In Brief

COLLEGES

Rebels-Badgers agree to move season opener to Thursday, ESPN

UNLV and Wisconsin are considering moving the season football opener up two days to Thursday, Sept. 1 for a nationally televised game on ESPN.

Rebels senior associate athletic director Jerry Koloskie said the schools have agreed in principle to make the switch, but some logistics need to be worked out before an announcement is made.

"If everything lines up right, we'll do it," Koloskie said. "If not, we'll stay on that Saturday."

Also: Amanda Oliveto threw a no-hitter as the UNLV softball team beat Cal Poly 3-0 on Sunday to wrap up play at the Mustang Classic in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

It was the 11th no-hitter in the program's history and the first since 1995, when Amie Stewart shut down Massachusetts in an 8-0 win. Oliveto (13-5) had eight strikeouts, one walk and one hit batsman, and two Mustangs reached base on UNLV errors.

Tayler Aleman had a two-run homer in the sixth inning for the Rebels (16-12), and Ashli Holland had a third-inning RBI double.

The UNLV baseball team lost to New Mexico 9-7, getting swept at Albuquerque, N.M., for its first three-game slide of the season.

The Rebels (18-9, 1-5 Mountain West Conference) led 4-1 going to the bottom of the sixth inning, but New Mexico struck for four runs, then got three more in the bottom of the seventh to take an 8-4 lead.

UNLV rallied with three runs in the eighth but couldn't catch up. Marvin Campbell went 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBIs, two runs scored and a walk for the Rebels, Richie Jimenez was 2-for-5 with two RBIs, and Rance Roundy went 3-for-5 with two runs scored.

The UNLV track and field team notched two first-place finishes at the Cal-Nevada Championships in Claremont, Calif.

Deja Edwards won the long jump at 19 feet, 7½ inches, and the 4x400 relay team of Lindsay Roach, Brett Zorich, Emily Blok and Kelsey Williamson won in 3 minutes, 42.93 seconds.

Aaron Dell made 26 saves, and top-ranked North Dakota routed Denver 6-1 at the NCAA Midwest Region final in Green Bay, Wis., to advance to the Frozen Four.

Las Vegas product Jason Zucker scored Denver's lone goal.

In the Northeast Region final, Billy Maday scored with five seconds left in the second period, Mike Johnson made 37 saves, and Notre Dame beat New Hampshire 2-1 in Manchester, N.H.

Michigan and Minnesota-Duluth advanced with wins Saturday.

TENNIS

Djokovic stays perfect for year
with blowout win over Blake

Second-seeded Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to 22 consecutive matches by beating wild card James Blake 6-2, 6-0 in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open at Key Biscayne, Fla.

Djokovic is 20-0 in 2011, the best record to begin a year since Ivan Lendl started 25-0 in 1986.

Meanwhile, Mardy Fish might leave Key Biscayne as the top-ranked American in men's tennis

Fish beat No. 17 seed Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-3 in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open. Fish is ranked a career-best 15th, and if he wins two more rounds, he'll overtake longtime friend Andy Roddick in the rankings.

Roddick lost his opening match Saturday and is expected to drop from eighth to the mid-teens, his lowest ranking since 2002.

In women's play, No. 2 seed Kim Clijsters earned her 500th career victory by beating Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

MISCELLANEOUS

Santa Anita quickly rescinds
move to run five days a week

Santa Anita reneged on its decision to run five days a week, with track officials blaming low horse inventory for the return to a four-day schedule starting Thursday.

The track said in February that it would add a fifth day of racing beginning March 23 and running through the end of the winter-spring meet April 17. It did run five days last week.

Also: Alberto Contador won the Volta of Catalunya for his second straight victory since he avoided a ban following a positive doping test. Contador, the three-time Tour de France champion, held off runner-up Michele Scarponi by 23 seconds in Barcelona, Spain.