College Sports

The North Georgia men's and women's tennis squads claimed identical 8-1 victories over Carson-Newman College Wednesday.

The sixth-ranked North Georgia softball team completed its final road doubleheader of the regular-season by splitting a Peach Belt Conference twinbill with Flagler College Wednesday.

Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs.

The 32nd-ranked North Georgia men's tennis team captured a 7-2 Peach Belt Conference victory over 26th-ranked Young Harris Tuesday while the 34th-ranked Young Harris women defeated the Saint women by an identical 7-2 score at the North Georgia Tennis Complex.

Georgia Southern has named former Virginia Tech assistant Mark Byington as coach of the Eagles men's basketball team.

Freshman guard Nik Stauskas scored 22 points including six 3-pointers and Michigan is going to the Final Four for the first time since the Fab Five era after a 79-59 rout of Florida in the South Regional final Sunday.

Jasmine Hassell scored six of her 13 points in the final 3 minutes and fourth-seeded Georgia beat top-seeded Stanford 61-59 on Saturday night to reach the NCAA women's regional finals for the first time since 2004.

Malcolm Armstead scored 14 points, Fred Van Vleet bounced in a big basket with 1 minute left, and Wichita State earned its first trip to the Final Four since 1965 with a 70-66 victory over Ohio State on Saturday.

Jim Boeheim calls this year's Syracuse team his best defensive group ever. Hard to argue, based on the suffocating performances that put the Orange in the Final Four.

The North Georgia baseball team dropped game three of the three-game series against 18th-ranked North Carolina-Pembroke 5-3 on Saturday at Bob Stein Stadium.