TIMES STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

POTSDAM — Clarkson University announced the hiring of Matt Kelly as a women's assistant hockey coach Monday.

Kelly was hired by co-coaches Matt and Shannon Desrosiers, who were both promoted when head coach Rick Seeley took a job at Quinnipiac University last month.

Kelly comes to Clarkson from Quinnipiac, where he worked as an assistant coach last season. He started his career as a volunteer assistant coach at Wayne State in the 2006-07 season. One of his specialties as an assistant coach was working with goalies.

Kelly also played as a goalie at Wayne State for four years, serving as team captain in the 2005-06 season. He was named to the College Hockey America second-team as a senior and was also named to the All-Academic team.

EQUESTRIAN

SAINTS WIN A NATIONAL TITLE

St. Lawrence University's riding team picked up the reserve national championship at the Collegiate Cup at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association championship in Los Angeles on Saturday. It was the team's second reserve title, which goes to the runner-up finisher, in the last seven years. The University of Kentucky finished first out of the 18 participating teams.

SLU freshman Suzanne Snyder was the reserve national champion in the open flat competition. The Saints jumped from seventh to second on Snyder's ride.

Snyder's performance followed that of Watertown's Nick Depheteros, who was named reserve national champion in the walk-trot competition on Friday, the same day that sophomore Kristin Putnam won the walk-trot-canter competition for SLU's first individual national title in seven years.

WOMEN'S CREW

SLU HOPES FOR NCAA BID

The Saints crew team finished fifth out of a 21-crew field in varsity eights at the ECAC National Invitational Collegiate Regatta in Worcester, Mass. last weekend and now hopes for a bid to the NCAA Championships in Sacramento, Calif., on May 30-31.

MEN'S CREW

SAINTS FINISH SIXTH

The SLU men's season came to an end Sunday after a sixth-place finish at the ECAC National Invitational Collegiate Regatta in Worcester, Mass. Michigan claimed the team title.

BASEBALL

3 KANGAROOS ALL-CONFERENCE

Three SUNY Canton players have made the all-Sunrise Conference team.

Junior Jacques DeMars, who hit .368 with three home runs and freshman Keith Shults, who hit .309, each made the first team, along with freshman pitcher Anthony Brauchle, who went 3-2.

BASKETBALL

AGENCY DENIES MAYO ALLEGATION

The head of the sports agency representing O.J. Mayo denied any illegal activity involving the Southern California star on Monday, a day after ESPN reported Bill Duffy Associates gave cash to an event promoter who provided gifts.

Louis Johnson, a former associate of Mayo's, told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that BDA Sports provided Rodney Guillory with about $200,000 before Mayo arrived at USC. Johnson said a portion of that money was given to Mayo.

"I haven't seen any evidence of them saying we gave O.J. Mayo a dime, and that has not happened," Duffy said.