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BASEBALLInternational

North W L Pct. GBLehigh Valley 10 4.714 —Pawtucket 9 5.643 1Rochester 7 7.500 3Buffalo 7 7.500 3Scranton/WB 5 8.385 4 1⁄2Syracuse 3 10.231 6 1⁄2South W L Pct. GBGwinnett 10 4.714 —Charlotte 7 7.500 3Durham 6 8.429 4Norfolk 5 9.357 5West W L Pct. GBToledo 8 5.615 —Columbus 8 6.571 1⁄2Indianapolis 6 7.462 2Louisville 5 9.357 3 1⁄2

Wednesday’s gamesCharlotte 4, Durham 3Indianapolis 4, Columbus 3Buffalo 4, Lehigh Valley 1Pawtucket 6, Syracuse 1 (11)Toledo 13, Louisville 9Gwinnett 4, Norfolk 1Scranton/WB 2, Rochester 0

Thursday’s gamesColumbus at IndianapolisPawtucket at SyracuseNorfolk at GwinnettLehigh Valley at BuffaloToledo at Louisville, 6:35Rochester vs. Scranton/WBDurham at Charlotte

Friday’s gamesDurham at PawtucketToledo at Louisville, 6:35Buffalo at SyracuseNorfolk at Scranton/WBLehigh Valley at RochesterColumbus at IndianapolisGwinnett at Charlotte

Midwest LeagueWednesday’s games

Dayton 9, Fort Wayne 4Bow. Green 5, Great Lakes 4Beloit 6, Kane County 3West Michigan 8, Lake Co. 5South Bend 4, Lansing 3Cedar Rapids 5, Peoria 2Wisconsin 10, Burlington 6Clinton at Quad Cities

Thursday’s gamesWisconsin at West MichiganFort Wayne at Kane CountyQuad Cities at DaytonBeloit at South BendLansing at BurlingtonGreat Lakes at PeoriaLake County at ClintonCed. Rapids at Bow. Green, 7:35

Friday’s gamesWisconsin at West MichiganQuad Cities at DaytonFort Wayne at Kane CountyLake County at ClintonLansing at BurlingtonGreat Lakes at PeoriaBeloit at South BendCed. Rapids at Bow. Green, 8:05South Atlantic League

Wednesday’s gamesGreenville 4, Lexington 2Greensboro 9, Lakewood 1Asheville at West Virginia, ppd.Savannah 2, Rome 0 (7)Savannah 4, Rome 3Kannapolis at Hickory, ppd.Charleston at Augusta, cncld.Delmarva 6, Hagerstown 2

Thursday’s gamesDelmarva at GreensboroLexington at Kannapolis, 7:05Hickory at SavannahAugusta at GreenvilleWest Virginia at CharlestonLakewood at HagerstownRome at Asheville

Friday’s gamesDelmarva at GreensboroRome at AshevilleLexington at Kannapolis, 7:05Hickory at SavannahAugusta at GreenvilleWest Virginia at CharlestonLakewood at Hagerstown

HOCKEYNHL

PLAYOFF GLANCE(x-if necessary)FIRST ROUND

(Best-of-7)Monday’s games

Boston 4, Washington 3, Bos-ton leads series 2-1

St. Louis 4, San Jose 3, St. Louisleads series 2-1

Tuesday’s gamesFlorida 4, New Jersey 3, Florida

leads series 2-1Nashville 3, Detroit 1, Nashville

leads series 3-1Phoenix at Chicago, 9, series

tied 1-1Wednesday’s games

Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT, se-ries tied 2-2Pittsburgh 10, Philadelphia 3,

Philadelphia leads series 3-1Vancouver at Los Angeles, Los

Angeles leads series 3-0Thursday’s games

Florida at New Jersey, 7Boston at Washington, 7:30Phoenix at Chicago, 8St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30

