Milestones: Pat Lipra, Missouri Southern State College, 600 wins in women's softball. Lipra's landmark victory came March 1 in the second game of a double-header sweep against Northeastern State University. "It's a tribute to a lot of great players over a lot of years," Lipira said. "That is how you accomplish those achievements. Every 100 they remind you that you've been doing it a while." Lipra, in her final season as the Lady Lions' coach, will become head of the kinesiology department at the end of the 1999-00 school year. Through March 1, she had a career record of 600-261 and had led the Lady Lions to four Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association titles and a Division II championship in 1992. The 600 wins rank seventh on the all-time Division II charts ... Bill Nash, Wingate University, 200 wins in baseball. Nash, in his seventh year as Wingate coach, reached the milestone recently with a 16-6 nonconference win over the University of South Carolina at Aiken. After the victory, Nash's head coaching record stood at 200-119-1. His teams have captured four regular-season South Atlantic Conference titles.

Miscellaneous: Misi Clark, a guard for the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, women's basketball team, set a school scoring record before completing her junior year. Clark, who has scored in double figures in 67 consecutive games dating back to December 1997, broke the previous record in just 84 games. Through March 3, she had 1,676 points. She also tied the school record for points in a game earlier this season when she tallied 40 against Eastern Kentucky Wesleyan.

-- Compiled by David Pickle