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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Thirteen of the 64 women participating in the NCAA singles tennis championship’s opening round Wednesday were representing a Pac-12 school, leading one to believe the conference had a good shot at taking home its third consecutive singles title.
And perhaps no one represented the conference – or school – more triumphantly than Jacqueline Cako, the Arizona State senior who defeated the tournament’s top seed, Lauren Embree of the University of Florida.…
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The first round of the NCAA men’s tennis singles championship got under way Wednesday. And just as play was opening up, so too were the skies. Rain delayed action throughout the day, suspending a number of matches and pushing others indoors.…
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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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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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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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A whirlwind weekend of postseason action is in the books. Starting in men’s golf, Cal broke a modern-era record with its 11th tournament victory by winning the Pullman Regional. Also, Michael Weaver shared individual medalist honors with Sam Smith. The Golden Bears were dominant all weekend, winning the regional by 20 strokes.…
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The Pac-12 has one constituent remaining in the NCAA Men’s Tennis Championships after UCLA advanced to the semifinals and USC fell just short in quarterfinal action. The men’s tennis Final Four will begin Monday at 11 a.m. PT in Urbana, Ill.…
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Cal and UCLA won their regionals and five Pac-12 teams clinched a spot in the NCAA men’s golf championships in Atlanta May 28-June 2 with regional play wrapped up across the country on Saturday. Washington, USC and Arizona State will join the Golden Bears and Bruins at the Capital City Club, Crabapple Course later this month, while the season has come to a close for Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State and Stanford.…
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