“THE SCOREBOARD”
CENTRAL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
ALEXANDRIA MONROE 13 DALEVILLE 3
BISHOP CHATARD 14 WARREN CENTRAL 0
NEW CASTLE 14 SHENANDOAH 10
YORKTOWN 12 MUNCIE CENTRAL 1
GREENSBURG 11 SOUTH DEARBORN 3
INDIAN CREEK 2 CLOVERDALE 1
UNION CITY 9 WES DEL 6
SOUTHPORT 8 INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN 5
IRVINGTON PREP 15 EDINBURGH 2
BASEBALL COACHES POLLS
4A
1 LAKE CENTRAL
2 FISHERS
3 CENTER GROVE
4 PENN
5 HOMESTEAD
6 AVON
7 WESTFIELD
8 CROWN POINT
9 HARRISON
10 PENDLETON HEIGHTS
3A
1 ANDREAN
2 HANOVER CENTRAL
3 EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL
4 SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH
5 WESTERN
6 GUERIN CATHOLIC
7 RONCALLI
8 GIBSON SOUTHERN
9 NEW PALESTINE
10 CATHEDRAL
2A
1 BARR REEVE
2 EVANSVILLE MATER DEI
3 ROCHESTER
4 PROVIDENCE
5 LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC
6 LAPEL
7 EASTERN GREENTOWN
8 N. POSEY
9 SHENANDOAH
10 N. MONTGOMERY/GREENCASTLE
1A
1 KNIGHTSTOWN
2 KOUTS
3 HAUSER
4 INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN
5 FREMONT
6 RIVERTON PARKE
7 ROSSVILLE/SHAKAMAK
9 W. WASHINGTON
10 FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK
CENTRAL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
COLUMBUS NORTH 12 COLUMBUS EAST 4
SEYMOUR 10 BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL 3
TRI 13 N. DECATUR 2
CHRISTEL HOUSE 18 PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY 0
MADISON GRANT 20 TRI-CENTRAL 1
COWAN 6 CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN 2
YORKTOWN 29 MUNCIE CENTRAL 0
WINCHESTER 22 RANDOLPH SOUTHERN 2
HORIZON CHRISTIAN 21 PARK TUDOR 0
FRANKTON 2 SHENANDOAH 1
LAFAYETTE JEFF 17 LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC 3
GREENSBURG 6 RUSHVILLE 0
FISHERS 19 LAWRENCE NORTH 7
PENDLETON HEIGHTS 11 ANDERSON 0
WES DEL 8 UNION CITY 0
INDIAN CREEK 11 CLOVERDALE 1
TERRE HAUTE SOUTH 7 RIVERTON PARKE 3
CENTER GROVE 7 BLOOMINGTON SOUTH 4
DALEVILLE 4 BLACKFORD 3
CATHEDRAL 10 KOKOMO 3
INDIANA DEAF 29 WALDRON 24
BETHESDA CHRISTIAN 11 HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 6
MOUNT VERNON 8 NEW CASTLE 5
WESTERN 10 W. LAFAYETTE 0
HAGERSTOWN 11 MORRISTOWN 0
CONNERSVILLE 17 BATESVILLE 0
BEECH GROVE 20 PIKE 0
SHELBYVILLE 14 GREENWOOD 2
WHITELAND 15 WARREN CENTRAL 5
ZIONSVILLE 7 GREENFIELD CENTRAL 5
BISHOP CHATARD 9 HAMILTON HEIGHTS 3
NOBLESVILLE 5 HARRISON 0
INDIANA SOFTBALL POLLS
4A
1 LAKE CENTRAL
2 ZIONSVILLE
3 CENTER GROVE
4 HAMILTON SE
5 PENN
6 CROWN POINT
7 FW CARROLL
8 FLOYD CENTRAL
9 BROWNSBURG
10 NOBLESVILLE
3A
1 NEW PALESTINE
2 WESTERN
3 CATHEDRAL
4 RONCALLI
5 LEO
6 GIBSON SOUTHERN
7 YORKTOWN
8 SILVER CREEK
9 EDGEWOOD
10 CASCADE
2A
1 ANDREAN
2 LAPEL
3 SOUTH ADAMS
4 ALEXANDRIA MONROE
5 TECUMSEH
6 EASTSIDE
7 MADISON GRANT
8 ROSSVILLE
9 WINAMAC
10 SULLIVAN
1A
1 TRI
2 RIVERTON PARKE
3 CLAY CITY
4 WEST WASHINGTON
5 INDY LUTHERAN
6 FREMONT
7 TRI-COUNTY
8 RISING SUN
9 ORLEANS/WESTVILLE
CENTRAL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS VOLLEYBALL
DECATUR CENTRAL 3 PIKE 1
GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN 3 PARK TUDOR 1
HERRON 3 IRVINGTON PREP 0
BROWNSBURG 3 BEN DAVIS 0
SHELBYVILLE 3 WARREN CENTRAL 0
RONCALLI 3 SOUTHPORT 0
PERRY MERIDIAN 3 MOORESVILLE 0
WESTFIELD 3 BISHOP CHATARD 1
FISHERS 3 CARMEL 2
COLUMBUS EAST 3 WHITELAND 1
CATHEDRAL 3 HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN 0
CENTER GROVE 3 AVON 0
FRANKLIN CENTRAL 3 COLUMBUS NORTH 0
CENTRAL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS LAX
WESTFIELD 16 FISHERS 1
CENTRAL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS LAX
PERRY MERIDIAN 7 FRANKLIN 5
INDIANA COLLEGE BASEBALL
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THE USA TODAY SPORTS TOP 25 BASEBALL POLL, WITH TEAM’S RECORDS THROUGH SUNDAY IN PARENTHESES, TOTAL POINTS BASED ON 25 FOR FIRST PLACE THROUGH ONE POINT FOR 25TH, RANKING IN LAST WEEK’S POLL AND FIRST-PLACE VOTES RECEIVED.
| RANK | SCHOOL (RECORD) | POINTS | LAST WEEK’S RANK | FIRST-PLACE VOTES |
| 1 | TEXAS (33-5) | 748 | 1 | 29 |
| 2 | CLEMSON (35-7) | 710 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 | OREGON ST. (30-7) | 639 | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | ARKANSAS (34-7) | 637 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | LSU (34-7) | 616 | 7 | 0 |
| 6 | TENNESSEE (33-7) | 612 | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | FLORIDA ST. (29-7) | 590 | 8 | 0 |
| 8 | NORTH CAROLINA (31-9) | 530 | 10 | 0 |
| 9 | GEORGIA (33-9) | 484 | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | VANDERBILT (30-10) | 461 | 17 | 0 |
| 11 | AUBURN (27-13) | 405 | 9 | 0 |
| 12 | UC IRVINE (28-9) | 403 | 14 | 0 |
| 13 | OKLAHOMA (29-10) | 355 | 16 | 0 |
| 14 | WEST VIRGINIA (34-4) | 328 | 20 | 0 |
| 15 | UCLA (29-10) | 317 | 12 | 0 |
| 16 | OREGON (27-11) | 312 | 18 | 0 |
| 17 | ALABAMA (31-10) | 240 | 15 | 0 |
| 18 | MISSISSIPPI (28-12) | 227 | 11 | 0 |
| 18 | ARIZONA (28-11) | 227 | 22 | 0 |
| 20 | COASTAL CAROLINA (30-10) | 197 | 21 | 0 |
| 21 | LOUISVILLE (28-11) | 157 | 19 | 0 |
| 22 | GEORGIA TECH (29-11) | 116 | 13 | 0 |
| 23 | TROY (28-12) | 115 | 23 | 0 |
| 24 | SOUTHERN MISS. (27-13) | 84 | NR | 0 |
| 25 | NC STATE (27-12) | 47 | NR | 0 |
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: W. KENTUCKY (33-7) 46; TCU (29-12) 36; DALLAS BAPTIST (28-11) 34; KANSAS (31-10) 27; IOWA (27-11) 24; NORTHEASTERN (30-9) 7; CAL POLY (27-11) 6; DUKE (28-14) 4; SE LOUISIANA (31-9) 4; KENTUCKY (22-15) 3; UTSA (30-10) 2.
INDIANA COLLEGE SOFTBALL
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INDIANA MEN’S COLLEGE LAX
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INDIANA WOMEN’S COLLEGE LAX
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NBA PLAYOFF SCHEDULE/SCORES
DETROIT 100 NEW YORK 94
LA CLIPPERS 105 DENVER 102
ALL TIMES EASTERN STANDARD TIME
(1) CLEVELAND VS. (8) MIAMI
• GAME 1: CLEVELAND 121 MIAMI 100 (CLEVELAND LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: MIAMI AT CAVALIERS (WED. APRIL 23, 7:30 ET, NBA TV)
• GAME 3: CAVALIERS AT MIAMI (SAT. APRIL 26, 1 ET, TNT)
• GAME 4: CAVALIERS AT MIAMI (MON. APRIL 28, TBD)
• GAME 5: MIAMI AT CAVALIERS (WED. APRIL 30, TBD)*
• GAME 6: CAVALIERS AT MIAMI (FRI. MAY 2, TBD)*
• GAME 7: MIAMI AT CAVALIERS (SUN. MAY 4, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
(2) BOSTON VS. (7) ORLANDO
• GAME 1: BOSTON 103 ORLANDO 86 (BOSTON LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: MAGIC AT CELTICS (WED. APRIL 23, 7 ET, TNT)
• GAME 3: CELTICS AT MAGIC (FRI. APRIL 25, 7 ET, ESPN)
• GAME 4: CELTICS AT MAGIC (SUN. APRIL 27, 7 ET, TNT)
• GAME 5: MAGIC AT CELTICS (TUE. APRIL 29, TBD)*
• GAME 6: CELTICS AT MAGIC (THU. MAY 1, TBD)*
• GAME 7: MAGIC AT CELTICS (SAT. MAY 3, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
(3) NEW YORK VS. (6) DETROIT
• GAME 1: NEW YORK 123 DETROIT 112 (NEW YORK LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: DETROIT 100 NEW YORK 94 (SERIES EVEN 1-1)
• GAME 3: KNICKS AT PISTONS (THU. APRIL 24, 7 ET, TNT)
• GAME 4: KNICKS AT PISTONS (SUN. APRIL 27, 1 ET, ABC)
• GAME 5: PISTONS AT KNICKS (TUE. APRIL 29, TBD)*
• GAME 6: KNICKS AT PISTONS (THU. MAY 1, TBD)*
• GAME 7: PISTONS AT KNICKS (SAT. MAY 3, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
(4) INDIANA VS. (5) MILWAUKEE
• GAME 1: INDIANA 117 MILWAUKEE 98 (INDIANA LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: BUCKS AT PACERS (TUE. APRIL 22, 7 ET, NBA TV)
• GAME 3: PACERS AT BUCKS (FRI. APRIL 25, 8 ET, ESPNU/NBA TV)
• GAME 4: PACERS AT BUCKS (SUN. APRIL 27, 9:30 ET, TNT)
• GAME 5: BUCKS AT PACERS (TUE. APRIL 29, TBD)*
• GAME 6: PACERS AT BUCKS (FRI. MAY 2, TBD)*
• GAME 7: BUCKS AT PACERS (SUN. MAY 4, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
SERIES TIED 0-0
WESTERN CONFERENCE
ALL TIMES EASTERN STANDARD TIME
(1) OKLAHOMA CITY VS. (8) MEMPHIS
• GAME 1: OKLAHOMA CITY 131 MEMPHIS 80
• GAME 2: MEMPHIS AT THUNDER (TUE. APRIL 22, 7:30 ET, TNT)
• GAME 3: THUNDER AT MEMPHIS (THU. APRIL 24, 9:30 ET, TNT)
• GAME 4: THUNDER AT MEMPHIS (SAT. APRIL 26, 3:30 ET, TNT)
• GAME 5: MEMPHIS AT THUNDER (MON. APRIL 28, TBD)*
• GAME 6: THUNDER AT MEMPHIS (THU. MAY 1, TBD)*
• GAME 7: MEMPHIS AT THUNDER (SAT. MAY 3, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
(2) HOUSTON VS. (7) GOLDEN STATE
• GAME 1: GOLDEN STATE 95 HOUSTON 85 (GOLDEN STATE LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: WARRIORS AT ROCKETS (WED. APRIL 23, 9:30 ET, TNT)
• GAME 3: ROCKETS AT WARRIORS (SAT. APRIL 26, 8:30 ET, ABC)
• GAME 4: ROCKETS AT WARRIORS (MON. APRIL 28, 10 ET, TNT)
• GAME 5: WARRIORS AT ROCKETS (WED. APRIL 30, TBD)*
• GAME 6: ROCKETS AT WARRIORS (FRI. MAY 2, TBD)*
• GAME 7: WARRIORS AT ROCKETS (SUN. MAY 4, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
(3) LOS ANGELES LAKERS VS. (6) MINNESOTA
• GAME 1: MINNESOTA 117 LOS ANGELES 95 (MINNESOTA LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: TIMBERWOLVES AT LAKERS (TUE. APRIL 22, 10 ET, TNT)
• GAME 3: LAKERS AT TIMBERWOLVES (FRI. APRIL 25, 9:30 ET, ESPN)
• GAME 4: LAKERS AT TIMBERWOLVES (SUN. APRIL 27, 3:30 ET, ABC)
• GAME 5: TIMBERWOLVES AT LAKERS (WED. APRIL 30, TBD)*
• GAME 6: LAKERS AT TIMBERWOLVES (FRI. MAY 2, TBD)*
• GAME 7: TIMBERWOLVES AT LAKERS (SUN. MAY 4, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
(4) DENVER VS. (5) LA CLIPPERS
• GAME 1: DENVER 112 LOS ANGELES 110 (OT) (DENVER LEADS SERIES 1-0)
• GAME 2: LOS ANGELES 105 DENVER 102 (SERIES EVEN 1-1)
• GAME 3: NUGGETS AT CLIPPERS (THU. APRIL 24, 10 ET, NBA TV)
• GAME 4: NUGGETS AT CLIPPERS (SAT. APRIL 26, 6 ET, TNT)
• GAME 5: CLIPPERS AT NUGGETS (TUE. APRIL 29, TBD)*
• GAME 6: NUGGETS AT CLIPPERS (THU. MAY 1, TBD)*
• GAME 7: CLIPPERS AT NUGGETS (SAT. MAY 3, TBD)*
* IF NECESSARY
> CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
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THE CONFERENCE FINALS WILL BEGIN MAY 20-21, BUT CAN MOVE UP TO MAY 18-19.
