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Basketball

Low, Cowgill join festivities

Washington State seniors Derrick Low and Robbie Cowgill will get to showcase their skills one last time this weekend.

The two will take part in ancillary activities associated with this week’s Final Four in San Antonio.

Low, whose 92 3-pointers this year was a school single-season record, will participate in the 3-point contest today. The competition will be televised by ESPN tonight at 6.

Cowgill will participate in the National Association of Basketball Coaches all-star game Friday.

Cowgill’s American team includes Louisville center David Padgett. WSU’s Kyle Weaver, meanwhile, was named Wednesday to the Collegeinsider.com 16-man Defensive All-American team.

Tennis

Hits become huge hit

A tennis tantrum by Russian Mikhail Youzhny left him bloodied but made him a YouTube celebrity.

When Youzhny hit a backhand into the net during his third-round match Monday at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla., he angrily whacked himself in the head three times with his racket strings. The forehand to the forehead sent a thick stream of blood running from above his hairline down his nose nearly to his mouth.

By Wednesday afternoon, video of the tantrum had drawn more than a half million hits on YouTube.

Prep track

DeSales High athlete dies

A spokesman for a Walla Walla high school said a student who was fatally injured in a pole vault accident was not a novice.

Walla Walla Catholic Schools acting president David Schmitz said Ryan Moberg had qualified last year for the state track championship.

The 18-year-old from Walla Walla was practicing with the team Monday in the gym at DeSales Catholic High School when he hit his head. He was taken to St. Mary Medical Center where a nursing supervisor said he died Wednesday.