COLLEGE ROUNDUP : Big Upset Takes Molnar to NCAA Wrestling Final

Unseeded Laszlo Molnar of Cal State Fullerton shocked top-seeded Shaon Fry of Missouri, 5-4, Friday to advance to today’s final in the 167-pound division of the NCAA wrestling championships in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Molnar will face another unseeded wrestler, Mark Branch of Oklahoma State, in the final. Branch will have the added incentive of being in a position to help the Cowboys to the team championship. They led three-time defending champion Iowa after Friday’s competition and advanced three wrestlers to the finals.

Molnar reached the semifinals by defeating Chris Kwortnik of North Carolina State, 2-1, earlier Friday.

In nonconference baseball:

Whitman (Wash.) 6, Southern California College 4--Ila Borders went 4 2/3 innings before being relieved by Rick Homutoff. She gave up nine hits and six runs and walked two.

Whitman scored one run in the third inning, three in the fourth and two in the fifth. Homutoff kept the visitors scoreless the rest of the game.

Southern California (7-16) scored three runs in the sixth and one in the eighth.

In Big West Conference women’s gymnastics:

CS Fullerton 191.675, UC Santa Barbara 186.975--Cristy Clifford took first in individual all-around with a score of 38.70 to lead the Titans. Fullerton’s Karena Mills took first on the balance beam (9.825) with Alexis Lott winning the floor exercise (9.70) and Clifford taking first in the even bars. Fullerton is 7-5.

In nonconference softball:

Southern California College 7-5, Cal Lutheran 1-4--In the first game, Carrie Nelson and Angie Vega each had two hits and a run batted in for Southern California College. Nelson also had two runs and two stolen bases.

In the second, Shannon Moreno had three hits and two stolen bases, and Shannon O’Rourke had two doubles and an RBI. Vega added two hits.

Southern California College is 17-4, Cal Lutheran 7-5.

In Mountain Pacific Sports Federation men’s volleyball:

Pepperdine 3, UC Irvine 0--Dan Blanton had a match-high 20 kills, and Chip McCaw had 51 assists for the Waves (9-5, 6-5) in their 17-15, 15-0, 15-6 victory. Freshman Evan Alexander led UC Irvine (1-15, 0-13) with 11 kills.