In Brief

COLLEGES

UNLV baseball puts hurt
on Nebraska-Omaha

The UNLV baseball team racked up 22 hits in a 20-1 win over Nebraska-Omaha on Sunday at Wilson Stadium.

Brandon Bayardi led the Rebels (17-19), going 4-for-6 with four RBIs and three runs scored, and Trevor Kirk was 4-for-6 with a two-run homer, three RBIs and three runs scored. T.J. White was 2-for-3 with four RBIs, including a three-run blast.

Bobby Borden (1-3) got the win, allowing five hits and three walks in six innings, with four strikeouts.

Also: The UNLV softball team lost at Boise State 5-4, with the Broncos rallying from a 4-1 deficit by scoring four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Tayler Aleman and Tayler Van Acker homered for the Rebels (19-21, 0-3 Mountain West Conference).

Two Western Kentucky football players were recovering after being wounded by gunshots outside a bar in Bowling Green, Ky. A statement from the school's athletic department said defensive lineman Tevin Holliman and defensive back Ricardo Singh were each hit once, and their wounds weren't life-threatening.

The shooting early Sunday happened hours after the team played its annual spring game. Bowling Green police spokesman Ronnie Ward said it appears someone shot into a crowd outside the bar and struck the players.

After firing Isiah Thomas, Florida International is set to fill its men's basketball coaching spot with another recognizable name.

Louisville coach Rick Pitino said his son Richard Pitino is leaving his staff with the Cardinals to become the next coach at FIU, which has posted 12 straight losing seasons. FIU fired Thomas, a Hall of Fame player, on April 6 after going 26-65 in three seasons.

MISCELLANEOUS

Isner falls to Monaco
in U.S. Clay Court final

Juan Monaco defeated John Isner 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the final match of the U.S. Clay Court Championship in Houston.

Isner would've moved up to No. 8 in the rankings with a victory, but the Argentine broke Isner's serve three times to hand the American his first clay loss of the year.

Also: Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki was upset by Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the e-Boks Open at Copenhagen, Denmark.

The second-seeded Kerber broke the Dane's serve three times in each sets.

Former Chicago Bears player David Terrell is being held on $10,000 bond for a domestic battery charge after his Friday arrest. Court documents allege Terrell, 33, grabbed his ex-girlfriend during an argument inside his high-rise Chicago apartment and threatened to throw her off a balcony.

New York Rangers rookie Carl Hagelin was hit with a three-game suspension from the NHL playoffs, a day after laying out Swedish countryman Daniel Alfredsson with an elbow to the head that left the Ottawa Senators captain with a possible concussion.

The Senators won 3-2 in overtime to even the best-of-7 series at 1. But Alfredsson didn't return after the second-period hit, and his status for the rest of the series is unknown.

Reno runners Justin Thomas and Sarah Raitter won the men's and women's divisions, respectively, in the XTERRA Lake Las Vegas Half-Marathon. Thomas finished in 1 hour, 24 minutes, 21 seconds, and Raitter clocked 1:42:43.

In Saturday's XTERRA West Championship triathlon, also at Lake Las Vegas, Conrad Stoltz of South Africa took the men's title, and Switzerland's Renata Bucher edged Lesley Patterson of San Diego at the tape in the women's race.

The 51s' game at Colorado Springs was snowed out and will be made up today as part of a doubleheader.