MAY 20: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 1 ON ESPN, 8:30 P.M. ET (POSSIBLE SERIES MOVE UP TO MAY 18)
MAY 21: EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 1 ON TNT, 8 P.M. ET (POSSIBLE SERIES MOVE UP TO MAY 19)
MAY 22: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 2 ON ESPN, 8:30 P.M. ET
MAY 23: EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 2 ON TNT, 8 P.M. ET
MAY 24: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 3 ON ABC, 8:30 P.M. ET
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MAY 26: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 4 ON ESPN, 8:30 P.M. ET
MAY 27: EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 4 ON TNT, 8 P.M. ET
MAY 28: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 5 ON ESPN, 8:30 P.M. ET (IF NECESSARY)
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MAY 30: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 6 ON ESPN, 8:30 P.M. ET (IF NECESSARY)
MAY 31: EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 6 ON TNT, 8 P.M. ET (IF NECESSARY)
JUNE 1: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 7 ON ESPN, 8 P.M. ET (IF NECESSARY)
JUNE 2: EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS – GAME 7 ON TNT, 8 P.M. ET (IF NECESSARY)
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JUNE 5: NBA FINALS 2025 PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE TV – GAME 1 ON ABC
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JUNE 11: NBA FINALS 2025 PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE TV – GAME 3 ON ABC
JUNE 13: NBA FINALS 2025 PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE TV – GAME 4 ON ABC
JUNE 16: NBA FINALS 2025 PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE TV – GAME 5 ON ABC (IF NECESSARY)
JUNE 19: NBA FINALS 2025 PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE TV – GAME 6 ON ABC (IF NECESSARY)
JUNE 22: NBA FINALS 2025 PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE TV – GAME 7 ON ABC (IF NECESSARY)
NHL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE/SCORES
WASHINGTON 3 MONTREAL 2 OT
WINNIPEG 2 ST. LOUIS 1
DALLAS 4 COLORADO 3 OT
LOS ANGELES 6 EDMONTON 5
EASTERN CONFERENCE
OTTAWA SENATORS (WC2) VS. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (1A)
GAME 1: TORONTO 6 OTTAWA 2 (TORONTO LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: SENATORS AT MAPLE LEAFS, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 7:30 P.M. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, ESPN2
GAME 3: MAPLE LEAFS AT SENATORS, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 7 P.M. ET; SNE, SNO, SNP, CBC, TVAS, ESPN2
GAME 4: MAPLE LEAFS AT SENATORS, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 7 P.M. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, TBS, TRUTV, MAX
GAME 5: SENATORS AT MAPLE LEAFS, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, TBD *
GAME 6: MAPLE LEAFS AT SENATORS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, TBD *
GAME 7: SENATORS AT MAPLE LEAFS, SATURDAY, MAY 3, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
FLORIDA PANTHERS (3A) VS. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING (2A)
GAME 1: PANTHERS AT LIGHTNING, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 8:30 P.M. ET; ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
GAME 2: PANTHERS AT LIGHTNING, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 6:30 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
GAME 3: LIGHTNING AT PANTHERS, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX,, SN, TVAS, FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
GAME 4: LIGHTNING AT PANTHERS, MONDAY, APRIL 28, TBD
GAME 5: PANTHERS AT LIGHTNING, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, TBD *
GAME 6: LIGHTNING AT PANTHERS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, TBD *
GAME 7: PANTHERS AT LIGHTNING, SUNDAY, MAY 4, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
MONTREAL CANADIENS (WC2) VS. WASHINGTON CAPITALS (1M)
GAME 1: WASHINGTON 3 MONTREAL 2 OT (WASHINGTON LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: CANADIENS AT CAPITALS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 7 P.M. ET; ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS, MNMT
GAME 3: CAPITALS AT CANADIENS, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 7 P.M. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, TNT, TRUTV, MAX, MNMT
GAME 4: CAPITALS AT CANADIENS, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 6:30 P.M. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, TBS, TRUTV, MAX, MNMT
GAME 5: CANADIENS AT CAPITALS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, TBD *
GAME 6: CAPITALS AT CANADIENS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, TBD *
GAME 7: CANADIENS/AT CAPITALS, SUNDAY, MAY 4, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
NEW JERSEY DEVILS (3M) VS. CAROLINA HURRICANES (2M)
GAME 1: CAROLINA 4 NEW JERSEY 1 (CAROLINA LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: DEVILS AT HURRICANES, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 6 P.M. ET; ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNSO, MSGSN
GAME 3: HURRICANES AT DEVILS, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 8 P.M. ET; TBS, MAX, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNSO, MSGSN
GAME 4: HURRICANES AT DEVILS, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 3:30 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX, SN, SN360, TVAS, FDSNSO, MSGSN
GAME 5: DEVILS AT HURRICANES, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, TBD *
GAME 6: HURRICANES AT DEVILS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, TBD *
GAME 7: DEVILS AT HURRICANES, SUNDAY, MAY 4, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
WESTERN CONFERENCE
ST. LOUIS BLUES (WC2) VS. WINNIPEG JETS (1C)
GAME 1: WINNIPEG 5 ST. LOUIS 3 (WINNIPEG LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: WINNIPEG 2 ST. LOUIS 1 (WINNIPEG LEADS SERIES 2-0)
GAME 3: JETS AT BLUES, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 9:30 P.M. ET; ESPN2, SN, CBC, TVAS, FDSNSW
GAME 4: JETS AT BLUES, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX, SN, CBC, TVAS, FDSNMW
GAME 5: BLUES AT JETS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, TBD *
GAME 6: JETS AT BLUES, FRIDAY, MAY 2, TBD *
GAME 7: BLUES AT JETS, SUNDAY, MAY 4, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
COLORADO AVALANCHE (3C) VS. DALLAS STARS (2C)
GAME 1: COLORADO 5 DALLAS 1 (COLORADO LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: DALLAS 4 COLORADO 4 OT (SERIES EVEN 1-1)
GAME 3: STARS AT AVALANCHE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 9:30 P.M. ET; ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, VICTORY+, ALT
GAME 4: STARS AT AVALANCHE, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 9:30 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX, SN, TVAS, VICTORY+, ALT
GAME 5: AVALANCHE AT STARS, MONDAY, APRIL 28, TBD *
GAME 6: STARS AT AVALANCHE, THURSDAY, MAY 1, TBD *
GAME 7: AVALANCHE AT STARS, SATURDAY, MAY 3, TBD*
* IF NECESSARY
MINNESOTA WILD (WC1) VS. VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS (1P)
GAME 1: VEGAS 4 MINNESOTA 2 (VEGAS LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: WILD AT GOLDEN KNIGHTS, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 11 P.M. ET; ESPN, SN, SN360, TVAS, FDSNNO, SCRIPPS
GAME 3: GOLDEN KNIGHTS AT WILD, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 9 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNNO, SCRIPPS
GAME 4: GOLDEN KNIGHTS AT WILD, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 4 P.M. ET; TBS, TRUTV, MAX, SNW, SNP, SN1, TVAS, FDSNNO, SCRIPPS
GAME 5: WILD AT GOLDEN KNIGHTS, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, TBD *
GAME 6: GOLDEN KNIGHTS AT WILD, THURSDAY, MAY 1, TBD *
GAME 7: WILD AT GOLDEN KNIGHTS, SATURDAY, MAY 3, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
EDMONTON OILERS (3P) VS. LOS ANGELES KINGS (2P)
GAME 1: LOS ANGELES 6 EDMONTON 5 ( LA LEADS SERIES 1-0)
GAME 2: OILERS AT KINGS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 10 P.M. ET; TBS, MAX, SN, CBC, TVAS, FDSNW
GAME 3: KINGS AT OILERS, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 10 P.M. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS2, TNT, TRUTV, MAX, FDSNW
GAME 4: KINGS AT OILERS, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 9:30 P.M. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, TBS, TRUTV, MAX, FDSNW
GAME 5: OILERS AT KINGS, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, TBD *
GAME 6: KINGS AT OILERS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, TBD *
GAME 7: OILERS AT KINGS, SATURDAY, MAY 3, TBD *
* IF NECESSARY
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
BOSTON 4 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2
CLEVELAND 6 NY YANKEES 4
MIAMI 6 CINCINNATI 3
DETROIT 6 SAN DIEGO 4
NY METS 5 PHILADELPHIA 4
ATLANTA 7 ST. LOUIS 6
HOUSTON 7 TORONTO 0
SAN FRANCISCO 5 MILWAUKEE 2
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
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UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE
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WOMEN’S PRO VOLLEYBALL
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KAWHI LEONARD SCORES 39 AS CLIPPERS EVEN SERIES VS. NUGGETS
Kawhi Leonard scored 39 points on 15-of-19 shooting as the visiting Los Angeles Clippers beat the Denver Nuggets 105-102 on Monday to level their Western Conference first-round playoff series at one win apiece.
Denver’s Christian Braun and Nikola Jokic missed 3-point attempts to end the game. Jokic wound up with a triple-double.
James Harden added 18 points, Ivica Zubac contributed 16 points and 12 rebounds and Norman Powell scored 13 points for Los Angeles.
“Tough fight,” Leonard said postgame on TNT. “This is what the playoffs are about.”
The best-of-seven series shifts to California for Game 3 on Thursday in Inglewood.
Leonard bounced back from a seven-turnover performance in the opener on Saturday, a 112-110 Denver win in overtime. He hit his first six shots on Monday, missed a pullup jumper early in the second quarter and didn’t miss again until early in the fourth.
He scored 12 points in the final period and finished the game with just one turnover.
Denver was the team plagued by turnovers in Game 2. The Nuggets finished with 20 — matching the Clippers’ total from Saturday. Jokic had seven giveaways on Monday to go with his 26 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
Michael Porter Jr., held to three points in Game 1, finished with 15 points and 15 rebounds for Denver. Jamal Murray scored 23 points, and Russell Westbrook and Aaron Gordon finished with 14 apiece.
Los Angeles used a 9-2 run to lead 87-81 early in the fourth, but the Nuggets answered to retake the lead. The Clippers went back up by four with 5:16 left on a Powell floating jump shot.
Jokic split a pair of free throws and Porter hit a 3-pointer off a turnover to tie it before Porter sank a go-ahead free throw (but missed the second) with 3:31 left.
Zubac’s layup and Leonard’s 10-foot jumper gave the Clippers a 100-97 lead before Murray and Powell traded 3-pointers, leaving Los Angeles up 103-100 with 1:30 to go. Jokic’s two free throws with 1:16 left cut the deficit to one before Leonard hit another jumper with 54.1 seconds remaining.
Leonard stole Jokic’s pass but Harden missed at the other end, but the Nuggets’ two shots for the tie were unsuccessful.
Things became heated with 5:18 left in the third quarter. Murray was called for a foul when he grabbed Powell around the waist. Powell reacted with a swipe at Murray, and both teams and coaches came out to try to defuse the situation.
