Taylor Young News

UConn's Jerome Dyson, left, drives past Central Florida's Taylor Young during the teams' game Sunday in Hartford.

I finally made to El Paso, and it will take awhile to catch up on some blog updates.

The Northview Knights overcame a double-digit second half deficit against Edgewood on Thursday night to swap leads down the stretch with the Lady Mustangs before falling short over the final seconds in a 33-32 loss.

The UCF mena s basketball team lost their third game of the season Wednesday night, on the road to cross-state rival USF 69-65. The loss dropped UCF to 7-3 on the year.

Win little consolation to UCF coack Kirk Speraw, who now must prepare his team for Notre Dame on Sunday Iliana LimonOrlando Sentinel December 1, 2009 It wasn't the kind of tune-up UCF coach Kirk Speraw wanted for his team.

Junior guard Taylor Young gave Central Florida the lead for good on a 3-point play with 2:05 left and the Knights held on to beat UAlbany 76-72 in Orlando tonight.

Dave Diakite scored a career-high 19 points and made a game-clinching steal to lead Central Florida to a 76-72 victory over Albany on Saturday.

UCF posted an absolutely dominant first half, with a wide variety of players contributing to the Knights' 41-24 halftime lead over Auburn.

UCF beats Auburn 84-74 Eds: APNewsNow. UCF 84, Auburn 74. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. A.J Tyler had 19 points and eight rebounds as Central Florida defeated Auburn 84-74 at the Glenn Wilkes Classic on Friday night.

Taylor Young scored 15 points to lead four Central Florida players in double figures as the Knights defeated Howard 68-59 on Tuesday night.

As basketball season approaches at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the Knights look to get off to a fast start this Friday against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen.

Nik Garcia knows he has a chance to be part of something special . . . some day.

He connected on 57 treys as a freshman, shooting 45.2 percent. Sosa made eight starts at shooting guard and averaged 8.2 points.

UCF's 2009-10 basketball season is slated to begin on November 4 with an exhibition game vs.

The Edgewood Mustangs couldn't quite repeat its 2008 sweep of the cross country titles at the Western Indiana Conference Meet on Saturday morning, but they certainly performed well.

Senior setter and captain Laura Dupuis contributed 13 assists and 11 service points as host Dracut High swept past Tewksbury, 3-0, in a Merrimack Valley Conference Division 2 girls volleyball match against Tewksbury yesterday.

Senior outside hitter Holly Zechner and junior setter Jess Houghton combined for 20 service points as the Shawsheen Tech girls volleyball team rolled to a 3-0 Commonwealth Athletic Conference crossover sweep of visiting Chelsea yesterday.

I have a few UCF men's basketball updates: -- Chicago guard Nik Garcia, who missed the summer session while he finished up a few academic requirements, is enrolled in classes and officially a Knight.

The Golden Knights were the only Conference USA team to finish above .500 overall and not be invited to a postseason tournament.