LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | KENTUCKY.COM SPORTS MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013 C5 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Lindsey Wilson wins Mid-South men’s title JONATHAN PALMER Wire, Staff and Special Reports UK guard A’dia Mathies got a scored 20 points and Rico Fer- Top-seeded Lindsey Wilson guson had 12 points and four hug from former UK assistant outlasted No. 2-seed Pikeville assists in the Panthers’ win the Kyra Elzy after the game. Elzy 77-73 in overtime in the Mid- opening round of the GLVC is an assistant at Tennessee. South tournament champion- tournament at Owensboro. ship game on Sunday at the Frankfort Convention Center. Women STORY The tournament title was LSU 67, No. 13 Texas A&M From Page C1 the first for the Blue Raiders 52: Theresa Plaisance scored since 2004-05 and they had 16 points and Danielle Bal- “I thought they made us to withstand an extraordinary lard had 15 points and 11 play fast,” Tennessee Coach performance from the con- rebounds for LSU at College MATT YORK | ASSOCIATED PRESS Holly Warlick said. “If you ference’s player of the year. Station, Texas. want to interpret it as pan- Pikeville’s Jamar Briscoe hit Ballard, a freshman, posted Carl Edwards led a total of 122 laps at Phoenix International Raceway, including the final 78. “I’m icky, they just made us play six threes and shot 11 of 23 her second consecutive dou- very, very happy to be back in the mix here,” he said after his first win since Las Vegas in 2011. fast and we just quick-shot from the field to finish with a ble-double for the Tigers, who the basketball.” game-high 32 points. have won six in a row enter- NASCAR It seemed only right that Kalen Kimberland led ing next weekend’s Southeast- Mitchell’s record-setting win Lindsey Wilson with 25 ern Conference Tournament. came on Senior Day for Ken- points, hitting 12 of 16 shots Ballard had 14 points and 10 tucky star A’dia Mathies (as from the free-throw line, while rebounds on Thursday in a Edwards’ 70-race skid well as her classmate Brittany Milton Watts added 12 points win over Alabama. Henderson). When Mathies and 10 rebounds. No. 11 Georgia 55, Vanderbilt — having spurned her “Every play they ran was 50: Jasmine Hassell scored 16 hometown school, Louisville, for Briscoe and we ran ev- points and host Georgia re- ends at Phoenix to cast her lot with Kentucky erything for Kalen,” Lindsey bounded from a disappointing — arrived in Lexington, Wilson Coach Paul Peck said. Southeastern Conference loss Mitchell’s record at UK was a “Unbelievable performances. to beat Vanderbilt. JOHNSON HOLDS OFF NEXT RACE SPRINT CUP: SUBWAY FRESH FIT 500 lukewarm 33-32. I can’t think of a much better Georgia’s shooters could HAMLIN FOR SECOND Kobalt Tools 400 At Avondale, Ariz. With Mathies on his team, game in our league than this.” only improve after shoot- 1-mile Phoenix International Raceway When: 3 p.m. Sunday (Start position in parentheses) Mitchell is 106-28. It could have ended differ- ing 18.2 percent in a 50-38 By John Marshall 1. (15) Carl Edwards, Ford, 316 laps, 48 points On Sunday, the stoic ently. Tied at 64 with 10 sec- loss to Mississippi State on Associated Press Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway 2. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 316, 43 5-foot-9 Mathies showed the onds left Lindsey Wilson sent 3. (8) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 316, 41 Thursday. The Bulldogs shot AVONDALE, Ariz. — Carl 4. (11) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 316, 41 home crowd one final time Pikeville’s Elisha Justice to the 35.8 percent Sunday, though Edwards climbed from his car, 5. (21) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 316, 40 the wide range of skills that line for one and the bonus. Jus- they only made 2 of 11 three- stood on the door and landed Despite struggling with his 6. (13) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 316, 38 7. (9) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 316, 37 have made her an all-time tice missed his first shot and pointers. a backflip near the finish line. car most of the day, Hamlin 8. (6) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 316, 36 Wildcats great. In spite of Kimberland came up short on No. 14 South Carolina 67, He then hopped up on the wall made a bold move on the last 9. (5) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 316, 35 10. (20) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 316, 34 missing eight of her first nine a runner at the buzzer to send Florida 56: Ashley Bruner in front of the grandstand, lap with a pass on the apron 11. (23) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 316, 33 shots, Mathies finished with the game to overtime. scored 16 points and Aleighsa grabbed the checkered flag below the dogleg. He popped 12. (29) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 316, 33 16 points, four rebounds, four 