Friday’s gamesx-Phila. at Pittsburgh, 7:30Detroit at Nashville, 8

Saturday’s gamesWashington at Boston, 3x-New Jersey at Florida, 6:30Ottawa at NY Rangers, 7San Jose at St. Louis, 7:30Chicago at Phoenix, 10

Sunday, April 22x-Boston at Washington, TBDx-Pittsburgh at Phila., TBDx-Nashville at Detroit, TBDx-Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD

Monday, April 23x-NY Rangers at Ottawa, TBDx-Phoenix at Chicago, TBDx-St. Louis at San Jose, TBD

Tuesday, April 24x-Florida at New Jersey, TBDx-Phila. at Pittsburgh, TBDx-Detroit at Nashville, TBDx-Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD

Wednesday, April 25x-Washington at Boston, TBDx-San Jose at St. Louis, TBDx-Chicago at Phoenix, TBD

Thursday, April 26x-Ottawa at NY Rangers, TBDx-New Jersey at Florida, TBDx-Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD

COLLEGE SPORTSBaseball

N. Kentucky .110 200 4 - 8 10 1Bellarmine....000 201 0 - 3 4 2

WP - Clark (3-2). LP - Fuchs(3-3). Records - NKU 25-10, Bel-larmine 19-16N.Kentcky025 031410 -1617 2Bellarmine400 010 000 - 5 12 3

WP - Ryan (2-3). LP - Shelley(0-1). HR - Asman (NK). Records -NKU 26-10, Bellarmine 19-17.

Others scoresLindsey Wilson 18, Brescia 8Thomas More 12, Wittenberg 6Union 8, St. Catharine 1Memphis 10, Murray St. 4

SoftballIndiana .............021 010 - 4 8 1Ball State......050 601 - 12 15 2

WP - Mazzapica (17-3). LP -Murphy (8-9).Abraham,Cawley,Berenter (IU), Rager, Mercado 2(BS). HR - Gogreve (IU), Montal-to (BS). Records - Indiana 21-21,Ball State 28-12.Bellarmine....000 000 2 - 2 6 1N. Kentucky ..121 100 x - 5 11 1

WP - Schwaeble (18-5). LP -Meyer (14-9). HR - McQueen(NKU). Records - Bellarmine 27-24, N. Kentucky 28-15.Bellarmine......012 501 - 9 10 0N. Kentucky .....010 000 - 1 6 2

WP - Miller (14-15). LP - Caudill(10-10). HR - Summe, Murdoch(B). Records - Bellarmine 28-24,N. Kentucky 28-16.Kentucky.........000 020 1 - 3 5 1Mississippi ......100 000 0 - 1 4 2

WP - Bell (12-8). LP - Bruning(12-13). 2B - Cervantes (UK), Jay-john (M). HR - Cantillo (M). Rec-ords - Kentucky 22-23, Mississip-pi 16-25.Kentucky ...........320 30 - 8 9 0Mississippi ........000 00 - 0 3 2

WP - Riley (6-6). LP - Jayjohn (3-11). 2B - Joiner (UK).HR - Cervan-tes (UK). Records - Kentucky 23-23, Mississippi 16-26.USF .....................000 00 - 0 4 1Louisville...........000 54 - 9 6 0

WP - Leonard (8-0). LP - Nevins(23-4). 2B - Wolny (UL). HR -Fowler, Trimble (UL). Records -USF 40-8, Louisville 40-2.USF.................000 010 0 - 1 6 1Louisville .......021 001 x - 4 4 1

WP - Collins (19-1). LP - Nevins(23-3).2B - Wolny (UL).Records -USF 40-7, Louisville 39-2.

Other scoresThomas More 3, Grove City 2Grove City 4, Thomas More 0So. Indiana 1, Ky. Wesleyan 0So. Indiana 5, Ky. Wesleyan 4Bow. Green 5, E. Kentucky 2Bow. Green 6, E. Kentucky 1

TENNISATP

Monte-Carlo Rolex MastersWedneday at Monte Carlo

Second RoundNovak Djokovic (1), Serbia, d.

Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-1, 6-4.Alexandr Dolgopolov (16), Uk-

raine, d. Bernard Tomic, Aus-tralia, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.

Gilles Simon (9), France, d. Fre-derico Gil, Portugal, 6-3, 6-0.

Julien Benneteau, France, d.Jurgen Melzer (15), Austria, 6-4,6-3.

Janko Tipsarevic (7), Serbia, d.Albert Montanes, Spain, 6-2,6-3.

Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakh-stan,d.Filippo Volandri, Italy,7-6(8), 2-6, 6-2.

Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, d. Jark-ko Nieminen, Finland, 6-4, 6-3.

Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzer-land, d. Pablo Andujar, Spain,7-5, 6-3.

Nicolas Almagro (8), Spain, d.Potito Starace, Italy, 7-6 (3), 6-1.

Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Re-public, d. Marin Cilic, Croatia,7-6 (3), 6-1.

Robin Haase, Netherlands, d.Fabio Fognini, Italy, 6-4, 6-4.

Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, d. Da-vid Ferrer (5), Spain, 6-3, 6-2.

Kei Nishikori (12), Japan, d.Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, 6-4,6-2.

THIS DATE1897 — John J. McDermott

wins the first Boston Marathonin 2 hours, 55 minutes, 10 sec-onds.1930 — Clarence DeMar wins

the Boston Marathon for a rec-ord seventh time, in 2:34:48.2.1947 — The Toronto Maple

Leafs post a 2-1 victory over theMontreal Canadiens to take theNHL Stanley Cup in six games.1948 — Gerard Cote of Cana-

da wins his fourth Boston Mara-thon with a time of 2:31:02.1950 — Nineteen-year-old

Ham Kee Yong becomes theyoungest to win the Boston Mar-athon with a 2:32:39 clocking.1965 — The Boston Celtics

have five players score 20 ormore points in a 129-123 victoryover Los Angeles in Game 2 ofthe NBA Finals. It’s the first timein Finals history there are five 20-point scorers on one team. JohnHavlicek leads Boston with 24points,Tom Sanders and Bill Rus-sell each score 23, Tommy Hein-sohn adds 22 and Sam Jones fin-ished with 20. Jerry West leadsthe Lakers with 45.1982 — Alberto Salazaar

breaks the 2:09 mark with a rec-ord 2:08:51 clocking in the Bos-ton Marathon.1986 — Michael Spinks wins a

split decision against LarryHolmes to retain the worldheavyweight title in Las Vegas.1991 — Evander Holyfield re-

tains the heavyweight title witha unanimous 12-round decisionover 42-year-old challengerGeorge Foreman in Atlantic City,N.J.1992 — Michael Jordan of the

Chicago Bulls wins his sixthstraight NBA scoring title with a30.1 average.1993 — Kenya’s Cosmas N’de-

ti, running his second marathon,beats Kim Jae-Yong of South Ko-rea by10 seconds to win the Bos-ton Marathon with a time of2:09.33. Olga Markova of Russiadefends her title with a time of2:25:27.1998 — San Antonio beats

Denver 96-82 to set an NBA rec-ord for the largest single-seasonturnaround. The Spurs improveby 36 games from 20 wins in1997.

1998 — Chicago’s Michael Jor-dan scores 44 points to lead theBulls over the Knicks, 111-109, inthe final game of the regular sea-son, securing his record 10thNBA scoring title with a 28.7points per game average.

2000 — Minnesota’s KevinGarnett becomes the ninth play-er in NBA history to average 20points, 10 rebounds and five as-sists in a season. The last to do itwas Charles Barkley for Phoenixin 1992-93.

2009 — Rafael Nadal becomesthe first player to win fivestraight Monte Carlo Masters ti-tles by beating Novak Djokovic6-3, 2-6, 6-1. The top-rankedSpaniard, however, loses a set atthe clay court tournament for thefirst time since the 2006 finalagainst Roger Federer.

