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Updated May 11, 2009 2:30 PM ET
     
 
UNCG 5, COLLEGE OF Charleston 3: No. 6 seed UNCG used a five-run second inning and a solid pitching performance from junior Amber Harrell to eliminate second-seeded College of Charleston in the losers' bracket of the Southern Conference softball championship. The Spartans (25-32) advance to play either No. 1 Chattanooga or No. 5 seed Furman today. Emily Akiyama went 2-for-3 for UNCG. Earlier in the day, Appalachian State beat the Spartans 2-0. Western Carolina 4, Elon 1: No. 8 seed Western Carolina softball (12-33) defeated No. 9 seeded Elon (15-33) in the play-in game of the SoCon tournament. Howard 3, N.C. A&T 1: Top-seeded Howard won its ninth straight game by holding off the No. 4 Aggies in the opening round of the MEAC softball championship at Ormond Beach Sports Complex in Florida. men's BASKETBALL Elon: Tim Sweeney has been named an assistant men's basketball coach for the Phoenix. Sweeney spent last season with Bucknell after serving the previous two seasons with new Elon head coach Matt Matheny at Davidson College. Sweeney began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Rochester, his alma mater, for three seasons. GOLF CAROLINAS FOUR-BALL: First-round co-leaders Patrick Brady of Reidsville and Scott Harvey of Greensboro shot a second-round 65, five under par, to take the qualifying medal in the Carolinas Four-Ball golf championship on the Donald Ross-designed Camden Country Club in Camden, S.C. CAROLINAS OPEN: Pinehurst County Club assistant Kelly Mitchum won his second Carolinas Open, shooting a 3-under 68 in the final round. Nate Olivo of Pinehurst and Dale Ketola of Murrells Inlet, S.C., tied for second. HONORS GUILFORD: Baseball outfielder Alex Starbuck (East Forsyth) and softball first baseman Kelly Hale earned second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III honors. The honor is given to starters or important reserves of sophomore academic standing or above who maintained at least a 3.3 grade point average for schools from Division II and III institutions in the five-state area from Virginia to Florida. HIGH POINT: Manika Gamble, a freshman from Jacksonville, is the Big South women's track and field athlete of the week. Elon: Elon football players Terrell Hudgins and Chris Werden have been selected as members of the 2009 Preseason Consensus Draft Services All-American teams. Hudgins was a first-team pick at wide receiver while Werden earned honorable mention accolades at offensive tackle. OUTDOORS TRAPSHOOTING: Greensboro's Jeff Galloway fired a 199x200 in the singles championship at the Georgia State Trapshoot Championship to tie Bill Parsons of Matthews, Fla., in regulation. But Parsons hit 24x25 to win the championship in the shootoff. Galloway hit 23x25 for the runnerup trophy. Galloway, a spring graduate at UNC-Chapel Hill, had broken 100 straight but dropped the first target as he began his second round in regulaltion, forcing the shootoff.
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