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San Diego FC edge LAFC for franchise's first home win
Christopher McVey, Onni Valakari and Alex Mighten scored in the first 40 minutes, and San Diego FC went on to a 3-2 victory over Los Angeles FC on Saturday night to get their first home win in team history., ,LAFC put up two goals late in the first half by Artem Smolyakov and Cengiz Under but could ...
Orlando City score on late miscue, keep Galaxy winless
Luis Muriel scored on a 90th-minute free kick that should've been a routine save for John McCarthy, and visiting Orlando City rallied for a 2-1 victory over the struggling LA Galaxy on Saturday night.,Muriel's match-winner came 14 minutes after Martin Ojeda pulled the visitors level from the penalty...
Lilia Vu up 2 shots entering final round at Ford Championship
Lilia Vu overcame a double bogey and two other bogeys to shoot a four-under-par 68 on Saturday and maintain a two-shot lead heading into the final round of the Ford Championship in Chandler, Ariz.,On a windy day at Whirlwind Golf Club's Cattail Course, Vu - who had played a pair of bogey-free rounds...
Albert Rusnak’s tally helps Sounders tie Earthquakes
Albert Rusnak's goal in the 80th minute Saturday night lifted the visiting Seattle Sounders into a 1-1 draw with the San Jose Earthquakes.,The late marker allowed Seattle (1-2-3, 6 points) to salvage a point from a match that they controlled territorially most of the night. It earned a 26-10 advanta...
No. 1 Duke goes wire-to-wire in sinking No. 2 Alabama
NEWARK, N.J. -- Duke basketball was 364 days removed from a loss in the Elite Eight to rival North Carolina State.,Most programs would find joy in an Elite Eight run. Not the Blue Devils. That doesn't live up to the high bar set by their previous coach.,"When we were in the bathroom last year after ...
Shea Langeliers homers as A's double up Mariners
Shea Langeliers hit a two-run homer and Osvaldo Bido gave up one earned run over five-plus innings as the Athletics defeated the host Seattle Mariners 4-2 on Saturday night.,It was the Athletics' second straight victory after dropping the season opener.,Bido (1-0), a right-hander, gave up two runs o...
Dodgers remain perfect with power-led rally over Tigers
Freddie Freeman homered, doubled and drove in two runs and Will Smith and Tommy Edman also homered as the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the visiting Detroit Tigers with a 7-3 victory on Saturday night.,Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run, go-ahead double in the fifth inning and Mic...
Tani Oluwaseyi nets brace as Minnesota United blank RSL
Tani Oluwaseyi recorded a brace to help Minnesota United notch a 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night at Saint Paul, Minn.,Dayne St. Clair made three saves for his third shutout of the season for Minnesota United, who thrived despite playing in heavy rain throughout the entire contest.,...
No. 1 Duke has big second half, sinks No. 2 Alabama
NEWARK, N.J. -- Kon Knueppel had a game-high 21 points with five assists, Cooper Flagg added 16 points and nine rebounds, and No. 1 seed Duke defeated No. 2 Alabama 85-65 to win the NCAA Tournament East Region final on Saturday night.,Duke (35-3) made its 18th Final Four in program history and its f...
Kevin Denkey's winner lifts Cincinnati over Nashville
Kevin Denkey scored from the penalty spot in second-half stoppage time and visiting FC Cincinnati completed a 2-1 victory over Nashville SC on Saturday night.,Denkey's third goal of the campaign completed a first away win for Cincinnati (3-2-1, 10 points) after Evander's fourth pulled the visitors l...
Lakers handle Grizzlies in post-Taylor Jenkins era
Austin Reaves had 31 points, eight assists and seven rebounds to help the Los Angeles Lakers earn a 134-127 victory over the host Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night.,Luka Doncic recorded 29 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for the Lakers (45-29), who won their second game in three outings an...
CF Montreal halt scoring drought, earn draw vs. Fire
Dante Sealy scored CF Montreal's first goal since their season opener, helping the visitors earn a 1-1 draw with the Chicago Fire on a rainy Saturday evening.,Philip Zinckernagel's late first-half goal was canceled out by Sealy's second-half marker as the Fire (3-1-2, 11 points) saw their three-matc...
Luciano Acosta, Leo Chu help FC Dallas beat hapless Sporting KC
Luciano Acosta and Leo Chu scored in a two-minute span of the first half to help propel host FC Dallas to a 2-1 win over hapless Sporting Kansas City on Saturday in a Western Conference match in Frisco, Texas.,Dallas (3-2-1, 10 points) won for the first time at home this season after earning its ini...
Mavericks inch past Bulls in quest for West play-in berth
Klay Thompson had 20 points and hit two critical free throws with 6.7 seconds left as the visiting Dallas Mavericks took down the host Chicago Bulls 120-119 on Saturday night.,Dallas (37-38) has won four of its last five games and is ninth in the Western Conference, which would qualify for the play-...
Red Wings win battle of struggling teams by edging Bruins
Marco Kasper scored an unassisted goal in the first period and the host Detroit Red Wings edged the slumping Boston Bruins 2-1 on Saturday night.,Lucas Raymond had the other Detroit goal while Cam Talbot made 20 saves.,Morgan Geekie had the only Boston goal and Jeremy Swayman stopped 20 shots.,The B...
Brandon Moreno outpoints Steve Erceg at Fight Night
Former two-time flyweight champion Brandon Moreno erased a stigma from his last UFC Mexico outing, winning a unanimous decision against Steve Erceg in a flyweight title eliminator bout in Saturday's UFC Fight Night main event, sweeping the cards 49-46, 49-46, 49-46 over the former flyweight title ch...
Kyle Tucker, Matt Shaw power Cubs past Diamondbacks
Kyle Tucker had three hits including his first homer of the season, rookie Matt Shaw hit his first major league homer and the Chicago Cubs held off the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 in Phoenix on Saturday.,Tucker's two-run homer off Brandon Pfaadt (0-1) with one out in the fifth inning gave the Cubs a 3-...
Astros make two runs stand up in edging Mets
Jeremy Pena homered, Yordan Alvarez hit an RBI double, and the Houston Astros rode a strong start from right-hander Spencer Arrighetti to a 2-1 victory over the visiting New York Mets in the rubber match of a three-game interleague series.,Pena recorded the Astros' first extra-base of the season whe...
Jayson Tatum’s 29 help Celtics beat Spurs for 8th straight victory
Jayson Tatum hit for 29 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the visiting Boston Celtics easily handled the San Antonio Spurs 121-111 on Saturday while producing their season-best eighth straight victory.,The Celtics (55-19) dominated San Antonio throughout, leading by 12 points at halftime, by 17 late...
No. 1 USC survives rough shooting night, tops No. 5 Kansas St.
Avery Howell scored 12 of her 18 points in the second half and No. 1 seed Southern California endured the absence of star JuJu Watkins to advance to the Elite Eight with a 67-61 win over No. 5 seed Kansas State in Spokane Region 4 on Saturday.,The Trojans (31-3), playing their first full game since ...