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Killian Named SEC Freshman Of The Week
Pitcher tosses 7 no-hit innings vs. San Diego State
For the second week in a row, an freshman Arkansas pitcher has received Southeastern Conference honors.
Right-hander Trey Killian was named the conference Freshman of the Week on Monday, following left-hander Colin Poche, who received the honor the previous week.
Killian pitched seven no-hit innings with a walk and seven strikeouts in an 8-2 win over San Diego State on Saturday. He retired the first 17 batters he faced and carried a perfect game into the sixth inning.
Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn removed Killian after the seventh inning because he reached his pitch count limit, despite having a no-hitter until that point.
"Coach Van Horn came up to me and he apologized, but I understood," Killian said after the game. It's early in the season. No reason to get the pitch count up or risk anything. We've got a lot of games left."
When asked about whether he thought about the no-hitter, Killian said, "No, I try not to think about it. I just go out there one inning at a time, one pitch at a time and make the pitches I can and just go to work out there."
In his first 21 collegiate innings, Killian has allowed only two earned runs on six hits with one walk and 22 strikeouts. His 0.86 earned run average leads the Razorback pitching staff.
"I didn't really know what to expect, never seeing Division I hitters," Killian said when asked about his early success.
"I knew I had good stuff and I don't really think about it. I just try to come in, do the best I can and try to be successful."


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UCONN WOMEN: Husky freshmen shine against Rutgers
PISCATAWAY, N.J. >> In so many ways it would appear as if freshmen teammates Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck have to best seat in the house for the UConn women's basketball team's methodical dismantling of all comers.
By the time they were summoned off the bench by UConn head coach Geno Auriemma in the Huskies' previous game, UConn already held a 20-point lead. In the two games before that, the Huskies led by at least 13 points before at least one of them checked into the game for the first time.
There was no such luxury today. The visiting Huskies were down by six points with Shakena Richardson about to sink a pair of free throws to extend the advantage to eight when a frustrated Auriemma yanked four starters out of the game with 15:34 left in the first half.
After the Scarlet Knights scored again to become the first team to hold a double-digit lead against the Huskies, Jefferson and Tuck began to make the plays that would result in the Huskies' posting a hard-fought 65-45 victory before a crowd of 5,378 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Saturday.
Tuck and Jefferson either scored or assisted on five of seven baskets during an 18-4 run which gave the Huskies a lead it would never relinquish.
"(We) just (wanted to) come in and play hard, try to make an impact," Jefferson said. "You can't be nervous because if we are nervous we will make it even worse than it always was. I think it was kind of stay focused and whittle the lead down."
The comeback began when Jefferson assisted on a jumper by Stefanie Dolson then Tuck hit back to back layups. When Jefferson stole the ball near midcourt and raced in for a layup, UConn was suddenly within a point. Classmate Breanna Stewart put UConn ahead with a jumper before Jefferson converted another steal into a three-point play.
"Me and Caroline were talking on the court and I told her I was going to try to get some steals and that helped a lot that I know if I don't get the steal that Caroline is going to have my back," Jefferson said.
Tuck had 15 points as she led the Huskies in scoring for the first time in her young career. Tuck did it both in the lane and from the perimeter as she scored in double figures for the first time since a Dec. 31 win at Oregon.
"I have been struggling lately," Tuck said. "My teammates, they have been trying to help me get confidence, talk to me and help me as much as possible.
"We just have to make the most of your opportunities. The opportunity came quicker today so we had to do our best."
Auriemma didn't mince words when he addressed the decision to yank Caroline Doty, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Bria Hartley and Kelly Faris in favor of Jefferson, Tuck, Stewart and Kiah Stokes.
"We had a game plan going in," Auriemma said. "One of the things we wanted to make sure we didn't do was put Rutgers on the free throw line unnecessarily and I thought all we did right in those first four minutes was foul so I figured the next group couldn't do any worse and they did better."
Doty was the first to return to the game while Hartley was never reinserted back into the game. Auriemma said that it was a case of Hartley being ill and not a punishment for her lack of production.
Dolson, playing in her 100th career game, had 14 points, Mosqueda-Lewis added 12 for UConn (24-1, 11-1 in the Big East) including the Huskies' last five points of the first half. Jefferson had 10 points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals.
Shakena Richardson had 10 points for Rutgers (14-10, 5-6) which failed for the second time to get Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer her 900th career win.
UConn only has one day of practice before No. 1 Baylor comes to Hartford for Monday night's nationally-televised showdown.
"The Big East thinks we are Superman," Auriemma said. "We can play at Rutgers on Saturday and have Baylor on Monday because we are just better than everybody else and we can handle that. I remember Notre Dame's game at Providence before they were at Tennessee so we are just held to a higher standard than everybody else. We just have to do what we have to do. It (Rutgers) is not an easy place to play under any circumstances and especially when you have a Saturday/Monday like we have and it does take a lot out of you."

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Victim of Chimp Attack Wants to Sue the State
Charla Nash, the woman whose face and hands were ripped off by a friend's pet chimpanzee, is trying to sue the state of Connecticut. She claims that Governor Dannel P. Malloy — who was mayor of Stamford when the chimp first escaped in 2003 — knew about the danger and didn't do anything to prevent the attack.
In an interview with the Hartford Courant, Nash explains why she feels the state is responsible.
She recalled an incident in 2003 when the chimp got loose and roamed Stamford.
"No one could control him," Nash said. "He ran amok until he got tired. So that, right there, was a signal [that] there's something wrong with this picture. And then they allowed her to take him home."
Nash said "there was a known danger in a residential area that they left unmonitored and unchecked." For the state to say it's not responsible, she said, "doesn't sound very fair."
Lawyers for Nash have hired lobbyist Kevin Reynolds to help with the case. Claims Commissioner Paul Vance still has to approve the request to sue the state before Nash's legal team can proceed.
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