Year: 2021

PHOENIX (AP) — Jasmine Thomas scored 17 points, Jonquel Jones added 12 points and 16 rebounds and Connecticut beat the Phoenix Mercury 76-67 to clinch the No. 1 seed in WNBA playoffs. Connecticut (24-6), which has won 12 consecutive games, snapped the Mercury’s 10-game win streak. It was just the second matchup ever (Minnesota Lynx

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Levi Lewis threw for 304 yards and two touchdowns and Louisiana-Lafayette edged Nicholls 27-24. Leading 17-10 at halftime, the Ragin’ Cajuns’ Kris Moncrief returned an interception 67 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter and Kenneth Almendares added a 28-yard field goal in the fourth. The Colonels rallied with a

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer with two outs in the fifth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers held off the San Diego Padres 5-4. The Dodgers remain 2 1/2 games behind NL West-leading San Francisco. Betts drove in four of the Dodgers’ five

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Tyler Riddell passed for two touchdowns, Quay Holmes rushed for two and East Tennessee State beat Division-II member Virginia-Wise Highland 45-14. Riddell was 13 of 18 for 201 yards and Brock Landis went 4 for 8 for 73 yards, including a 14-yard strike to Will Huzzie to cap the scoring

By CHRIS TALBOTT Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Daulton Varsho homered and drove in four runs and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat Seattle 7-3 on Saturday night to snap a six-game losing streak and deal a blow to the Mariners’ wild-card hopes. Varsho’s two-run homer finished off a four-run fourth inning against starter Chris Flexen. Varsho

By PATRICK STEVENS Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Taulia Tagovailoa threw three touchdown passes, and Maryland routed Howard 62-0. Dontay Demus Jr. had six receptions for 128 yards and a touchdown for the Terrapins, who had little trouble following up their 30-24 defeat of West Virginia with another victory.  Demus caught a touchdown

By ERIC W. BOLIN Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas piled up 333 rushing yards and got touchdowns from four different players on the ground in a 40-21 win over No. 15 Texas. Dominique Johnson scored from five yards in the second quarter. Trelon Smith, Raheim Sanders and AJ Green scored in the second

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Tahj Brooks ran for two touchdowns in the third quarter, including a 67-yarder for the lead, and Texas Tech held on to beat lower-division Stephen F. Austin 28-22. The Red Raiders made a stand in the final two minutes, forcing a turnover on downs after the FCS Lumberjacks had a first

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Frank Gore Jr. ran for 162 yards and a touchdown and Southern Mississippi breezed to a 37-0 victory over FCS-member Grambling. The Golden Eagles (1-1) used a 12-yard TD toss from Trey Lowe III to Jason Brownlee to grab a 7-0 first-quarter lead and stretched their advantage to 10-0 on Briggs

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Blake Corum sprinted for a 67-yard touchdown to give Michigan a double-digit lead in the second quarter, one play after Jim Harbaugh called for a fake punt and the Wolverines pulled away to beat Washington 31-10. Michigan relied on a tandem of running backs,

By DAVID FOLSE II Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Max Johnson threw for 161 yards and three touchdowns and LSU beat McNeese 34-7 for its first win of the season. Johnson finished 18 of 27 in his fourth start for the Tigers. Though the LSU  offense struggled to gain its footing, the Tigers’

By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge tied it with his second homer of the game in the eighth inning, Mets infielder Javier Báez gave away the lead with an error a few at-bats later and the New York Yankees beat their crosstown rival 8-7 at Citi Field following a

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Travis Shaw hit a tiebreaking single in the 10th inning after belting a three-run homer in the third, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 9-8. Filling in with J.D. Martinez scratched from the lineup, Shaw capped a seven-run third with a drive

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Camron Humphrey threw a career-high five touchdown passes to lead Montana to a 42-7 rout of Western Illinois. Humphrey was 20-of-26 passing for 252 yards. He threw a dart to Malik Flowers at the 2 for a 39-yard touchdown in the third quarter. Flowers again got behind a defender, this time