith 4, Coleman 2, Melvin 2, Sanford 2, Ajavon). Steals: 10 (Currie 2, Harding 2, Langhorne 2, Cole- man, Melvin, Sanford, Smith). Technical Fouls: None.
Indiana Min FG FT O-T A PF Pts.
Catchings 23:57 5-12 0-1 3-5 2 4 12 Hoffman 26:08 2-8 2-2 1-2 1 3 7 Sutton-Brown 27:20
6-9 0-3 5-6 2 3 12
January 21:44 0-8 3-4 1-2 5 2 3 Douglas 25:06 4-7 0-0 1-1 3 1 10 Morris 14:17 0-2 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Murphy 19:50 3-12 2-4 2-3 1 2 9 Moore 5:10 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 Bevilaqua 19:58 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 4 0 Davenport 11:22 2-4 2-2 0-1 0 1 6 Quigley 5:08 2-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 4
Totals 200 25-67 9-16 13-22 16 24 65
Percentages: FG .373, FT .563. 3-Point Goals: 6-18, .333 (Catchings 2-4, Douglas 2-4, Hoffman 1-1, Murphy 1-5, Davenport 0-1, January 0-1, Morris 0-2). Blocked Shots: 8 (Sutton-Brown 3, Bevilaqua, Catchings, Davenport, Douglas, January). Turn- overs: 17 (Catchings 3, Morris 3, Murphy 3, Janu- ary 2, Quigley 2, Bevilaqua, Douglas, Moore, Sut- ton-Brown). Steals: 12 (Catchings 2, January 2, Quigley 2, Bevilaqua, Davenport, Douglas, Hoff- man, Murphy, Sutton-Brown). Technical Fouls: None.
Washington ........................... 19 18 15 20 — 72 Indiana ................................... 15 16 13 21 — 65
A: 9,752 (9,643). T: 1:59.
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GB
A A A A
Los Angeles ............................. 0 1 .000 1 x-Late Game
SOCCER
U.S. Open Cup
Major League Soccer Qualifying— Finals Wednesday, May 26
Colorado at New York ............................................... 8
Wednesday, June 2
Real Salt Lake at D.C United ............................... 7:30
Major League Soccer
Eastern Conference W L T Pts GF GA
xNew York ..................... 5 2 0 15 8 8 xColumbus .................... 3 0 2 11 9 5 xToronto FC ................... 3 4 0 9 11 13 xChicago ........................ 2 3 2 8 9 10 xKansas City ................. 2 3 1766 xNew England ............... 2 5 1 7 10 14 Philadelphia .................. 1 5 1 4 7 15 D.C. .................................. 1 7 0 3 4 16
Western Conference W L T Pts GF GA
xLos Angeles ................. 7 0 1 22 15 2 Real Salt Lake ............... 4 3 1 13 15 9 Houston .......................... 4 4 1 13 12 10 Dallas .............................. 2 1 5 11 10 9 xSan Jose ....................... 4 2 0 12 11 7 Colorado ........................ 4 3 1 12 9 7 xChivas USA .................. 3 4 1 10 10 11 xSeattle .......................... 2 3 3 9 8 12
x-Late Game
Saturday’s Results
Colorado
1...........................................at D.C. United 0 Dallas 1 ................................... at Philadelphia 1 (OT) San Jose at New England .................................... Late Chivas USA at Columbus..................................... Late Seattle FC at New York........................................ Late Chicago at Kansas City.........................................Late Toronto FC at Los Angeles.................................. Late
Thursday, May 20
Columbus at New York ............................................. 8 Los Angeles at Dallas ........................................... 8:30
Saturday, May 22
D.C. United at Houston ............................................. 1 New England at Toronto FC ..................................... 1 San Jose at Seattle FC ............................................... 3 Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA ........................... 10:30
Rapids 1, United United 0
Colorado ...........................................................01—1 D.C. United ........................................................00—0
First half: None.
Second half: 1, Colorado, Ballouchy 2, 67th min- ute.
Goalies: Colorado, Matt Pickens Yellow Cards: Castillo, D.C. United, 16th
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez. Assistant Referees:
Steve Taylor. Eric Proctor. 4th Official:Jason An- no.
