Lindsay Sundberg is among four USC Aiken women's basketball signees for the 2008-09 season.

Sundberg, a 5-foot-11 forward from Storrs, Conn., averaged 19.8 points, 13.1 rebounds, 4.1 assists, and 3.3 steals per game last year in leading the E.O. Smith High School to an 18-7 record. She sank 57 3-point goals, hitting 41 percent of her attempts.

The other incoming freshman are Jazlyn Gibbs and Tina Friedrich while Nicole Coates is a transfer from Owens Community College in Ohio.

Gibbs is a 5-9 guard from Greensboro, N.C. A four-year varsity starter, she led Southeast Guilford High School to a 25-6 record this past season, averaging 13.6 points, 4.3 assists, and 2.5 steals per game.

Friedrich is a 6-2 post player from Hiram, Ga., averaging 7.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game last season for Hiram High School.

Coates is a 6-2 post player from Bolingbrook, Ill., who averaged 6.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game last season.

USC Aiken was 20-8 last season, and 13-7 in the Peach Belt Conference.

- Augusta State athletic director Clint Bryant has been selected to serve a two-year term on the National Association of Black Sports Professionals Advisory Board.

Bryant's duties include serving as an ambassador for the association and providing counsel to the association's executive board members.

- Brian Winters , once traded for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during his NBA career, was among eight people elected to the South Carolina's Athletics Hall of Fame.

Winters played for the Gamecocks from 1972-74, finishing with 1,079 points and helping the team to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

Others named to the Hall included soccer player Josh Wolff, football players Henry Martin, Clarence Williams and Collin Mackie , golfer Carl Paulson , track and field athlete Brad Snyder and longtime athletic administrative aide Emily White .

The inductees will be honored at a dinner on Sept. 18.

- South Carolina's basketball arena has its third name since opening in 2002. It is now the Colonial Life Arena. Formerly the Colonial Center, the new name is consistent with Colonial Life's rebranding.

The arena was known as the Carolina Center its first year.

- The Southern Conference is teaming up with RBC Bank.

The league announced its three-year partnership with the Raleigh, N.C.-based institution Tuesday. The agreement means that RBC Bank will be the Southern Conference's exclusive banking partner.

In Shoal Creek, Ala., Augustans Patrick Reed and Brian Carter were among the players to finish their second rounds Tuesday in the weather-delayed U.S. Junior Amateur at Shoal Creek Golf Club.

Reed shot 73-76--149 and Carter had 76-77--153.

Three players are in the clubhouse at 2-under 142, but 15-year-old Jorge Fernandez Valdes of Argentina is the leader on the course.

Valdes, who opened with 7-under-par 65, was 1-under on his second round through eight holes when play was suspended with thunderstorms in the area. He leads by five shots.

After 36 holes of stroke play, the top 64 advance to match play.

In Atlanta, Scholanda Robinson scored a career-high 17 points to lift the Sacramento Monarchs to their fifth consecutive victory, 79-66, win over the Atlanta Dream.

Atlanta, a loser in three in a row, dropped to a league-worst 3-22. Ivory Latta and Kasha Terry each scored 15 points for the Dream.

- The San Antonio Spurs re-signed Kurt Thomas , keeping the veteran forward after trading for him in February.

- The Golden State Warriors acquired point guard Marcus Williams from the New Jersey Nets for a conditional first-round draft pick.

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