IN BRIEF

UNLV ATHLETICS

Women's soccer team posts tourney victory

Junior goalkeeper Alicia Lugo posted her second shutout of the season, and the Rebels women's soccer team benefited from a Pacific own goal Saturday to beat the Tigers 1-0 in the Nike Classic at Peter Johann Memorial Field.

Lugo finished with three saves as UNLV improved to 3-0-1 on the season.

Pacific (1-2) surrendered a goal to the Rebels when a defender attempted to clear the ball out of the box but instead knocked it into the Tigers' goal from 3 yards.

Also: Sophomore forward Daniel Cruz scored both goals as the Rebels men's soccer team opened its season by blanking Jacksonville 2-0 in the Rebel Classic at Johann Field.

Cruz scored in the match's third minute and again in the 81st.

Senior goalkeeper Hawk Mummey recorded the shutout by saving six Jacksonville shots.

The Rebels volleyball team slid to 1-2 on the season by dropping a 3-2 decision to South Carolina on the final day of the Sheraton Classic in Tempe, Ariz.

UNLV lost 20-25, 25-18, 16-25, 25-20, 15-8.

Senior setter Melody Nua paced the Rebels with her 29th career double-double, recording 50 assists with 11 digs. Junior blocker Erin Greenwood led UNLV with 20 kills.

MISCELLANEOUS

Pro wrestling pioneer 'Killer' Kowalski dies

Pro wrestling pioneer Walter "Killer" Kowalski died in Everett, Mass., from the affects of a massive heart attack. He was 81.

Kowalski died at Whidden Hospital, 12 days after his family decided to take him off life support. He had been in critical condition in the hospital since his heart attack on Aug. 8, wife Theresa Kowalski said.

"I was right beside him. I put my hand on his chest, I felt his breathing slow down and his heart beat stop," she said. "The doctor said he was brain dead ... I was waiting, hoping somebody could do something."

An obituary posted at Weir Mac Cuish Family Funeral Home's Web site said Kowalski began his professional career in 1947 as "Tarzan" Kowalski. His hulking 6-foot-7-inch, 275-pound frame and a brutal wrestling style soon earned him the nickname "Killer."

Also: David Zabriskie won his third straight USA Cycling professional time trial title in Greenville, S.C.

The 29-year-old rider from Salt Lake City is the only cyclist to win the pro-only event since its inception in 2006.

Zabriskie completed the 20.7-mile event in 40 minutes, 39.40 seconds, finishing five seconds ahead of Tom Zirbel of Boulder, Colo.

Christian Vande Velde of Boulder placed third.