Colorado: Matt Pickens, Julien Baudet, Danny Earls, Drew Moor, Marvell Wynne, Jeff Larentow- icz, Pablo Mastroeni, Mehdi Ballouchy, Wells Thompson (Colin Clark, 69th), Conor Casey (Ross LaBauex, 92th+), Omar Cummings (Quincy Ama- rikwa, 89th). D.C. United: Bill Hamid, Juan Manuel Pena (Jaime Moreno, 72nd), Carey Talley, Jordan Graye, Cris- tian Castillo, Clyde Simms, Kurt Morsink (Andy Najar, 81st), Rodney Wallace, Danny Allsopp, Tha- biso Khumalo (Brandon Barklage, 46th), Adam Cristman.
Professional Soccer
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Gold Pride ................ 5 1 0 15 10 5 Philadelphia .................. 3 1 2 10 7 4 Sky Blue FC.................... 3 2 0 9 4 4 Saint Louis..................... 2 1 2 8 7 6 Philadelphia .................. 3 1 2 10 7 4 Washington................... 2 2 1 7 8 7 Boston ............................ 1 2 3 6 5 7 Chicago .......................... 1 4 1 4 3 6 Atlanta............................ 0 4 1 1 2 7
Saturday’s Result
Philadelphia 1
..........................................at Chicago 0
Sunday’s Games
Washington at Atlanta ...............................................6 Sky Blue FC at Saint Louis......................................... 4
Women’s
GOLF
PGA Tour Valero Texas Open
At TPC of San Antonio, Oaks Course In San Antonio
Brett Wetterich .....................................69 68 — 137 -7 Jimmy Walker .......................................70 67 — 137 -7 James Nitties .........................................70 67 — 137 -7 Matt Jones .............................................66 71 — 137 -7 Charley Hoffman ..................................68 70 — 138 -6 Garth Mulroy .........................................71 67 — 138 -6 James Driscoll .......................................70 68 — 138 -6 J.B. Holmes ............................................68 70 — 138 -6 Pat Perez ................................................72 66 — 138 -6 Tim Petrovic ..........................................70 68 — 138 -6 Aron Price ..............................................70 68 — 138 -6 Ernie Els ..................................................72 67 — 139 -5 Scott Piercy ...........................................75 64 — 139 -5 Cameron Percy .....................................71 68 — 139 -5 Spencer Levin .......................................70 69 — 139 -5 Greg Owen .............................................71 68 — 139 -5 Garrett Willis .........................................71 68 — 139 -5 Joe Durant ..............................................69 70 — 139 -5 Paul Stankowski ...................................67 73 — 140 -4 Robert Damron .....................................72 68 — 140 -4 Fredrik Jacobson ..................................71 69 — 140 -4 Bill Lunde ...............................................72 69 — 141 -3 Cameron Tringale ................................71 70 — 141 -3 Arjun Atwal ............................................69 72 — 141 -3 David Duval ............................................75 66 — 141 -3 Richard S. Johnson ...............................73 68 — 141 -3 Adam Scott ............................................71 70 — 141 -3 Bo Van Pelt ............................................72 69 — 141 -3 Sergio Garcia .........................................73 68 — 141 -3 Aaron Baddeley ....................................75 66 — 141 -3 Tom Gillis ...............................................71 70 — 141 -3 Matt Weibring .......................................68 73 — 141 -3 Steve Flesch ..........................................69 73 — 142 -2 Mathias Gronberg ................................70 72 — 142 -2 Chris Tidland .........................................72 70 — 142 -2 Jeff Gove .................................................74 68 — 142 -2 Ted Purdy ...............................................70 72 — 142 -2 Michael Bradley ....................................71 71 — 142 -2 Jay Williamson ......................................73 69 — 142 -2 Charlie Wi ..............................................72 70 — 142 -2 Jarrod Lyle .............................................70 72 — 142 -2 Craig Barlow ..........................................72 71 — 143 -1 Steve Elkington .....................................72 71 — 143 -1 Mark Hensby .........................................72 71 — 143 -1 Marc Leishman .....................................70 73 — 143 -1 Carl Pettersson .....................................74 69 — 143 -1 Chez Reavie ...........................................73 70 — 143 -1 Jason Gore .............................................73 70 — 143 -1 Jeff Burns ...............................................72 71 — 143 -1 Harrison Frazar .....................................73 71 — 144 E Troy Matteson ......................................72 72 — 144 E Tom Byrum ............................................70 74 — 144 E Vaughn Taylor .......................................72 72 — 144 E Josh Teater ............................................73 71 — 144 E Frank Lickliter II ....................................75 69 — 144 E Charles Warren .....................................71 73 — 144 E Kris Blanks .............................................77 67 — 144 E Ryan Palmer ..........................................75 69 — 144 E Chad Campbell .....................................74 70 — 144 E Guy Boros ...............................................76 68 — 144 E John Daly ................................................77 67 — 144 E Michael Connell ....................................72 72 — 144 E Martin Flores .........................................72 72 — 144 E Chris Wilson ..........................................72 72 — 144 E
Purse: $6.1 million; ardgage: 7,435 Second Round— Top Scorers
TENNIS
Mutua Madrilena Masters/Open
At Caja Magica; In Madrid Purse: Men, $4.5 million Purse: Women, $4.5 million Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles— Men— Semifinals
Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Roger Federer (1), Switzer- land, def. David Ferrer (9), Spain, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3.