Braun, Powell and Los Angeles’ Kris Dunn were given technical fouls.
PISTONS HALT PLAYOFF SKID IN GAME 2, KNOT SERIES VS. KNICKS
Cade Cunningham scored 33 points and Dennis Schroder hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 55.7 seconds left as the visiting Detroit Pistons evened their Eastern Conference first-round series, escaping with a physical 100-94 Game 2 victory over the New York Knicks on Monday night.
Game 3 is Thursday in Detroit.
After struggling through a rough playoff debut on Saturday when the Pistons blew an eight-point lead in the fourth quarter and were outscored 40-21, Cunningham delivered a masterful performance with 11-of-21 shooting from the field and helped Detroit overcome 37 points by New York star Jalen Brunson.
Even with Cunningham’s big showing, the Pistons nearly did not do enough to avoid folding down the stretch as they blew a 13-point lead, getting outscored 19-6 in a span of 5:55.
The Knicks roared back from an 88-75 deficit and forged a 94-94 deadlock with 1:15 remaining when Brunson passed out of a double team to a cutting Josh Hart, who converted a dunk.
On the next possession, the Pistons regained the lead when Schroder hit a 3 from the left side over Brunson late in the shot clock.
Brunson missed a potential tying 3 with 46.5 seconds left and Mikal Bridges was off on another 3-pointer with 11 seconds left. Detroit finished it off by sinking three free throws in the final 8.1 seconds.
Schroder added 20 for the Pistons, who stopped an NBA-record 15-game postseason losing streak that dated to Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics. Tobias Harris added 15 points and 13 rebounds while Jalen Duren collected 12 points, 13 boards and three blocks as the Pistons outrebounded New York 48-34.
Brunson scored 14 of his points in the fourth and Bridges added 19 in the game, but the Knicks shot 42 percent and got little from Karl Anthony-Towns and OG Anunoby, who were held to 10 apiece. Hart also scored 10.
Cunningham scored eight points as the Pistons shot 50 percent and did most of their scoring in the paint to build a 25-18 lead through the opening quarter. Detroit took a 42-30 lead on Cunningham’s 3-pointer with 7:01 left, and he capped his strong half with a difficult off-balance six-footer in the lane over Mitchell Robinson. The Pistons led 55-49 at the break.
After the Knicks cut the deficit to four, the Pistons scored 11 straight and opened a 68-53 lead on a layup by Paul Reed with 5:02 left that followed a dunk by Cunningham.
The Pistons took a 75-67 lead into the fourth after Cunningham split two free throws with 2.6 seconds left, then opened an 88-75 edge on Reed’s putback with 7:10 left before surviving the final minutes.
DUKE FRESHMAN COOPER FLAGG IS HEADED TO THE NBA AS THE FAVORITE TO BE THE NO. 1 OVERALL DRAFT PICK
Duke star Cooper Flagg is headed to the NBA as the favorite to be the No. 1 overall draft pick.
The program announced Flagg’s move in a social media post Monday following after a lone college season that saw the 18-year-old become only the fourth freshman named as The Associated Press national player of the year while leading the Blue Devils to the Final Four.
Flagg had reclassified to get to Duke a year early, and his decision was expected all year, even as he generally declined to spell out plans about his professional future as the season pushed into March or mentioned how much fun he had playing in college.
“I mean, it’s been an incredible year with a really great group of people,” Flagg told the AP in March after winning national player of the year.
The 6-foot-9, 205-pound forward from Newport, Maine, averaged 19.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.4 steals to lead the Blue Devils in each category. He’s a versatile threat who showed the ability to thrive as a scorer, playmaker and defender.
“His highlights, his statistics, the ways he impacted the game on both ends of the floor, really in every category, was off the charts — as good of a freshman season that a guy has had here,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said in a social media video from the program about Flagg’s NBA declaration.
“But to me the separator and the joy of coaching Cooper is the person he was every day, the teammate that he was — never about statistics or anything other than creating an environment and helping his team to win.”
The statistical highlight came when Flagg scored 42 points to set an Atlantic Coast Conference freshman record against Notre Dame in January, along with having 30 points, six rebounds and seven assists to help Duke hold off Arizona in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. There were plenty of impressive single plays, too, that demanded highlight-reel placement like his transition dunk through a defender against Pittsburgh in January.
Flagg closed with 27 points and seven rebounds in a loss to Houston in the national semifinals. The Blue Devils had led by 14 with about 8 1/2 minutes left but faltered late, with Houston scoring the game’s last nine points in the final 33 seconds and Flagg missing a late shot for the lead.
Still, he was an elite and hypercompetitive force for one of college basketball’s top teams all season with a game far more advanced than his age, capable of making an impact from baseline to baseline and sideline to sideline. He won’t turn 19 until December, which would be roughly two months into his rookie season.
Flagg is the third Duke player to announce an early exit for the NBA in the past week, joining freshman wing Kon Knueppel and junior guard Tyrese Proctor.
HAWKS FIRE GM FIELDS, PROMOTE SALEH TO THAT ROLE, WILL SEARCH FOR PRESIDENT OF BASKETBALL OPS
Landry Fields was fired as general manager of the Atlanta Hawks on Monday after three seasons, with the team missing the playoffs in the last two of those.
The Hawks promoted Onsi Saleh to the GM role, while also announcing that they have opened a search for a president of basketball operations. Atlanta went 40-42 this season, then missed the playoffs after going 0-2 in the play-in tournament.
“Every offseason we evaluate how we operate and ways we can improve our organization,” Hawks principal owner Tony Ressler said. “As we enter this pivotal offseason, we have several complex decisions ahead of us, and we are committed to providing the human and financial resources needed to ensure that we navigate these decisions with a high level of precision and foresight.”
Ressler added that “adding an accomplished, senior-level leader to provide strategic direction and structure” alongside Saleh “is a top priority.”
Fields led the decision-making a year ago when Atlanta had the No. 1 pick and selected Zaccharie Risacher, who is a finalist for rookie of the year this season. The Hawks have an All-Star guard in Trae Young and another budding star in Dyson Daniels, a finalist for both defensive player of the year and most improved player this season.
NHL NEWS
NHL ROUNDUP: ALEX OVECHKIN’S FIRST PLAYOFF OT GOAL LIFTS CAPS
Alex Ovechkin scored two goals, including the winner in overtime, to lift the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 victory over the visiting Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series on Monday.
It was Ovechkin’s first career playoff overtime goal. He also notched an assist for Washington, which squandered a two-goal lead in the third period but rallied in the extra session. Anthony Beauvillier finished with a goal and an assist, and Dylan Strome logged three assists.
Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal, each on an assist from Lane Hutson.
Ovechkin, 39, added another highlight to a magical season in which he surpassed Wayne Gretzky as the NHL’s all-time goal scoring leader. He sealed the series opener after the Capitals won a faceoff in the offensive zone and Beauvillier found him open in front of the net. The tally was the 74th career playoff goal for Ovechkin, who finished the regular season with 897 career goals, three more than Gretzky.
Kings 6, Oilers 5
Phillip Danault scored his second goal of the game with 41.1 seconds remaining in regulation to give host Los Angeles a wild victory over Edmonton in their Stanley Cup playoff opener.
Andrei Kuzmenko and Adrian Kempe both collected one goal and two assists while Quinton Byfield and Kevin Fiala both registered one goal and one assist for the Kings. Goaltender Darcy Kuemper made 20 saves for the Kings, who held a 4-0 lead late in the second period and 5-2 edge in the third before the Oilers charged back.
Connor McDavid scored once in a four-point game for Edmonton, while Corey Perry and Leon Draisaitl each notched one goal and one assist. Mattias Janmark and Zach Hyman added a goal apiece, Evan Bouchard collected three assists, and Stuart Skinner stopped 24 shots.
Stars 4, Avalanche 3 (OT)
Colin Blackwell scored 17:46 into overtime to give Dallas a win over visiting Colorado, evening their first-round Western Conference playoff series at one victory each.
Evgenii Dadonov, Thomas Harley and Tyler Seguin scored for the Stars in regulation, and Sam Steel had two assists, including the setup for the OT tally. Jake Oettinger stopped 34 of 37 shots.
Logan O’Connor had a goal and an assist for the Avalanche. Jack Drury and Nathan MacKinnon also tallied for Colorado, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 35 saves.
Jets 2, Blues 1
Kyle Connor scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period for a second straight game to help Winnipeg to a win against visiting St. Louis in Game 2 of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Mark Scheifele had a goal and an assist for the Jets, who lead the series 2-0. Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves.
Jimmy Snuggerud scored and Jordan Binnington stopped 20 shots for the Blues.
MLB NEWS
MLB ROUNDUP: HUNTER BROWN, ASTROS SHUT DOWN BLUE JAYS
Hunter Brown extended his consecutive scoreless innings streak to 24 and the Houston Astros parlayed a four-run fifth inning into a 7-0 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.
Brown (3-1) surrendered two hits and issued one walk while recording a season-high nine strikeouts over seven dominant innings in working his third consecutive scoreless start. Brown’s streak of 24 shutout innings is the longest in the majors this season and the longest by an Astros starter since Cristian Javier strung together 25 1/3 scoreless innings in 2022.
The Blue Jays managed to push one baserunner into scoring position with Brown on the bump but George Springer was left stranded at third in the second inning. Brown retired the side in order in the seventh to end his night.
Toronto right-hander Kevin Gausman (2-2) matched zeros with Brown before the bottom suddenly fell out in the fifth inning, when Houston scored five runs with six straight batters reaching base.
Mets 5, Phillies 4
Francisco Lindor homered twice and Tylor Megill dominated visiting Philadelphia for 5 1/3 innings as New York opened with a win in an early-season showdown of National League East rivals.
Megill (3-2) allowed only one hit and four walks while striking out 10 in a 92-pitch effort that gave New York its fifth straight win. Max Kranick and Edwin Diaz combined to give up four ninth-inning runs, but Diaz garnered his sixth save.
Phillies starter Aaron Nola (0-5) continued his rough start to the season, getting tagged for seven hits and four runs over 6 1/3 innings. The outing actually decreased Nola’s earned run average to 6.43.
Red Sox 4, White Sox 2
Walker Buehler allowed one run on four hits and struck out nine in seven innings to help Boston defeat visiting Chicago in a late-morning start on Patriots’ Day.
Rob Refsnyder hit a home run for Boston, his first. Trevor Story had three hits for the Red Sox, while Kristian Campbell added two hits, including a two-run single.
The White Sox received a solo home run from Andrew Benintendi, who collected two of the team’s five hits. Boston won three of the four games in the series, while the loss dropped Chicago’s road record to 1-9.
Guardians 6, Yankees 4
Jose Ramirez clubbed a three-run homer and added an RBI single and Kyle Manzardo also went deep as Cleveland beat visiting New York for its fourth straight win.
Gavin Williams (2-1) allowed just Jasson Dominguez’s two-run homer and struck out eight in 6 1/3 innings for the Guardians, who are 10-3 since losing six of their first nine. Cade Smith struck out Yankees slugger Aaron Judge representing the tying run to end the game.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. clubbed a two-run homer for the Yankees while starter Clarke Schmidt (0-1) yielded seven hits (including both Cleveland homers) while striking out seven in four innings.
Marlins 6, Reds 3
Max Meyer pitched six scoreless innings and struck out a career-high 14 as host Miami cooled off Cincinnati.
The Reds were coming off a 24-2 win over Baltimore on Sunday, but they managed just five hits and no walks against Meyer in the opener of a three-game series. Miami got a three-run, pinch-hit homer from Kyle Stowers and a solo blast from Eric Wagaman.
Miami’s Jesus Tinoco pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save of the season. Reds starter Nick Lodolo (2-2), who came off paternity leave Monday, went 5 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits, two walks and three runs. Gavin Lux led Cincinnati’s offense with a two-run homer.
Tigers 6, Padres 4
Gleyber Torres had three hits and drove in two runs as host Detroit downed San Diego in the opener of a three-game series.
Zach McKinstry supplied three hits, scored a run and drove in another. Keider Montero gave up four runs (three earned) in 4 1/3 innings. Brenan Hanifee (1-0) tossed two innings of scoreless relief.
San Diego’s Gavin Sheets homered and Oscar Gonzalez added two hits, including an RBI single. Starter Randy Vasquez (1-2) gave up six runs in two-plus innings.
Braves 7, Cardinals 6
Michael Harris II drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly and Sean Murphy followed with a three-run homer in the eighth inning as Atlanta came from behind to beat visiting St. Louis and extend its winning streak to four games.
