NW Briefs: UW golfers 7th in NCAA tourney

COLUMBUS, OHIO — The Washington women's golf team proved that good things come in threes Thursday, shooting 5-over 293, the third-best round of the day and the third-best NCAA round in Huskies history on Day 3 of the NCAA championship.

The effort propelled the 23rd-ranked Huskies into seventh place in the field at 38-over 902. Duke grabbed the team lead with a 1-under 287, giving the Blue Devils a total of 876, 13 strokes ahead of USC headed into the final round.

Paige Mackenzie and Sung Ea Lee led the Huskies, shooting matching rounds of even-par 72. Mackenzie is 12th at 5-over 221, and Lee is one stroke behind in 17th.

Amber Prange is 64th after a 4-over 76, Kim Shin rebounded from a tough second round with a 1-over 73 to stand 77th, and Courtney McCracken shot 6-over 78 and is 99th.

Earlier, Mackenzie was named to the ESPN The Magazine All District VIII first team. She has a 3.59 grade-point average in business administration.

Other golf

Steve Klimek and Zack Shriver of Everett Golf & Country Club shot a 9-under-par 63 to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the 50th WSGA Men's Best-Ball Championship. Twelve other teams are within five shots of Klimek and Shriver heading into today's play on the Trophy Lake Golf & Casting course in Port Orchard, including 2004 champions Mike Seek and Jeff Strickland.

Track and field

Seattle Pacific's Chris Randolph was voted the NCAA Division II field athlete of the year, then got off to a strong start in the defense of his decathlon title at the NCAA Division II championships in Emporia, Kan.

Randolph leads the field by 20 points after five events, posting personal-best marks in the 100 meters (11.19 seconds), long jump (23 feet, 11 ¾ inches), shot put (42-3 ¼) and high jump (6-8 ¾).

After running the 400 in 49.27, Randolph had 4,056 points, 130 more than his previous best after five events.

Elsewhere, the Falcons' Kelsey Cooley and Linda Blake stood seventh and eighth after the first four events of the heptathlon, and Brandi McCoy qualified for Saturday's steeplechase final.

• Pacific Lutheran's Erik Jensen (3,331) is eighth in the decathlon after the first day of the NCAA Division III championships in Lisle, Ill. He posted season bests in the shot put (35-3 ¾) and the 400 (51.43).

Notes

• Washington third baseman Matt Stevens (3.24, pre-arts and science) was named to the Pac-10 Baseball All-Academic first team.

• Seattle Pacific gymnast Sarah Sullivan (3.64, art) and rowing coxswain Megan Giske (3.87, sociology) have been voted to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VIII team. Also named to the team was Gonzaga rower Kari Durgan (3.84, English).

• Western Washington's Tim Feenstra was a second-team selection, and teammates Luke Bennett and Sean Packer received honorable mention on the 2006 NCAA Division II PING All-America team.

• Nate Jackson, a 6-8 guard who starred for two seasons at Highline Community College after graduation from Cleveland High School, has signed a letter of intent to join the Central Washington men's basketball program next fall.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.

NCAA Women's Golf Championship

At Upper Arlington, Ohio

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Top Individuals

Washington Results

NCAA Tennis Championship

At Stanford, Calif.

SINGLES

MEN

Second round

KC Corkery, Stanford, beat Arnaud Lecloerec (9-16), Virginia Commonwealth, 6-1, 6-3; Clement Reix, Clemson, beat Harel Srugo, Old Dominion, 6-3, 6-4; Travis Helgeson (8), Texas, beat Ken Skupski, LSU, 7-6 (3), 3-0, retired; Conor Niland (6), California, beat Rylan Rizza, Virginia, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3; Erling Tveit, Mississippi, beat Matt Bruch(9-16), Stanford, 7-6 (1), 7-5; Pierrick Ysern, San Diego, beat Joseph Jung, Alabama, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4; Adrians Zguns, Arkansas, beat Pedro Rico, Pepperdine, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Callum Beale, Texas, beat Robert Searle, Rice, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2); Sheeva Parbhu, Notre Dame, beat Ryan Preston, Vanderbilt, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4; Ryler DeHeart (9-16), Illinois, beat Todd Paul, Wake Forest, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3; Luigi D'Agord (3), Miami, beat Kevin Anderson, Illinois, 7-6 (3), 6-3; Benjamin Kohlloeffel (1), UCLA, beat Eric Molnar, Colorado, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Somdev Devvarman (9-16), Virginia, beat Martin Sayer, Radford, 6-3, 6-4; Arnau Brugues (7), Tulsa, beat Jakub Cech, Fresno State, 6-3, 6-4; Ludovic Walter (5), Duke, beat Greg Ouellette, Florida, 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-5; Roger Matalonga, Arizona, beat John Isner(2), Georgia, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

WOMEN

Second round

Celia Durkin, Stanford, beat Taka Bertrand, Vanderbilt, 6-3, 6-3; Alice Barnes (7), Stanford, beat Georgia Rose, Northwestern, 6-2, 6-2; Zuzana Zemenova (4), Baylor, beat Catrina Thompson, Notre Dame, 6-3, 6-2; Megan Moulton-Levy, William & Mary, beat Federica van Adrichem, Clemson, 6-4, 6-2; Theresa Logar (9-16), Stanford, beat Helena Besovic, Texas Christian, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Riza Zalameda, UCLA beat Kim Coventry, Kentucky, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4; Suzi Babos, California, beat Robin Stephenson, Alabama, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Cristelle Grier (9-16), Northwestern, beat Amanda Fish, Vanderbilt, 6-2, 6-4; Tatsiana Uvarova, Virginia Commonwealth, beat Nicole Leimbach (9-16), Texas Christian, 6-2, 6-0; Lindsey Nelson, USC, beat Klara Jagasova, Texas-Arlington, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Audra Cohen (1), Miami, beat Whitney Deason, Stanford, 4-6, 6-4, 6-0; Kristi Miller (2), Georgia Tech, beat Jackie Carleton, Duke, 6-3, 6-2; Amber Liu (8), Stanford, beat Anna Lubinsky, Texas A&M, 6-1, 6-2; Zuzana Cerna (9-16), Baylor, beat Inga Beermann, Virginia Tech, 6-2, 6-1; Amanda Fink (6), USC, beat Tracy Lin, UCLA, 6-4, 6-3; Daniela Bercek (3), Duke, beat Meg Racette, Iowa, 6-4, 6-2.