Singles— Women— Semifinals
Venus Williams (4), United States, def. Shahar Peer, Israel, 6-3, 6-0; Aravane Rezai, France, def. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, 6-1, retired; .
AUTO RACING
Heluva Good! 200 Results
At Dover Int’l Speedway; In Dover, Del. Lap length: 1 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toy., 205 laps, 150 rat., 195 pts. 2. (9) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 205, 109.4, 170. 3. (27) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 205, 90.1, 165. 4. (14) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 205, 105.4, 160. 5. (20) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 205, 94.6, 155. 6. (10) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 205, 101.1, 150. 7. (3) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 205, 105.2, 151. 8. (7) Greg Biffle, Ford, 205, 94.5, 142. 9. (17) Brian Scott, Toyota, 205, 90.2, 138. 10. (16) Colin Braun, Ford, 205, 78.4, 134. 11. (4) Carl Edwards, Ford, 205, 106.5, 130. 12. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 205, 114.5, 132. 13. (11) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 205, 79.4, 124. 14. (15) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 205, 79.2, 121. 15. (33) Michael Annett, Toyota, 205, 76, 118. 16. (29) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 205, 81.5, 115. 17. (28) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 205, 68, 112. 18. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 205, 74.2, 109. 19. (19) Scott Lagasse Jr., Ford, 203, 65, 106. 20. (13) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 202, 58.8, 103. 21. (38) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 202, 46.7, 100. 22. (31) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 202, 60.9, 97. 23. (21) Willie Allen, Chevrolet, 202, 57.9, 94. 24. (42) Eric McClure, Ford, 200, 41.6, 91. 25. (12) Clint Bowyer, Chev., parked, 199, 105.4, 88. 26. (40) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 199, 53.6, 85. 27. (5) Kasey Kahne, Toy., acc., 198, 95.4, 82. 28. (24) Paul Menard, Ford, acc., 198, 81.8, 79. 29. (23) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, acc., 198, 74.1, 76. 30. (39) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 197, 44.7, 73. 31. (36) Mark Green, Chevrolet, 197, 36.8, 70. 32. (18) Chad McCumbee, Ford, acc., 195, 43.4, 67. 33. (26) Jason Keller, Chevrolet, 184, 54.4, 64. 34. (37) Mike Wallace, Chev, w.pump, 168, 54.1, 61. 35. (41) R. Richardson Jr., Chev., eng., 147, 35.1, 58. 36. (30) Josh Wise, Ford, overheating, 102, 37, 55. 37. (34) M. Shepherd, Chev., brakes, 55, 47.4, 52. 38. (22) Kevin Lepage, Chev., whl. bear., 31, 38, 49. 39. (35) Johnny Chapman, Dodge, brks, 27, 32, 46. 40. (32) Chase Miller, Chev, electrical, 24, 37, 43. 41. (43) Kevin Hamlin, Chevrolet, brks, 10, 31.4, 40. 42. (25) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, vibr., 5, 30.4, 37. 43. (8) David Gilliland, Chev., ignition, 1, 30.3, 34.
