March 22, 2010

STANFORD, Calif. -

Live weekday Stanford TV, radio and webcast schedule listed below.

Baseball
Stanford's comeback kids have won four games in their last at-bat. Zach Jones was the latest to deliver, with a winning single with no outs in the bottom of the ninth for a 9-8 victory over Pepperdine.

Stanford opens up Pac-10 play with USC next weekend after finishing fifth (13-14) in 2009. Stanford's last Pac-10 title came in 2004. It finished second in 2008.

Stanford's pitchers combined to throw 13 consecutive scoreless innings from the ninth inning on Friday until Sunday's fourth inning. Over that span, Stanford won a game in the ninth, scored 10 runs on Saturday and another seven over the first three innings on Sunday (18 runs total).

Reliever Alex Pracher has three wins and two saves this season. Other than starter Jordan Pries (2-1), the bullpen has eight of the 10 wins.

Women's Basketball
The Cardinal opened the NCAA Tournament on a victorious note, downing No. 16 seed UC Riverside, 79-47, Saturday night at Maples Pavilion. The win, Stanford's 45th in a row at home, was helped along by the play of Pac-10 Player of the Year Nnemkadi Ogwumike, who went for 19 points and 11 rebounds, her fourth double-double in four postseason games. Ogwumike also become Stanford's 31st member of the "1,000-Point Club."

Fencing
Six Cardinal fencers head to Harvard this weekend for the NCAA Championships, including four men and two women: Lucas Jansen (men's sabre), Max Murphy (men's sabre), Kian Ameli (men's epee), Kevin Mo (men's epee), Francesca Bassa (women's epee) and Jessica Wacker (women's foil).

Men's Gymnastics
No. 1 Stanford will complete its regular season Friday when it travels to Chicago to face Illinois-Chicago. The meet begins at 5 p.m. PDT.

Women's Gymnastics
Stanford completed its dual-meet season with a 14-2 record, the best for that portion of the season in program history. The Cardinal is ranked No. 6 heading into the Pac-10 Championships on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz. Stanford has won the title in every even year since 2004.

Lacrosse
In the latest IWLCA national poll, Stanford climbed to No. 9, the highest ranking in the program's history. The Cardinal is off to a 5-2 start and plays Towson on Monday at 1 p.m.

Sailing
Nick Dugdale won the "D" division of the Truxtun Umstead Regatta, hosted by Navy, beating out 20 other Laser boats to lead the Cardinal in Maryland. The Cardinal's two women's teams finished eighth out of 20 two hours away at St. Mary's College of Maryland. The team will train with the College of Charleston this week before sailing in Virginia this weekend and later at the regional regatta in Southern California.

Softball
Freshman Teagan Gerhart threw three consecutive no-hitters last weekend, all shutouts in the Stanford Louisville Slugger Classic. Gerhart finally had a 20 1/3 inning hitless streak snapped by Cal Poly to lead off the third inning of the fifth game encompassing the streak. Gerhart, the Pac-10 Player of the Week, beat Santa Clara 8-0 on Friday (six innings), Princeton 7-0 on Saturday (seven innings) and Saint Mary's 8-0 later the same day (five innings).

Men's Swimming
Stanford will be seeking its ninth NCAA title and first national title since 1998 when it competes at the NCAA Championships in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday through Saturday. Cardinal swimmers are ranked among the top 10 in 15 events, including all five relays, and has the fastest qualifiers in the 500-yard freestyle (David Mosko) and 1,650 freestyle (Chad La Tourette).

Women's Swimming
The Cardinal was second in the NCAA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind., last weekend in a meet that went down to the final event. Elaine Breeden capped her collegiate career with victories in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly to become the first Cardinal to sweep those events since Misty Hyman in 1998, and the third in NCAA history to win the 200 fly three times in a career. Breeden now holds five of the top nine times in NCAA history in the event, including the top two times, including the American record of 1:49.92, set at last year's Pac-10 meet. Breeden won five All-America honors this year to finish with 24. Julia Smit closed out her career with seven All-America awards for 26 in her career, two short of Catherine Fox and Misty Hyman's school-record of 28. Smit won the 200 and 400 individual medleys over the first two days, and was a member of the 200 free and 400 medley runner-up teams. Kate Dwelley, with seven, will enter her senior season with 16 All-America honors, while Betsy Webb with seven this year, now has eight. Webb finished as a runner-up in the 50 free, and was on the two relays with Smit, and picked up top-16 finishes in the 100 backstroke and 200 medley relay.

Track and Field
The Cardinal is set to host the Stanford Invitational Friday and Saturday at Cobb Track and Angell Field. The meet is one of the biggest in the country and features both high school and collegiate competition. The meet begins Friday, at 9 a.m. with the men's javelin and continues into the night with the distance carnival, concluding with a heat of the collegiate men's 10,000 meters at 10:48 p.m. On Saturday, the high school girls' 400-meter relay opens the day's events at 9 a.m. The meet will continue until the last event, the high school boys' 1,600-meter relay at 4:52 p.m.

Men's Volleyball
Longtime assistant coach Al Roderigues died peacefully early Friday morning after a 16-month battle with stomach cancer, but not before seeing the fulfillment of a three-year-old inspiring challenge to the team. In 2007, Roderigues took the five-member freshman class under his wing. During van rides to and from often miserable matches during that 3-25 season, the ever-positive Roderigues ingrained a special mantra in his players' heads: "Worst to First." On Saturday, March 13, several members of the Stanford team visited Roderigues in the hospital and presented the coach with a collage they created. On it were pictures of the class of 2010 over the years, a copy of the 2007 conference standings with Stanford mired on the bottom, and a copy of the current 2010 standings - with Stanford in first place. Worst to First indeed, and Al Roderigues lived to see it.

Wrestling
Sophomore Nick Amuchastegui earned his first career All-America honor after placing fourth at the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb., over the weekend. The Talent, Ore., native upset the No. 3, No. 5 and No. 7 seeds on his way to a 4-2 record at the tournament. It was the highest finish for a Stanford wrestler since 2004 when now-assistant coach Matt Gentry won the 157-pound title in St. Louis, Mo. Amuchastegui was also honored for his outstanding work in the classroom, taking home the first annual NCAA Elite 88 Award, given to the wrestler with the highest GPA at the postseason tournament. Amuchastegui is a mechanical engineering major with a 4.0 GPA.

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