In Brief

LOCAL COLLEGES

Dysinger lifts UNLV baseball
to 4-3 victory over Texas Tech

The UNLV baseball team got a strong start from Scott Dysinger in beating Texas Tech 4-3 on Wednesday in Lubbock, Texas.

Dysinger had a no-hitter through five innings and left in the sixth inning, giving up two runs on two hits with four strikeouts.

Zack Hartman threw two scoreless innings of relief to get the save.

The Rebels (8-2) took control with a four-run third inning. Trevor Kirk and Rance Roundy had RBI singles, and Brandon Bayardi followed with a two-run single.

Also: Therese Koelbaek notched a top-10 individual finish, but the UNLV women's golf team struggled overall, taking 13th at the 15-team Bruin/Wave Invitational in Valencia, Calif.

The Rebels shot 24-over-par 312 in the final round to finish at 76-over 940. UCLA won with a 4-under 860 total in the three-round event, 20 shots ahead of Arizona.

Koelbaek shot 2-under 70 to tie for eighth at 3-over 219.

UNLV's Mehdi Bouras was named Mountain West Conference men's tennis player of the week for the third consecutive time and fourth time this season. Bouras went 2-0 at No. 1 singles and 2-0 in doubles in match victories over Fresno State and Arkansas.

The College of Southern Nevada baseball team was ranked 17th in the first poll of the season by the National Junior College Athletic Association.

The Coyotes (11-5) have won nine of their past 11 games.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Former Michigan State player
Lucious transfers to Iowa State

Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg added to an impressive list of transfers, announcing that former Michigan State guard Korie Lucious will join the Cyclones.

Iowa State said Lucious, a junior point guard who was suspended by coach Tom Izzo this season for conduct detrimental to the program, had signed a financial aid agreement with the school. Lucious will redshirt next year and use his final year of eligibility in 2012-13.

Also: Kansas point guard Tyshawn Taylor's suspension was lifted after two games. Taylor was suspended for an unspecified violation of team rules.

Kansas coach Bill Self declined to say what the infraction was.

A possible gun charge against Seton Hall point guard Jordan Theodore is being reviewed by the Essex County, N.J., prosecutor's office.

Katherine Carter, the prosecutor's office spokeswoman, said a municipal judge in South Orange-Maplewood found probable cause that Theodore had unlawful possession of a weapon on school property.

Laura Wankel, the university's vice president of student affairs, issued a statement saying the school conducted an investigation into the matter and found "no student in violation" of university policy.

MISCELLANEOUS

Serbian star Djokovic to skip
first-round Davis Cup match

Novak Djokovic will skip defending Davis Cup champion Serbia's first-round match against India.

On his official website, the third-ranked Djokovic cited fatigue after winning the Australian Open and Dubai titles. The three-day series in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad is this weekend.

Djokovic said he wants to prepare for tournaments in Indian Wells, Calif., and Miami, "where I haven't done well in the last years."

Also: Davis Cup teams no longer will have to play a fifth match if one side has an unbeatable 3-1 lead.

The International Tennis Federation announced the new "dead rubber" rule ahead of this weekend's World Group first-round matches.

Researchers at Boston University found a degenerative disease in brain tissue donated by former NHL enforcer Bob Probert, according to reports in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail in Toronto.

Probert had chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he died in July of heart failure at age 45. He played 16 seasons in the NHL, and his 3,300 penalty minutes rank fifth on the league's career list.

Probert is the second hockey player from the program at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy to be diagnosed with the disease after death. Reggie Fleming, a 1960s enforcer who played before helmets became mandatory, also had CTE.

Britain must prove it is serious about improving its basketball program for the long term before its teams are cleared to compete in their home Olympics next year, a leader of the sport's world governing body said.

FIBA secretary-general Patrick Baumann said British basketball officials need to convince the global body that "the right plan is in place" to develop the sport beyond the 2012 London Games and turn its men's and women's teams into legitimate European contenders.