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WOMEN’S GOLF
PAC-12 CHAMPS
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COURTESY OF ARIZONA ATHLETICS
COACHES AND MEMBERS OF THE ARIZONA WOMEN’S GOLF TEAM pose with the Pac-12 Championship banner and trophy on Wednesday in Boulder, Colo. The Wildcats captured their first conference championship since 2010.
Arizona women’s golf team captured its first Pac-12 Championship since 2010 on Tuesday. The Wildcats overcame Oregon and UCLA on the final day for the win BY JUSTIN SPEARS The Daily Wildcat
TRACK AND FIELD
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For the second time in the Laura Ianello era, and for the first time since 2010, the No. 6-ranked Arizona women’s golf team captured the Pac-12 Conference title on Wednesday at the Boulder Country Club in Boulder, Colo. Arizona finished the Pac-12 Championships shooting an overall score of 853 (+1), on a par71 course, en route to its eighth Pac-12 Championship. Winning the Pac-12 Championship also means that Arizona won both tournaments it played in April, after coming in second place at the Wildcat Invitational a month ago. The Wildcats’ plateau of finishing in second place for the second consecutive season crumbled as the tournament progressed, and the Wildcats
arrived at conference glory. Arizona started the tournament on the wrong foot and finished the first day in fifth on the team leaderboard after shooting a 292 (+8), and two Wildcats were on the outside looking in when it came to the top-10 individual leaderboard. Senior Manon Gidali and junior Lindsey Weaver shared a nine-way tie for 12th place after shooting 72 (+1). Another pair of Wildcats would tie, as senior Kendall Prince and freshman Krystal Quihuis shared 26th place after shooting 74 (+3) in the opening round. Sophomore Wanasa Zhou finished day one in a four-way tie for 42nd place at 6-over-par. “I liked the way our team performed on the first day, even though we were in fifth place,” Ianello said. Arizona was in the middle of
the pack and didn’t have an easy task ahead of them. The Wildcats have a trend of playing against Oregon for Pac-12 authority, whether it be the Ducks smacking Arizona for the 2014 Pac-12 Football Championship or Arizona basketball thumping the Ducks in the 2015 Pac-12 tournament. Oregon finished first after the first day by shooting even (71). “We weren’t too far away after the first day, so we never hung our heads, and we knew that if we’re to get back in the mix, then we needed an all-around team effort,” Ianello said. The second round on Tuesday would be a much different story, as the Wildcats climbed back to the top and put themselves in contention. Arizona finished the day in third place after shooting 10 strokes better as a team than the
previous round, and improved to 6-over-par for the tournament. The Wildcats were one stroke away from tying No. 3-ranked UCLA and No. 28-ranked Oregon. Weaver helped lead the Wildcats by shooting 67 (-4) and moved up the leaderboard to tie for third place at 3-under-par after day two. Prince snuck her way into the top 10, sharing eighth place after shooting a 68 (-3) for an overall score of even par. The final round would be the most crucial round this season for the Wildcats. The only teams that were standing in the Wildcats’ way were UCLA and Oregon. Zhou paced Arizona, shooting a 6-under-par and finishing in a tie for 10th place at 1-over-par. Prince finished in a tie for 18th place at 5-over-par after carding a 76 (+5) in the final round.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
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BASEBALL
SAND VOLLEYBALL
Arizona upends ASU on senior day
UPCOMING SCHEDULE BASEBALL 4/24 vs. California
SOFTBALL 4/24 vs. Stanford
BY JORDYN OWEN The Daily Wildcat
SAND VOLLEYBALL 4/24 at Boise State
WOMEN’S TENNIS 4/23 at Pac-12 Championships
TRACK AND FIELD 4/24 at Drake Relays
TWEET TO NOTE Well that was an impressive collapse by the UA #ArizonaWildcats — @jameskelley520
Daily Wildcat sports reporter James Kelley tweets his thoughts on Arizona baseball’s collapse during the team’s 5-4 loss against ASU on Wednesday.
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MEMBERS OF THE ARIZONA’S BASEBALL TEAM meet at the mound with Arizona coach Andy Lopez (7) during Arizona’s 6-5 loss to Arizona State on Wednesday at Hi Corbett Field. The Wildcats saw their 4-0 lead evaporate quickly.
Lead evaporates for Arizona in ASU loss BY NICOLE COUSINS The Daily Wildcat
Tyger Talley pitched 2 2/3 strong innings to close out the defensive game for Arizona baseball, but it wasn’t enough to overcome No. 12 ASU’s 13-hit outing en route to a 6-5 Sun Devil victory Wednesday night. While Arizona’s newest closer tossed 2 2/3 innings of no-hit baseball and struck out five, including striking out the side in the ninth inning, the Wildcats’ pitching performance through the middle of the game doomed them in the rivalry loss. “Talley was very good, [Nathan]
Bannister was good and [Robby] Medel was pretty good,” Arizona coach Andy Lopez said. “I thought the other guys out there were clueless. … That’s just really bad defense.” The Wildcats (24-14, 9-10) used six pitchers on the night. Austin Schnabel (2-3), the UA’s third pitcher of the night, recorded the loss after giving up two runs and one hit while committing an error that resulted in an unearned run for ASU (26-11, 14-5). Arizona caught a big break early in front of its largest home crowd of the season — 4,184 fans. The Wildcats scored four runs on just
one hit in the second inning to go up 4-0 on the Sun Devils. ASU starting pitcher David Graybill left the game after one inning, walking three straight batters at the bottom of Arizona’s lineup in the second. Graybill gave up one hit and recorded no strikeouts in 27 pitches and faced eight batters. Reliever Eli Lingos walked the next Arizona batter to put the Wildcats on the board 1-0 in with no outs. Back to the top of the lineup, Scott Kingery turned a foul ball frenzy into a two-RBI double, driving the ball to
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Arizona sand volleyball defeated in-state rival ASU 4-1 at Jimenez Field on Wednesday to wrap up the home portion of its schedule this season. With the win over ASU, the Wildcats improved to 3-0 against the Sun Devils this season, 8-0 at home and 16-3 overall. Twins Madison and McKenna Witt played as the No. 1 team for Arizona and defeated ASU’s Bianca Arellano and Macey Gardner in straight sets 21-9, 21-17. Arizona’s No. 2 team of Madi Kingdon and Kaitlyn Leary also took down the Sun Devils’ Jordy Checkal and Bethany Jorgensen 2111, 21-13. Kendall Polan and Rachel Rhoades of the Wildcats’ No. 3 team fell to ASU’s No. 3 duo after two hard fought sets, 19-21, 14-21. Arizona’s No. 4 team of Taylor Lane and Taylor Arizobal picked up a win over the Sun Devils’ McKenzie Willey and Sydney Palmer, 21-9, 2111. Sarah Seiber and Hailey Devlin, the No. 5 team for the Wildcats, also took down ASU’s Andi Lowrance and Frances Giedraitis in a straight-sets victory, 21-17, 21-12. In the exhibition match, Arizona’s No. 6 team of Emily Kiser, Allie Cook and Olivia Macdonald defeated ASU’s Mia Rivera and Kwyn Johnson in three sets, 25-23, 21-19, 15-10. The enormous crowd that came out to Bear Down Beach witnessed Arizona win first hand, while the
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