Sports briefs 6/4/05

Colleges

* Nick Hundley hit a two-run double to lead a four-run rally that gave Arizona a 5-3 victory over Missouri in the NCAA baseball regionals Friday.

The Wildcats (38-19) will face the winner of the game between defending NCAA champion Cal State Fullerton and Harvard in the double-elimination tournament. The Tigers (39-22) will play the loser of the Cal State Fullerton-Harvard game.

Missouri's Tyler Williams had two hits and scored two runs. Max Scherzer (9-4) took the loss despite retiring the first eight batters he faced.

* J.P. Arenciba's run-scoring triple keyed Tennessee's three-run eighth inning and the Volunteers beat Austin Peay 7-5.

The big inning for Tennessee (42-19) started when Alex Suarez was hit by a pitch for the 40th time in his career, a school record. Suarez advanced on a sacrifice and scored on Eric King's single to right, tying the game 5-5. Arencibia followed with his triple to right-center and Chase Headley added an RBI single up the middle for a 7-5 lead.

Austin Peay (38-23) rallied from a 4-1 deficit to take a 5-4 lead in the seventh on four hits and two walks off Tennessee starter Luke Hochevar (15-2).

Hockey

* The St. Louis Blues on Friday promoted Jarmo Kekalainen, their director of amateur scouting, to assistant general manager.

Kekalainen, 38, has been with the Blues for three seasons.

* The NHL and players' association made some progress in nearly 34 hours of negotiations over three days and will continue to talk, league vice president Bill Daly said Friday.

The sides met for almost 14 hours on Friday after 10-hour sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, trying to work out a new collective bargaining agreement. The league and union said they will meet again next week.

"We continued our discussions on financial and accounting issues, and while we are making progress, we still have a lot of work to do," Daly said. "The parties have agreed to continue the process with a series of meetings next week, at which time we hope to begin discussing a myriad of other CBA issues."