Sports Shorts Sports Shorts (March 18, 2005)

OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Ten members of the Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (PASA) Swim Club will leave Sunday for the Junior National Swimming Championships, set for March 22-26 in Orlando, Fla. The traveling squad includes Casey Barnes-Waychus, Monika Friedman, Maryann Hiller, Haley Read, Liv Jensen, Courtney Beyer, Alex Navarro, Kameron Flores-Maxfield, Austin Stanley and Joe Plume. They'll be accompanied by PASA coaches Scott Shea, Tony Batis and Ben Chung.

OAKS' CORNER . . . The Menlo College men's golf team finished sixth at the Monarch Bay Shootout at Monarch Bay Golf Club in Alameda over the weekend, and then placed seventh at the Holy Names Invitational, which was completed Tuesday at the Oakland Metro Course. Freshman Cameron Lawrence finished in the top 10 in each of the events. The Oaks host the California Pacific Conference tournament at Palo Alto Municipal on Monday.

CARDINAL CORNER . . . The defending national champion Stanford women's volleyball team opens its spring schedule on April 9 against San Francisco. The Cardinal host the Stanford Spring Fling at Maples, April 30 . . . Stanford wrestler Matt Gentry will try to defend his NCAA title at 157 pounds this weekend in St. Louis. Gentry is the third seed behind Alex Tirapelle (Illinois) and Ryan Bertin (Michigan). Bertin won the 157 pound title in 2003. Tirapelle holds the No. 1 seed, but lost to Gentry earlier this season. Stanford's Imad Kharbush makes his second straight trip to the tournament after placing third at the Pac-10s . . . Stanford's women's lacrosse team hosts Colgate today and Cornell on Saturday, both at 7 p.m. . . . The Stanford crew program announced it will again host the Windermere Collegiate Crew Classic, an invitational rowing regatta held at Redwood Shores on Saturday, April 9 from 9am to 5:30pm, and Sunday, April 10 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 pm. The regatta features crew races between 17 of the nation's top universities as well as nearly 400 Bay Area community and high school rowers.

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