The winning pitcher was Daysbel Hernandez (2-0). Closer Raisel Iglesias allowed three runs in the ninth inning, including a two-run homer to Willson Contreras. Iglesias got Nolan Arenado to ground out to end the game, though Iglesias did not get a save.
St. Louis’ Erick Fedde threw six innings and allowed two runs on five hits. Atlanta’s Spencer Schwellenbach pitched seven innings and allowed three runs (two earned) on eight hits.
NFL NEWS
SUPER BOWL CHAMPION EAGLES AND PRO BOWL CENTER CAM JURGENS AGREE TO A 4-YEAR EXTENSION THROUGH 2029
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles and Pro Bowl center Cam Jurgens have agreed to a four-year contract extension through 2029, the team announced Monday.
The 25-year-old Jurgens made the Pro Bowl for the first time last season following a switch back to center after six-time All-Pro Jason Kelce retired. Jurgens was a backup as a rookie in 2022 after being drafted out of Nebraska in the second round and made 11 starts at right guard in 2023.
Philadelphia went 14-3 last season and dominated Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in winning its second Super Bowl title. The Eagles, led by mobile quarterback Jalen Hurts and a strong offensive line, rushed for a franchise-record 3,048 yards last season.
Barkley, the 2024 AP Offensive Player of the Year, set an NFL record for most yards rushing in a regular season and playoffs combined with 2,504. In March, Barkley signed a two-year, $41.2 million contract extension with $36 million guaranteed that made him league’s highest-paid player at the position.
REPORTS: SHANNON SHARPE ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
A Nevada lawsuit accuses former NFL player Shannon Sharpe of sexual assault, several media outlets confirmed Monday.
A woman has accused the former player and media personality of sexually assaulting her, battering her and using his fame to control and subjugate her. The pair had a two-year relationship, the woman said.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer denied the allegations through his attorney, who termed the relationship “consensual and sexual in nature.”
“(The suit) is filled with lies, distortions, and misrepresentations — and it will not succeed,” Sharpe’s statement said.
The lawsuit describes several instances of alleged abuse, highlighting the difference in age between the two, with the woman being in excess of 30 years younger than Sharpe.
That played into controlling behavior, including rape, impermissible recordings of sexual encounters and physical assault, the lawsuit alleges.
“He is a flawed, narcissistic individual who has spent years using his fame, power and influence to manipulate, control, subjugate and violate women,” the lawsuit alleged.
Sharpe, 56, publicly apologized for broadcasting a sex act on Instagram Live last fall, calling that situation an accident. The lawsuit addresses that incident, describing it as an act of infidelity and a point of emotional distress for the complainant.
The lawsuit was filed by Tony Buzbee, who has represented other women in sexual assault cases, including several of the female massage therapists in the DeShaun Watson allegations as well as women who claim to have been assaulted by Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Sharpe played tight end for 14 seasons in the NFL with the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens, and earned several accolades, including eight Pro Bowl nominations, while winning three Super Bowls.
He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 2011.
Currently, Sharpe is employed by ESPN as a sports commentator after a previous stint with Fox Sports.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
COLLEGE BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: SURPRISING HAWKEYES RIDE STRONG HITTING AND PITCHING TO TOP OF BIG TEN
No one is surprised that West Coast additions UCLA, Oregon, Southern California and Washington are lined up in a row in the Big Ten Conference standings.
What’s surprising is that Iowa is the one team in front of them.
The Hawkeyes (27-11, 17-4), picked ninth in the conference by D1Baseball.com, are coming off a three-game sweep at Michigan and start the week 2 1/2 games ahead of second-place UCLA.
Iowa now starts one of the toughest finishing Big Ten stretches. It hosts Indiana this week, visits Washington on May 2-4 and closes at home against Oregon on May 15-17. All three opponents are in the top six in the standings. The Hawkeyes also play Oregon State in a nonconference series on May 9-11 in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Hawkeyes lead the conference in batting (.310), with Gable Mitchell, Reese Moore, Miles Risley and Ben Wilmes each hitting .320 or higher. They are averaging better than 9 runs per game in conference play.
Their weekend rotation is led by left-hander Cade Obermueller, whose decision to return to school after being selected in the 19th round in the 2024 Major League Baseball amateur draft is paying off. His fastball is up a couple of ticks into the low 90s, and he’s added polish to his slider and changeup. He leads the Big Ten in strikeouts and has cut his walk rate in half.
Obermueller (4-2), Aaron Savary (6-0) and Reece Beuter (4-0) have combined to go 14-2 with a 3.34 ERA and 10.6 strikeouts and 3.5 walks per nine innings.
In the polls
Texas (33-5) remains the consensus No. 1 team in the polls after a three-game sweep of Auburn.
Clemson (35-7) is No. 2 and North Carolina (31-9) is No. 3 by Baseball America, which dropped Tennessee and Georgia out of the top three after they both lost series. Clemson won two of three against Louisville and the Tar Heels won two of three at Virginia Tech.
D1Baseball also has Clemson at No. 2, followed by Oregon State (30-7).
Longhorns widen lead
Texas, at 16-2 in Southeastern Conference play, has opened a three-game lead and won 10 of its last 11 league games. Kimble Schuessler hit a pair of three-run homers to go with a two-run double for an eight-RBI day in Saturday’s 14-2 win over Auburn.
Second-place Arkansas lost two of three at home to resurgent Texas A&M, which has won nine of its last 10 games and three straight SEC series.
Mother-son mom
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One of the heartwarming moments of the weekend came in the first inning of Mississippi’s 12-2 win at South Carolina when Austin Fawley hit a first-inning grand slam and his mom, Jennifer Fawley, caught the ball off one bounce on the left-field concourse.
Jennifer, wearing a red “Rebels Mama” T-shirt, made the grab with her right hand while holding her phone with her left. She beamed as he held up both arms in celebration.
Sunflower sweep
Kansas’ season keeps getting better. The Jayhawks (31-10, 12-6 Big 12) swept Kansas State at home to match their 2024 win total with 15 regular-season games left. They have their best record through 41 games since the 1993 team opened 32-9 on its way to the College World Series.
Cleanup spot
Yale freshman Jack Ohman, who gave up just one earned run in his first 47 1/3 innings, was tagged for three in 6 2/3 innings of a 7-4 win over Penn on Saturday. That bumped his nation-leading ERA from 0.19 to 0.67. … Mason Neville homered in back-to-back games of Oregon’s series win over UCLA to take over the national lead with 19. … Miami took three games from Georgia Tech at home for its first sweep of a top-15 opponent since 2022. The Hurricanes (24-17, 9-9 ACC) have won seven of their last eight. … Clemson sophomore Drew Titsworth pitched six scoreless innings Saturday in his first career start, a 2-1 win over Louisville. … West Virginia (34-4) extended its nation-leading win streak to 14 games with a sweep of Cincinnati at home.
RUNNING
SHARON LOKEDI BREAKS BOSTON MARATHON COURSE RECORD. JOHN KORIR JOINS HIS BROTHER AS A BOSTON WINNER
BOSTON (AP) — Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday as the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War.
Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over the final mile a year after losing a sprint down Boylston Street to her in one of the closest finishes in race history. Lokedi finished in an unofficial 2 hours, 17 minutes, 22 seconds — 19 seconds ahead of Obiri and more than 2 1/2 minutes faster than the previous Boston best.
Six months after winning Chicago, Korir finished in 2:04:45 — the second-fastest winning time in race history as the runners took advantage of perfect marathon weather to conquer the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston’s Copley Square.
After crossing the line, Korir was greeted by his older brother, 2012 Boston winner Wesley Korir. Although the race has been won by a pair of unrelated John Kelleys and two different Robert Cheruiyots, the Korirs are the first brothers — or relatives of any kind — to win the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon.
Conner Mantz of Provo, Utah, finished fourth after losing a three-way sprint to the finish with Alphonce Felix Simbu of Tanzania and Cybrian Kotut of Kenya. Simbu was second and Kotut was third.
Korir ran without his bib showing, pulling it out of his running tights as he sprinted down Boylston Street.
Reenactors on horseback, accompanied by a fife and drum playing “Yankee Doodle,” helped start the festivities and add a bit of levity when Paul Revere’s horse was spooked by the finish line decal on the street and stopped. The actor portraying the colonial silversmith and patriot had to hop off and walk the last few steps himself as the small early crowd laughed and clapped.
After reading a proclamation, Revere gently tugged the horse the rest of the way before riding off to more ceremonies commemorating the midnight ride on April 19, 1775, that warned the colonists in Lexington and Concord that the British were on the march.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland had no such trouble completing the course, zooming into Copley Square in 1:21:34 for his eighth Boston wheelchair title. He beat two-time winner Daniel Romanchuk by more than four minutes in the 50th anniversary of Bob Hall’s pioneering push to add a wheelchair division to the race.
“It means a lot to win this year, 50 years of wheelchairs in Boston,” Hug said. “For me, it will take some time to realize what it means, eight times wins. It’s such an incredible number.”
Susannah Scaroni of the United States won the women’s wheelchair race for the second time, finishing in 1:35:20. Her victory guaranteed that the “Star-Spangled Banner” would play on Boylston Street in Copley Square on Patriots’ Day, the state holiday that commemorates the first shots of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago Saturday.
