Butler tops Dayton

Colleges

For the second time in program history, the Manchester men’s baseball team is headed to the NCAA Division III College World Series.Today 3:00 am

Softball season ends at regional for IPFW

Jessica Hall gave up only three hits to IPFW, and the UCLA softball team defeated the Mastodons 8-0 on Saturday to end their season at the NCAA Regional in Louisville, Ky.Today 3:00 am

Spartans move into tourney title game

The top-seeded Manchester baseball team knocked off two-time defending national champion Marietta 10-5 Friday to advance to the finals of the NCAA Division III Regional at Art Nehr Field in Terre Haute.Saturday

NEW YORK– Rotnei Clarke scored 21 points, and Butler advanced at the Atlantic 10 tournament with a 73-67 first-round victory over Dayton on Thursday.

The fifth-seeded Bulldogs will need to win four games in four days if they want a conference tourney title in their first – and perhaps last – season in the A-10.

Clarke shot 6 of 12 from behind the three-point arc and added five assists. Fellow senior Andrew Smith had 18 points and six rebounds.

Butlerwas 10 for 24 on three-point tries, while the Flyers attempted just four. Josh Benson had 18 points to lead 12th-seeeded Dayton(17-14, 7-9).

The Bulldogs (25-7, 11-5) will face fourth-seeded La Salle in Friday’s quarterfinals.

Butler, the national runner-up in 2010 and ’11, could be headed along with Dayton to join the breakaway Big East basketball schools.