October 13, 2007

Duke sued by lacrosse coach
NO. 2 STANFORD UPSET BY WASHINGTON IN WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
By staff and wire reports

A former Duke University men's lacrosse coach has sued the university after resigning earlier this year under the pressure of allegations that three of his players raped a stripper, school officials said Friday.

Mike Pressler's lawsuit apparently stems from a financial settlement the school reached earlier this year with Pressler, although school officials did not give details.

Area colleges

Washington shocked No. 2 Stanford 3-2 to hand the Cardinal its first loss of the season in a Pacific-10 Conference women's volleyball match at Maples Pavilion.

• Santa Clara downed St. Mary's 3-0 in West Coast Conference women's volleyball at the Leavey Center to improve to 4-1 in league.

• Freshman Jalil Anibaba scored with two seconds left as Santa Clara edged San Francisco 2-1 in a West Coast Conference men's soccer match at Buck Shaw Stadium. . . . Katherine Reynolds scored in the 92nd minute to help No. 5 Santa Clara defeat visiting Cal State Fullerton 3-2 in a non-conference women's match.

No. 22 New Mexico defeated San Jose State 4-1 in a men's Mountain Pacific Sports Federation soccer match at Spartan Stadium. College basketball

Gonzaga's basketball team reinstated last season's leading scorer Josh Heytvelt after eight months of weekly drug tests, 300 hours of community service.

Miscellany

• Etan Thomas was recovering from open heart surgery, and the physician who performed the operation didn't rule out the possibility of the Washington Wizards' center returning to play in the NBA this season. . . . Indiana picked up the team options on Ike Diogu, a power forward the Pacers got in a trade with the Warriors last season.

• John Vanbiesbrouck entered the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame as the NHL's winningest American-born goalie. Vanbiesbrouck retired in 2002 with a 374-346-119 record. He was inducted along with late Michigan Tech Coach John MacInnes and former NHL standouts Aaron Broten and Bobby Carpenter.

Tennis

Serena Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova will meet in the Kremlin Cup semifinals today in Moscow after scoring quarterfinal victories.

• Top-seeded James Blake rallied past Jarkko Nieminen 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-2 to reach the semifinals in the Stockholm Open where he will play Swede Thomas Johansson, who defeated Mario Ancic of Croatia 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3).