Big 12 Baseball Openers

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Feb. 3, 2007, 12:02AM

TEXAS COLLEGES

Junior righthander Nick Cassavechia was named to the Stopper of the Year Watch List, announced by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Cassavechia and Texas sophomore Austin Wood are the only Big 12 pitchers on the 35-man list of contenders for the designation as the top reliever in college baseball.

•Zuzana Zemenova earned the only victory as the seventh-seeded Bears dropped a 4-1 match to second-seeded Notre Dame in the ITA Indoor Team Championships in Madison, Wis.

Houston

The men won the distance medley relay in 10:04.60 and Rachel Easley compiled an NCAA provisio-nal mark of 3,877 points in finishing second in the Houston Invitational track and field meet at UH.

•UH's women's tennis team notched a pair of 6-1 victories over Tarleton State and Trinity in matches at Lee College. The Cougars are 5-0 for only the fifth time in program history.

Prairie View A&M

Spenser Dennis drove in four runs and J.J. Buchanan had four hits as the baseball team routed Texas College 22-0 at Prairie View.

Rice

The men's tennis team (4-0) won five of the six singles matches in straight sets to defeat Drake 6-1 in a match at Minneapolis. Rice takes on the host Minnesota Gophers today.

San Jacinto

The Gators scored nine runs in the last two innings to sweep past McLennan Community College 9-0 in the second game of a doubleheader in Waco. San Jacinto rallied from a two-run deficit for a 4-3 win in the first game as Nick Godre homered. In the second game, Kevin Angelle pitched five scoreless innings and Eric Fry had three hits for San Jacinto.

Stephen F. Austin

Chris Moody won the men's 200 meters (22.46) and Katrina Roundtree captured the women's 200 (25.64) in the Houston Invitational at UH.

Texas

The baseball team scored three times in the ninth inning but came up a run short as it dropped a 6-5 decision to San Diego in the season opener at Round Rock. UT, swept by the Toreros at San Diego to open last season, trailed 5-0 and 6-1 and surrendered 15 hits. Texas is playing its early games in Round Rock while renovations at Disch-Falk Field are completed. Second baseman Travis Tucker led the Longhorns with three hits.

•Destinee Hooker matched the automatic standard for the second time, clearing 6-0 3/4 to place third among a field of professionals and amateurs in the John Thomas High Jump at the 100th Millrose Games in New York. Sprinters Chauntae Bayne and Alexandria Anderson finished 2-3 in the 60-meter, clocking 7.36 and 7.42, respectively.

Texas A&M

Kasey Onwuchekwa reached a personal high as she threw the shot put 57, 2 inches — more than two feet past the 55-0 she had set as a goal for outdoor competition — to win the New Balance Invitational in New York. Freshman Ashika Charan won the women's long jump at 20-6.

Texas Tech

With the temperature near freezing in Lubbock, the baseball team's season opener against Stephen F. Austin was postponed. The teams will try to play today.