BRIEFS

Saints beat

St. Andrews

The Saints baseball team defeated St. Andrews 8-2 on Sunday afternoon at Bob Prevatte Field. Limestone improves to 13-11 overall and 6-6 in Conference Carolinas play. The Knights stand at 9-13.

Dylan Anthony and Drew Lydon both hit home runs for Limestone. Anthony was 3-4 with 3 RBIs. Adam McSwain was 2-4 with an RBI and Josh Izokovic was 2-5 with 1 RBI for Limestone.

The Saints' Chris Zimmerman picked up his fifth win of the season, allowing 11 hits and striking out three.

The score was tied 1-1 after the first inning. The Saints exploded for seven runs in the third. Anthony homered to make the score 5-1. Drew Lydon followed with a homer before Phillip Soden hit a sacrifice fly later in the same inning.

St. Andrews scored the final run of the game in fourth.

Limestone hosts Francis Marion on March 11 at 2:30 p.m. at Saints Field.

Lady Saint named

all-conference

Limestone College's women's basketball player Ariel Lyons was named to the All-Conference Carolinas team, as announced by the conference office on Friday. Head coaches from conference member institutions nominate and then vote on the award winners.

Lyons, a senior guard, was a dominant force for the Saints this season, averaging 7.4 points per game, 5.2 assists per game and 2.2 steals per game. Lyons is currently ranked second in the conference in assists per game.

Lyons posted double-digit points on nine different occasions and had three double-doubles on the season.

Lyons started in 28 of her 30 games played for the Saints this season, leading her team to a 16-15 overall record, 11-9 in Conference Carolinas for a fifth place finish in the league.

LC hosts tourney

for Special Olympics

The Annual Special Olympics Basketball Tournament to be held at Limestone College in Timken Gymnasium. The tournament will be on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event involves over 100 student-athletes from schools in Cherokee, Union, and Spartanburg Counties. Admission is free and support for these athletes is always appreciated.

Vols rout

South Carolina

Jordan Howell called it a ''storybook ending.'' JaJuan Smith said it was ''a dream come true.''

''We came from the bottom. We're SEC champs, now,'' Chris Lofton said.

No. 4 Tennessee closed the regular season with an 89-56 victory over South Carolina on Sunday, and the three Volunteers seniors - whose freshman team went 14-17- finally got to celebrate a Southeastern Conference regular-season title.

O'Hair wins

POD Championship

Sean O'Hair was working harder than ever and reaping crumbs at the bottom of the leaderboard, so when he missed the cut at Riviera last month, he went home and reviewed some old videotape of his rookie season.

The difference he noticed was not so much the swing, but the joy.

His rookie season in 2005 was best remembered for his five-shot comeback to win the John Deere Classic that earned him a trip to St. Andrews for the British Open. Sunday might have been even sweeter.

O'Hair rallied from a three-shot deficit at the PODS Championship, pulled ahead when Stewart Cink suffered a four-hole meltdown, and closed with a 2-under 69 for a twoshot victory at Innisbrook.

The victory will move him into the top 40 in the world ranking, giving him a spot in the $8 million World Golf Championship at Doral in two weeks.