Arizona softball head coach Mike Candrea was honored at Hillenbrand Stadium yesterday for reaching the 1,000 career victories mark March 13 against North Carolina State.

In his speech at the brief ceremony, Candrea didn't go back too far in the team's prestigious history to recall some significant wins that stick out to him.

"The best two victories we've had are these last two," he said with a smile. [Read article]

September may be five months away, but the Arizona football team was in regular-season form Saturday for its second scrimmage of the spring season.

"We did a lot of good things today," Arizona head coach Mike Stoops said. "It was a positive day. We're getting better."

The team went through drills before the offense and defense split sides for a 90-play, full-contact scrimmage.

Stoops lauded the offense's performance for the second straight week. [Read article]

Last week the No. 6 Arizona baseball team swept a Pacific 10 Conference road series for the first time in six years.

The Wildcats swept another Pac-10 road series over the weekend, taking three against Washington State in Pullman with a 13-10 victory yesterday.

Arizona (24-10, 8-1 Pac-10) has eight wins in its first nine conference games for the first time in school history.

"When you look at how dominant Arizona has been in the past, with the juniors we have, we knew we needed to set the tempo to get the program back to the nation's elite, and I think we've done this," junior catcher Nick Hundley said. "We've set the bar for Arizona baseball." [Read article]

The No. 18 Arizona gymnastics team finished their season Saturday, taking fourth place out of six teams in the NCAA regional final in Lincoln, Neb.

Six seniors saw their last action competing for Arizona.

"It will be hard to replace their routines, but we can't replace their leadership," said Gymcats head coach Bill Ryden. "This is definitely the end of a great era for us."

The Gymcats (194.700) finished behind No. 8 Michigan (196.600), No. 6 Nebraska (196.300) and No. 19 Missouri (195.100), but placed ahead of Pacific 10 Conference rival ASU (194.500) and Illinois (193.825). [Read article]

The Arizona men's golf team took fourth place at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe yesterday, as Wildcats finished in the top three individual spots.

Senior Kipp Riehle (7-under 206) finished with a 3-under 68 to beat senior Nathan Lashley by six strokes in the tournament.

Sophomore Henry Liaw ended with a 1-over 72 to finish in a three-way tie for third place with Kansas State's Matt VanCleve and Oregon's Gregg LaVoie. [Read article]

7-0 sweep caps

Senior Day

The No. 50 Arizona women's tennis team finished their 2005 home schedule with a win Saturday, defeating No. 68 Washington State (9-11, 0-6) 7-0.

The Cougars only won one set in the entire match.

"The girls did a good job," said Arizona assistant coach Brian Ramirez.

Seniors Dianne Hollands, Maja Mlakar and Kelly Perry, who played their final home matches for Arizona, were honored with a ceremony between the doubles and singles matches. [Read article]

Records fell this weekend as the Arizona track teams stormed through Westwood, Calif., and Austin, Texas.

Arizona junior thrower Sean Shields broke the school record in the shot put Saturday at the UCLA-hosted Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational and boasts the farthest throw in the country at 65 feet 7 3/4 inches.

The throw came on the third and final attempt by Shields, who went through wrist surgery last season. [Read article]

The No. 49 Arizona men's tennis team had a rough weekend.

Arizona lost at unranked Oregon 5-2 Saturday.

The match started with a tough round of doubles play.

The No. 19 team of senior Colin O'Grady and junior Roger Matalonga fell 8-6 to Oregon's Markus Schiller and Vlad Pino.

Senior Paul Warkentin and junior Dan Andrus lost 9-7 to Sven Swinnen and Arron Spencer.

The Wildcats' freshmen again provided the silver lining in the team's dark cloud. [Read article]

The No. 7 Arizona men's club lacrosse team returned home last night tired but wearing optimistic grins, as the Laxcats followed a 10-6 loss to No. 4 UC Santa Barbara with a 8-5 victory over No. 19 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Attackmen Greg Polheber and Adam Paris each scored two goals in Arizona's five-goal fourth quarter against the Mustangs.

The Laxcats (7-4, 2-1 WCLL) came out to a slow start, giving up four goals in the first quarter. [Read article]