NASCAR Nationwide
HIGH SCHOOLS
BASEBALL VIRGINIA
Jefferson 7, Langley 3
Lake Braddock 23, T.C. Williams 3 Madison 5, Marshall 4 W.T. Woodson 13, Lee 3 (5) West Potomac 6, West Springfield 4
PRIVATE
St. Christopher’s 6, Paul VI Catholic 5 Landon 6, St. Albans 5 (8)
BOYS’ LACROSSE MARYLAND
Arundel 10, Annapolis 9 Churchill 14, Blair 1
Seneca Valley 9, Tuscarora (Md.) 5 Walter Johnson 13, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 5 Whitman 14, Sherwood 8 Wootton 14, Paint Branch 2
PRIVATE
St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes 11, St. Anne’s-Belfield 6
TOURNAMENTS
AAA Liberty District Tournament At Marshall Final
Langley 10, Madison 9
GIRLS’ LACROSSE MARYLAND
Blake 14, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 8 Marriotts Ridge 20, Centennial 3 Sherwood 10, Walter Johnson 5
PRIVATE
St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes 13, Collegiate 12
SOFTBALL VIRGINIA
Briar Woods 3, Broad Run 2 Robinson 12, Herndon 3
West Potomac 7, West Springfield 0
RESULTS
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Virginia Tech 18, Duke 8
COLLEGE LACROSSE Women
NCAA Tournament
Maryland 20, Marist 5 North Carolina 18, Navy 5
LACROSSE
National Lacrosse League
Playoffs
Championship Saturday’s Game
Toronto at Washington (Seattle) ..................... Late
NCAA Division I
Men’s Lacrosse Tournament
First Round — Saturday’s Games
at Duke 18 ......................................... Johns Hopkins 5 at Maryland 11..............................................Hofstra 8 at Cornell 11 ............................. Loyola, Md. 10 (3OT) Denver (12-4) at Stony Brook (12-3)................. Late Mt Saint Mary’s, Md. (12-4) at Virginia (14-1) Late
First Round — Sunday’s Games
Notre Dame (7-6) at Princeton (11-4) ................2:30 Delaware (10-6) at North Carolina (12-2).............. 5 Army (10-5) at Syracuse (13-1) .......................... 7:30
Women’s Lacrosse Tournament
First Round — Saturday’s Games
at Maryland 20................................................Marist 5 at Pennsylvania 14.................... Boston University 9 at James Madison 9................................... Stanford 8 Syracuse 15 ..................................... at Georgetown 8 at North Carolina 18.........................................Navy 5 at Northwestern 19..............................Notre Dame 7
First Round — Sunday’s Games
Towson (13-4) at Virginia (13-5)...................... Noon Vanderbilt (12-5) at Duke (13-5).............................. 2
NCAA Division I
COLLEGE SOFTBALL ACC Semifinals
Florida State 5, Virginia Tech 3
LOCAL TENNIS
Kenwood — Doug Smith and Dick Culp defeated Nirik Nahra and Garet Bornstein in the Woody Classic.
LOCAL GOLF
Northern Virginia B Team Match
International 68, River Bend 40
Maryland State Women’s Association
⁄2
Norbeck 91 , Montgomery 21 ⁄2
Maryland State Team Matches Semifinals
Congressional 7, Maryland Golf & Country Club 5
Interclub Match
Lakewood 11, Chevy Chase 7 Chantilly National — In the ladies’ weekenders four-ball championship, Barb Sanders and Gerry Stanley won low gross with 81. Jane Starr and Nancy Grim won low net with 63. Heritage Hunt — In the masters tournament, Je- rad Shaffer won low gross. Ron Cayton won low net.
Manor — Pat Phelan and Chris Netter won the preakness cup championship. Montgomery Village— In the ladies’ stableford, Eddy Bishop won with 34.
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The Mystics led 32-25 late in
the first half before Indiana’s Al- lie Quigley sparked a comeback. She made a layup, got a steal that led to a short jumper by Douglas, then made a driving layup to cut Washington’s lead to 32-31. Washington rallied to lead 37-
31 at halftime, then increased its advantage to 10 points early in the third quarter.
Indiana made a run and cut its
deficit to 54-50 early in the fourth quarter while Catchings was the only starter on the floor. Washington responded defini-
tively. A three-pointer by Smith made it 64-52 with just under four minutes to play, and Currie followed shortly afterward with a three to extend the Mystics’ lead to 13.
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