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UC Irvine senior Adam Folker has been named the Big West Conference Player of the Week in men's basketball. He was also named Player of the Week by College Sports Madness. The 6-foot-9 post player, from Markham, Ontario, Canada, averaged 14.5 points and 10 rebounds in UCI's victories over visiting Pacific on Feb. 20 and at UT Arlington on Saturday. In a 68-59 triumph over Pacific, Folker had 13 points and 13 rebounds. He made seven of eight field-goal attempts to produce 16 points, added seven rebounds, and tied his career high with five assists in the 77-70 BracketBusters win over UT Arlington.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 65, Long Beach State 57 IRVINE - Junior Camille Buckley had 13 points and 12 rebounds to lead the host Anteaters in the Big West Conference game on Thursday. UCI (9-17, 5-9 in conference) has won four straight and is closing in on a bid to the eight-team Big West Tournament. Combined with UC Riverside's loss at UC Davis Thursday, UCI is in eighth place with four conference games remaining. Kelly Meggs, who was four of eight from three-point range, had 14 points and four assists, while fellow guard Jennifer Tsurumoto had 10 points and five assists for the winners.

IRVINE — UC Irvine has shuffled, sweat and sacrificed all men's basket ball season to foster its reputation as a hard-nosed defensive team that grinds on seemingly every possession. But for a stretch of just more than five minutes, midway through the second half Wednesday night against Pacific, the Anteaters nearly saw that label washed away under an avalanche of three-point baskets. With the score tied, 38-38, UCI made four straight three-pointers and converted six of seven scoring possessions with field goals from beyond the arc to assume a 58-47 lead.

MEN'S GOLF Folino Invitational INDUSTRY - UC Irvine junior Travis Russell captured the individual title of the event that concluded Tuesday at Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms. Russell, a Newport Harbor High product who shot par 72 in the final round, won with a birdie on the second playoff hole over Sacramento State's Ryan Williams and Loyola Marymount's Tyler Torano. All three had finished 54 holes with two-under totals of 214 on the "Ike" Eisenhower Course.

Former UC Irvine baseball standout Christian Bergman received the Chuck Stevens Award as the Southern California resident who had the most outstanding minor league season in 2012. Bergman, who pitched for the Anteaters from 2007 to 2010, received the award at the 88th annual Assn. of Professional Ballplayers of America's dinner earlier this month. Bergman posted a 16-5 record and a 3.65 earned-run average with the Modesto Nuts, a Single-A California League affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.

A UC Irvine professor has stopped teaching midway through a massive online course in microeconomics offered through the Coursera organization, saying he had disagreements on how to conduct the free class for thousands of students around the world. The action by Richard A. McKenzie, an emeritus professor in the UC Irvine business school, highlights the uncertainties faculty face in adapting traditional face-to-face classes to the emerging universe of massive open online courses, known as MOOCs.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 43, Cal State Fullerton 39 IRVINE - Senior Kelly Meggs scored 12 points and Methlyn Onogomuho added 10 to lead the host Anteaters in the Big West Conference game Saturday. Meggs made two free throws with 19 seconds left to clinch the win, the fourth straight for UCI (8-17, 4-9 in conference). UCI has won five of its last six Big West contests to help its bid to earn a spot in the eight-team conference postseason tournament that will be at UCI. Camille Buckley had 13 rebounds and six points for the 'Eaters, who held the Titans (7-17, 3-9)

UC Irvine's dance production based on "The Rite of Spring" may jolt the audience in places, but it won't have nearly the impact that the original did in 1913. And there are several people to blame for that. Lenny Bruce. Hugh Hefner. The Sex Pistols. Quentin Tarantino. The creators of "South Park. " And anyone else, frankly, who shocked the status quo over the last 100 years. When "The Rite of Spring," the brainchild of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, premiered in Paris, it drew one of the most infamous opening-night receptions in history.

IRVINE — This is where it started. America's so-called "safest city" served as the trailhead in the epic manhunt to find Christopher Dorner, the suspected cop-turned-killer believed to have died in Tuesday's fiery standoff near Big Bear. Dorner allegedly started his killing spree here Feb. 3. That was the day the bodies of a newly engaged couple, Keith Lawrence, 27, and Monica Quan, 28, were found shot dead and slumped over in a car parked in 2100 block of Scholarship. The shooter's alleged motive: exact revenge on Quan's father, attorney Randall Quan, a former Los Angeles Police Department captain who represented Dorner in a hearing in which the police board stripped him of his badge for alleged misconduct.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 64, Hawaii 52 IRVINE - Junior guard Jennifer Tsurumoto scored a career-high 27 points for the Anteaters in the Big West Conference game at the Bren Events Center Saturday. Tsurumoto shot seven for 13 from the floor, including hitting three three-pointers and was 10 of 12 from the free-throw line. She also recorded four assists, a block and steal in 37 minutes of action. Junior guard Kelly Meggs added 12 points, while junior forward Camille Buckley had 11 points and a team-high seven rebounds for UCI (6-17, 2-9 in conference)