Sophomore Darnell Sweeney made up for an error that allowed No. 4 Florida to break a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning on Tuesday by lining a two-out, two-run double to center to give UCF a 4-3 win in Gainesville.

Earlier in the week Rayshaun Kizer and Robert Quiroga were named Arena Football League Players of the Week following Orlando’s 68-53 win over the Utah Blaze at the new Amway Center.

In the 8-2 win over No. 20 Stetson at Jay Bergman Field, Darnell Sweeney and Erik Hempe each drove in two runs while Chase Bradford struck out four in six innings in his first career start for the Knights.

The impressive career of Rollins College guard Nick Wolf was topped off with the senior standout being named a First Team All-American by Division II Bulletin and Second Team All-American by Basketball Times.

Magic center Dwight Howard was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for his efforts between March 21-27. Howard has won the award six times this season and 17 times in his career.

Brian Adkins tossed three scoreless innings of relief and Joe Rogers pitched a perfect ninth to deliver a 5-4 victory on the road against No. 23 Rice on Sunday as the Knights won the series over the Owls.

UCF junior Jackie Coward was named the 2011 Conference USA Indoor Female Track Athlete of the Year by league coaches, becoming the first Knight in program history to earn the award.

Austin Rivers ended his high school basketball career at Winter Park as a two-time Class 6A state champion on Saturday in Lakeland following a rematch of last year’s finale against Shane Larkin and Dr. Phillips.

Like last spring’s championships that saw UCF come from behind to earn the program’s first-ever C-USA outdoor title, the team jumped the rest of the competition Saturday to earn its first indoor title.

It could have happened in any number of NBA cities. But on Wednesday night in Orlando, former UCF sharpshooter Jermaine Taylor turned in his best scoring performance as a pro by scoring 21 points.