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Men’s tennis top seeded
for Conference USA tourney
The TCU men’s tennis team locked
up the first seed in the Conference USA tournament in style, picking
up a 5-2 win over No. 21 Arkansas on Sunday afternoon. The win snapped
the Frogs’ three-match losing streak and
improved their record to 10-9. The Razorbacks fell to 12-7.
The
Frogs started the match by winning the doubles point for the sixth
time this season and the 31st consecutive time overall.
The
Frogs now travel to Louisville to take part in the C-USA Tournament,
taking place on April 18-21. The Frogs, who were named the tourney’s
first seed, will take on the winner of the Charlotte-Southern Miss
match on Friday.
Kenyans
make sweep in Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) — Rodgers Rop led a
Kenyan sweep of the first four spots in the Boston Marathon on Monday,
winning in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 2 seconds.
Christopher
Cheboiboch, who kept pace with Rop until turning at Cleveland Circle
for the long straightaway leading into Boston, finished about 20
yards behind him.
Kenyans
had won Boston for 10 straight years before Lee Bong-ju of South
Korea ended the streak last year. Lee was the top non-Kenyan again,
but he was fifth after falling out of the lead pack by the 19-mile
mark.
Margaret
Okayo, also of Kenya, won the women’s race in 2:20:43, taking
62 seconds off the course record. She pulled away from two-time
defending champion and world record-holder Catherine Ndereba in
the final mile.
Keith
Dowling, of Reston, Va., finished 15th and was the top American
men’s finisher. Jill Gaitenby, of Northampton, Mass., was the
top U.S. woman for the second consecutive year, finishing 13th.
The
annual Patriots Day race — the first since the Sept. 11 attacks
— had an American flair, with nearly 17,000 runners serenaded
by national songs before crossing a red, white and blue starting
line for the 26.2-mile run to Boston’s Back Bay. A fighter
jet flyover was canceled because of the weather.
NY
Rangers’ coach fired for missing postseason
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers
fired coach Ron Low on Monday after
missing the playoffs in his two seasons.
The
Rangers had the highest payroll in the NHL but went only 36-38-4-3
this season and finished 11th in the Eastern Conference. It was
the fifth straight year that they failed to reach the postseason.
“I
feel a change is necessary at the head coaching position,”
Rangers general manager Glen Sather said. “An extensive, thorough
search for a new head coach will begin immediately.”
A
conference call with Sather was planned for later Monday.
Ken
Hitchcock, who led the Dallas Stars to the 1999 Stanley Cup title,
has been mentioned as a possible replacement with the Rangers. The
Stars fired him in January and didn’t qualify for the playoffs.
Pettitte’s
bum elbow flares up in loss to Boston
BOSTON—New York Yankees pitcher
Andy Pettitte left Monday’s game against Boston after three
innings because of tenderness in his throwing elbow.
Yankees
officials said the move was precautionary, and manager Joe Torre
and Pettitte provided different descriptions of the injury after
the Yankees’ 4-3 loss.
Torre
said the injury was muscular and in a different area from the elbow
injury Pettitte suffered in spring training. Pettitte said the injury
was to the same place in his left elbow and occurred when he tried
to let loose with a fastball Monday.
Torre
said that at this time, the Yankees expected Pettitte to make his
next turn in the rotation. The Yankees will monitor Pettitte, and
if there are any concerns about his arm, he will be held back from
his next start.
Pettitte,
limited to two major league spring training starts because of a
sore left elbow, entered 1-0 with a 3.12 ERA.
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