2010 — Kenya’s Robert Kipro-no Cheruiyot wins the BostonMarathon, breaking the courserecord with a time of 2:05:52.Ethiopia’s Teyba Erkesso winsthe women’s race in 2:26:11

SOCCERMLS

EASTERN CONFERENCEW L T Pts

Kan. City 6 0 0 18New York 3 2 1 10D.C. 2 2 2 8Houston 2 1 1 7New England 2 4 0 6Columbus 2 3 0 6Chicago 1 1 2 5Philadelphia 1 3 1 4Montreal 1 5 1 4Toronto FC 0 5 0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCEW L T Pts

Salt Lake 5 2 0 15San Jose 4 1 1 13Seattle 3 1 1 10FC Dallas 3 2 1 10Chivas USA 3 3 0 9Colorado 3 3 0 9Vancouver 2 1 2 8Los Angeles 2 3 0 6Portland 1 4 1 4

Saturday’s gamesChicago at Toronto FC, 3:30Houston at Columbus, 7:30Los Angeles at Colorado, 9FC Dallas at Vancouver, 10Kansas City at Portland, 10:30Phila. at Chivas USA, 10:30Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 10:30

Sunday’s gameNew York at D.C. United, 6

GOLFPGA Tour

PGA Tour StatisticsThrough April 15Scoring Average

1, Rory McIlroy, 68.97. 2, TigerWoods, 69.03. 3, Justin Rose,69.31. 4, Lee Westwood, 69.36.5, Jim Furyk, 69.42. 6, Carl Pet-tersson, 69.49. 7, Keegan Brad-ley, 69.63. 8 (tie), Bubba Watsonand Matt Kuchar, 69.73. 10, PhilMickelson, 69.84.

Driving Distance1, Bubba Watson, 313.1. 2, Ja-

mie Lovemark, 307.7. 3, RobertGarrigus, 306.6. 4, Dustin John-son, 305.9. 5, Jason Kokrak,305.4.6,Charlie Beljan,303.9.7,Kyle Stanley, 302.6. 8, HarrisEnglish, 302.0. 9 (tie), JhonattanVegas and J.B. Holmes, 300.9.

Driving Accuracy1, Jim Furyk, 74.37%. 2,

Graeme McDowell, 73.21%. 3,David Toms, 72.22%. 4, JohnMallinger, 71.43%. 5, HunterMahan, 71.36%. 6, Colt Knost,71.24%. 7, Heath Slocum,71.21%. 8, Zach Johnson,71.03%. 9, Brian Davis, 69.63%.10, Roberto Castro, 69.51%.

Greens in Regulation1, Lee Westwood, 75.00%. 2,

Bubba Watson, 73.60%. 3, JohnSenden, 71.80%. 4, Hunter Ma-han, 71.20%. 5, Nathan Green,70.90%. 6, Justin Rose, 70.60%.7, Will Claxton, 70.60%. 8, Ro-berto Castro, 70.20%. 9, LouisOosthuizen, 70.20%. 10, BryceMolder, 70.10%.

Total Driving1, Lee Westwood, 60. 2, Boo

Weekley, 61. 3 (tie), John Rollinsand Roberto Castro, 66. 5 (tie),Tiger Woods and Louis Oosthui-zen, 70. 7 (tie), John Senden andJason Dufner, 78. 9, Bo Van Pelt,82. 10, Two tied with 88.

Putting Average1, Bo Van Pelt, 1.709. 2, Brian

Harman, 1.710. 3, Zach Johnson,1.711. 4 (tie), Bob Estes and CarlPettersson, 1.715. 6, Richard H.Lee, 1.716. 7, Greg Chalmers,1.717. 8, Aaron Baddeley, 1.718.9, Ben Crane, 1.721. 10, JonasBlixt, 1.727.

