Time: 04-03-2012 22:54 User: jpatterson PubDate: 04-04-2012 Zone: IN Edition: 1 Page Name: C2 Color: CyanMagentaYellowBlack C2 | WEDNESDAY,APRIL 4, 2012 | THE COURIER-JOURNAL SPORTS | courier-journal.com/sports IN To report sports scores BASEBALL E-mail [email protected] or call Scorecard the sports desk at 502-582-4361, or toll free at 1-800-765-4011,ext. 4361 Thumb’sdown: RedSox COLLEGE BASEBALL HOCKEY COLLEGE BASKETBALL American League NHL SPORTS send 2pitchers to clinic Wednesday, March 28 EASTERN CONFERENCE Men At Tokyo Atlantic Division Baseball The top 25 teams in the USA Seattle 3, Oakland 1, 11 innings WLOT Pts Bellarmine .000 000 000 -012 Today-ESPN men’scollege bas- Thursday, March 29 x-N.Y.Rangers 51 22 7109 N. Kentucky 010 034 10x-913 1 Associated Press ketball poll, with first-place At Tokyo x-Pittsburgh 49 25 6104 WP -Nastold (1-0). LP -Sterrett votes in parentheses, final rec- Oakland 4, Seattle 1 x-Philadelphia 46 25 9101 (2-2). 2B -Smith (NK), Williams (NK). ords, points based on 25 points Thursday’sgames x-New Jersey 46 28 698 3B -Clement (NK). The fortunes of the Bos- for afirst-place vote through Boston (Lester 0-0) at Detroit (Ver- N.Y. Islanders 33 36 11 77 Bellarmine .....000 000 0-072 one point for a25th-place vote N. Kentucky .....101 121 x-671 ton Red Sox pitching staff lander 0-0), 1:05 Northeast Division and previous ranking: Toronto (Romero 0-0) at Cleveland WLOT Pts WP -Clark (2-2). LP -Grana (3-2). Rec Pts Pvs took adetour Tu esday (Masterson 0-0), 3:05 y-Boston 47 29 498 2B -Morrissette (B), Pierce (B), As- 1. Kentucky 38-2 775 1 Friday’sgames x-Ottawa41291092 man (NK). Records -Bellarmine 15- through Cleveland, where (31) Chicago White Sox at Texas,2:05 Buffalo 39 31 10 88 10,Northern Kentucky 19-9. 2. Kansas 32-7 744 6 ace Josh Beckett and clos- Minnesota at Baltimore,3:05 Toronto 34 36 10 78 IU Southeast 000 110000 -230 3. Ohio State 31-8 705 7 Lind. Wilson 002 000 001-363 er Andrew Bailey were N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 3:10 Montreal 29 35 15 73 4. Louisville 30-10 661 18 Kansas City at L.A. Angels,10:05 WP -Jeremy Greene (1-2). LP -Joey both having second opi- 5. Syracuse 34-3 641 2 Southeast Division Harness (2-2). 2B -Frank Pluskota Seattle at Oakland, 10:07 WLOT Pts 6. North Carolina 32-6 624 5 (IUS), Mychal Harris (IUS), Adam nions on thumb injuries. Florida 37 25 18 92 7. Michigan State 29-8 566 4 National League Peacock (LW). HR -Tyler Bernard Washington 40 32 888 Beckett is expected to 8. Baylor 30-8 564 10 Wednesday’sgame (LW), Manuel Ozoria (LW). Records - Winnipeg 37 34 983 9. Florida 26-11 506 21 St. Louis (Lohse 0-0) at Miami (John- IU Southeast 17-18,Lindsey Wilson OK, while Bailey could Tampa Bay 37 35 781 10. Marquette 27-8 464 11 son 0-0), 7:05 26-10. Carolina 32 32 16 80 miss much of the season. 11. Missouri 30-5 425 3 Thursday’sgames Transy ........ 300 002 310 -915 1 Atlanta (Hanson 0-0) at N.Y. Mets 12. Wisconsin 26-10 424 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Hanover ...100122 031-10161 “The good news for us is (Santana 0-0), 1:10 13. Indiana 27-9 382 17 Central Division WP -Chip Hockenbury. LP -Danny Philadelphia (Halladay 0-0) at Pitts- WLOT Pts that their situations don’t 14. Duke27-7 336 8 Niehaus.2B-Johnny Renz 2(T), Sam burgh (Bedard 0-0), 1:35 y-St. Louis 48 21 10 106 15. Florida State 25-10 325 12 Liggett (T), Ryan Johns 2(H), Cam seem to be the same,” man- Washington (Strasburg 0-0) at Chi- x-Detroit 47 27 599 16. Murray 31-2 283 9 Ginder (H), Matt Brooks (H), Ryan cago Cubs (Dempster 0-0), 2:20 x-Chicago 44 26 10 98 ager Bobby Valentine said State Grau (H),Zach Shultz (H).3B -Ginder Miami (Buehrle 0-0) at Cincinnati x-Nashville 45 26 898 17. Georgetown 24-9 242 15 (H). HR -Zach Riney (T). Records - before Boston wrapped up Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has two pitchers with (Cueto 0-0), 4:05 Columbus 27 45 761 Transylvania 11-10,Hanover 16-7. 18. Cincinnati 26-11 216 NR L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 0-0) at San its spring training sched- thumb injuries to begin the season. EVAN VUCCI/AP 19. Vanderbilt 25-11 161 24 Northwest Division St. Catharine 100232 100-992 Diego (Vozquez 0-0), 7:05 WLOT Pts 20. N.C. State 24-13 146 NR Morehead 500 08113x -18153 ule against the Washington Friday’sgames y-Vancouver 49 21 9107 21. Creighton 29-6 129 20 WP -Josh Schneider (1-3). LP - St. Louis at Milwaukee,4:10 Colorado 41 33 688 Nationals. “The bad news fore he left he was very,he Other news 22. Michigan 24-10 119 14 Chase Dial (0-1).2B-Nick Duff (MS), Colorado at Houston, 7:05 Calgary 35 29 16 86 Kane Sweeney (MS). 