IN BRIEF

COLLEGES

Hull lifts UNLV softball to victory over Kansas

Jaci Hull hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning Sunday, giving the UNLV softball team a 2-1 victory over Kansas in the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic at Eller Media Stadium.

Brittany Bolinger led off the seventh with a single, then reached second on Alyssia De La Torre's sacrifice bunt. Hull then cranked her sixth home run of the season.

Stephanie Bregante (5-1) got the complete-game win for UNLV (8-1-1), allowing four hits and one walk, with seven strikeouts.

Also: The UNLV women's tennis team beat Oklahoma State 6-1 at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.

The 40th-ranked Rebels swept the doubles matches for the first point, then took five of six singles matches. UNLV notched four straight-set wins in singles, including No. 30 Elena Gantcheva beating Iryna Tkachenko 6-1, 6-4 at No. 1.

Kristina Nedeltcheva (No. 2), Katy Williams (No. 3), Anna Maskaljun (No. 5) and Adrienn Hidvegi (No. 6) also posted victories.

The College of Southern Nevada baseball team scored two runs in the eighth inning and two more in the ninth to beat Cypress (Calif.) College 6-5 to cap play in the Coyote Slugout at Morse Stadium.

Brandon Trodick and Easton Gust had RBI singles in the eighth for the Coyotes (11-4). In the ninth, Gust hit into a bases-loaded fielder's choice, scoring Taylor Cole from third, and Braeden Schlehuber came around to score after an error on the play.

The CSN softball team (3-5) beat Modesto Junior College 9-0, behind Mandy Tapia's complete-game shutout, and lost to College of the Redwoods 8-7 at the Stars and Stripes Tournament in Merced, Calif.

PRO FOOTBALL

Belichick denies taping Rams' walk-through

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick has denied suggestions by a former employee that his club taped the St. Louis Rams' walk-through before the 2002 Super Bowl.

Belichick told the Boston Globe that in his entire coaching career, he has never seen recordings of another team's practice before playing that team.

Still, Belichick apologized to the league, the other teams, the fans and the team for the controversy caused by the entire taping incident.

Also: Buffalo Bills receiver Roscoe Parrish was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence, police said.

Parrish was stopped at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, a Miami Beach Police Department spokesman said. Parrish was driving a 2005 Bentley westbound on MacArthur Causeway, which connects Miami Beach to the mainland.

SWIMMING

American Coughlin sets 100 backstroke record

Five-time Olympic medal winner Natalie Coughlin set a world record in the 100-meter backstroke during a preliminary heat at the Missouri Grand Prix in Columbia, Mo.

Coughlin finished in 59.21 seconds, lowering her previous world record in the event by 0.23 seconds.

Katie Hoff set her second American record in as many days. She won the 200 freestyle in 1:56.08 to beat Coughlin for the second time in two days. Coughlin held the previous mark.

On Saturday, Hoff broke the oldest American record on the books in the 400 freestyle, clocking 4:03.20 to break Janet Evans' 1988 mark by more than a second.

Also: Australian Eamon Sullivan broke the 50-meter freestyle world record, finishing in 21.56 seconds in Sydney, Australia, to better the mark set by Russian Alexander Popov in 2000.