Campbell leads U.S. team
Colorado Xplosion guard Edna Campbell scored 16 points to help Team USA defeat the Canadian national women's basketball team 66-51 Friday in the opener of a three-game series.
Team USA beat the Canadians 74-53 Saturday and concluded the series with Canada Monday night.
Thursday, Team USA begins a 10-game international tour with a game against the German national team in Munster, Germany.
After the tour, Team USA will play in the World Championship Qualifying Tournament June 6-14 in Argentina.
CSU softball team faces Brown
The Colorado State University women's softball team opens NCAA Tournament play Friday at 1:30 p.m., facing Brown University in Amherst, Mass.
Massachusetts plays Boston College in the other game on the UMass campus, and winners face winners and losers play losers Saturday in the double elimination tournament.
CSU fans can follow the action on KIIX-AM (600) in Fort Collins. Saturday games will be at 12:30 and 3:30.
Loeffler team wins scramble
Bill Loeffler, Joe Herbert and Bob Stallman teamed for a 14-under 58 Monday at Buffalo Run Golf Course to win the Colorado PGA's Don Cook-Ping pro-pro-pro scramble. Loeffler, Herbert and Stallman scored 14 birdies and no bogeys to win the tournament by one stroke.
Bill Majure, Mike Northern and Sean Farren shared second place with Matt Potter, Tray Shehee and Jon Petersen at 13-under 59.
Et cetera
Colorado Rockies rookie right-hander John Thomson, called up Friday from Class AAA Colorado Springs to join the club's rotation, was named Pacific Coast League pitcher of the week for May 4-10 . . . Scott Gaylord of Lakewood finished ninth Saturday night in a NASCAR Winston West Series stock car race in Tucson, completing 187 laps of the 200-lap race before his car overheated. The event was won by Canadian Gary Smith . . . Colorado golfers Rick Cramer, Matt Gogel and R.W. Eaks finished back in the pack at the Nike Carolina Classic at Cary, N.C., that concluded Sunday. Cramer was seven shots back of the winner, Dan Bateman, with a 291 total. Gogal finished at 294 and Eaks at 297
. . . Fresno State put the finishing touches on Air Force's Western Athletic Conference baseball season Sunday, shutting out the Falcons 24-0. Air Force's record is 13-37 overall, 6-24 in the WAC's North Division . . . The 21-game hitting streak of Texas Tech catcher Josh Bard, a former Cherry Creek athlete, ended in the Raiders' 5-3 loss to Texas A&M on Saturday. Also ended was a 29-game hitting streak by the Raiders' Keith Ginter . . . Chris McGuire, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology freshman cross country runner from Bear Creek, won the NCAA New England Division III 5,000-meter run Saturday in Medford, Mass. . . . Air Force designated hitter Chris Collins was named to the all-WAC baseball team . . . Regis outfielder Christy Weiser was named to the NCAA Division II all-regional softball team.
