SOFTBALL: LYNNFIELD WINS IN 16 INNINGSLynnfield (Mass.) outlasted
Masconomet Regional (Topsfield, Mass.), 4-3, in 16 innings.
* University of Dayton recruit
Kayla English fired a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts as
Fort Worth Christian (North Richland Hills, Texas) blanked Dallas Christian (Mesquite, Texas), 7-0. She has 453 strikeouts this year and 1,589 for her career – No. 2 in Texas history.
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Poland Seminary (Poland, Ohio) junior
Erin Gabriel pitched her fourth no-hitter of the year and struck out 17 during a 10-0 victory over Niles McKinley (Niles, Ohio).
Feature story on Erin Gabriel* Junior
Megan Rico pitched a perfect game with 17 strikeouts as
King Philip Regional (Wrentham, Mass.) blanked Canton (Mass.), 5-0. In her two previous starts, she had lost perfect games in the final inning and had to settle for no-hitters.
* Marist (Eugene, Ore.) avenged an earlier 10-9 loss with a 6-0 victory over Churchill (Eugene, Ore.) as senior
Nyree White pitched a two-hitter with 15 strikeouts.
* Senior
Alexa Larkin struck out 16 as
Greater Latrobe (Latrobe, Pa.) rolled past Connellsville (Pa.), 6-2.
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Pequannock (Pompton Plains, N.J.) defeated Roxbury (Succasunna, N.J.), 5-0, behind
Dana Nielsen's no-hitter and 16 strikeouts.
BASKETBALL: THURMAN JOINS PERRY ELLIS AT WICHITA HEIGHTSGavin Thurman, a 6-7 junior, has transferred to three-time defending state champion
Heights (Wichita, Kan.), which already was returning 6-8 junior All-American
Perry Ellis. Thurman, who briefly attended Heights as a freshman, led Southeast (Wichita, Kan.) in scoring (18.5) and rebounding (6.2).
* A USA under-19 all-star basketball team posted a 5-0 record and defeated a team from Italy, 86-66, in the finals to win the Junior International Tournament in Milan, Italy.
DaQuan Cook, a 6-1 junior guard from Digital Harbor (Baltimore), averaged 21 points – including 31 in the finale - to earn MVP honors. Patterson (Baltimore) sophomore guard
Aquille Carr averaged 30 points in the tourney.
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St. Benedict's Prep (Newark, N.J.) has hired Mark Taylor as its new boys basketball coach. He has a career record of 266-111 and has coached such pros as Jay Williams and Andrew Bynum.
* Reebok is back in the summer camp business following a one-year absence, according to ZagsBlog. It will sponsor the Reebok Basketball Breakout Challenge from July 5-9 at Philadelphia University. The camp will feature 100 players and will go head-to-head against the LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio. John Wall is expected to make a national publicity tour to promote the camp.
* On the girls side, the University of North Carolina has received a commitment from one of the nation's premier eighth graders, 5-8 Te'a Cooper, who attends Cooper Middle School in Austell, Ga. She received her first recruiting letter from UCLA as a fifth grader.
* The University of Notre Dame bested Connecticut and Rutgers when it received a commitment from 5-11 guard
Michaela Mabrey, according to the South Bend Tribune. She averaged 22 points, five rebounds and 2.8 assists while shooting 46 percent on 3-pointers for Manasquan (Manasquan, N.J.) as a junior. That gives the Fighting Irish three commitments from juniors ranked among the nation's top 40.
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