Birdie Average1, Rory McIlroy, 4.42. 2 (tie), Pe-

ter Hanson and Bubba Watson,4.36. 4, Phil Mickelson, 4.29. 5(tie), Lee Westwood, KeeganBradley and Webb Simpson,4.25. 8, John Senden, 4.23. 9, BoVan Pelt, 4.21. 10, Two tied with4.19.

Sand Saves1, Jonas Blixt, 74.14%. 2, Billy

Mayfair, 72.73%. 3, David Toms,68.97%. 4, Lee Westwood,68.57%. 5, Rory McIlroy,68.42%. 6, Aaron Baddeley,65.96%. 7, Martin Flores,64.81%.8,Brian Gay,64.52%.9,Mark Wilson, 64.29%. 10, SteveWheatcroft, 64.00%.

All-Around Ranking1, Keegan Bradley, 187. 2, Rory

McIlroy, 213. 3 (tie), Lee West-wood and Tiger Woods, 243. 5,Bo Van Pelt, 259. 6, Peter Han-son, 285. 7, Justin Rose, 291. 8,Bubba Watson, 307. 9 (tie), Ja-son Dufner and John Senden,309.

Official Money Leaders1, Bubba Watson, (8),

$3,124,138. 2, Hunter Mahan,(8), $3,094,040. 3, Phil Mickel-son, (9),$2,515,481.4,Rory McIl-roy, (4), $2,424,000. 5, JustinRose, (8), $2,175,206. 6, Carl Pet-tersson, (9), $2,145,253. 7, KyleStanley, (11), $2,008,919. 8,Johnson Wagner, (11),$2,008,193.9,Mark Wilson, (12),$1,927,685.10, Tiger Woods, (6),$1,811,000.

Champions TourChampions Tour Statistics

Through April 15Scoring

1, Michael Allen, 68.56. 2, FredCouples, 68.67. 3, Kenny Perry,69.00. 4, Bernhard Langer,69.22. 5, Jay Haas, 69.50. 6, JeffSluman, 69.56. 7, Bill Glasson,69.80. 8, Peter Senior, 69.87. 9,John Cook, 70.00. 10, Tom Leh-man, 70.07.

Driving Distance1, Kenny Perry, 294.2. 2, John

Huston, 291.8. 3, Fred Couples,290.1. 4, Steve Lowery, 288.3. 5,Michael Allen, 286.3. 6, TomLehman, 285.4. 7, Mark Calca-vecchia, 284.0. 8, Tom Purtzer,282.1. 9, Brad Bryant, 281.4. 10,Russ Cochran, 280.5.

ROLL CALLBASKETBALL

National Basketball Assoc.NBA—Fined Dallas G Delonte

West $25,000 for a physicaltaunt by poking Utah’s GordonHayward in the ear during anApril 16 game.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS-—Recalled F Luke Harangodyfrom Canton (NBADL).

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS-—Signed C Darryl Watkins to a10-day contract. Waived C ChrisJohnson.

HOCKEYNHL—Suspended Phoenix F

Raffi Torres indefinitely for a hitthat knocked Chicago F MarianHossa out of an April 17 game.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS-—Signed LW Josh Shalla to athree-year contract and as-signed him to Milwaukee (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES—Re-called F Matt Watkins from Port-land (AHL).

COLLEGEGEORGE WASHINGTON-

—Named Megan Duffy wom-en’s assistant basketball coach.

PROVIDENCE—Named DanDurkin and Kristeena Alexanderwomen’s assistant basketballcoaches.

TENNESSEE—Announcedwomen’s basketball coach PatSummitt will take the title of‘‘head coach emeritus’’ and pro-moted assistant coach HollyWarlick to head coach.

TEXAS SOUTHERN—NamedCynthia Cooper-Dyke women’sbasketball coach.

TOLEDO—Announced theNCAA denied its appeal on nextyear’s postseason ban for themen’s basketball team becauseof below-standard AcademicPerformance Rate scores. Theteam will be forced to give upthree regular-season games andcut its practice time.

