UA fails to sweep yet another road swing

The bad news: The No. 14 UA men's basketball team fell to Oregon State, 80-74, Saturday night, the squad's fourth loss over its last six road games.

The good news: Arizona won't face another Pacific 10 Conference opponent on the road again this season - until next-month's conference tournament at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Wildcats are 4-4 on the road during Pac-10 play, failing to sweep a road series all season. [Read article]

Anteaters, Wildcats tie after 10 innings

Before the Anteaters completed a three-game sweep of the Arizona baseball team, they mercifully decided to take their ball and go home.

The Wildcats avoided a sweep at home yesterday to UC Irvine with an 8-8 tie. The Anteaters and Wildcats agreed to end the contest after 10 innings because Irvine had to catch a flight back to California.

The Wildcats' (5-3-1) last tie came in 1995 when they played Texas A&M to a 3-3 game in College Station, Texas. [Read article]

The Wildcat women's hoops team clicked its heels three times and let the Oregon Ducks know in no uncertain terms that there's no place like home.

Arizona completed its first-ever perfect home season Saturday, routing the Ducks 84-58 in front of the third-largest crowd in UA history.

"To end our season here undefeated was a goal of our team, (and) to be the first team that does that is a great accomplishment," said UA head coach Joan Bonvicini. [Read article]

After an impressive win Saturday over Oregon, the UA women's basketball team honored its two seniors in their last game in McKale Center.

Aimee Grzyb, a guard from San Jose, Calif., has been a four-year starter for the Wildcats, and will end her career as one of the top players in the program's history. Grzyb has started 99 of the 117 games she's played in. She's played 3,654 minutes for the UA, and by next weekend, should become Arizona's all-time leader in minutes played. [Read article]

The Arizona gymnastics team notched the second-best performance in school history Friday night.

Its reward? The elation of kissing one's sister.

"It's the first tie that I can ever remember being involved in, in my 14 years," said UA head coach Bill Ryden.

Both the No. 15 Gymcats (6-2-1, 2-2-1 Pacific 10 Conference) and No. 16 Washington Huskies (6-3-1, 2-2-1) posted an overall score of 197.300 in front of 846 fans in McKale Center. Arizona's score was its best of the season and .075 short of the school record, set March 14 against Oklahoma. [Read article]

Coach tossed, furious with officials during season finale

In Saturday's 6-1 loss to Arizona State, a disallowed goal loomed large for the Arizona Icecats, again.

In their last game at ASU, what looked like an Arizona goal was missed by three officials. The disallowed goal likely cost the Icecats the game.

It was dŽjˆ vu all over again for No. 14 UA (12-15-2) in its loss to the Sun Devils this weekend. [Read article]

After 16 games - some against top 10 opponents - "undefeated" is still a word in the UA softball team's vocabulary.

The Wildcats won all their games in their third straight tournament, most recently in the Palm Springs Classic this weekend, outscoring their five opponents by a combined score of 41-3.

Senior Wendy Allen was Ms. Everything for the Wildcats. She pitched Arizona to a win Friday and went 10 for 16 with seven runs and 12 RBIs in the Wildcats' 5-0 weekend. [Read article]

The Arizona women's golf team will tee up as the host of a tournament today for the only time this season.

The fourth-ranked Wildcats will be competing in their second tournament of the spring this week at their home course, the Arizona National Golf Club. Head coach Greg Allen said everyone is pretty excited.

"I'm more fired up about this (tournament) than any other one this year," Allen said.

The Wildcat Invitational will play host to six teams in the top 25 coaches' poll, including UCLA (2), California (5) and Vanderbilt (9). [Read article]

Depleted UA squad nearly knocks off nation's No. 2 team

The Arizona men's tennis team shouldn't have had a chance Saturday at home against UCLA.

The Bruins entered the game ranked No. 2 in the nation, the Wildcats had lost 7-0 to Southern California the day before, and the UA was playing without some of its best players, including senior Tom Lloyd, who sat out with a groin injury.

But nobody told the Wildcats they were supposed to lose. Instead, a depleted Arizona (6-3) squad battled the Bruins (9-2) to the end before falling just short. [Read article]

Arizona's men's lacrosse team opened its first homestand of the season with a bang this weekend, defeating Oakland and Texas Tech 19-14 and 21-5, respectively.

The Laxcats (4-1) won in spectacular fashion against the Aggies yesterday, retrieving a team-record 104 ground balls while scoring in double figures for the third consecutive game. Sophomore attackman Greg Polheber tallied six points, while running mate Adam Paris notched three goals and an assist. [Read article]

The Arizona men's rugby team salvaged a split in San Diego this weekend, upending UC San Diego 54-22 yesterday.

Following a controversial 24-22 loss Friday to San Diego State, the Wildcats took out their frustrations against the Torreros, scoring four straight tries to put the game away in the second half.

Junior half back Ben Rubke led Arizona with two tries, while senior center Nate Eggman and junior fullback Aaron Land also scored tries to secure the victory. [Read article]