Quarterfinal

RICHMOND, Va. - A furious Drexel comeback, like so many of its shots, fell just short. Trailing by 15 points near the midway point of the second half, Drexel cut the margin to two before falling to George Mason, 60-54, at the Richmond Coliseum in Saturday's quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament. The Dragons, preseason CAA favorites, ended their season 13-18. George Mason (18-13) will meet top-seeded Northeastern in Sunday's 2 p.m. semifinal. This game was like a microcosm of the season in which Drexel lost 10 games by six or fewer points.

Laura Sweeney (Cherokee) scored 17 points, and sixth-seeded Villanova (21-9) hit a Big East tournament record 17 three-pointers to rout Georgetown, 89-58, on Saturday night in Hartford, Conn. The Wildcats will face third seed Syracuse in the quarterfinals Sunday night. In other Big East games, South Florida (21-9) topped Rutgers, 42-35; fifth-seeded St. John's (18-11) beat Seton Hall, 51-45; and DePaul beat Marquette, 77-59.   Ivy League Yale 70, Penn 65 - A 19-point deficit was down to just two with under a minute to play, but the Quakers (16-11, 9-4)

ATLANTIC CITY - Billy Ward has had quite the career while wrestling for Buena. He entered Friday's pre-quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA state championships at Boardwalk Hall with a school-record 136 wins, four district titles, and four region titles. But there is one milestone missing: a state title. Ward (31-3) came one step closer to reaching that final milestone, beating Point Pleasant Boro's Ryan Budzek, 7-4, to advance to the quarterfinals for the 126-pound weight class.

Joe Galasso and John Dutrow, two of the region's top wrestlers, scored easy first-round wins at 138 pounds on Thursday afternoon to set up a rematch in the quarterfinals of the PIAA Class AAA tournament in Hershey, Pa. Galasso, of Father Judge, earned a 14-4 major decision against Manheim Central's Ben Metzler. Council Rock North's Dutrow captured a 5-0 decision over Garrett Brown of DuBois. Dutrow scored a decision over Galasso in last year's regional finals and recorded a 30-second pin in last year's state consolations.

Neumann-Goretti took a one-point lead with 18 seconds to play Thursday night, but it did not last as Archbishop Carroll's Jess Carney made a three-pointer with a second left to knock off the visiting Saints, 38-36, in the Catholic League girls' basketball quarterfinals. The freshman guard finished with 12 points. Senior forward Sarah Curran led the way with 13 points. Neumann-Goretti's Ella Awobajo finished with eight points, and her layup put the Saints ahead, 36-35. Carroll advanced to meet Archbishop Wood on Thursday at 8 p.m. at Philadelphia University.

Julian Moore forced overtime Wednesday night with a last-second shot, and James Drury's play in the extra period sealed Germantown Academy's 67-63 win over visiting Abington Friends in the quarterfinals of the state Independent Schools boys' basketball tournament. Moore, a 6-foot-9 center, grabbed a rebound and laid it in with 1.2 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the score at 58. The Penn State-bound senior finished with 20 points. Drury scored seven of his 15 points in overtime and knocked down all four of his free throws.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Serena Williams was up a set and a break in her Australian Open quarterfinal against 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens. Then, in a span of 25 minutes, she lost her serve, hurt her back while trying to avoid contact with the net, took her second injury timeout of the tournament, came away with a limp, could barely get her first serve over 90 mph, dropped her first set since the U.S. Open and went down 2-1 in the decider. Stephens went on to win the match Thursday, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. She became the first American player younger than Serena to ever beat ber. It will be the first Grand Slam semifinal appearance for the Florida native.