Milestones: Buddy Bolding, Longwood College, 600 wins in baseball. Bolding earned the landmark victory March 25 when the Lancers swept a double-header from Erskine College. Bolding is in his 22nd year at Longwood. After the victory, his record stood at 600-254-3 ... John Bryant, Southwest Baptist University, 500 wins in men's tennis. Bryant, in his 34th season, won his 500th with a victory over West Texas A&M University in the Broncho Collegiate Team Tennis Invitational in Edmond, Oklahoma. He ranks 25th in college tennis history in total wins and is only the third Division II coach to reach the 500-victory plateau ... Mike Sansing, Kennesaw State University, 500 wins in baseball. Sansing reached the milestone April 1 with a 7-5 victory over Armstrong Atlantic State University. One week later, Sansing captured his 400th victory at Kennesaw State with a 2-1 victory over the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. Sansing coached Kennesaw State to the 1996 NCAA Division II Baseball Championship ... Rhesa Sumrell, Central Missouri State University, 600 victories in women's softball. Sumrell reached the mark March 3 in a win over Delta State University. On March 17, Sumrell captured her 400th softball victory at Central Missouri State when the Jennies defeated Kansas Wesleyan University. The versatile Sumrell also has 494 career victories in women's volleyball and 51 wins in women's basketball, all at Missouri Western College, giving her a total of 1,115 victories in the three sports through March 20.

Sports sponsorship: Clarion University of Pennsylvania has announced it will add women's soccer as a varsity intercollegiate sport. The program will begin as a club sport in fall 2000 and will compete at the varsity level in fall 2001. The addition of women's soccer will bring Clarion's varsity sport total to 16 programs, eight men's and eight women's. The institution expects to hire a head coach by August. The last sport added at Clarion was women's cross country in fall 1978.

-- Compiled by David Pickle