13. (7) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 316, 31 “I said it before the game, Welch and Ieasia Walker add- and waded into the crowd, up alongside Daytona 500 14. (43) Casey Mears, Ford, 316, 30 assists, four steals and two if the score got into the 90s, ed 14 apiece for host South trading high-fives with fans. winner Jimmie Johnson and 15. (18) Aric Almirola, Ford, 316, 29 blocks. we didn’t have a chance,” said Carolina. The Gamecocks After a miserable week at the two drag-raced to the fin- 16. (12) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 316, 28 17. (17) Greg Biffle, Ford, 316, 28 “To get (Mitchell’s record- Peck. “But we kept it low with (23-6, 11-5) set a school re- Daytona, Edwards had plenty ish, where Johnson edged him 18. (22) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 316, 26 breaking) win on senior great defense and this is how cord for Southeastern Confer- to celebrate. That it came at by a few inches. 19. (2) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 316, 25 20. (16) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 316, 24 night, and it being our last it turned out.” ence victories in a season and Phoenix International Race- Keselowski, who was out- 21. (1) Mark Martin, Toyota, 316, 24 night against a rivalry team, No. 4 Michigan 58, No. 9 tied their program record for way only seemed fitting. side Johnson during Hamlin’s 22. (19) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 316, 22 I think it was meant to be,” 23. (4) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 316, 21 Michigan State 57: Trey Burke regular-season wins. Coming through on his move, finished fourth and 24. (33) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 315, 20 Mathies said. stole the ball from Keith Ap- Former Boone County star promise to dominate after his Dale Earnhardt Jr. ended up 25. (34) David Reutimann, Toyota, 315, 20 As for the day’s imperfec- pling near midcourt and went Sydney Moss scored 16 points Daytona disaster, Edwards fifth. 26. (32) Joey Logano, Ford, 315, 18 27. (25) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 315, 17 tion, the one thing missing in alone for a dunk with 22 and grabbed 10 rebounds for pulled away on a late restart “As far down as I was, I 28. (27) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 315, 16 that could have made Sunday seconds left, then made anoth- the Gators. and snapped a 70-race winless was committed, there was 29. (30) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 313, 15 30. (37) David Stremme, Toyota, 313, 14 a perfect moment for Ken- er steal in the final seconds to Cumberland 59, Campbells- streak on Sunday, the second nothing that I was going to 31. (41) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 311, 0 tucky women’s basketball was give host Michigan a win. ville 46: Top-seeded Cumber- longest drought he’s ended at do where I would back out,” 32. (38) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 309, 12 that the SEC regular-season 33. (26) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 306, 11 The Spartans had the ball land scored 11 straight points Phoenix. Hamlin said. “I just hoped I 34. (42) Ken Schrader, Ford, accident, 300, 10 championship was not on the with the shot clock off at 56-all, down the stretch to defeat “This win feels as good would have just slid in front 35. (36) Josh Wise, Ford, 295, 0 line. For most of the season, but Burke’s first big defensive 36. (14) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 284, 8 third-seeded Campbellsville or better as any win I’ve ever of the 48, then you risk get- 37. (31) David Gilliland, Ford, accident, 237, 7 it appeared UK and UT would play enabled Michigan to take in the Mid-South Confer- had,” Edwards said. ting punted and spun, and 38. (24) David Ragan, Ford, accident, 186, 7 settle that in Lexington. the lead. After Derrick Nix ence tournament finals in the Edwards had a rough 2012 your whole day you’ve worked 39. (40) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, accident, 184, 5 40. (10) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, accident, 137, 4 Instead, a Kentucky loss made one of two free throws Frankfort Convention Center. season, missing the Chase everything for is taken away 41. (28) Scott Speed, Ford, brakes, 88, 3 at LSU two Sundays ago and Mitch McGary missed Daizah Kimberland led the for the championship. His in a corner. I held my line and 42. (35) Mike Bliss, Toyota, brakes, 34, 0 43. (39) Scott Riggs, Ford, accident, 19, 0 opened the door for Tennes- the front end of a 1-and-1 for Tigers with 13 points. downward spiral continued at thought I really did the right Race statistics see to claim the league crown Michigan, Burke stole a pass Daytona, where he wrecked thing and gave those guys Average speed of winner: 105.187 mph with a home win over Texas Saturday’s late men’s games Time of race: 3 hours, 0 minutes, 15 seconds by Gary Harris to end it.