College Sports

RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke keeps finding its way back to No. 1.

PHOENIX — The Yavapai College baseball team opened ACCAC play with a doubleheader split at South Mountain, winning game one 5-3 but dropping game two 10-0 on Saturday afternoon.

BOULDER, Colo. — Lucas Siewert and McKinley Wright IV led the Colorado Buffaloes to a 67-60 win over Arizona on Sunday night, sending the Wildcats to their first seven-game losing streak in 36 years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Carlos Hines had 17 points and 10 assists to carry Northern Arizona to a 78-66 win over Sacramento State on Saturday night.

SALT LAKE CITY — Rob Edwards scored a season high 28 points while Zylan Cheatham chipped in 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead Arizona State to a 98-87 victory over Utah on Saturday night.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Carlos Hines had 17 points and 10 assists to carry Northern Arizona to a 78-66 win over Sacramento State on Saturday night.

Roughrider baseball gameday glance for Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019.

SALT LAKE CITY — Parker Van Dyke made seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 23 points and Jayce Johnson also set a career-best with 17 points to help Utah beat Arizona 83-76 on Thursday night.

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Oregon State has won 111 of its last 130 baseball games, is coming off its third national championship since 2006 and its career coaching wins leader Pat Casey retired last fall.

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PHOENIX — Matt Novis and Channy Ortiz each had three hits, Christian Encarnacion-Strand recorded three RBIs and the Yavapai College baseball team used a six-run ninth inning to rout Phoenix College 10-0 on Saturday afternoon.

The NCAA Division I Basketball Committee slated Duke as the No. 1 overall seed in its initial tournament rankings over the weekend. Voters in the AP Top 25 stuck with Tennessee as their top team.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Baylor, Louisville, Oregon and Mississippi State are the No. 1 seeds in the first NCAA Top 16 reveal.

Courier news/sports editor Brian M. Bergner Jr. interviews members of the Yavapai College baseball team for the 2019 season preview.

Stung by a disappointing loss two days earlier, Arizona State put together a strong bounce-back victory and handed Washington its first Pac-12 loss, knocking off the Huskies 75-63 on Saturday night.

TUCSON — Make it an unexpected desert sweep for Robert Franks and the Washington State Cougars.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Borislava Hristova scored 37 points, Chanelle Molina added 28 and blocked a potential game-winning shot at the buzzer and Washington State ended a seven-game losing streak with a 90-88 win over Arizona on Saturday.

FLAGSTAFF — Jerrick Harding scored 29 points as Weber State defeated Northern Arizona 86-71 on Saturday. Cody John added 25 points for the Wildcats. John also had six rebounds for the Wildcats.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — RJ Barrett got it started, Zion Williamson filled in some gaps and Cam Reddish added a late flurry.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — David Williams II, the first black athletic director in the Southeastern Conference and an "incomparable leader" at Vanderbilt, died Friday, hours before his retirement party. He was 71.

TEMPE — The score climbs as the clock ticks down. Many fans have started to leave or are already gone. The regulars start to come off the floor, sometimes individually, sometimes as a group after their day's work is done.

SEATTLE — Arizona State's game against Washington on Saturday has been canceled because of inclement weather in Seattle and throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Roughrider softball gameday glance for Thursday, Feb. 6.

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