TOP INDIANA HEADLINES
PORTAL DESTINATIONS (INDIANA TIES)
Luke Almodovar, So., St. Francis, Ind./NAIA (Noblesville): 20.0 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 1.0 apg — COMMITTED TO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE
Landen Babusiak, R-Fr., Stetson (Hanover Central/Bosco Institute): 1.0 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 0.5 apg
Reggie Bass, Jr., Lindenwood (Tech): 12.2 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.7 apg
Flory Bidunga, Fr., Kansas (Kokomo): 5.9 ppg, 5.4 rpg — COMMITTED TO RETURN TO KANSAS
Jalen Blackmon, Sr., Miami, Fla. (Marion): 6.9 ppg, 1.2 rpg, 1.4 apg
Vincent Brady II, Jr., Missouri State (Cathedral): 13.5 ppg, 38% on 3s — COMMITTED TO HIGH POINT
Jayden Brewer, Jr., FIU (Ben Davis): 14.5 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 1.7 apg
Xavier Booker, So., Michigan State (Cathedral): 4.7 ppg, 2.2 rpg — COMMITTED TO UCLA
Kanon Catchings, Fr., BYU (Overtime Elite/Brownsburg): 7.2 ppg, 2.2 rpg — COMMITTED TO GEORGIA
Myles Colvin, So., Purdue (Heritage Christian): 5.4 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 0.5 apg — COMMITTED TO WAKE FOREST
Tayshawn Comer, Jr., Evansville (Cathedral): 16.2 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 4.1 apg
Ryan Conwell, Jr., Xavier (Pike): 16.5 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 2.5 apg — COMMITTED TO LOUISVILLE
DaJohn Craig, So., Oregon (Lawrence Central): 1.9 ppg, 0.7 rpg, 0.5 apg — COMMITTED TO COASTAL CAROLINA
AJ Dancler, So., Le Moyne (Southport): 15.1 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 3.4 apg — COMMITTED TO COASTAL CAROLINA
Koron Davis, Jr., Lafayette (Gary Bowman): 8.7 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 0.4 apg
Micah Davis, Fr., Eastern Kentucky (Franklin): 0.8 ppg, 0.3 rpg, 0.3 apg — COMMITTED TO IU INDY
Tae Davis, Jr., Notre Dame (Warren Central): 15.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.8 apg — COMMITTED TO OKLAHOMA
Owen Dease, Jr., Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Evansville Reitz): 7.5 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 1.3 apg — COMMITTED TO VALPARAISO
Keaton Dukes, Jr., Purdue Fort Wayne (Wawasee): 1.5 ppg, 0.3 rpg
Jaxon Edwards, Jr., St. Bonaventure (Cathedral): 3.0 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 0.5 apg — COMMITTED TO IU INDY
Michael Eley, Jr., Tulane (Veritas Prep – from Fort Wayne): 8.0 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 0.8 apg
Gus Etchison, Sr., Marian/NAIA (Hamilton Heights): 19.8 ppg, 3.3 rpg
Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn, So., Illinois (McCutcheon et al.): 4.6 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.5 apg
Maximus Gizzi, Sr., Huntington/NAIA (New Palestine): 10.6 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 3.7 apg
Landin Hacker, Jr., Bellarmine (Center Grove): 5.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.9 apg
Cameron Haffner, Jr., Evansville (Westfield): 12.7 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 1.4 apg — COMMITTED TO WESTERN KENTUCKY
Brit Harris, Jr., SC Upstate (Michigan City Marquette/Bosco Institute): 11.6 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 2.7 apg
Connor Hickman, Sr., Cincinnati (Bloomington South): 8.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 1.8 apg — COMMITTED TO COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
Nick Hittle, Sr., Southern Indiana (Culver Academy): 4.5 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 0.5 apg
Curt Hopf, Jr., Bellarmine (Barr-Reeve): 4.1 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 0.8 apg
Drew Kegerreis, Fr., IU Indy (Roncalli): Redshirted this past season. — COMMITTED TO MISSOURI BAPTIST
J.R. Konieczny, Jr., Notre Dame (South Bend St. Joseph): 4.3 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 0.8 apg
Jalen Jackson, Jr., Purdue Fort Wayne (FW Northrop): 19.2 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 3.1 apg — COMMITTED TO BUTLER
Shilo Jackson, Jr., Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (North Central): 5.4 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 0.4 apg
Kamari Jones, Fr., Western Carolina (Lawrence Central): 3.0 ppg, 0.8 rpg, 0.3 apg
RaSheed Jones, So., Coastal Carolina (Marion): 11.6 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.1 apg
Jeffrey ‘JT’ Langston Jr., Fr., Southern Utah (San Gabriel Academy – from Fort Wayne): 6.4 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 0.6 apg
Jordan Lomax, Fr., Purdue Fort Wayne (Brownsburg): N/A
AJ Lux, Fr., Bellarmine (Crown Point): 3.3 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 0.5 apg
David Meriwether, East Tennessee State (Lawrence North): 1.3 ppg, 2.0 rpg
Tytan Newton, R-So., Morgan State (Richmond): 1.1 ppg, 1.0 rpg, 0.3 apg
Mason Nicholson, R-Jr., Jacksonville State (Gary West Side): 7.5 ppg, 7.4 rpg — COMMITTED TO VANDERBILT
Okechukwu Okeke, Sr., FIU (East Chicago Central): 4.7 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 0.1 apg
Nijel Pack, Gr., Miami (Lawrence Central): 14.2 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 3.2 apg — COMMITTED TO OKLAHOMA
Quimari Peterson, Sr., East Tennessee State (Gary West Side): 19.5 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 3.7 apg — COMMITTED TO WASHINGTON
Kiyron Powell, Jr., Western Illinois (Evansville Bosse): 2.5 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 0.2 apg
Zach Reed, R-So., Bellarmine (Brebeuf Jesuit): 3.5 ppg, 1.0 rpg, 0.3 apg
JaQualon ‘JQ’ Roberts, So., Vanderbilt (Bloomington North): 1.0 ppg, 0.8 rpg — COMMITTED TO DAVIDSON
Ron Rutland III, Fr., IU Indy (Crispus Attucks): 2.2 ppg, 0.5 rpg, 0.6 apg — COMMITTED TO MARIAN (NAIA)
Tyler Schmidt, Sr., Valparaiso (Victory Christian): 10.1 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.6 apg — COMMITTED TO TOWSON
Sheridan Sharp, So., Southern Illinois (Ben Davis): 4.5 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 2.3 apg
Tyler Shirley, Sr., Florida A&M (Pebblebrook Ga., from Gary): 3.1 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 0.6 apg
Billy Smith, Jr., Bellarmine (Brebeuf Jesuit): 14.0 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.6 apg
Isaiah Stafford, Sr., Valparaiso (Crispus Attucks): 16.9 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 2.1 apg
Jahni Summers, So., Indiana State (Evansville Harrison): 5.7 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 0.6 apg
Tucker Tornatta, Fr., UIndy (Evansville Memorial): 7.6 ppg, 5.8 rpg
Cayden Vasko, So., Central Michigan (Lowell/Bosco Institute): 7.4 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 2.6 apg
Brian Waddell, Jr., Purdue (Carmel): 2.0 ppg, 0.8 rpg
Leland Walker, Jr., Florida Atlantic (North Central/Hargrave Military): 9.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 4.1 apg
Jalen Washington, Jr., North Carolina (Gary West Side): 5.7 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 0.5 apg — COMMITTED TO VANDERBILT
Ashton Williamson, Fr., FIU (Gary 21st Century): 7.3 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.7 apg
Harold Woods, Jr., Northeastern (Hammond): 11.8 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 2.4 apg — COMMITTED TO INCARNATE WORD
TRANSFER-PORTAL NEWS
FOOTBALL
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
IU adds guard Jerni Kaiku (Duquesne)
INDIANA PACERS
PACERS PREPARE FOR BUCKS’ RESPONSE IN GAME 2
Moments after Indiana finished a dominant win over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first-round series, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle was already looking ahead.
The Pacers never trailed after taking the lead early in the first quarter, but Carlisle cautioned his team about becoming overconfident entering Game 2 of the best-of-seven series Tuesday in Indianapolis.
“The series is one-seventh over, and Game 2 will be monumentally more difficult than this one,” Carlisle said. “Everybody on our team has got to be armed and dangerous. Striking the right balance is everything for our team.”
Indiana claimed the 1-0 lead with a 117-98 win on Saturday. Pascal Siakam scored 25 points, Myles Turner added 19 and Andrew Nembhard had 17 for Indiana, which led by as many as 28 points and shot 51.9 percent from the field.
Milwaukee lacked scoring options in the opener. Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had 36 points and 12 rebounds, was a one-man show but it wasn’t enough to keep up with the Pacers. The Bucks trailed 67-43 at the half.
“It wasn’t us,” Antetokounmpo said of his assessment of the way Milwaukee played in Game 1. “I think we’re gonna be better. In the second half we were better. They only scored 50 points in the second half. We were way better in the second half. Hopefully we can carry over to the next game and do what we do, guys feel more comfortable out there.”
Bucks guard Damian Lillard could return Tuesday after missing Game 1. He was cleared of deep vein thrombosis in his right calf, but the Bucks are weighing how quickly to advance this stage of his recovery. Lillard last played on March 18 against the Golden State Warriors.
The 34-year-old Lillard has been practicing with the team and even received a technical foul after arguing with Siakam from the bench late in Game 1. Lillard has been a full participant in practice since Thursday.
Head coach Doc Rivers said the Bucks are “hopeful” they’ll have Lillard on the court during the series.
Even after Lillard returns, Milwaukee faces a tough matchup against an Indiana team that is 16-3 at home since the All-Star break, including Game 1.
“It’s a team that plays really good basketball, it’s a team that you gotta compete,” Antetokounmpo said. “They’re not going to give it to you. You gotta go out there and take it from them. And I think just to simplify things: In order for us to win the series we gotta win on the road. So, simple. We just gotta figure out a way to win.”
The Pacers held Milwaukee’s four starters besides Antetokounmpo to a total of 14 points on 5-of-20 (25 percent) shooting in Game 1, but Turner said there is still room for improvement.
“That’s what Game 1 is all about,” Turner said. “Get your baseline and make your adjustments and improve from there. Glad to have gotten a dose of where we’re at right now. Now we watch film, get two days of evaluating and make our adjustments from here.”
Indiana succeeded in slowing down Bucks forward Kyle Kuzma, who went scoreless in 21 minutes on 0-of-5 shooting on Saturday.
The Pacers also limited Milwaukee to 24.3 percent (9 of 37) shooting from 3-point range after the Bucks entered the playoffs as the best 3-point shooting team in the league at 38.7 percent.
Lillard’s imminent return should provide an immediate boost. The nine-time All-Star averaged 24.9 points and 7.1 assists in 58 games this season.
COLTS FOOTBALL
COLTS GM: QB COMPETITION NEEDS TO PLAY OUT
Quarterbacks Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson were drafted into different situations by different teams but landed on the same depth chart with the Indianapolis Colts because of indifferent results.
As the Colts approach the 2025 NFL Draft this week, general manager Chris Ballard believes one of the former top-10 picks is destined to pan out. He remains confident Richardson, who turns 23 in May, has time to turn his career around.
“Sometimes you’ve got to be bad before you can be good at playing this game. Sometimes you’ve got to struggle before you can be good, all right?” Ballard said. “We’ve got two guys that have had some really strong flashes and have had some bad moments, too — and that’s OK. I think both of them will be better because of this, and I think the team will be better because of it. You know, competition brings out the best in everybody, and I think we’ll see that.
“To sit here a day before we even start the offseason and have a vision of how … you don’t want to begin with an end in mind. We’re not going to do that. It’s like the draft. You don’t want to begin with an end in mind. You’ve got to let things play out the way they should and compete and who gives the team the best chance to win. Look, if I’m a betting man, at some point, both of them will help us.”
Ballard has been GM of the Colts since 2017. He drafted Richardson fourth overall in 2023 and signed Jones as an unrestricted free agent in March.
Richardson lost three fumbles, had 12 interceptions, eight touchdown passes and a 47.7 completion percentage in 2024. Jones had two fumbles, seven interceptions, eight touchdown passes and completed 63.3 percent of his passes with the Giants last season.
Jones was the sixth pick in 2019 with the Giants. His run with the franchise included a torn ACL and a playoff appearance before he was released last November.
The GM said a competition for the starting job will include four judges: him, head coach Shane Steichen, offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter, owner Jim Irsay and come down to one obvious question: “Who gives us our best chance to win?”
COLTS LB JAYLON CARLIES UNDERWENT SHOULDER SURGERY
Indianapolis Colts linebacker Jaylon Carlies is recovering from offseason shoulder surgery and is expected to be ready for training camp.
Colts general manager Chris Ballard made the disclosure during a press conference on Monday.
Carlies, 23, played in 10 games (six starts) as a rookie in 2024, earning starts in the final three games of the season. He finished with 36 tackles, including two for loss, one pass defensed and a sack.
The Colts selected Carlies in the fifth round of the 2024 draft.
INDIANA BASEBALL
MOORE’S CLUTCH WEEKEND WARRANTS BIG AWARD
ROSEMONT, Ill. – Freshman third baseman Will Moore was the right guy at the plate this weekend as the Hoosiers picked up a big series win over Maryland. His efforts in the batter’s box earned him his first career Big Ten Freshman of the Week award, as announced by the league office on Monday (April 21) evening.
Moore was instrumental in IU’s weekend, delivering clutch hits at just the right time. On Friday night, he helped complete the comeback win over Maryland with a RBI single in the ninth inning. He was down to two strikes but sat on a breaking ball and hit it into left field to beat the Terrapins.
On Sunday, IU’s coaching staff moved Moore into the leadoff spot for the first time in his career. He answered the call by reaching base safely five different times with three hits and two walks. He scored a career best four runs and tallied the second three-hit game of his IU tenure.
The young Canadian leads the Big Ten in on-base percentage among qualified hitters (.527). He’s reached safely on 59 occasions with 26 hits, 23 walks and 10 hit-by-pitches. He’s also scored 22 times and has 11 RBIs. He’s been the primary third baseman for the Hoosiers since the end of March.
Moore is the 13th different IU player to win a Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor under head coach Jeff Mercer (since 2019). It’s the first time that the Hoosiers have had four different players honored in the same season with the award since 2012.
In fact, IU has now matched some Big Ten history. It is one of two teams in conference history (Rutgers – 2021) to have four different freshman position players win a Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor in the same season. Moore joins Cooper Malamazian, Hogan Denny and Jake Hanley on the list this year.
GILLEY NAMED TO NATIONAL PITCHER OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – Veteran right-hander Cole Gilley was named to the College Baseball Foundation National Pitcher of the Year watch list, as announced by the organization last Friday (April 18). 54 pitchers throughout the country were honored on the midseason list.
After transferring over from Indiana State, the native Hoosier has been a revelation for head coach Jeff Mercer. He holds a 7-2 record and a 3.92 earned run average on the season. Before this past weekend, IU had won seven-straight games that Gilley had pitched in.
Gilley burst onto the scene in the opening weekend of the 2025 campaign. He compiled 11 strikeouts against Xavier in a game in Surprise, Arizona – part of a 21-strikeout effort from IU’s pitching staff. He picked up his second double-digit strikeout (10) outing of the season in a win over USC on March 28th.
He is one of four Big Ten pitchers named on the list – joining Joseph Dzierwa (Michigan State), Cade Obermueller (Iowa) and Ian Umlandt (Oregon). The award is handed out annually to the nation’s best pitcher. It was won last year by Arkansas’ Hagen Smith.
Gilley’s seven wins are already as many as any IU pitcher recorded all of last year. He is searching to become the first hurler for the Hoosiers to record at least nine wins in a season since Kyle Hart in 2016 (10). IU will play Ball State this Wednesday (April 23) in a midweek and still has four weekend series left this year.
PURDUE SOFTBALL
GOSSETT TABBED BIG TEN CO-PITCHER OF THE WEEK
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – For the first time in her career, Julia Gossett was named the Big Ten Co-Pitcher of the week after her outstanding performances against IU Indy and Illinois.
Gossett earned the honor alongside Oregon, junior pitcher, Lindsey Grein. Grein pitched in all three games in No. 6 Oregon’s series win over No. 5 UCLA.
