IN BRIEF

UNLV

Hampton, Smith lead Lady Rebels to victory

UNLV's Shamela Hampton and Jamie Smith posted double-doubles as the Lady Rebels basketball team cruised past Cal State Northridge 88-69 in the second game of the Desert Draw at UNLV on Friday at Cox Pavilion.

UNLV (5-4) will play No. 22 Oklahoma State in today's final at 3:30 p.m.

Hampton finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Smith added 13 points and a career-best 14 rebounds.

Centennial High graduate Ashley Blake led the Matadors (1-9) with 20 points.

Also: Three football recruits are visiting UNLV this weekend.

Wide receiver Brandon Babineaux (6 feet 4 inches, 190 pounds) of Folsom (Calif.) High School was all-league two years in a row.

Safety Alex DeGiacomo (6-1, 190) of El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., recently visited Kansas State and has received offers from UNLV and Akron.

Center/guard Sean Enesi (6-0, 288) of El Camino College was a Rivals.com three-star prospect two years ago at Carson (Calif.) High School.

GOLF

Finchem asks players to pitch in, play more

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem wants his players to pitch in during a tough economy to help give sponsors their money's worth, and Justin Leonard believes they will.

Finchem has sent a video to players and their agents asking them to consider adding tournaments they don't typically play and to reach out to the sponsors when they are at tournaments, the Sports Business Journal reported.

Throughout the year, tour officials lobby players to consider various tournaments that might need help, but it is rare for Finchem to make the appeal himself.

"They've got a list of events that need help to varying degrees," Leonard said at the Chevron World Challenge. "I'm going to play a couple of events that they asked me to play, and I'm not going to play in a couple they asked me to play in. Bigger than that is doing more at tournaments."

MISCELLANEOUS

Settlement satisfies ex-NASCAR inspector

The former official who filed a $225 million racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit against NASCAR is very pleased with her settlement and looking forward to moving on, her attorney said.

Mauricia Grant reached a confidential settlement with NASCAR following 12 hours of mediation earlier this month in New York.

Grant, who is black, worked as a technical inspector responsible for certifying cars in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series from January 2005 until her October 2007 termination.

Also: Liz Johnson of Cheektowaga, N.Y., and Cassidy Schaub of Polk, Ohio, emerged as the champions at the 2009 United States Bowling Congress Team USA Trials at Sunset Station.

Johnson led from Game 1 all the way until the end, concluding the tournament with 7,959 (221.08 average), and Schaub topped the men's field with 8,192 (227.56 average).

Defending champions Apolo Anton Ohno and Katherine Reutter opened the U.S. Short Track Speed Skating Championships with victories.

Ohno, winner of five Olympic medals and the current overall world champion, won the men's 1,500 meters in 2 minutes, 23.927 seconds. Reutter won the women's 1,500 meters with 2:23.446.

Olympic gold medalist Shaun White won the snowboard slopestyle competition, and Canada's Spencer O'Brien took the women's event in the first stop on the inaugural Winter Dew Tour.

Penn State (37-0) and Stanford (31-3) will meet in the NCAA women's volleyball title match for the second consecutive season tonight.

The Nittany Lions beat the Cardinal in five sets last season.