Sports briefs 9/13/05

Baseball

* No criminal charges will be brought against the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a college student at a raucous celebration by Red Sox fans last fall, prosecutors said Monday.

"There is no evidence that any officer on Lansdowne Street acted with any intent to commit a crime," Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said at a news conference attended by Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole.

Victoria Snelgrove, a 21-year-old Emerson College student, was shot in the eye socket with a pepper-spray pellet outside Fenway Park on Oct. 21. Officers were trying to calm the crowd that had filled the streets following Boston's victory over the archrival New York Yankees to win the American League pennant.

Police said some of the revelers were throwing bottles, lighting fires and wrecking cars, but Snelgrove was not involved in the rioting.

College

* Texas quarterback Vince Young and two players from Iowa State -- cornerback LaMarcus Hicks and punter Troy Blankenship -- were named Big 12 players of the week Monday.

Young, who grabbed offensive honors, was 18-for-29 passing for 270 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another 76 yards in the second-ranked Longhorns' 25-22 win at Ohio State.

Hicks, defensive player of the week, returned a second quarter interception 28 yards for a touchdown and also recovered a fumble in Iowa State's 23-3 upset of No. 8 Iowa.

Blankenship took the special teams award for placing three punts inside Iowa's 20-yard line in the Cyclones' first win over an Associated Press Top 10 squad since 1992.