Gossett, a sophomore from Massillon, Ohio, is the first Purdue player to earn a Big Ten weekly honor this season, and the first Boilermaker pitcher to earn the award since Sydney Bates in 2018.
Gossett earned a 0.91 earned run average over the four games, with three victories, and 27 strikeouts, surrendering just two runs during the week.
In the victory over IU Indy, Gossett tossed a career-high 14 strikeouts, which tied the single-game Purdue record for fifth most strikeouts. The last time a Boiler threw 14 strikeouts was Sheryl Scheve vs. Wichita State in 1998; Gossett’s being the most since 2016 when Lily Fecho tossed 15 k’s against Southern Utah.
Gossett earned her third victory of the week while throwing 1.1 innings to help the Boilers secure the series sweep over Illinois in game three.
The sophomore leads Purdue in strikeouts (106), games started and is tied for shutouts. She is tied for sixth in the Big Ten in shutouts, tied for 10th in strikeouts, and 23rd in ERA.
PURDUE BASEBALL
PURDUE HOSTS 30-WIN AUSTIN PEAY TEAM FOR MIDWEEK MATCHUP
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Austin Peay (30-10) at Purdue (24-15)
Tuesday, April 22 at 6 p.m. ET / Stream B1G+
Alexander Field / West Lafayette, Indiana
Probable Starting Pitchers: Easton Storey (So, LHP) vs. APSU’s Landon Slemp (Sr, RHP) or Chance Cox (R-Jr, LHP)
TUESDAY PROMOTIONS
$3 Deals on GA Tickets, Hot Dogs, Beer, Popcorn & Nachos presented by Indiana Packers
Purdue Baseball Trading Cards Set No. 4 Giveaway
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time: Purdue Leads 4-1
All-Time in West Lafayette: First Meeting
Last Meeting: Purdue 2, Austin Peay 1 (February 2001 in Clarksville)
First Meetings: Purdue Swept a Doubleheader 7-0 & 5-3 (March 1964 in Clarksville)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Including nine home dates, Purdue Baseball plays all of its final 16 regular-season games within 120 miles of campus, a stretch that begins Tuesday with a midweek visit from an Austin Peay team that has already reached the 30-win mark.
First pitch at Alexander Field is set for 6 p.m. ET. General admission tickets, hot dogs, beer, popcorn and nachos are specially priced at $3, a promotion presented by Indiana Packers.
Austin Peay is the third of four first-time visitors to Alexander this season, joining UCLA, Arizona State and next Tuesday’s opponent, Notre Dame.
Headlined by an offense that ranks top 10 nationally in runs, hits, home runs, doubles, batting average, on-base percentage and slugging, the Governors won their 30th game Saturday while completing their second three-game sweep of the season of Eastern Kentucky. The Atlantic Sun Conference uses a double round robin league schedule within each of the six-team divisions. Austin Peay has swept four of its first six A-Sun series and has posted seven weekend sweeps overall this year. Those weekend series sweeps have come against Purdue Fort Wayne, Eastern Illinois, St. Thomas, Central Arkansas, Bellarmine and EKU (two).
Austin Peay is believed to be only the second 30-win team to play at Alexander Field, which opened in 2013, in the month of April – joining Maryland’s 2015 squad that won its 30th game on April 26 in West Lafayette.
Purdue is 5-2 in midweek action this season, rallying for a walk-off win against common opponent Arizona State last Monday. It marked the beginning of a week full of lead changes for the Boilermakers. They overcame a 4-0 deficit vs. ASU and dug themselves out of an 8-3 hole Sunday vs. Penn State. But Purdue’s 2-0 (Friday) and 4-0 leads (Saturday) did not hold up over the first two days of the PSU series.
Easton Storey is slated to return to the mound for the Boilermakers on Tuesday. He made a start each of the first eight weekends but has not pitched since leaving game 2 of the UCLA series on March 29 due to injury. Storey will join Brayden Olson, Cole Van Assen, Isaac Milburn and Maclane Finly among the Purdue pitchers to make a midweek start this season.
Milestones remain on the horizon for Logan Sutter and Albert Choi. With 19 doubles, Logan Sutter is on the verge of becoming the first Boilermaker with a 20-double season since 2012. Choi remains at 98 stolen bases for his collegiate career.
Austin Peay’s lineup is headlined by a pair of sluggers with gaudy 1.300 OPS marks. Cameron Nickens (.422/.518/.807, 18 2B, 14 HR, 53 RBI) and John Bay (.368/.508/.809, 31 XBH, 16 HR, 46 RBI) have both been on base more often than they’ve been out this season. Entering the week, Bay leads the nation in runs scored (65) and Nickens is tops in the country in total bases (130). Meanwhile, 12 of Brody Szako’s 23 hits have been home runs. That trio has combined for 42 of APSU’s 80 home runs.
Purdue has not played a current member of the Atlantic Sun Conference since hosting Bellarmine in March 2022 as part of the home-opening weekend.
Along with the nine remaining games at Alexander Field, the Boilermakers also play in Champaign (April 25-27), Bloomington (May 9-11) and Muncie (May 13) over the final month of the regular season.
NOTRE DAME BASEBALL
TINNEY NAMED ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Notre Dame sophomore catcher Carson Tinney was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Week on Monday, April 21 for his performance last week.
A native of Castle Pines, Colorado, Tinney hit .667 on the week after going 10-for-15 at the plate with two doubles, five home runs, five walks, nine runs batted in, and 11 runs scored. He had a .750 on-base percentage with a 1.800 slugging percentage as the Irish went 4-0 on the week. Tinney went 9-for-12 at the dish in a three-game sweep at Stanford over the weekend to hit .750 in the series. He had four home runs, seven runs batted in, and 10 runs scored while slugging 1.917 on the weekend. He went 5-for-5 in the series finale with a double, a home run, an RBI, and four runs scored. He became the first Irish hitter since 2011 to go 5-for-5 in a game.
Defensively, Tinney threw out all four Stanford base runners who attempted to steal in the three-game stint.
It is the first ACC Player of the Week honor of Tinney’s career.
BUTLER MEN’S BASKETBALL
BUTLER SIGNS ALL-MEAC FIRST TEAM PERFORMER DRAYTON JONES
Drayton Jones, who was named to both the 2024-25 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) first team and all-defensive team, has signed an athletic aid agreement to join the Butler Basketball program beginning with the 2025-26 season.
Jones, a 6-11 center from Houston, Texas, played the first two seasons of his college career at South Carolina State.
“Drayton is a great addition to our program; he’s a high-character young man who is excited about the opportunities Butler has to offer,” said Butler coach Thad Matta. “Drayton is able to utilize his athleticism to protect the rim at a high level defensively and finish plays in the paint emphatically offensively. His best basketball is ahead of him and we’re glad that basketball will be played at Butler.”
During his sophomore season in 2024-25, Jones averaged 1.7 blocks per game to lead the MEAC and rank 41st nationally. He also led South Carolina State with averages of 13.0 points (12th in the MEAC) and 5.5 rebounds (tenth in the MEAC) per game. Jones got to the free throw line at a high rate as his 227 free throw attempts were 19th nationally. Jones helped South Carolina State to 20 wins and an appearance in the MEAC Tournament Championship game.
Jones shot 56 percent from the field and registered double figures 23 of the team’s 33 games during the 2024-25 season. That included four 20-point performances with a 34-point effort (along with six blocks) in the Dec. 9 win over Charleston Southern.
Jones is the fourth transfer addition who has been announced for the Bulldogs’ 2025-26 roster, joining Horizon League leading scorer Jalen Jackson from Purdue Fort Wayne, Yame Butler of Drexel and Michael Ajayi of Gonzaga.
Additional updates on both Butler’s 2025-26 roster and the team’s non-conference schedule will be announced soon.
BUTLER BASEBALL
BULLDOGS BACK IN ACTION TUESDAY VS. EASTERN ILLINOIS
The final non-conference home game for Butler is set for Tuesday afternoon at Bulldog Park. First pitch against Eastern Illinois is set for 4 p.m.
GameDay
Date: Tuesday, April 22
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Bulldog Park
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Scouting EIU
The Panthers are 19-17 overall with a 9-5 record in the OVC. Winners of four-straight, EIU swept Tennessee Tech over the weekend earning victories of 8-6, 7-6 and 6-1. Chris Worcester is the best player in the lineup and Mike O’Conor provides the power. Worcester has a team-best 48 hits and holds onto a .338 average. He has nine doubles and has scored 30 runs. O’Conor leads the team with eight home runs and is near the team lead with his 25 RBIs.
Christian Carew got the start the last time these two programs faced off at Coaches Stadium. He tossed two innings before handing the ball off to Eli Cartwright for the next two. The longest outing came from Nate Marshall. He gave up four earned runs over 3.1 innings. The final five outs were split between Kole Bradley and Jack Potteiger.
The Rematch
Eastern Illinois defeated Butler 14-8 in the first meeting this year. Jack Bello and Harry Carr each had two RBIs in the setback and the Bulldogs used eight arms on the mound. EIU had three players with multiple RBI’s appear near the top of their order. The top four EIU hitters supplied the club with five hits, seven RBIs and six runs scored.
About Butler
The Bulldogs are 14-25 after taking two of three at Georgetown over the weekend. They are 4-4 at home this season with wins over Northern Illinois and Villanova. Jack Moroknek is batting .406 this year while Jack Bello and AJ Solomon are both above .300. Moroknek has a team-best 63 hits that includes 13 doubles, a triple and 15 home runs. He has scored 47 runs and has also driven in 47. Bello is the team leader in doubles with 14 and he ranks second in RBI’s with 33. Tommy Townsend is close behind with 32 RBI’s. The slugger has nine home runs this year.
Last Week
Butler went 2-2 last week with a close setback to Ball State followed by a 2-1 weekend at Georgetown. Danny Barbero hit a grand slam against the Hoyas and ended the weekend with a team-best eight RBIs. He had three doubles and two home runs to post 16 total bases. Ryan Drumm had three doubles last week to record six RBI’s and Tommy Townsend homered twice to add five. BU also got two home runs out of Jack Moroknek.
Best in the BIG EAST
Butler leads the conference in batting average (.297), hits (384), doubles (76), home runs (52), on-base percentage (.394), runs (287), sacrifice flies (27), and slugging percentage (.493).
NCAA Ranks
Jack Moroknek ranks sixth in the nation in total bases (123), 14th in slugging percentage (.794), and 15th in home runs (15).
Bulldog Bits
– Danny Barbero is on a five-game hitting streak
– Barbero has recorded eight RBI’s over his last two games
– Barbero hit a grand slam at Georgetown
– Barbero held a .500 batting average against the Hoyas
– Barbero’s three-hit game on Friday was a season-high
– Barbero has three doubles over his last four games
– AJ Solomon and Jack Moroknek have each reached base safely in eight-straight games
– Moroknek and Jack Bello each have 21 multi-hit games this year
– Moroknek has multiple RBI’s in 12 games
– Tate Foxson and Nate Rosser each earned wins on the mound over the weekend
– BU came up with a season-high 19 hits against Georgetown on Friday
– The Bulldogs tied their season-high RBI total with 15 in the win over the Hoyas
– Butler hit multiple home runs in each game at Georgetown
– Jack Bello has scored three runs in back-to-back games
– Ryan Drumm has hit a double in three-straight games
– Drumm has recorded two RBI’s in three-straight games
– Tate Foxson’s first hit of the year was a two-RBI single
– Foxson improved to 2-2 on the mound over the weekend
– Jack Griffiths start at Eastern Illinois lasted two innings
– Simon Linde struck out four in his last midweek start
– Moroknek has an RBI in three-straight games
– Nate Rosser matched his season-high strikeout total with four at GU
– Rosser only allowed two hits over four innings at Georgetown
– AJ Solomon scored a season-high four runs Friday at GU
– Solomon had two doubles in that victory
– Tommy Townsend hit two home runs over the weekend to post five RBIs
BIG EAST Standings
Creighton 6-3, 23-12
Xavier 8-4, 23-18
UConn 8-4, 21-17
St. John’s 6-3, 19-17
Villanova 4-5, 19-17
Butler 3-6, 14-25
Seton Hall 2-7, 14-25
Georgetown 2-7, 13-26
Upcoming BIG EAST Matchups
Georgetown at Xavier
UConn at St. John’s
Butler at Seton Hall
Villanova at Creighton
Up Next
Butler will play a three-game series at Seton Hall over the weekend. All three games will stream on FloCollege.com. Friday’s first pitch is set for 4 p.m. Saturday’s game will begin at 1 p.m. and the getaway game is at noon.
