Missouri beat Iowa 5-4 on its home field at Bob Pearl Stadium. There was Missouri Tigers merchandise everywhere.

Stacy Delaney was credited with her 20th of the season. Delaney finished the NCAA Regional with two of the Tigers three wins and a save.

Missouri scored three runs on one hit and one Hawkeye error in the bottom of the first inning. Taylor hit a full count single up the middle to reach base and slid into second for a stolen base. Downs dropped the ball allowing Michaele Vock and Ubrun to score from third and second, respectively.

The Hawkeye offense cut into Missouri’s lead, scoring one run on Emily Nichols’ standup double to center field. Iowa’s Quinn Morelock reached base earlier in the inning on a one out single up the middle and scored from first on Nichols’ hit.

The Tigers rallied in the bottom of the seventh, with Meredith Nash reaching base on a walk. Taylor singled back to Weil to reach first and Silver offered up a sacrifice fly to right field that allowed White to score. Weil intentionally walked Reenth and Ubrun. Allen was brought to the plate in a bases loaded situation, powering a single to the wall in center field that allowed Taylor to score the game-winning run.

With a series win at Virginia last weekend, Georgia Tech secured the No. 5 seed in the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship, which will be held this weekend at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, Fla. The Yellow Jackets face No. 4-seed NC State in the first game of the tournament Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Joining Georgia Tech and NC State on the top half of the round-robin bracket are top-seeded Miami and eighth-seeded Clemson. The other bracket consists of No. 2 seed Florida State, third-seeded North Carolina, No. 6 Virginia and seventh-seeded Wake Forest.

The ACC Tournament format calls for each team to play the other three teams in their bracket, with the winners of the two four-team round-robin brackets to meet in a single championship game Sunday at 1 p.m.

The Yellow Jackets were finalists on their side of the bracket in 2006 after capturing the ACC Baseball Championship in 2005. Over the last six years, Georgia Tech is 17-10 in the conference tournament.

Georgia Tech has won seven ACC Tournament Championships since joining the league prior to the 1980 season.

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have posted a 64-44 record in ACC Championship play, winning seven league titles since joining the conference for the 1980 season.

Georgia Tech won the ACC Championship in its first year in Jacksonville and has posted a 7-4 record over the last three years at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Tech is 10-8 all-time in ACC Championship games played in the state of Florida.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets merchandise will be everywhere as they try to come close to playing in Omaha, NE for the World Championship.

Penn State captured the NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship with a 3-1 win over Pepperdine Saturday. After dropping Game 1, the Nittany Lions bounced back to take the next three and secure the National Title.

In dramatic fashion, Penn State’s men’s volleyball team brought the NCAA championship back to the East Coast with a 3-1 (27-30, 33-31, 30-25, 30-23) victory over Pepperdine in the NCAA title match on Saturday night. There were several fans there with their Penn State Nittany Lions merchandise on cheering for their team.

In game one, A Murray and Holt blocked opened up the game for the Nittany Lions and a Holt kill and ace put Penn State up 3-2. Out of the break, the teams traded points before a Wave kill and block gave them the game, 30-27.

In game two, Penn State took the 4-1 lead in the second game aided by two Anderson kills and a Murray put-away. Pepperdine followed up an attack error with a kill to make it 31-31 and a Sweitzer kill put Penn State ahead 32-31 before an Anderson kill ended the game, 33-31.

In game three, The Nittany Lions took the 5-3 lead in the third game on two Anderson kills. The Waves responded with two kills and a block to go ahead 9-7. An Anderson kill and a Penn State triple block from Anderson, Lipsitz and Murray pushed the Lions up 28-25 before a Wave attack error and another Penn State triple block from Anderson, Lipsitz and Murray ended the game, 30-25.

In game four, Penn State jumped out to the quick 6-0 lead to start the fourth game behind a Wave service error, a Murray and Lipsitz block, a Pepperdine attack error and Nittany Lion kills from Lipsitz and Anderson as the Waves used both of their timeouts in the run. A Murray kill of a scramble play made it 29-23 and a long swat on the Pepperdine attack on the next play started the party for the Nittany Lions 30-23.

Jillian Byers, Shaylyn Blaney and Jane Stoeckert combined for 11 of Notre Dame’s 15 goals earlier today to lead the Irish to a crucial 15-11 win over No. 15 Cornell at Alumni Field. The win helped improve Notre Dame’s chances for a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Notre Dame Irish merchandise will be seen all over as their fans cheer their team on.

Byers led the way with a six-point game with Blaney adding four points and Stoeckert three goals on the afternoon, including a goals 32 seconds a part with just over 10 minutes left to put the Irish ahead to stay. Alicia Billings, Gina Scioscia, Kaitlin Keena and Kailene Abt added single goals in the win.

Courtney Farrell paced Cornell with three goals while Noelle Dowd and Katherine Simmons added two goals apiece. Tissy O’Connor, Libby Johnson, Charlotte Schmidlapp and Halsey Diakow had solo goals for the Big Red.

The victory improves the 10th-ranked Irish to 12-6 on the year while Cornell falls to 10-6 on the season. The 12-win season marks the fourth time in the program’s 12-year history that Notre Dame has recorded 12 or more wins in a season.

Coming off their heartbreaking 15-14 triple-overtime loss to Georgetown in the BIG EAST semifinals on April 25, the Irish started out slow on Saturday afternoon, falling behind 3-0 in the first five minutes of the game.

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