In Brief

UNLV

Baseball team finishes off
three-game sweep of UNR

The UNLV baseball team posted its first road sweep of UNR since 1986, winning 5-0 Sunday in the final outing of a three-game series in Reno.

Tyler Iodence (3-0) allowed four hits in 6 1/3 innings with three strikeouts to get the win. Rance Roundy, who went 10-for-11 in the series, was 3-for-3 with a homer, three RBIs and two runs scored.

The Rebels (11-2) jumped on the Wolf Pack early with four first-inning runs. Hunter Beaty had a leadoff triple and scored on Scott Berke's groundout. Roundy made it 3-0 with a two-run single, and Marvin Campbell brought Roundy around from first with an RBI double.

Roundy capped the scoring with a home run in the eighth inning.

Also: The UNLV softball team rallied past San Jose State 3-2 in eight innings to cap the Eller Media Stadium Classic.

The Rebels (11-7) fell behind 1-0 in the first and couldn't get the equalizer until the sixth inning. With Tayler Van Acker on first, Pauline Monreal doubled, and Van Acker ultimately scored on a throwing error.

San Jose went up 2-1 in the top of the eighth, Van Acker's RBI double tied it, and Monreal singled to move Van Acker to third. Tayler Aleman then beat out a dribbler to shortstop that brought Van Acker in and gave UNLV its fourth straight victory.

WINTER SPORTS

American Vonn ends weekend
with three World Cup titles

Lindsey Vonn clinched her third discipline title in three days with a World Cup super-G victory in Tarvisio, Italy, to wrap up a memorable weekend of racing.

Vonn added the super-G season title to the super-combined and downhill titles she won Friday and Saturday, and she moved within 96 points of German rival and good friend Maria Riesch in the overall standings with six races remaining this season.

Vonn clocked 1 minute, 21.75 seconds down the sun-drenched Prampero course. Fellow American Julia Mancuso was second, 0.23 behind, and Riesch was third, 0.50 back. In a banner day for the Americans, World Cup rookie Laurenne Ross was fourth, 0.70 behind, for her career-best result.

Also: Mario Matt of Austria won his second straight World Cup slalom race, and Nolan Kasper of the U.S. had the fastest second run to finish in a tie for second, a career-best showing.

Kasper became the first American to reach a men's World Cup slalom podium since Bode Miller in November 2008.

MISCELLANEOUS

Bradley basketball coach Les
fired following 12-20 season

Jim Les was fired as Bradley's basketball coach, ending a nine-year run that featured an upset of Kansas in the first round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

The Braves were 12-20 this season, including 4-14 in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Les played at Bradley and for seven seasons in the NBA before moving into coaching. He was 154-140 overall and 74-88 in the Missouri Valley, and he followed the upset of Kansas with another win to get his team to the NCAA's round of 16 in 2006.

That was also the last time the Braves made the NCAA Tournament, even though they won at least 21 games each season from 2006 to 2009 and qualified for the postseason every year.

Also: Minnesota isn't likely to get senior point guard Al Nolen back for the Big Ten tournament.

Gophers coach Tubby Smith said after his team's 66-63 loss to Penn State that he doesn't see it happening. Nolen broke his right foot in late January, and the Gophers are 2-9 since the injury.

Jasmine Thomas scored 21 points, and No. 8 Duke (29-3) won its second straight Atlantic Coast Conference women's tournament championship by beating No. 19 North Carolina 81-66 in Greensboro, N.C.

Jessica Breland had 27 points for North Carolina (25-8), and former Centennial High School standout Italee Lucas scored 11.

The Boston Celtics signed Carlos Arroyo for the rest of the season after the guard was released by the Miami Heat. Arroyo will be expected to provide veteran depth and shore up the guard position for a group that's missing five players.

Australia's Jelena Dokic beat Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 2-6, 7-6 (9), 6-4 in the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, breaking a nine-year drought to earn her sixth career WTA singles title.

Second-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia defeated top-seeded Jelena Jankovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 to retain her title at the Monterrey Open in Monterrey, Mexico.

The International Tennis Federation confirmed that Ivo Karlovic of Croatia broke the world record for the fastest serve.

Karlovic struck a 156 mph serve in the fourth set of a doubles match against Germany in the Davis Cup on Saturday, breaking American Andy Roddick's previous record of 155 mph.

Quaker State agreed to become the title sponsor of the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., set for July 9.

The speedway will become the first new venue since 2001 to join the Sprint Cup schedule. The Quaker State 400 will highlight a weekend that includes Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide Series races.

Teddy Tamgho broke his own indoor triple jump world record by a quarter of an inch, leaping 58 feet, 9½ inches at the European indoor championships in Paris.

English Premier League leader Manchester United stumbled to a second straight defeat, losing 3-1 at rival Liverpool.

United remained three points above Arsenal, which has played one fewer game.

The competitive portion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began, with 62 teams taking to the trail. The race restart was held in Willow, Alaska, where mushers directed their 16-dog teams across the start line and a frozen lake on the way to Nome.