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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Wyoming 51, UC Irvine 42 LARAMIE, Wyo. - Jazmyne White and Anete Klintsone scored eight points each to lead the Anteaters in the nonconference game Wednesday. White also led UCI (4-8) with eight rebounds. Wyoming (4-7) led, 32-14, at the half. Wyoming's Ashley Sickles scored a game-high 24 points.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 88, Santa Clara 82 IRVINE - The host Anteaters produced a 10-0 run in the final 2:54 and senior Kassandra McAllister had all 19 of her points in the second half in the nonconference game Saturday at the Bren Events Center. McAllister made four free throws in the final 39 seconds, was nine of 11 from the foul line and added nine assists. Jasmine Bernard (16 points), Jasmyne White (14) and Methlyn Onogomuho (12) also paced the UCI offense.

IRVINE — Pro-Palestine Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni gave a speech Wednesday evening at UC Irvine that advocated bi-nationalism. Aloni addressed a group of about 30 concerning his recent book, "What Does a Jew Want?," and about putting on a production of "Waiting for Godot" with people in a refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank. Event organizers said Jewish groups on campus boycotted the event because Aloni supports a Palestinian state. Aloni had harsh words for groups who did not attend.

Andrew Fontein is close to earning a degree in business economics at UC Irvine. But it is on the soccer field where he has learned best the lessons regarding a return on one's investment. The Las Vegas native was hardly a commodity when he came to UCI as a freshman walk-on, having secured a Big West home as a backup plan after enrolling at Villanova fell through. But blessed with a confidence that knows no conscience, he trusted that talent and determination would help him shovel out from under his subterranian status on the depth chart.

Nearly a dozen UC Irvine protesters were convicted Tuesday of disturbing the peace in a February 2010 incident, with another six protesters also facing charges. Just weeks after the infamous "Irvine 11" protest that shined a national spotlight on the college, hundreds of people shut down the school's administration building. Unlike the Irvine 11 protesters — the group of Muslim Student Union members and friends who shouted down an Israeli ambassador as he tried to give an on-campus speech — this group was demonstrating against student fee hikes and the university's deal with one of its labor groups.

  MEN'S WATER POLO   UC Irvine 10, Pacific 9 STOCKTON - Freshman Jacob Mourer scored three goals to pace the No. 8-ranked Anteaters in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation contest against the No. 7-ranked Tigers on Saturday. Michael Bailey had seven saves, while Trent Baxter and Mitch Wise scored twice for visiting UCI (13-8, 1-3 in conference). UOP, which rallied from a 7-5 deficit to take an 8-7 lead, fell to 9-8, 0-3. Mourer goals tied it at 8 and gave UCI a 9-8 lead that became a two-goal cushion when Baxter scored with 6:00 left.

Much like the men, the UC Irvine women's golf team is working through inconsistency through the first part of the season. The Anteaters finished tied for ninth in the three-round Price's Give 'Em Five Intercollegiate at the New Mexico State Golf Course last week to go with sixth- and second-place finishes in their prior two fall tournaments. With one senior and junior respectively, UCI boasts a young team that is learning to play with one another and hone its course management.

I am both amazed and amused at the continuing controversy surrounding the Ronald Reagan statue in Newport Beach. The Reagan statue fits perfectly in this image-conscious, cliché-driven, self-contradicting city. The family values president was divorced, remarried and estranged from his children and grandchildren for extended periods of time. The opponent of big government increased the size of state government while governor of California and the size of the federal government while president.

IRVINE - As Anna Origel leaned back and forth in a wheelchair at UC Irvine, a soccer goalie on the computer screen in front of her danced left and right, trying to block her shots. When Origel reclined, even just an inch, the goalie in the game went to the right. When she leaned forward, it went left. She missed the ball every time, leaning too far back and then too far forward. "This is really hard, this should be a video game," said the Regional Occupation Program, or ROP, nursing student from Laguna Hills High School.

FULLERTON - For the first 66 minutes, Wednesday at Cal State Fullerton, it was better to be lucky than good. But the game's most well-deserved goal in the 67th minute proved to be a game-winner for the No. 7-ranked UC Irvine men's soccer team, which came away with a 2-1 Big West Conference victory. The win moves UCI (10-2, 2-1 in conference) into a first-place tie with Cal State Northridge and UC Davis. Both have six points (three points for a win and one for a tie). The Anteaters play host to Northridge, which was idle Wednesday, on Saturday at 7 p.m. After UCI scored when a ball from Jimmy Turner slipped through the grasp of the Titans' goalkeeper in the 13th minute, the Titans cashed in some good fortune of their own, when Michael Denny's cross was deflected by a UCI defender into the net for the equalizer in the 38th minute.