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TheCourier-Journal todayoffers a combined one-edi-tion newspaper in order togive all of our readers theNCAA championship gamestory.

TO OUR READERS

NEWORLEANS

Won and done.

The University ofKentucky is NCAAmen’s basketballchampion for the

eighth timeandWildcats coachJohnCalipari for the first after beatingKansas 67-59 before a crowd of70,913 Monday night in the Mer-cedes-Benz Superdome.

After a season in which thisyoung team thatstarted three fresh-men and two sopho-mores was debatedand discussed be-cause of its youth(and because at leasttwo of those fresh-men are expected tobe NBA draft lotterypicks), there can beno discussion aboutthis:

The Wildcats were the best teamallseason, theywerethebest teaminthe NCAA Tournament and theyplayed like the best team in the na-tion on the sport’s biggest stageMonday night.

“I’m so proud of these youngmen,” Calipari said. “This is notaboutme, it’s about these13 players,this isabout theBigBlueNation. I’venever had any team that has sacri-ficed for each other like this team.They deserve this win, they reallydo.”

UK led by as many as 18 in thefirst half, but the game was withinsix in the finalminute beforeAntho-nyDavis, theNCAA’s all-time fresh-man leader in blocked shots, skiedout to go after an Elijah Johnson 3-point trythatwould’vecuttheleadinhalf. Johnson saw him in the air,pulled the ball down, and traveled.

A couple of free throws later, itwas over. Calipari turned to his

WILDCATS BEAT KANSAS FOR 8TH NCAA TITLE

EricCrawford

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Kentucky’s Michael Kidd-Gilchrist leaps onto Terrence Jones in the celebration after Monday night’s victory over Kansas at the Superdome.MICHAEL CLEVENGER/THE COURIER-JOURNAL

ON THEWEBEnjoy more stories, photos andvideos at www.courier-jour-nal.com/ncaa

BIG TIME IN BIG EASYUniversity of Kentucky fans enjoythe big day and the big game inthe Big Easy. A6

A CAT-ACLYSMIC SEASONRead more about the stories be-hind the stats for the KentuckyWildcats. C1

LEXINGTON GOESWILDPolice encountered another nightof raucous crowds around the UKcampus. A6

A gunman opened fire at a small Christianuniversity in Oakland Monday, killing at leastsevenpeople andwounding three.The suspect, aformer student, was captured at a nearby shop-ping center. A3

GUNMAN KILLS 7 AT SCHOOL

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NEWORLEANS—UniversityofKentuckybasketball fansliketheirnicknames,preferablywiththesameprefix.Therewere TheUnforgettables in1992, TheUntouchables in1996andTheUnbelievables in1997.

This year’s Wildcats, then, could be called The Undenia-bles.TheyweatheredeveryKansasstorm,heldoffonefinal,frantic comeback bid and won the program’s eighth NCAAchampionshipMonday night with a 67-59 victory in the titlegameat theMercedes-BenzSuperdome.

Sophomore Terrence Jones, who said he couldn’t leaveschool after last season because of the team’s Final Four de-feat by a single point, cradled the trophy like a baby whileteammatescutdownthenets.

“It’sbeautiful,”hesaid. “I’mnotgoing to let it go.”For amoment, though, it was shaping up like coach John

NO.1 AND DONEUniversity of Kentucky players break out in celebration after leading the school to its first men’s basketball national championship since 1998. SAM UPSHAW JR./THE COURIER-JOURNAL

Calipari’s young Cats refuseto be denied a national title

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CONGRATULATIONS KENTUCKY2012 COLLEGE BASKETBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

NEWORLEANS—Anthony Davis’amazing freshman season ended with hismost spectacular stunt yet: He dictatedKentucky’s 67-59 NCAA championshipgame victory over Kansas and only madea single basket. One.

No dunks. No lobs. No baby hooks. No3-pointers. No drives. Just one 15-footjumper nearly 35 minutes into the game.

