The Arizona Wildcats won 13 of 14 events Saturday in a season-opening 170-80 women's swimming victory over visiting Kansas.
Margo Geer and Sarah Denninghoff won four events each. Geer took the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles and was on the winning 200 free relay team.
Denninghoff was also on the free relay team and the winning 200 medley relay team and first in the 100 and 200 backstroke races.
Alyssa Anderson turned in three victories, in the 1,000 free, the 500 free and the 200 butterfly, and Aubrey Peacock was on both victorious relay teams and won the 100 fly.
Other UA sports
Wildcat women sweep to first in Grand Canyon cross country
Arizona Wildcats took five of the top six spots to win the women's side of the Grand Canyon invitational cross country meet Saturday in Goodyear.
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The UA men were second to ASU.
Senior Hanna Henson paced the Wildcat women, winning the 5-km race in 18 minutes 4.7 seconds. She was followed by two freshmen, Nicci Corbin in second and Clea Formaz in third. UA had 17 points, with ASU second.
Junior Rory McLeod led the UA men with a seventh-place finish.
• In Albuquerque, Wildcat Robin Chou won two matches and earned a spot in today's Flight B consolation final at the Balloon Fiesta Invitational men's tennis tournament.
Soccer
Klinsmann gets first win for US
MIAMI - Clint Dempsey scored in the 36th minute and Tim Howard made several nice saves to help lift the United States past Honduras 1-0 in a soccer exhibition on Saturday, giving the team its first victory in four games under coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
The U.S. had scored only once while losing two and drawing one in Klinsmann's first three games as coach.
The U.S. had several scoring chances in the first half, before Dempsey's 23rd goal for the national team gave the hosts the halftime lead.
Triathlon
Aussie wins third Ironman title
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii - Craig Alexander ran away with the Ironman World Championship on Saturday, setting a course record to win the event for the third time.
The 38-year-old Australian, also the 2008 and 2009 winner, finished in 8 hours, 03 minutes, 56 seconds in the 140.6-mile race that involved a 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike ride through lava fields and marathon run in and around Kona village.
The previous course record was 8:04:08 by Belgium's Luc Van Lierde in 1996.
Ironman rookie Pet Jacobs, also from Australia, was second in 8:09:11. Germany's Andreas Raelert was third in 8:11:07.
In the women's division, Britain's Chrissie Wellington, 34, hung on for her fourth world title, finishing in 8:55:08. She ran the last 100 yards trailing a huge Union Jack.
Basketball
US women lose in Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Tina Charles' 28 points weren't enough to help the United States overcome too many turnovers in a 83-77 loss to 2011 Czech League champion USK Prague on Saturday.
Swin Cash added 13 points and Brittney Griner had 11 for the U.S. (2-2), which also lost its last game to Ros Casares.
Trailing by a point early in the third quarter, Prague went on a 10-2 spurt over the final 5:05 of the period to take a 62-55 lead. The Americans had nine turnovers in the period.
• An Illinois college student who won a national slam-dunking championship has been signed by the Harlem Globetrotters. Jacob Tucker, 5-10, won the dunking half of the College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships at the Final Four in March. He was invited after a YouTube video of his dunking skills became an Internet hit. His new Globetrotters nickname is "Hops."
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