3B -Duff (MS). 23. New Mexico 28-7 107 22 for us is that their situa- was unknowing. He felt a San Francisco at Arizona, 7:10 Minnesota 34 35 10 78 HR -Andrew Garcia (SC), Marcus 24. Xavier 23-13 92 NR L.A. Dodgers at San Diego,10:05 Edmonton 32 39 973 Brown (SC), LukeBainer (MS), An- tions aren’tthe same. One little something. There »Indians: Pitcher 25. Ohio 29-8 91 NR Spring training Pacific Division drew Deeds (MS). Records -St. Ca- seems to be aproblem, and really wasn’tadefining Ubaldo Jimenez is appeal- Othersreceiving votes:Gon- AMERICAN LEAGUE WLOT Pts tharine 27-16,Morehead State 16- zaga 67; Wichita State 56; Saint Ma- WLPct Los Angeles 40 27 13 93 13. one seems not to be so.” moment, in the last conver- ing his five-game suspen- ry’s54; Virginia Commonwealth 51; Toronto 24 7.774 Phoenix 39 27 13 91 So.Illinois.000 324 022 -1374 Valentine said he thinks sation Ihad with him.” sion. The players’ union San Diego State 23; Kansas State 22; Detroit 20 8.714 San Jose 40 29 10 90 Murray St. 303 020 200 -10131 Purdue 17;Stanford 17; Notre Oakland 14 6.700 Dallas 42 32 589 WP -Tyler Dray (2-1).LP-Tim Von- the right-handed Bailey said in astatement that Ji- Dame 16;UNLV12; Saint Louis 4; Seattle 15 9.625 Anaheim 33 35 11 77 der Haar (1-4).S-Todd Eaton (6).2B - Reds claim reliever Temple 4; Pittsburgh 2; IowaState 1; will be out “awhile” with a menez has requested an Los Angeles 18 11 .621 NOTE:Two points for awin, one Donny Duschinsky (SI),Chris Serritel- South Florida 1. Boston 16 11 .593 la (SI), Nick Johnson (SI), Jacob right thumb injury.Asked Simon offwaivers appeal of his ban for inten- NCAA TOURNAMENT point for overtime loss. New York 17 12 .586 x-clinched playoff spot Rhodes (MS). 3B -Dylan Wheeler if that meant days, weeks The Reds claimed right- tionally throwing at Colo- FINAL FOUR Minnesota 18 15 .545 (MS). HR -Jordan Sivertsen 2(SI). At The Superdome y-clinched division Kansas City 15 15 .500 Monday’sgames Records -Southern Illinois 16-13, or months, the manager handed reliever Alfredo rado’sTroy Tu lowitzki dur- New Orleans Baltimore 11 13 .458 Murray State 14-16. All times Eastern Tampa Bay 4, Washington 2 said: “possibly all of the Simon off waivers from ing aspring training game Chicago 13 18 .419 Other scores National Semifinals Los Angeles 2, Edmonton 0 Texas 12 17 .414 Ky.Wesleyan 10,So. Indiana 9 above.” the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.Major League Saturday Tuesday’sgames Tampa Bay 10 16 .385 So.Indiana 4, Ky.Wesleyan 2 Kentucky 69, Louisville 61 New Jersey 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Beckett also has aboth- Tu esday,looking for help Baseball suspended and Cleveland 722.241 Buffalo 6, Toronto 5, OT Golf Kansas 64, Ohio State 62 ersome right thumb, but in their depleted bullpen. fined Jimenez on Monday. National Championship NATIONAL LEAGUE N.Y. Rangers 5, Philadelphia 3 WOMEN Monday WLPct Pittsburgh 5, Boston 3 MSC Spring Tournament Valentine said he “totally” The 30-year-old reliev- »Yankees: Pitcher An- Kentucky 67, Kansas 59 St. Louis 16 9.640 Carolina 2, Ottawa1 At Kingsport, Tenn., par-71 expects the right-hander to er missed part of spring dy Pettitte will see game Most victories in an NCAA Di- San Diego 19 15 .559 Winnipeg 5, Florida 4, OT Cattails at Meadowview vision Imen’scollege basket- Colorado 17 14 .548 Minnesota at Nashville Team results -Cumberlands 616, start as scheduled at De- training with astrained action for the first time ball season: San Francisco 17 14 .548 San Jose at Dallas Campbellsville 626, Lindsey Wilson troit on Saturday in Bos- groin. He was placed on since ending his brief re- 38-2 — Kentucky, 2012,won Chicago 17 16 .515 Anaheim at Vancouver 635, Georgetown 746, Pikeville 794, championship Los Angeles 14 14 .500 Columbus at Phoenix St. Catharine 809. ton’ssecond game of the waivers after Toronto tirement when he pitches 38-2 — Memphis,2008, lost Milwaukee 15 15 .500 Wednesday’sgames Topindividuals -1,*-Liz Ste- season. scored six runs in two in- against the New York Mets championship game Cincinnati 15 17 .469 Tampa Bay at Montreal,7:30 phens (Cumberlands) 152.