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Stanford Wins Pacific-10 Regular Season Title

Stanford's Jayne Appel hugs Jillian Harmon as the team celebrates its win over ASU. The Sun Devils lost leading scorer Dymond Simon for the season. (By Paul Sakuma -- Associated Press)

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From News Services and Staff Reports
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Jayne Appel had a season-high 29 points, Jeanette Pohlen scored 15 and No. 2 Stanford avoided sharing its ninth straight Pacific-10 Conference regular season title with Arizona State by beating the No. 18 Sun Devils, 77-68, yesterday in Stanford, Calif.

Arizona State, which had its 15-game winning streak snapped, lost leading scorer Dymond Simon for the season with a torn left knee ligament in the first half.

Nnemkadi Ogwumike had nine points for the Cardinal (26-4, 17-1).

Briann January had 19 points to lead Arizona State (23-7, 15-3).

-- BAYLOR 64, TEXAS A&M 60: Jessica Morrow scored 23 points as the No. 5 Bears beat the No. 10 Aggies in Waco, Tex.

Morrow hit a three-pointer with 3:14 left to put Baylor (25-4, 12-4 Big 12) up 55-53.

Texas A&M is 23-6, 11-5.

-- AUBURN 78, TENNESSEE 58: DeWanna Bonner scored 26 points and the No. 6 Tigers routed the No. 19 Lady Vols in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament in North Little Rock, Ark.

Whitney Boddie added 19 points for Auburn (29-2).

Angie Bjorklund scored 17 points for Tennessee (22-10).

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