No problem.By game’s end, when the confetti float-

ed down from the roof of the Superdomeand John Calipari’s players wrapped each other up incelebratory hugs, there was also no doubt which Ken-tucky player was parked inside the minds of every Kan-sas player.

Anthony Davis, only the fourth freshman to be namedMost Outstanding Player in the Final Four.

Even without scoring,Davis a huge playmaker

RickBozich

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 » SECTION C

SportsSports

By Kyle Tuckerktucker@courier-journal.comThe Courier-Journal

KENTUCKY 67, KANSAS 59

EIGHTHWONDERIt has been 14 years since Kentuckywon its last NCAA title. Here's a lookat all eight championships:

1948Kentucky 58,Baylor 42

1949Kentucky 46,Okla. A&M 36

1951Kentucky 68,

Kansas State 58

1958Kentucky 84,Seattle 72

1978Kentucky 94,

Duke 88

1996Kentucky 76,Syracuse 67

1998Kentucky 78,

Utah 69

2012Kentucky 67,Kansas 59

INSIDE THIS SECTIONCelebration at Rupp Arena today, C5Kansas rallies late but falls short, C5

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Anthony Davis, only the fourth freshman to be namedMost Outstanding Player in the Final Four.

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WP - Veith (3-1). LP - Wallace(1-2). 2B - O’Conner (SC), Jones(SC). Records - South Central8-2, Clarksville 5-6.W. Washington...120 000 4 - 7Shoals ................231 013 0 - 10

SoftballMadison........000 000 0 - 0 2 1Floyd Cent....000 002 x - 2 6 1

WP - Cato (4-2). LP - Bickers(1-1). Records - Madison 4-4,Floyd Central 13-2.Charlestown..142 204 - 13 9 1Borden.............000 000 - 0 0 7

WP - Webster (8-3).LP - Farvour(3-4). 2B - Ashby (C). Records -Charlestown 8-3, Borden 3-4.Providence ..000 000 2 - 2 5 2Corydon ........100 200 x - 3 5 1

WP - Crawhorn (6-7). LP - Col-lett (2-2). Records - Providence6-6, Corydon 6-9.Henryville ...210 010 2 - 6 10 6Lanesville .006 052 x - 13 12 5

WP - Zeller (2-1). LP - Basham(4-2). 2B - Richey (H), Basham(H), DeWeese (L), Schoen (L),Smith (L). Records - Henryville5-3, Lanesville 6-2.

Girls’ tennisSHAWE 4, N. WASH. 1

Singles: 1. Liz Grote (S) d.Courtney Amick 7-6 (7-4), 6-2; 2.Taylor Grote (S) d. Tiffanie Brison4-6,6-3,6-4;3.Bailey Davis (S) d.Melanie Dieterlen 7-5, 6-0.

Doubles: 1. Alex Seals andAshley Johnson (NW) d. TaylorDavis and Chloe Storm 7-5, 5-7,6-1; 2. Brittany Snodgrass andCaitlin Kelley (S) d. AmandaKemp and Christen Walker 6-1,6-1.

Boys’ trackTuesday’s meet

Jennings County 101, SilverCreek 31.Discus – Alsup (JC), 128-1;

Shot put – Alsup (JC), 42-6;Long jump – McClanahan (JC),18-0; High jump – Jackson (JC),6-0; Pole vault – Pifer (JC), 9-6;3,200 relay – Jennings County,8:52.2; 110 hurdles – Staples(JC), 17.9; 100 – McClanahan(JC), 12.0; 1,600 – Haas (SC),4:40.5; 400 relay – JenningsCounty, 47.4; 300 hurdles –Gasper (JC), 46.2; 800 – McCoy(JC), 2:09.7; 200 – McClanahan(JC), 24.2; 3,200 – Haas (SC),10:13.5; 1,600 relay – JenningsCounty, 3:45.1.

