Overtime

Minor League Baseball

Horwitz hit streak snapped in defeat

In Greenville, S.C., Kyle Jackson pitched four strong innings of relief as the Bombers shut down Brian Horwitz and the Augusta GreenJackets, 6-2, Wednesday night at Municipal Stadium.

Greenville pitchers Jackson, mike Rozier and Brantley Jordan combine to allow 11 hits. None of them came from the bat of Brian Horwitz.

The GreenJackets right fielder went 0-for-3 from the plate and watched his 24-game hitting streak come to an end.

Augusta starter Jonathon Sanchez yielded two runs over seven innings with no walks and ten strikeouts.

College Volleyball

Lady Pacers picked high in Peach Belt

USC Aiken is picked to finish third in the new-look Peach Belt Conference. It marks the third time in the past five seasons the Lady Pacers have been selected third in the preseason coaches poll.

Augusta State is expected to finish last in the seven-team conference.

Perennial power North Florida moved to Division I and reduced the league's number of teams.

Hockey

Mercyhurst forward to join Lynx squad

Forward Rich Hansen, of Mercyhurst College, agreed to terms with the Augusta Lynx for the upcoming season.

Hansen recorded 42 goals and 127 points in 147 games in his college career. He played four games with the UHL's Muskegon Fury at the end of last season.

The Lynx now have eight players signed for October's training camp.

Colleges

NCAA settles suit, purchases tourney

The NCAA purchased the rights to the preseason and postseason National Invitation Tournaments as part of a settlement that ends a four-year legal fight between the two parties.

In the deal announced Wednesday, the NCAA will pay $56.5 million to the five New York City colleges that operate the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association, the organization that has run the NIT since 1940.

Fordham University, Manhat-tan College, St. John's University, Wagner College and New York University will receive $40.5 million for the rights to tournaments and $16 million in litigation fees over a 10-year period.

NCAA president Myles Brand said the tournaments will continue to be played in Madison Garden for at least the next five years and ESPN will continue to televise both tournaments.

A civil trial in which the NIT had claimed that the NCAA was trying to put it out of business began two weeks ago in federal court.

NIT lawyer Jeffrey Kessler has argued that the NCAA "deliberately set out to get a monopoly, to eliminate competition, to make it impossible to compete."

He argued that a long-standing NCAA rule requiring schools to accept invitations to its tournament over invitations to all others had severely damaged the NIT, which began its postseason tournament in 1938 - one year before the NCAA tournament started.

Tennis

Federer, Hewitt win without best game

In Mason, Ohio, Roger Federer failed to hold serve four times but beat Nicolas Kiefer, of Germany, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of the $2.45 million Cincinnati Masters.

Third-seeded Lleyton Hewitt, of Australia also needed three sets to win his match, beating Greg Rusedski, of Great Britain, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 when Rusedski double-faulted on match point.

l In Toronto, Justin Henin-Hardenne, of Belgium, made short work of Argentine qualifier Mariana Diaz-Oliva with a 6-1, 6-3 victory at the Rogers Cup.

Henin-Hardenne, the fourth-seeded player in the $1.3 million tournament and the winner two years ago, played with a wrapped right hamstring.