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Tucsonan, partner finish 10th at world junior figure skating championshipsstaff and wire reports
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.28.2008
Tucsonan Chelsi Guillen and partner Danny Curzon finished 10th overall Wednesday at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, with 123.93 points.
After placing sixth in the short program Tuesday, the highest finish of any American team, the pair skated a 12th-place free skate that included a double twist, throw triple toe and a throw double Salchow.
They also landed side-by-side double flips but could not perform their planned side-by-side double axel-double toe combinations after Guillen popped her axel.
U.S. junior pairs champions Jessica Rose Paetsch and Jon Nuss of Colorado Springs, Colo., were fifth overall with 133.12 points.
World Juniors is the last junior competition for Guillen and Curzon. The team will compete on the senior level for the first time next season.
UA sports
Cats set meet record
The UA's 200-yard medley team set meet and conference records on the first night of the Pac-10 women's swimming championships in Long Beach, Calif., on Wednesday.
Hailey DeGolia, Annie Chandler, Lara Jackson and Anna Turner won the 200 medley in 1 minute 36.57 seconds to defeat Stanford (1:37.57) and Cal (1:38.70).
Cal took an early lead in the team rankings with 118 points, two ahead of defending champion Arizona and six ahead of the rival Cardinal.
● The UA women's golf team finished fourth Wednesday at the Wildcat Invitational at Arizona National.
The Wildcats shot a final-round 303 to finish at 47-over 899. Oklahoma State won the event by two strokes with a three-round total of 32-over 884. USC and Duke tied for second.
Two Wildcats placed in the top 20 — senior Alison Walshe tied for fifth place at 7-over 220 and freshman Alejandra Llaneza tied for 16th at 11-over 224.
pro football
Steelers' Terrible Towel inventor Cope dies
PITTSBURGH — Myron Cope spoke in a language and with a voice never before heard in a broadcast booth, yet a loving Pittsburgh understood him perfectly during an unprecedented 35 years as a Steelers announcer.
The screechy-voiced Cope, a writer by trade and an announcer by accident, whose colorful catch phrases and twirling Terrible Towel became nationally known symbols of the Steelers, died Wednesday at age 79.
● The Carolina Panthers released disappointing quarterback David Carr on Wednesday and came to terms with receiver Muhsin Muhammad on a two-year contract.
high schools
Saturday game could end Jewish team's run
DENVER — State senators are trying to help a Jewish school's basketball team whose playoff run may be halted because its players can't participate on the Jewish Sabbath.
Herzl/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy could be headed for a regional championship Saturday, March 8, if it wins today. But the Denver school's religious beliefs prohibit students from playing between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday.
Earlier this month, the Colorado High School Activities Association, which governs sports and other high school activities, rejected a request for a schedule change.
Pima sports
Aztecs sweep in softball
The Pima College softball team swept a doubleheader Wednesday from Oakland CC (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 18-3 and 7-6.
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