Women's Basketball
Beth Vice made 22 points and two 3-pointers in the final minutes to lead Alabama over Memphis 77-67 in the first round of the Women's National Invitational Tournament Thursday.
LaNisha Cartwell led the Crimson Tide with 23 points.
The victory was the first-ever in the Women's National Invitational Tournament next week.
Memphis (17-13) made 37.5 percent of their field goals and turned the ball over 18 times.
Tiffany Adkins hit 19 points for Memphis and had four assists.
Alabama overcame Memphis' pressure and tuned the ball over only 13 times, and coach Tick Moody.
Men's Track
Junior Delvit Rogers finished 11th place in the triple jump at the National Collegiate Athletic Association indoor championships at the University of Arkansas Saturday.
Rogers' best mark was 15.50 meters (50-10.25) in his first-ever trip to the NCAA Indoor Championships at the University of Arkansas Saturday.
Rogers participated in the NCAA Outdoor and the US Olympic Trials last summer.
Louisiana State University won the team went with 34 points 2001 Conference USA member Texas Christian finished second with 32 points.
Baseball
The University of Memphis Tiger baseball team (11-6, 1-2) lost the third game of their conference opening series against the 49ers of Charlotte (9-10, 2-1) on Sunday afternoon 6-5.
Memphis won the first game of the series 12-8 in the first game of a double-header.
Daniel Uggla went 2-of-3 with two singles a run scored and one RBI.
Layne Dawson (1-1 0,1) threw two innings of relief and gave up one earned run off two 49ers hits while walking one and fanning four, in his first loss of the season.
The Tigers went ahead early 2-0 when Barrett Smith hit a single through the middle of the infield which scored Michael Lewis and Uggla.
Lewis then slapped a two-run double to left-center in the top of the second scoring Josh Payne and Kyle Scott giving Memphis a 4-0 advantage.
After going scoreless for the first two innings , the 49ers tied the game at four with two runs in the fourth and two more in the bottom of the fifth which also included a solo shot from Thomas Bowler to left field came through again during the bottom of the sixth hitting a sacrifice-fly to deep left which scored Nick and broke the tie to give Charlotte their first lead of the game.
With two outs in the seventh, Uggla slammed a 3-2 pitch through the left-side which brought Ryan O'Malley in from third to tie the game at five.
The very next inning, Blackmon broke the tie open in the eighth with a solo home run over the wall in left which gave 49ers 6-5 lead.
Picking up the win for Charlotte was Jacob (2-0) who went for two-and-a-third innings and only gave up one hit while striking out three.
Memphis will now tangle with South Eastern Conference foe Ole Miss on Wednesday, March 21st at 7 p.m. The game will take place in downtown Memphis at AutoZone Park, home of the AAA-Memphis Redbirds.