IU INDY MEN’S GOLF
BOSWELL CAPTURES #HLGOLF INDIVIDUAL MEDALIST HONORS
HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. – IU Indianapolis sophomore Titus Boswell finished off an individual title at this week’s Horizon League Golf Championships at Mission Inn Resort, finishing at 5-under 211 (69-72-70) for the week to win by four shots. Boswell is the program’s first league champion since 2015 and will now advance to NCAA Regionals.
Boswell was never seriously threatened on the tournament’s final day and essentially secured the win at the turn. He made back-to-back birdies to get to 2-under on the day and made another birdie on No. 14 to get to 3-under. A long birdie putt on No. 17 all but earned the title ahead of an adrenaline filled double bogey on his final hole, putting him at 2-under 70 for the day. His double on his 54th hole was his lone double bogey of the tournament.
“My game is good right now. I hit a little bit of a rough patch in the fall, but I’ve been playing well in the spring and had a couple top-3 finishes,” Boswell said. “This course sets up well for me. I hit a very neutral ball so I try and keep it in play, hit fairways and greens and roll in some putts when the opportunities are there.”
In the team standings, the Jaguars finished third among the 10 teams competing at 893 (299-298-296), falling one shot shy of second-place Cleveland State. Both were in contention with Wright State heading into the finale, but the Raiders collected the team title at 881, thanks largely to a final round, 1-under 287. The Jaguars posted their best score of the tournament at 296, but still shy.
Sam McWilliams chimed in with a 2-over 74 on Monday and Morgan Tournemire fired 3-over 75 in his final collegiate round. Both Brady Schier and Noah Kirsch closed at 5-over 77 on Monday.
McWilliams finished the event tied for 17th at 226 (77-75-74) and Schier finished tied for 24th at 229 (75-77-77). Both Kirsch and Tournemire finished at 231 each.
Wright State’s Shane Ochs earned a runner-up finish at 1-under 215 for the week as he and Boswell were the only two to break par for the tournament. Boswell finished the event with 14 birdies, seven bogeys and the double bogey on the event’s final hole. The Jaguars finished the event with a tournament best 46 birdies and second among the field in both par 3 and par 4 scoring.
Selections for this year’s NCAA Men’s Division I Regionals will occur on Apr. 30 with Boswell being sent to one of six locations – Amherst, Va., Auburn, Ala., Bremerton, Wash., Reno, Nev., Tallahassee, Fla., or Urbana, Ill. Regionals will then be played on May 12-14 with a trip to the NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, Calif., on the line.
BALL STATE WOMEN’S GOLF
GALLAGHER AND DRISCOLL LEAD WOMEN’S GOLF ON DAY TWO OF THE MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
MUNCIE, Ind. – – On a blustery day at the Delaware Country Club, with a steady wind above 20 miles per hour and gusts above 40, scoring was extremely challenging in the second round of the 2025 Mid-American Conference Women’s Golf Championships on Monday.
However, Ball State junior Sarah Gallagher was able to make the best of the conditions and finished with the third-best individual score of the day at +1 (73). The effort, which included four of the Cardinals nine second-round birdies, helped Gallagher climb 16 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for 13th at +7 (151) heading into Tuesday’s final round.
“In light of the conditions, Sarah’s round was really impressive,” head coach Cameron Andry said. “She played her brand of golf which is a steady tee game, solid ball-striking, and excellent short game.”
Gallagher collected three of her four birdies on the opening nine to make the turn at E (36). What followed was even more impressive, as the weather took its toll over a majority of the field late in the round, but Gallagher battled and was able to shoot +1 (37) over her final nine to help her make the second-biggest jump up the leaderboard on the day.
Meanwhile, despite a rough stretch on the back nine which saw her go +7 over a six-hole span, junior Jasmine Driscoll was able to end her round with her third birdie of the day to remain atop the leaderboard at E (144) for the tournament.
“Jasmine played a solid round as well in spite of a rough stretch on the back nine,” Andry said. “I thought her birdie on 18 showed a lot of guts and it turned out to be huge as it propelled her into a tie atop the leaderboard.”
Driscoll started her round with six pars and a birdie to make the turn at E (36). Then, after another birdie on 10 to move to -1, the weather started to take its toll on the course. However, Driscoll battled back and ended her round with a par and the birdie on 18 to keep herself in contention for the title.
“I’m really excited for Jasmine,” Andry added. “She had to battle through some tough stuff today and I think that can help her with tomorrow’s round. Even her pushcart fell apart at one point today and she kept on battling, so hopefully nothing will phase her tomorrow.”
Led by the second-day efforts of Gallagher and Driscoll, the Cardinals are seventh among the 10-team field at +44 (618). However, BSU is just 11 strokes out of second place which is currently held by Northern Illinois at +31 (607). Kent State is the overall tournament leader at +9 (585).
Along with Driscoll, Kent State’s Gracie Larson is tied atop the leaderboard at E (144), while the next-closest individuals are at +3 (147). NIU’s Alexa Ouellet carded the lowest second-round effort at -1 (71) to move into the four-way tie at third.
Senior Sabrina Langerak turned in Ball State’s third-best round of the day, shooting a +10 (82), while sophomore JJ Gregston shot +12 (84) and freshman Sophie Korthuijs carded a +13 (85) battling the tough scoring conditions. All three are currently tied for 41st at +19 (163).
“Sabrina, JJ and Sophie all made some costly mistakes that led to big numbers,” Andry said. “I know they are frustrated and disappointed and so am I. But we’re also going to quickly turn the page to tomorrow so we can make an effort to finish this championship with a good round.”
Action in the third and final round of the MAC Women’s Golf Championships begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday with a split tee start. Ball State’s five golfers will be teeing off on hole 10 beginning at 10:10 a.m.
Ball State Individual Scores:
T1st – Jasmine Driscoll: E (144): 67-77
T13th – Sarah Gallagher: +7 (151): 78-73
T41st – Sophie Korthuijs: +19 (163): 78-85
T41st – JJ Gregston: +19 (163): 79-84
T41st – Sabrina Langerak: +19 (163): 81-82
INDIANA STATE BASEBALL
SYCAMORES OPEN HOME STAND WITH TUESDAY MIDWEEK CONTEST AGAINST ILLINOIS
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State opens up a four-game home stand this week with a Tuesday night contest against Illinois as the Sycamores welcome the Fighting Illini to Bob Warn Field for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch. The game is scheduled to be carried live on ESPN+ and 105.5 The Legend.
Tuesday’s game day promotional schedule features a Koozie giveaway to the first 200 fans 21 or older courtesy of Bud Light. The concession stand will also feature $2 Tuesday Sodexo Specials.
The Sycamores (20-19) and the Illini (22-15) have already lined up once in the 2025 season with Illinois claiming the March 18 win at Illinois Field, 8-6. Illinois’ trip to Bob Warn Field marks the third Big Ten team to come to Terre Haute, with the Sycamores hosting both Indiana and Purdue over the first two weeks of March.
Recapping the Weekend
Indiana State was unable to hold off late Evansville rallies in each of the final two games of the weekend series at the Sycamores dropped to 8-7 in Missouri Valley play after going 1-2 against the Aces at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium.
The Sycamores claimed the Thursday evening opener behind strong pitching from both Max McEwen and Gavin Morris, while Carter Beck connected on the go-ahead solo home run in the fifth inning in Indiana State’s 2-0 shutout win. The Aces evened the series on Friday night with Matt Flaherty connected on the walk-off solo home run in the ninth inning to claim the 6-5 victory.
Indiana State led the series finale, 8-2, in the fifth inning, but Evansville rallied late on Saturday evening to tie the game up in the ninth at 8-8 on Cal McGinnis’ two-run single. After the Sycamores retook the lead in the 11th on Thomas Emerich and Mason Roell RBI singles, the Purple Aces rallied again with McGinnis and Kevin McCormick driving in runs in the three-run inning to claim the 11-10 victory.
Emerich was Indiana State’s leader at the plate as the graduate student connected at a .571 clip with eight hits over 14 at-bats. He added two doubles and connected on his second home run of the 2025 season on Friday evening, while slugging .929.
Andrew Ortiz (.500), Jeremy Martinez (.385), Carter Beck (.357), and Jackson Taylor (.308) all hit above the .300 mark over the three game series as Indiana State hit .316 as a team against the Evansville pitching staff. Taylor added a pair of doubles, while Beck homered in the series. The Sycamore defense also posted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage over the three games.
Max McEwen (1-0, 0.00 ERA) showcased why he has become one of the top arms in the Missouri Valley as the redshirt sophomore outdueled UE’s Kenton Deverman in the Thursday night opening 2-0 win. McEwen went 6.2 innings allowing four hits while striking out six. Jack Armstrong (0-0, 0.00 ERA) was also dominant with six strikeouts over a 3.2-inning scoreless outing, while Breyllin Suriel (3.2 IP, 2.45 ERA, 5 K) and Gavin Morris (4.1 IP, 6.23 ERA, 11 K) were also unhittable at times over the weekend series.
Season Overall
Carlos Pena (.358) remains the Sycamores’ top hitter in the 2025 season as the utility player leads the Sycamores in home runs (11) and RBIs (43), while sitting second on the team with 11 doubles and third with 33 runs scored. Zack Henderson (.357) and Andrew Ortiz (.350) have provided potent bats in right field for the Sycamores, while Jackson Taylor (.316) and Carter Beck (.302) are also hitting above .300 on the year to date.
Keegan Garis (.293), Thomas Emerich (.292), and Jeremy Martinez (.287) have stabilized the middle of the Indiana State order with Garis second on the team with nine home runs, while Emerich is the team’s doubles leader with 13. Martinez is second on the team with walks drawn (24) while taking over as the primary catcher as a true freshman.
The Sycamores’ pitching staff has seen 18 arms take the mound on the year with a combined 5.86 ERA over 337.2 innings pitched. Indiana State has combined to post a 288:180 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a .262 opponent batting average on the year.
Jacob Spencer (0-1, 9.00 ERA) and Ryan Karst (1-1, 6.14 ERA have been working their way back into the rotation over the last two weeks as the right-handed duo both work their way back from injury. Jack Armstrong (2-0, 3.51 ERA), Colby Morse (2-3, 6.53 ERA), and Carson Seeman (0-0, 5.73 ERA) help lead six pitchers who have made double-digit relief outings on the season.
Scouting Illinois
Illinois enters the midweek contest with a 22-15 overall record after taking the series finale this past weekend at Washington with a 3-1 win over the Huskies. The Fighting Illini took two of three against Indiana the previous weekend and picked up a run-rule 17-6 victory over SIUE.
Illinois, a 2024 NCAA Regional participant last season, was not among the six teams ranked by the Big Ten Conference’s coaches in the preseason poll. The Illini were represented on the preseason team by Ben Plumley (RHP), Jacob Schroeder (C), and Drake Westcott (1B).
Offense continues to be Illinois’ calling card this season with the Illini hitting .296 as a team with 54 home runs over the first 37 games of the season. Vytas Valincius (.369), Collin Jennings (.340), and Jack Zebig (.317) have been Illinois’ top hitters on the season with Jennings and Kyle Schupmann pacing the Illini with nine home runs apiece. Valincius has a team-high 13 doubles and 38 RBIs, while Nick Groves has a team-high 12 stolen bases on the year.
Illinois has utilized 19 different pitchers on the mound this season with seven different arms earning starts over the 2025 season. The Fighting Illini have posted a team 6.09 ERA on the year while allowing opponents to hit .281 from the plate.
Series History
Illinois holds the all-time 48-40-2 record against Indiana State dating back to the inaugural matchup in 1906. The Sycamores and Illini split the 2024 season’s matchups between the programs last year with Indiana State winning the contest in Terre Haute, while Illinois returned the favor in Champaign.
The Fighting Illini claimed the first game of the series in 2025 as Illinois topped the Sycamores on March 18, 2025, with an 8-6 win at Illinois Field. The Sycamores brought the long-ball in the first matchup with Eli Gipson homering twice, while Carlos Pena and Carter Beck also connected on home runs in the loss. Illinois utilized a six-run second inning thanks to a Jack Zebig three-run home run, while Jacob Schroeder added a solo shot in the midweek win.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE WOMEN’S GOLF
MASTODON WG FINISHES THIRD, JANG TAKES RUNNER-UP
HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. – The Purdue Fort Wayne women’s golf team made history on Monday (April 21), taking third at the Horizon League Championship. Olivia Jang became the first runner-up at a league championship in program history.
The ‘Dons had two players earn top-10 finishes. Jang took second with a three-round total of 229 and Louise Ekesall took seventh with a 237, her best 54-hole score of the year. Jang was named to the Horizon League Championship All-Tournament Team for her top-five finish.
The Mastodons’ third-place finish is the best in program history. The previous best was sixth.
