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Penn gives Ivy League an NCAA regional finalist for 2nd year in row; No. 2 Florida faces tall task

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

Penn has given the Ivy League a team in an NCAA Tournament regional final for the second straight year. No. 2 national seed Florida, meanwhile, is a loss away from getting eliminated on its home field for a third straight year.The Quakers held off Samford 5-4 on Saturday night thanks to a reliever who hadn’t pitched in three weeks and a game-ending play in which the tying run was thrown out at third base.Florida will need to win three games to win its regional after losing 5-4 to Texas Tech. The Red Raiders, looking to make the super regionals for the fourth time since 2018, got a tiebreaking, two-run homer from Gavin Kash in the eighth inning and Brandon Beckel got Gators star Jac Caglianone to pop out with a man on base to end the game.“We are disappointed, but have to flush it,” Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan said. “We put ourselves in this position, but it’s certainly doable. We have enough pitching to do it.”No. 1 Wake Forest got a late start to its game against Maryland ...

Nneka Ogwumike has 27 points, leads Sparks over Storm 92-85

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike had 27 points and 14 rebounds, Layshia Clarendon had 16 points, six assists and three steals and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Seattle Storm 92-85 Saturday night. Seattle (0-4) is off to its worst start since it lost four in a row in its inaugural season in 2000. Jewell Loyd hit a 3-pointer that gave Seattle a two-point lead with 3:36 left in the third quarter but the Sparks scored 17 of the next 23 points to make it 72-61 — L.A.’s biggest lead of the game. Brown capped the spurt with a 3-pointer early in the fourth quarter. Loyd scored 16 points in the fourth quarter and Jade Melbourne’s 3-pointer — which Loyd assisted on — trimmed Seattle’s deficit to 86-82 with 1:42 remaining but the Storm got no closer. Chiney Ogwumike added 15 points and Lexie Brown scored 14 for Los Angeles (3-2), Jordin Canada had nine points, seven assists and four steals. Loyd tied her career high with eight 3-pointers and finished with 37 points for Sea...

Arriaga helps Minnesota United earn late 1-1 draw with Toronto

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kervin Arriaga scored late in the second half to thwart Sean Johnson’s bid for his 100th career clean sheet, rallying Minnesota United to a 1-1 draw with Toronto FC on Saturday night.Arriaga’s equalizer was his second goal of the season for Minnesota United (5-6-5) and it came unassisted in the 89th minute.Neither team scored until Lorenzo Insigne found the net in the 58th minute to give Toronto (3-5-9) the lead. Richie Laryea and Federico Bernardeschi had assists on Insigne’s second goal this season.It was quite a difference between previous matches when the clubs set a league record by combining to score 19 goals over a three-match span. The home team won all three contests.Dayne St. Clair had four saves for Minnesota United. Sean Johnson saved two shots for Toronto. Johnson was trying to become the fourth goaltender to post 100 career shutouts.Toronto was coming off a scoreless draw with the Chicago Fire — its league-high fourth of the s...

St Louis City uses two PK goals to beat Dynamo 3-0

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tomás Ostrák scored in between penalty-kick goals by Eduard Löwen and Nicholas Gioacchini as St. Louis City breezed to a 3-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night.Löwen put the expansion team on top for good with a PK goal in the 9th minute. Ostrák stretched the lead to 2-0 six minutes into the second half, using assists from Lucas Bartlett and Löwen to score for a second time this season. Gioacchini finished off the scoring in the 83rd minute with his penalty kick. Löwen, who became the first player to score in three straight matches for SLC, and Gioacchini have both scored five goals on the season.Roman Bürki finished with four saves to earn his fifth clean sheet of the campaign for St. Louis City. Steve Clark saved two shots for Houston.St. Louis City (9-4-1) has scored three or more goals in eight of its first 14 matches. SLC was just the fourth club in history to do it seven times in its first 13 matches.Houston (5-7-3) falls to 2-10-6 in its last 1...

Orioles’ Gunnar Henderson exits game vs. Giants with low back discomfort: ‘He’ll be fine’

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

A night after hitting a game-winning home run on what manager Brandon Hyde said was his “best swing of the year,” Orioles rookie infielder Gunnar Henderson exited Saturday’s game against the San Francisco Giants in the third inning with low back discomfort.Ramón Urías replaced Henderson at third base in the bottom half of the frame. Henderson struck out in the top of the second but took his position the next half inning, fielding a ground ball and throwing across to first for the out, seemingly without issue. But MASN cameras showed Henderson grimacing and reaching for his back after making the throw.Hyde said after Baltimore’s 4-0 loss that the issue has been “lingering the last few days,” adding that he removed Henderson as a precaution and he is day to day.“Tried to play through it, and being in the game just made it a little more sore,” Hyde said, later adding, “He’ll be fine.”Entering this season as bas...

