UW tennis player falls in NCAA tournament

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Washington sophomore Dea Sumantri was bounced out of the NCAA women's tennis singles championships, falling in straight sets to Georgia's Agata Cioroch in the round of 16 yesterday.

After upset victories in her first- and second-round matches, the 34th-ranked Sumantri, from Jakarta, Indonesia, lost in the third round to the fourth-seeded Cioroch, 6-2, 6-4.

Sumantri (30-9) is the third player in UW history to win 30 or more matches in a season. She is also the third Huskies woman to advance to the NCAA round of 16. Only Kristina Kraszweski advanced further, reaching the NCAA quarterfinals in 1998.

By advancing to the round of 16, Sumantri became the fourth woman in UW history to earn All-America honors.

Cougar golfer second

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Washington State sophomore Kim Welch shot even-par 72 and moved up to second place at the midway point of the NCAA women's championships at Kampen Golf Course.

She tied two others for the low second-round score in the 126-player field. Welch is at 4-over 148, one behind Annie Thurman of Oklahoma State after 36 holes. Welch posted her par round despite a lost ball on the par-5 16th, which she bogeyed.

NCAA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS

At West Lafayette, Ind.

(Played at the 6,225 yard, par 72, Kampen Golf Course.)

SECOND ROUND

TEAM RESULTS

1. USC 608 (+32), 2. Oklahoma State 611 (+35), 3. Pepperdine 613 (+37), 4. Ohio State 616 (+40), T5. Florida 620 (+44), T5. Auburn 620 (+44), 7. Purdue 625 (+49), 8. Texas 627 (+51), 9. UCLA 628 (+52), 10. Arizona State 631 (+55), T11. California 632 (+56), T11. Duke 632 (+56), T11. Arizona 632 (+56), T11. Kent State (632 (+56), 15. Vanderbilt 633 (+57), T16. Georgia 634 (+58), T16. Tulsa 634 (+58), 18. South Carolina 636 (+60), 19. Stanford 637 (+61), 20. North Carolina 638 (+62), 21. Florida State 647 (+71), 22. Nebraska 653 (+77), 23. Wisconsin 656 (+80), 24. Washington State 664 (+88).

WSU RESULTS

2. Kim Welch (76-72, +4), T115. Maria Kostina (89-81 — 170 +26), 121. Stephanie Parsley (89-84 173 +29), 122. Ashleigh Gilhuly (89-85 — 174, +30), 124. Jay-Lee Longbottom (94-84 — 178, +34).

TOP FIVE INDIVIDUALS

1. Annie Thurman, Oklahoma State (73-74 — 147, +3), 2. Kim Welch (76-72, +4), T3. Aimee Cho, Florida (75-74 149, +5), T3. Danielle Downey (76-73 149, +5). Three players tied for fifth at 150 (+6).

Notes

• Washington tennis players Matt Hanlin and Alex Vlaski had comeback victories in first-round matches in the NCAA men's singles championships in Athens, Ga. Hanlin came back from a 5-3 deficit in the third set to beat Virginia Tech's Andreas Lauland 6-2, 1-6, 7-6. Vlaski, a sophomore ranked 10th, defeated Michael Yani of Duke in straight sets, 7-6, 6-4.

• Debra Huss, a Level 10 gymnast from the Sacramento area, has signed a national letter of intent to compete for Seattle Pacific University. Huss recently won the NorCal state championship on the uneven parallel bars and finished fifth all-around. SPU, coached by Laurel Tindall, is one of the nation's top small-college programs.

• Heidi Jacobson and Jennifer Mills, who played soccer as freshmen last fall for Gonzaga, will transfer to Seattle Pacific. Jacobson, a forward from Kirkland and Cedar Park Christian High School, was Gonzaga's No. 2 scorer. Mills, a defender from Sammamish, was voted most improved player for the Zags. Two California high-school seniors, Brenna Ingersol and Mollie Taylor, also have committed to SPU, which was 13-4-2 this year.

• Washington's baseball team plays USC this weekend at Husky Ballpark in the final regular-season games for both schools. The Huskies (12-9 Pac-10, 37-16 overall) are fourth in the conference, one game behind Arizona and Arizona State. USC (11-10, 28-25) is fifth. They play single games at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The 64-team field for the NCAA tournament will be announced Monday.

• Twenty students from Seattle-area schools have qualified for the USRowing Youth Invitational Regatta June 7-8 on Cincinnati's Harsha Lake. They are part of the Cascade Junior Rowing Club. They qualified at last weekend's Northwest Regional Junior Championship in Vancouver, Wash.

Cascade junior rowers who qualified: Hunter Swartz, Will Garrity-Binger, Franny Hays and Kate Osborne of Garfield; Cameron Paine-Thaler of Seattle Prep; Lucy Potter of Lakeside; Kathy Altman of Seattle Academy; Matt White, Nick Eaton, Nicholas Bigelow and Ruth Frantz of Northwest School; Kat Tu, David Marshall, Samantha Samuelson and Nicole Samuelson of Shorecrest; Floyden Mugford, Joe Montange, Leah DePaoli and Amber Buntin of Shorewood; and Lyn Kritzer of Odle Middle School.

• Roy Barsh, who played basketball at Puyallup High School and Tacoma Community College, has signed a letter of intent to play for Central Washington. The 6-foot-5 guard/forward averaged 12.2 points and 8.2 rebounds last season for Tacoma CC.

• Catcher Allie Kauffman of Liberty High and outfielder Lorelei Kroll of Kamiak are among four fastpitch softball players who have committed to play for Central Washington.

• Western Washington's men's golf team shot 12 over par and fell to seventh place at the halfway point of the NCAA Division II championships at Crosswater Golf Club in Sunriver, Ore.