IN BRIEF

UNLV

Rebels lose to TCU in MWC baseball tourney

The UNLV baseball team lost 9-3 to No. 21 Texas Christian at the Mountain West Conference Tournament in Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday.

The Rebels (23-36) managed just six hits against Horned Frogs pitchers Tyler Lockwood (7-1) and Taylor Cragin.

UNLV, seeded sixth, will play an elimination game at 1 p.m. today against the winner of this morning's San Diego State-Utah game.

Top-seeded TCU (40-16) will play No. 2 seed New Mexico at 5 p.m. today.

Also: The UNLV women's golf team shot a second-round 9-over-par 297 at the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M.

The wind caused play to be suspended with the Rebels in 22nd place at 35-over 611, but 12 teams had not finished the round, which will resume today.

Southern California and UCLA, which both finished play, were tied for first at 8-over 584.

Among the 12 teams to complete the second round, UNLV had the day's third-best score, trailing Denver's 294 and UCLA's 295.

Belen Mozo of USC had the individual lead at 4-under 140.

UNLV's Alejandra Guacaneme and Therese Koelbaek were tied for 61st in relation to par at 7-over 151, but 35 golfers ahead of them were on the course when play was suspended.

Guacaneme shot 1-over 73, Koelbaek shot 76, and Natasha Krishna and Tonya Choate each shot 74.

UNLV tennis star Elena Gantcheva lost 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 to third-ranked Hilary Barte of Stanford at the NCAA Singles Championships in Tulsa, Okla.

Gantcheva, ranked 36th, finished her senior year 29-11 and went 112-37 in her UNLV career.

Gantcheva and partner Kristina Nedeltcheva will play in doubles today against 12th-ranked Susie Babos and Stephanie Kusano of California.

PRO BASKETBALL

Ex-Sonics owner adds to suit seeking to void sale

Former Seattle SuperSonics owner Howard Schultz has added a third claim to a lawsuit that seeks to void the team's 2006 sale to new owners who are planning to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City.

The Starbucks Corp. chairman has amended his federal court lawsuit to allege that Clay Bennett and his Oklahoma-based partners breached their contract with Sonics owners by not making a realistic and full effort to find a new arena in Western Washington before applying to move the team.

MISCELLANEOUS

Wheeler to retire after 33-year NASCAR career

Humpy Wheeler announced his retirement as president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway, ending a 33-year career as one of NASCAR's top promoters.

Wheeler, 69, will step down after Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at the North Carolina track.

Also: Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. scored a TRO in the first round of a federal cybersquatting lawsuit against the operators of a Web site using the domain name "floydmayweather.net" without his backing.

A U.S. District Court judge in Las Vegas issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday to stop "an entity of unknown origin" called Atlanta Sports & Entertainment Marketing from using Mayweather's name and likeness on the site.

A group is suing the city of San Mateo, Calif., in a last-ditch effort to delay the bulldozing of Bay Meadows Race Track to make way for an 84-acre development.

The Friends of Bay Meadows filed suit in San Mateo County Superior Court, arguing that the city failed in its environmental report to consider changes to the track's historic status and traffic around the development site.

The 74-year-old track will run its last races in August.

Jeremy Roenick agreed to a one-year contract to return to the San Jose Sharks.

Roenick, a 19-year veteran, had 14 goals and 19 assists for the Sharks after coming out of semi-retirement.