Wednesday at the games

Men's soccer

Promise Isaac and Victor Obinna scored to lead Nigeria over a short-handed United States team 2-1, earning a place in the quarterfinals and eliminating the Americans. The United States played a man short from the third minute when defender Michael Orozco was ejected for swinging his elbow into Solomon Okoronkwo's chest while the players wrestled for the ball. Also advancing to the quarterfinals were the Netherlands, Cameroon, Belgium and Ivory Coast.

Basketball

Lisa Leslie set a U.S. Olympic record, going 7-for-7 from the field, as the U.S. women's basketball team continued its unblemished run through the Beijing Games with a 97-41 victory against Mali.

Leslie finished with 16 points as the U.S. won its 28th straight Olympic contest; the last loss was against the Unified Team in the semifinals of the 1992 Barcelona Games. The Americans have run over their first three opponents winning by an average of 47 points. They routed the Czech Republic, China, and now Mali.

Softball

Cat Osterman pitched a no-hitter as the U.S. team extended its Olympic winning streak to 16 straight with a 3-0 win over Australia. Osterman outdueled Australia's Tanya Harding, who has handed the U.S. program two of its four losses in the games since 1996. Osterman struck out 13, walked just two and dominated the Aussies in a rematch of the gold-medal game from 2004 in Athens.

The Americans, seeking their fourth straight gold, posted their 14th shutout during the winning streak.

OLYMPIC UTAHNS

Baseball

• Ryan Radmanovich played for Canada as an eighth-inning defensive replacement in center field, while pitcher Steve Green didn't see action in Canada's Olympics-opening 10-2 victory over China.

• First baseman Matt Brown went 2-for-5 with three RBIs and Kevin Jepsen pitched two-thirds of an inning to close out the eighth, but Korea (1-0) rallied against another American reliever for an 8-7 victory over the United States (0-1).

Men's cycling

Levi Leipheimer's late last-lap push moved the former Utah high school student from fifth place to the bronze medal in men's time trials with a time of one hour, three minutes and 21.11 seconds. Salt Lake City resident David Zabriskie finished 12th of the 39 competitors at 1:05:17.82.

Men's soccer