Eight days ago, the University girls’ basketball team was faced with the prospects of win or go home. Four games later, the Red Devils are still playing.University continued the momentum of its surprise Bay Counties West tournament title with a 44-30 first-round upset of St. Vincent of Petaluma in the North Coast Section V playoffs at USF’s War Memorial Gymnasium.
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Aaron Hall scored 25 points, Kevin Robinson added 22 and both hit key shots down the stretch to help the Lincoln boys’ basketball win its final Academic Athletic Association regular-season game 74-64 over host Mission.The Mustangs (20-11, 13-3 AAA), who entered the game with the Lang Division title already wrapped up, got 15 points from Hall in the first half and led 38-30 after two quarters of play.
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Asdirector of communications for Palo Alto eatery Bon Appétit, Maisie Greenawalt is aware of the importance of attracting positive attention to her company.But the adulation Greenawalt has helped Bon Appétit collect spreads beyond the norm of average business fanfare.
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Although he will never rack up considerable tennis style points, Ivo Karlovic continued to make his mark at the SAP Open.One night after taking down world No. 4 James Blake, Karlovic upset another highly regarded American, this time Mardy Fish, with a 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory in the quarterfinal round.Karlovic will face Benjamin Becker, another quarterfinal upset winner, in today’s semifinals.
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Facing a 6-foot-10 giant with a serve to match his stature on a court recently renovated to increase its surface speed couldn’t have been the scenario that James Blake had hoped for in the second round of the SAP Open.Despite all the adverse conditions, Blake still had plenty of chances to advance, but in the end he fell in a heartbreaker to the hard-hitting Croatian Ivo Karlovic 6-7 (4), 7-6 (11), 6-4.
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As the Academic Athletic Association’s regular season is in its final days, talk has increased about players deserving of the making the annual all-league team.Most of the names commonly mentioned are household ones — Arthur Jones and Travis Hom of Lowell are returning all-leaguers, while Jahrail Taylor of Washington and Ronney Freeman of Wallenberg also grabbed spots on the All-AAA team last season.But one player who has generated plenty of buzz — Lincoln senior guard Kevin Robinson — isn’t quite as a familiar.
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It took Andy Roddick a little more than 20 minutes to ring in his SAP Open debut Wednesday, but when the top-ranked American broke free from his opening-round doldrums, he certainly made his presence felt in the tournament he’s favored to win.Unable to win a return point against for the match’s first five games, Roddick finally broke first-round opponent Frank Dancevic in the opening set’s 12th game, sending him on to a tougher-than-expected 7-5, 6-1 victory.
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The first marquee names made their appearances at the SAP Open in Tuesday’s morning session, when the tournament’s second- and fifth-seeded singles players, James Blake and Mardy Fish, teamed together for a doubles match against local favorites Paul Goldstein and Jim Thomas.In a departure from their normal success at singles, Fish and Blake suffered a first-round exit, losing to Goldstein and Thomas 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 (in the match tiebreaker.)
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Tennis has a storied history of marathon matches that take on epic proportions as games build — think Andre Agassi defeating James Blake in five sets at the 2005 U.S. Open or Bjorn Borg surviving John McEnroe in the 1981 Wimbledon final.The sport also has its breezier moments, as recently evidenced by Serena Williams’ 6-1, 6-2 waxing of Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open final that barely lasted an hour.
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The clouds broke long enough to let baseball be played on Sunday, and USF eagerly seized the opportunity to return to its winning ways.Playing for the first time in five days because of rain cancellations, the Dons (3-2) pushed back Sacramento State 8-4, picking up season highs in hits (12) and runs to help snap a two-game losing streak in non-conference play.
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The birth of a product is usually quite formulaic — the creative team of a company develops an idea, and the marketing branch figures out a way to sell that idea. But for Yves Behar and his San Francisco design company fuseproject, the creative and the marketing team are one in the same.
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With its three-deep bleacher seating and modest floor space, Gateway High School’s gymnasium will never be mistaken for Duke’s venerable Cameron Indoor Stadium.But for the 90 minutes that the Gators boys’ basketball team hosted Bay Counties League Central rival Leadership, the diminutive gym transformed into a blaring cacophony of screaming fans, fierce on-court competition and enough dramatic twists and turns to please any self-respecting basketball fan.
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If the sight of a 6-foot-1 forward grabbing offensive rebounds, scoring in the lane and hitting outside shots seemed unfamiliar to the Lick-Wilmerding girls’ basketball team Thursday, it was probably because the last time the Tigers faced Bay Counties League West rival Urban, the Blues were without Jakkie Boka-Timmerberg.Boka-Timmerberg, the Blues’ senior leader who missed the previous meeting with an ankle injury, was back to face Lick and her presence was most certainly evident.
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At the 2006 SAP Open in San Jose, 18-year-old Andy Murray was a precocious Scotsman without a single ATP Tour victory.He announced himself to the world when he defeated the heavily favored Andy Roddick in the semifinals of a tournament Roddick had won two straight years."Beating Roddick in his home country," Murray said after the exhaustive 7-5, 7-5 victory, "is like a dream come true."Murray rode that dream to his first ATP Tour title the next day with a victory over Lleyton Hewitt, becoming the youngest player to capture a title on the circuit in 2006.
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James Blake and Andy Roddick have been celebrated in the past year as comeback kids who have fought the odds to restore American pride in professional tennis.But as the duo makes their return to the Bay Area — for the SAP Open held at HP Pavilion in San Jose starting Monday — one tournament they would both like to forget from last year would be this event.
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