Kazan, Russia – Nebraska’s Jordan Hooper scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds to help the USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team roll to a 120-32 victory over Mali in the first game of Pool B play on Monday.

Hooper, a 6-2 senior forward from Alliance, Neb., added an assist and two blocked shots in 16 minutes of action for the United States. She scored six points to help spark a 25-3 U.S. run. The two-time All-American converted a traditional three-point play to put the United States up 35-17 with 6:23 left in the first half to open the surge. She added a three-pointer with 1:06 remaining in the half to give the U.S. team a 55-20 cushion. Hooper contributed her final points of the game off an assist from Odyssey Sims (Baylor) with 2:53 left to give the United States a 111-30 lead.

Mali jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead, before the United States answered with an 18-0 run that included eight straight points by Tricia Liston (Duke). Mali responded with seven straight points to cut the margin to 18-12 with 3:49 left in the first quarter, before Bria Hartley (UConn), Cassie Harberts (USC) and Ariel Massengale (Tennessee) combined to score the final nine points of the quarter.

The United States led 28-12 at the end of the first quarter, before building a 57-20 halftime edge. The margin grew to 94-28 after three quarters.

Hartley led six U.S. players in double figures with 17 points, including 12 in the first half, while Harberts (USC) added 14 points in the first three quarters. Liston pitched in 13 points, including 11 in the first half. Shoni Schimmel (Louisville) added 13 points of her own, including 11 in the second half. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis contributed 12 points, including 10 points in the final four minutes. Aaryn Ellenberg (Oklahoma) rounded out the six U.S. players in double figures with 11 points.

Reshanda Gray (Cal) added eight points, while Sims and Crystal Bradford (Central Michigan) and Massengale contributed six points apiece. Theresa Plaisance (LSU) pitched in five points to round out the scoring.

As a team, the United States hit 66.2 percent of its shots from the field, including 36-of-48 two-point attempts (75 percent) and 11-of-23 three-pointers (47.8 percent). The U.S. squad was also 15-of-16 (93.8 percent) from the free throw line. Team USA outrebounded Mali, 54-21, and dished out 34 assists on its 47 made baskets while committing just 13 turnovers on the day.

Aminata Mariko led Mali with 15 points, while Farima Toure added five points. Mali went 12-of-62 (19.4 percent) from the field, including 2-of-12 (16.7 percent) from three-point range. Mali was 6-for-8 at the free throw line, but committed 21 turnovers.

The USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team continues play in Pool B on Tuesday by taking on the Czech Republic. Tip-off is set for 11:30 a.m.

Lincoln — Nebraska will kick off the start of preseason practice by meeting and greeting fans for its annual Fan Day on Friday, Aug. 2, at Memorial Stadium. Fan Day represents the best opportunity to meet the Husker players and coaching staff before the start of practice the following day.

Fan Day will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. inside Memorial Stadium with all Husker players and coaches that will be part of preseason camp in attendance and available to fans. Fans will also have the opportunity to be among the first to step foot on the new Memorial Stadium FieldTurf that is currently being installed at the stadium.

Huskers Authentic will be open on Fan Day and will have their usual wide selection of adidas products, as well as this year’s media guide and schedule posters. More information on Fan Day, including parking and gate information and a Fan Day map will be available on Huskers.com as the event draws near.

Nebraska will open practice on Saturday, Aug. 3, as it prepares for the Aug. 31 season opener against Wyoming at Memorial Stadium.

The North Platte First Nationals split a double header on Saturday at Sherman, before dropping a Sunday contest in Lincoln.

The First Nationals played U Stop in game one on Saturday and lost 5-0. U Stop didn’t waste any time in getting on the board with two runs in the first and second innings and their final run in the third.

North Platte only had two hits in the game. Drew Beyer and Jack Kenny each singled and Kenny added  a stolen base.

Ty Brockmoller pitched the complete game for the First Nationals and gave up the five runs with four of them earned on seven hits while striking out five batters.

In the second game on Saturday North Platte earned a shutout of its own with a 4-0 win over Millard South.

The game was scoreless going to the fifth inning when the First Nationals scored three runs to take the lead. North Platte scored its fourth run in the seventh inning and had 12 hits in the game. The team was led by Kenny and Alex Harms with three hits each. Harms had a double and an RBI while Kenny added another stolen base for his 13th of the season.