Orioles shut out by Giants, 4-0, as Alex Cobb dominates his former club

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

Alex Cobb received the largest contract given to a pitcher in Orioles history. On Saturday night, he showed his former team what could have been.Cobb shut out Baltimore for 7 2/3 innings, allowing just five hits and striking out seven, in the San Francisco Giants’ 4-0 victory to even the clubs’ weekend series at Oracle Park.On the verge of the 2018 season, Cobb signed a four-year, $57 million deal with Baltimore, going 7-22 with a 5.10 ERA over 41 starts before he was traded to the Los Angeles Angels with one year left on the contract. Owed $4.5 million in deferred payments from that agreement, Cobb will receive the fifth-largest paycheck from the Orioles (36-22) of any player this season.Orioles right-hander Kyle Bradish matched Cobb for two innings, but the Giants (29-29) struck for three runs in the third, the same frame Baltimore third baseman Gunnar Henderson exited with low back discomfort. Bradish lasted only one more inning before handing the game to the bullpen....

How to get to Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon with MTS trolley

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Want to avoid traffic and parking headaches for the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon? The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System is encouraging attendees to take the trolley for Sunday's 7 a.m. race.The Rock 'N' Roll Marathon starting line is at Sixth Ave & Quince St at Balboa Park. Participants coming from Santee, El Cajon, San Diego State University, Mission Valley or Old Town, or those on the UC San Diego Blue Line from University City of Morena Blvd. stations can get off a County Center/Little Italy Station, which is a 1.6-mile walk to the start line.If you are on the trolley's Orange Line from El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, or southeast San Diego, or the UC San Diego Blue Line from South Bay stations, be sure to take it to the Fifth Avenue Station for a 1.6-mile walk to the start line. No free shuttles to the Start Line will be provided this year, according to the MTS. 5 arrested at DUI checkpoint in Poway Here's a look at Sunday's train schedule:PRE-RACEGreen Line: St...

Las Vegas ballpark pitch revives debate over public funding for sports stadiums

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball’s smallest ballpark, arguing that the worst team in baseball can boost Las Vegas, a city striving to call itself a sports mecca.Debate about public funding for private sports clubs has been revived with the Oakland Athletics ballpark proposal. The issue pits Nevada’s powerful tourism industry, including trade unions, against a growing chorus of mostly progressive groups nationwide raising concerns about the use of tax dollars to finance sports stadiums that could otherwise fund government services or schools.The debate over relocating the team from California to Nevada echoes others around the country. Politicians have approved large sums of taxpayer money going to sports clubs in Buffalo, New York; Atlanta; and Nashville, Tennessee. In Tempe, Arizona, though, voters rejected a $2.3 billion proposal that would have included a new arena for the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes.The Oakland A’s organi...

Earthquakes, Rapids play to scoreless draw

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Daniel de Sousa Brito saved five shots in goal for San Jose as the Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids played to a scoreless draw on Saturday night.Marko Ilic did not have to make a save to earn the clean sheet for Colorado (2-8-7), which is still in search of its first win at home this season.The Rapids entered play having gone 6-0-5 in their last 11 home matches with San Jose (6-5-5). Colorado has lost six straight matches in all competitions, including a club-record five in a row at home. The Rapids, however, have played a club-record 12 straight matches at home without a loss to San Jose.The Earthquakes snapped a 15-match winless streak on the road last week with a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders.San Jose was trying to win two straight road matches for the first time since 2019. The Earthquakes’ win over Seattle was its first clean sheet on the road since a 1-0 win over the Sounders in July of 2021.San Jose returns home to host the Phila...

Champs! Willow Glen’s McKenna Campbell hits walk-off double in NorCal D-II final

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:18 GMT

SAN JOSE — What a way to cap off a high school career, walking off a NorCal championship..Willow Glen senior catcher McKenna Campbell jumped on the first pitch she saw in the bottom of the seventh inning and drilled it to left field, scoring Katelynn Dilbeck from first base with the winning run in a 6-5 victory over Notre Dame-Salinas for the Northern California Division II regional softball championship.“It’s been our goal since freshman year,” an emotional Campbell said, apologizing as she struggled to regain her composure. “We worked so hard and it’s just a dream come true.”It was the second double of the game for Campbell, who will play college softball at Miami of Ohio. She also hit a double and scored the only run in a 1-0 win over Bullard-Fresno in the NorCal semifinals.“She’s come up clutch these last couple of games,” Willow Glen coach Don Spingola said. “She’s a leader on the field, a leader at practic...