Girls’ trackTuesday’s meet

Jennings County 65, SilverCreek 54.Discus – Christman (SC), 100-

6.5; Shot put – Chrisman (SC),31-5; Long jump – Clemons(SC), 14-0; High jump – Back-herms (SC), 4-4; 3,200 relay –Silver Creek, 10:52.63; 100 hur-dles – Ertel (JC), 15.69; 100 –Brown (JC), 13.09; 1,600 – Cle-mons (SC), 5:49.74; 400 relay –Jennings County, 54.03; 400 –Shields (SC), 1:05.38; 300 hur-dles – Ertel (JC), 49.82; 800 –Shields (SC), 2:40.94; 200 –Brown (JC),27.56;3,200 – Sharp(SC), 12:43.76; 1,600 relay –Jennings County, 4:37.81.

BOXINGFight Schedule

April 20At Bell Centre, Montreal

(ESPN2), Adonis Stevenson vs.Noe Gonzalez, 12, super middle-weights.

At Biloxi, Miss. (SHO), JermainTaylor vs. Caleb Truax, 10, mid-dleweights; Erislandy Lara vs.Ronald Hearns, 10, junior mid-dleweights; Erislandy Lara vs.Ronald Hearns, 10, junior mid-dleweights.

April 21At Schwerin, Germany, Karoly

Balzsay vs. Dimitri Sartison, 12,for Balzsay’s WBA World supermiddleweight title; Rafael Beja-ran vs. Ante Bilic, 12, for Beja-ran’s WBO European middle-weight title; Jurgen Brahmer vs.Vikapita Meroro,10, light heavy-weights.

At the Don Haskins Center, ElPaso, Texas (SHO), Abner Maresvs. Eric Morel, 12, for the vacantWBC super bantamweight title;Anselmo Moreno vs.David De LaMora, 12, for Moreno’s WBA Su-per World bantamweight title;Luis Ramos Jr. vs. Daniel Attah,10, lightweights; Librado An-drade vs.Rowland Bryant,10,su-per middleweights.

At Morelia, Mexico, Jesus Sil-vestre vs. Edwin Diaz, 12, for theinterim WBA World minimum-weight title; Cristian Mijares vs.Cruz Carvajal, 12 rounds, juniorfeatherweights; Marvin Quinte-ro vs. Al Sabaupan, 12 rounds,IBF lightweight title eliminator

At San Juan, Argentina, OmarNarvaez vs. Jose Cabrera, 12rounds, for Narvaez’s WBO ju-nior bantamweight title.

April 26At Panama City, Panama, Car-

los Tamara vs. Ricardo Nunez,12, IBF flyweight eliminator.

At the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tul-sa, Okla., Carson Jones vs. AllenConyers,12, for Jones’ USBA wel-terweight title.

April 27At Resorts, Atlantic City, N.J.,

Omar Sheika vs. Yusaf Mack, 12,for the USBA light heavyweighttitle.

At the Buffalo Run Casino, Mi-ami, Okla. (SHO), Thomas Os-thuizen vs. Maxim Vlasov, 12, forOsthuizen’s IBO middleweighttitle; Luis del Valle vs. Christo-pher Martin, 10, super bantam-weights.

At Austin, Texas (ESPN2), Is-mayl Sillakh vs. Denis Grachev,10, light heavyweights; JavierFortuna vs. Yuandale Evans, 10,lightweights.

April 28At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic

City,N.J. (HBO),Bernard Hopkinsvs. Chad Dawson, 12, for Hop-kins’ WBC light heavyweight ti-tle; Seth Mitchell vs. Chazz With-erspoon, 10 rounds, heavy-weights.

At Maracay, Venezuela, LiborioSolis vs. Santiago Ivan Acosta,12, for Solis’ interim WBA Worldsuper flyweight title.

At Miami, Okla. (SHO), ThomasOosthuizen vs. Marcus Johnson,10, super middleweights; Orlan-do Del Valle vs. Christopher Mar-tin, 10, junior featherweights.

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