No. 1 Cats can't complete sweep of Bay area's best

The good news for Arizona softball yesterday was that it probably won't play Stanford again until the World Series.

Otherwise, it was a long day.

The No. 4 Cardinal two-hit the top-ranked Wildcats (48-3, 12-2 Pacific 10 Conference) yesterday. On Saturday, the UA beat the Cardinal (39-13, 10-5) by the score of 4-0, one day after mercy-ruling No. 4 California (40-11, 7-8) 8-0. [Read article]

Wildcats jump to 4th in Pac-10 with 8-3 win

The Arizona baseball team kept its postseason hopes alive with a much-needed win yesterday, when it beat Cal 8-3 to win a three-game weekend series in Berkeley, Calif.

With the win, Arizona (23-19-1, 7-8 Pacific 10 Conference) moved into a tie for fourth place in the Pac-10 with nine league games remaining.

"We're getting closer and closer to the end, and every game holds its own importance," head coach Andy Lopez said. [Read article]

The Arizona track and field teams split with their instate rivals at the 2004 "Duel in the Desert" Saturday, beating NAU but losing to ASU.

Both the Wildcat men's and women's teams defeated the Lumberjacks by a large margin. The UA men won by a team score of 125-61, while the women overpowered NAU 139-53.

But the Sun Devils proved to be too much for their intrastate foes, edging both the UA men and women 104-96 and 103-95, respectively. [Read article]

The UA club lacrosse team lost 11-1 to UC Santa Barbara in yesterday's long-awaited WCLL finals rematch between the two teams.

After defeating Sonoma State 8-5 Saturday in the penultimate round of the Western Collegiate Lacrosse League Championships, the Laxcats sat and waited while Cal Poly and UCSB duked it out in the day's other semifinal match. Santa Barbara scored two unanswered goals in overtime to squeeze by, [Read article]

Donald invited to USA Baseball trials

With some UA students making plans for summer trips, Arizona baseball's freshman shortstop Jason Donald hopes to be doing a little traveling of his own.

Over the weekend, Donald was chosen as one of 19 collegiate baseball players invited to the USA Baseball National Team Trials held June 20-26 in Durham, N.C.

"Hopefully he will be of the guys picked," Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said. [Read article]