USC is still comfortably on top after the third round of the NCAA women’s golf championships, cruising with a 17-stroke lead going into the final round on Friday. Like Wednesday, the Pac-12 still has four teams – USC, UCLA, Arizona State and Stanford – in the top seven, while Arizona and Oregon are in the bottom half of the 24-team field.…
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We are (mostly) halfway through the NCAA women’s golf championships after Wednesday, and USC has separated itself from the the pack after an NCAA championships-record 12-under has given the Women of the Troy a 12-stroke lead over Alabama. Annie Park is again doing some serious work, one stroke off the individual lead at 7-under.…
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Thanks to a record-setting round, USC is all alone in first place after its first two rounds in the NCAA women’s golf championships. The Pac-12 comprises four of the top seven on the team leaderboard, with UCLA fourth, Stanford tied for fifth and Arizona State in seventh in addition to USC holding down the No.…
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Never underestimate the power of a 12-seed: Stanford women’s tennis won the national championship with a 4-3 victory over Texas A&M last night for the team’s 17th national title and school’s 104th. Once considered to be in grave danger after women’s water polo lost to USC, Stanford’s streak of consecutive years with some sort of NCAA national championship is still intact, now at 37.…
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(Credit: Bill Kallenberg)
After the Cardinal lost the NCAA women’s water polo championship in a sudden-death-overtime heartbreaker to USC, it looked like Stanford Athletics’ incredible streak of 36 consecutive years with at least one national title was in serious jeopardy.
But then along came Lele Forood’s women’s tennis team.…
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USC is in a tie for first and three other Pac-12 schools are in the top 10 after the first of four rounds at the NCAA women’s golf championships. Play at the University of Georgia Golf Course continues Wednesday and concludes Friday.…
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No. 1 vs. No. 2. Sixteen-time NCAA champ vs. NCAA runners-up two years running. All for this:
Here’s the hardware. Now we’re just waiting on a champion. Will it be @uclatennis or @uvamenstennis?#NCAATennis twitter.com/NCAATennis2013…
— NCAA Tennis 2013 (@NCAATennis2013) May 21, 2013
In a title bout that came down to three-setters on courts 9 and 12, Virginia outlasted UCLA 4-3 to claim its first-ever national championship and finish the season a perfect 30-0.…
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If you weren’t looking at Illinois’ auto-refresh scoreboard or watching silent locked-off cameras all Monday afternoon and evening, you missed some amazing tennis. First, UCLA men’s tennis advanced to the finals of the NCAA Championships after escaping Ohio State 4-3. Marcos Giron clinched it after Peter Kobelt double-faulted on match point in the third set (gotta feel bad for Kobelt to go out that way).…
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There’s nothing quite like two semifinal matches simultaneously coming down to the third set on the last court. When it was all said and done on Monday, the Pac-12 and SEC proved to be equal women’s tennis foes in Urbana, Ill., as No.…
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The push for title No. 17 is still alive for UCLA men’s tennis, even if it took a little longer than originally thought. Marcos Giron eked out a 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 victory over No. 8 singles player Peter Kobelt on court 2, and No.1 UCLA squeezed past No.…
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