On the mound it was Ben Sukraw who got the job done with the complete game shutout. Sukraw only allowed five hits, all of them singles, in the game. He also helped out his own cause with a two-hit day at the plate, including a double and an RBI.

In the final game of the weekend North Platte lost to Lincoln Northeast 8-2 in a Sunday contest.

The First Nationals struck first with two runs in the top of the first inning, but Lincoln NE countered with four runs in the bottom half and never looked back.

Sukraw and Kenny each had two singles for North Platte’s only hits in the game. Luke Volz started on the mound and exited after giving up eight runs, seven of them earned, in three and two-thirds innings worked. Riley Vierya came in for the final two and a third innings and didn’t give up a run.

Nebraska senior quarterback Taylor Martinez and junior I-back Ameer Abdullah have been named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award as announced on Monday morning.

Mike Trader’s Annual Mid-America Basketball Camp will conduct two more individual sessions this summer. The overnight and commuter camps for boys and girls will be held on July 21-24 at Doane College. Day Camps will be held for both boys and girls at Grand Island Central Catholic on July 28-31.

The individual camp is open to those 8 years old through 11^th grade.

The camp has been one of the most popular camps in the Midwest during the past 38 years. Over 27,000 campers have attended during that time.

This camp is well known for its great teaching of fundamental skills and having outstanding coaches from throughout the nation teaching the campers. It combines the teaching of these skills with team play and contests throughout the camp.

The camps will be held at Doane College in Crete and Grand Island Central Catholic. As mentioned the camp staff will include both top college and prep coaches, all experienced in basketball summer camp work.

For more information and application forms call, write, or e-mail Mike Trader at:

Mike Trader

Box 86

York, Ne 68467

402-960-8011

[email protected]

or check out the camp website at: www.traderscamp.com.

The North Platte First Nationals played a double header against Elkhorn and Sampson Construction in Densmore on Friday and lost both games.

North Platte lost to Elkhorn 5-2 in the first game before dropping game two 1-0 to Sampson Construction.

In the two games Ben Sukraw went a combined 3-6 with a double and two RBI’s. On the mound Dalton Pflughaupt threw five and two-thirds innings in game two and gave up just one run on four hits and had four strikeouts.

With the two losses the First Nationals fell to 20-21.

PHOENIX (AP) — Patrick Corbin gave up three hits in eight innings to finally get his 10th victory and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat Colorado 6-1 Sunday for their fifth straight win and a dominant three-game sweep of the Rockies.

Corbin (10-1) struck out 10 in his seventh attempt at win No. 10. The 23-year-old left-hander, picked a day earlier for the All-Star team, also hit an RBI double as the Diamondbacks outscored the Rockies 22-2 in the series.

The Rockies lost more than the game. Star outfielder Carlos Gonzalez injured a finger on his right hand swinging at a pitch and left the game in the ninth. Starter Roy Oswalt (0-4) exited with a strained left hamstring in the second.

Jonathan Herrera broke up the shutout with a home run in the eighth.

Future Husker Kadecia Baird won the 400 meters at the XXIV Central American and Caribbean Athletics Senior Championships (CAC) on Saturday in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.

Baird, who is competing for Guyana, posted a time of 51.32 to win the event. With that time she qualified to represent Guyana at the World Championships in Moscow in August. She is set to join the Huskers from Medgar Evers College Prep in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is coached by former Husker and three-time NCAA Champion Nicola Martial.

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche signed defenseman Andre Benoit to a one-year deal on Friday.

Before the start of free agency, newly hired Avalanche coach Patrick Roy (wah) said the team wasn’t going to be very active since the roster was already full. Colorado recently bought out the contract of defenseman Greg Zanon to open up space.

The 29-year-old Benoit played in 33 games for the Ottawa Senators last season, scoring three goals and dishing out seven assists.

Avalanche executive vice president of hockey operations Joe Sakic says Benoit has “good offensive skills and puck-moving ability and will be a good addition to our power play.”

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two people with knowledge of the situation say the Golden State Warriors and free agent Andre Iguodala  have reached an agreement on a $48 million, four-year deal.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Friday because NBA rules prevent confirmation of moves until July 10. One said the Warriors cleared more than $24 million in salary cap space by sending Richard Jefferson, Andris Biedrins and Brandon Rush to the Utah Jazz along with unspecified draft picks.

Yahoo Sports first reported the deal.

Iguodala averaged 13 points, 5.4 assists and 5.3 rebounds for the Denver Nuggets last season.

He spent his first eight years in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers.