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career-high 17 rebounds in Wednesday's win over Holy Cross, grabbed 16 boards and added nine points.
• Steve Tecker had 15 points and Trevor Gruis 14 for the Coyotes (4-6), who tied the back-and-forth game at 39 on Brandon Bos' 3-pointer with 12 minutes to play. But a 15-5 Ball State run, capped by Scaife's 3-pointer with 5:53 left, put the Cardinals up 54-44. South Dakota later pulled within 54-51 but didn't score again.
• Ball State shot 43 percent from the field, but that was better than South Dakota's 34 percent -- including 4 of 25 on 3-pointers.
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AP News in Brief
Sam-sex couples begin marrying in Wash. just after midnight Sunday
• OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Same-sex couples in Washington state started taking their wedding vows Sunday on the first day they could marry after the state's new voter-approved law allowing gay marriage took effect this week.
• Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples picked up their marriage licenses as early as 12:01 a.m. Thursday, but because of the state's three-day waiting period, the earliest weddings could take place was just after midnight Sunday.
• Some courthouses, including in King and Thurston Counties opened right at midnight, and started marrying couples in the early morning hours. Seattle City Hall will open for several hours on Sunday starting at 10 a.m., and several local judges are donating their time to marry couples there.
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Boustany wins US House race in Louisiana, beating fellow Republican incumbent Landry
• BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany, a veteran Republican allied with House Speaker John Boehner, has trounced freshman GOP incumbent Jeff Landry in an attack-heavy runoff race.
• The two incumbents were forced into the same district when Louisiana lost a congressional seat because of anemic population growth in the latest federal census. The state will have six U.S. House seats in the new term that begins in January.
• A four-term congressman who had gone into Saturday's balloting favored by the (Continued on page 24)
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