Purdue Fort Wayne finished 313-311-317-941. Oakland won the event with a 927 and Youngstown State finished second with a 929.
Jang finished the event with a 78-74-77-229. The sophomore had 11 pars with three birdies on seven, 11 and 16. She placed her drive on 16 perfectly down the fairway, avoiding trouble right and left. She was 1-under over the final five holes and even over the last eight. This was Jang’s third runner-up finish of her career.
Louise Ekesall shot 82-77-78-237, which was good for seventh. It was her third top-10 of her freshman season. She started her day with a birdie on the opening hole, her second birdie on the hole in the tournament. After sixes on five and six, she had nothing worse than a bogey the rest of the way. She birdied 16 and finished with a par on 18.
Gottman shot 76-79-84-239, tying for 11th. After an uneven front nine, she had a stretch of five pars on the back nine. On 13, she made a great shot out of the fairway bunker to make the green in regulation and get par.
Hunar Mittal shot 78 in round three, seven strokes better than round two. After a five-bogey front nine, she locked in and was even on the back. She birdied holes 11 and 15, which was in the midst of a six-hole stretch without a bogey. She finished with two pars to take 15th.
Natalie Papa shot 85-81-85-251 to take 24th place. She had nine pars in the final round.
The season ends for the Mastodons. Oakland moves on to the NCAA Regional and YSU’s Neeranuch Prajunpanich moves on as an individual.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE BASEBALL
BASEBALL PLAYS AT MICHIGAN STATE AND NOTRE DAME THIS WEEK
Who: Michigan State (23-15)
When: Tuesday, April 22 | 6 p.m.
Where: East Lansing, Mich. | Jeff Ishbia Field at McLane Stadium
Watch:B1G+
Live Stats:Link
Series History: Michigan State leads 6-1. The ‘Dons won 3-2 in 2023. The series dates back to 2001.
About The Spartans: The Spartans have won six in a row, including a sweep of Ohio State last weekend. Ryan McKay is hitting .345 with a 1.004 OPS. Michigan State has 41 home runs on the season.
Who: Notre Dame (20-17)
When: Wednesday, April 23 | 5:30 p.m.
Where: South Bend, Ind. | Frank Eck Stadium
Watch: ACCNX
Live Stats: Link
Series History: Notre Dame leads 8-0. Notre Dame won 15-5 last season.
About The Fighting Irish: Notre Dame has won four games in a row, including all three at Stanford last week. Parker Brzustewicz is hitting .302 with 20 walks.
‘Dons & Ends:
– Brooks Sailors owns a 32-game on-base streak. It is the longest streak since Cade Nelis finished the 2023 season with a 37-game on-base streak.
– Jackson Micheels has a team-best 11 multi-hit games.
– Jackson Micheels is the only Mastodons to start every game this season.
– Brooks Sailors is 3rd in the league in walks (33).
– Zane Danielson’s 5.47 ERA is 5th in the league, 5th in opposing batting average (.263) and 6th in strikeouts (40).
– Dillon Fischer is 2nd in the league in innings pitched (55.2).
– In 10 starts this season, Zane Danielson has allowed more than four earned runs only twice.
– Freshman Aidan Pearson has allowed one or zero earned runs in 11 appearances this season.
– In league play, Camden Karczewski (.333) and Kevin Hall (.327) are hitting above .300.
– Freshman Trent Murphy has allowed one or zero earned runs in 10 appearances this season. He tossed 3.2 innings of one-hit, shutout ball at Wright State on April 13. He has gone 3.0 innings or longer in five of his 14 appearances this season.
POTW: Purdue Fort Wayne earned both Horizon League weekly honors on April 1. Justin Osterhouse was the Batter of the Week. He had two home runs and got on base 10 times. Zane Danielson had nine strikeouts and allowed one unearned run in 6.0 innings vs. Oakland to get the Pitcher of the Week honor.
On That 20-16 Win: The Mastodons defeated Youngstown State 20-16 on March 23 in game two of a doubleheader. The 20 runs tied for 6th in Division I era program history for runs in a game. The ‘Dons tied for 1st in the Division I era program history for walks in a game with 13. The 12 walks in game one of the doubleheader to start the day tied for second for most walks in a game.
Fischer Honor: Dillon Fischer was picked as a top 100 pitcher from the fourth weekend of the season by DI Baseball. Fischer allowed no runs in 6.1 innings at Tennessee Tech.
Karczewski Honor: Camden Karczewski was named a top 100 performer for his four hits (home run, two doubles and a single) against Northern Kentucky.
Nice to Meet You: This season isn’t the first time Kevin Hall and Nick Hockemeyer are teammates. They spent the summer of 2024 playing for the Elizabethton River Riders of the Appalachian League. Hall had a .453 OBP in 26 games for the River Riders. Hockemeyer hit .296 in 18 games.
Blood Lines: Mastodon head coach Doug Schreiber coached Trent Murphy’s father, Ron, when Schreiber was an assistant at Ball State.
Up Next: The Mastodons host Youngstown State this weekend in a three-game league series.
EVANSVILLE MEN’S GOLF
MEN’S GOLF COMPLETES OPENING TWO ROUNDS OF MVC CHAMPIONSHIP
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – With two rounds complete at the 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Golf Championship, Masatoyo Kato leads the University of Evansville men’s golf team at Des Moines Golf and Country Club.
Kato is in tie for 19th place at 3-over-par. He opened the day with an even score of 72 before carding a 3-over 75 in the second 18 holes on Monday. Kato completed the day with a 147.
Five behind Kato is the trio of Jamison Ousley, Andres Rodriguez, and Daniil Romashkin. All three registered 2-round tallies of 152. Ousley checked in with rounds of 73 and 79 while Rodriguez notched a 74 and 78. Romashkin posted rounds of 77 and 75. Each are 8-over and tied for 31st heading into the final day.
Omar Khalid is fifth on the team and tied for 44th with a score of 156. He shot a 76 to open play before finishing the second 18 with an 80.
Evansville is in 9th place with a total of 602. The Purple Aces are six shots behind Bradley for 8th place. Murray State holds the team lead with a 570 while Illinois State is close behind with a 571. Trey Wall of the Racers leads the individuals with a 137. He is one ahead of Belmont’s Foster Wood.
Tuesday will mark the third and final round of the championship.
EVANSVILLE BASEBALL
BASEBALL LOOKS TO KEEP MOMENTUM ROLLING AT WESTERN KENTUCKY
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — After picking up a series win over Indiana State in dramatic fashion, the University of Evansville baseball team will try to get its third straight win at Western Kentucky.
The Purple Aces returned home to German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium in a big way over the holiday weekend. UE picked up its third MVC series taking two games from the Indiana State Sycamores. After dropping the first game of the series, Evansville came back in a big way to get the series on Friday and Saturday with back-to-back walk-off win.
On Friday, UE pinch hit Matt Flaherty in the bottom of the ninth with the game tied. Flaherty came through for Evansville, hitting his second walk-off solo home run of the year for the 7-6 win. While on Saturday the Aces came back from an early 6-0 deficit to tie the Sycamores at 8-8 in the bottom of the ninth. Infielder Cal McGinnis tied the game twice for UE with RBI singles in the bottom of the ninth and the bottom of the 11th. But it was pinch hitter Kevin McCormick that got Evansville the series win with an RBI single to left field in the at-bat after McGinnis for the 11-10 victory in 11 innings.
The Aces return to midweek action at one of the Top 40 teams in the country as they complete their home-and-home series with the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. WKU currently sits atop the C-USA standings with former MVC team Dallas Baptist with a 11-4 conference record. The Hilltoppers edge out DBU with a 33-7 overall record to have the 34th best RPI (rating percentage index) in the country. Western Kentucky has the statistically best pitching staff in the country with the lowest average ERA of 2.81 along with the third most shutouts in the country with six. UE will see the Hilltoppers third most consistent starter on Tuesday in senior Gavin Perry who started a week ago in WKU’s 5-2 loss to Louisville.
Evansville now has two players they can consider walk-off wonders after the weekend. Flaherty has hit two walk-off solo homers at Charles H. Braun Stadium against MVC teams in 2025 for the Aces. While infielder and pinch hitter Kevin McCormick has had a walk-off single to left field over Easter weekend for two seasons in a row. During Easter weekend of 2024, McCormick had an identical single to left field that gave UE an 11-10 walk-off win against Southern Illinois in 10 innings of play.
Senior center fielder Ty Rumsey continues to be the leader at the plate for Evansville as the team heads into the final month of the season. Rumsey has a team-high 54 hits, .358 batting average, 31 RBIs, 35 runs scored, six sacrifice flies, and 23 stolen bases. He also leads the Valley in sacrifice flies and stolen bases. Rumsey also led the Aces against Indiana State with six hits in 13 at-bats for a .462 average with a double, three RBIs, and a stolen base. His best game of the weekend was in Saturday’s 6-5 win over the Sycamores going 3-for-4 at the plate, scoring a run, bringing in two runs, and stealing his 23rd base of the season.
SO. INDIANA SOFTBALL
USI SOFTBALL’S NEWMAN EARNS OVC PITCHER OF THE WEEK
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Softball senior pitcher Josie Newman has been named Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week. The OVC’s weekly accolades are voted upon by the league’s communications directors.
The pitcher of the week award is the first this season for Newman and the Screaming Eagles. Newman picks up her sixth OVC Pitcher of the Week accolade in her USI career after winning three times in 2023 and twice in 2024.
In earning the honor, Newman put together two strong outings this past week in USI’s series sweep against the University of Tennessee at Martin. The right-hander collected two wins and went the distance in both starts, including an eight-inning shutout in the series opener. Newman posted a 0.93 ERA and struck out 19 batters in 15 innings of work.
Newman started the series with a sharp performance in USI’s 1-0, eight-inning win. In a scoreless pitcher’s duel, Newman tossed eight innings with 13 strikeouts and allowed only two hits. The 13 strikeouts were only two shy of Newman’s season high and marked the seventh outing this season with 10-plus strikeouts. Newman was in a good rhythm in the series finale to help Southern Indiana complete the sweep of the Skyhawks, striking out six and giving up only two runs in seven innings pitched.
The two outings by Newman helped USI earn its second sweep of the season, both coming at home, and in Ohio Valley Conference play. Plus, Southern Indiana moved to 13-21 overall and 10-9 in the OVC, placing the Screaming Eagles in fourth place in the conference standings coming out of the weekend.
On the season, Newman is 8-13 with a 4.20 ERA and leads the OVC with 171 strikeouts in 125 innings pitched. Additionally, Newman has 16 complete games out of 20 starts this season.
Newman and the Screaming Eagles travel to Southeast Missouri State University this coming weekend. The scheduled three-game set begins with a single game on Saturday at 3 p.m. and will conclude with a Noon doubleheader on Sunday. Coverage information can be found at usiscreamingeagles.com.
SO. INDIANA BASEBALL
USI FINISHES ROAD TRIP AT SLU, STARTS HOMESTAND WITH BELLARMINE
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — University of Southern Indiana Baseball will finish its nine-game road swing at Saint Louis University Tuesday and start a four-game homestand by hosting Bellarmine University Wednesday. The first pitch Tuesday at SLU is set for 3 p.m. and Wednesday versus Bellarmine is 6 p.m.
To celebrate the homecoming of the Screaming Eagles after spending the last two weeks on the road. USI is giving fans free admission to the USI-Bellarmine game on Wednesday.
With the ever-changing weather in April, USI encourages fans to watch for potential schedule changes on USIScreamingEagles.com, X, and Facebook. Links to follow the Eagles all season can be found on USIScreamingEagles.com and the USI Baseball Schedule.
USI Baseball Notes:
USI goes 1-3 last week. The USI Screaming Eagles went 1-3 last week, losing at Northern Kentucky University and dropping two-of-three in an OVC series at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
USI leaders last week. USI junior catcher Micajah Wall and sophomore infielder Parker Martin led the Eagles with .455 (5-11) and .444 (8-18) batting averages. Junior designated hitter Cole Kitchens also hit .12 over .400 and had five home runs and 12 RBIs in the four games.
USI won first three OVC series. The USI Eagles opened the OVC slate with back-to-back-to-back series wins. USI, which has lost the last two series, won four OVC series all of last season.
Martin is the hottest Eagle. Sophomore infielder Parker Martin is the hottest Eagle at the plate, hitting .476 (10-21) over the last five games and .487 (19-39) over the last 10 games. He also has produced 10 RBIs, four doubles, and four home runs in the last 10 games.
USI leaders at the plate. Junior designated hitter Cole Kitchens leads USI at the plate with a .399 batting average, while posting a team-best 44 RBIs and 10 home runs. The .399 average is the best mark in the OVC, while Kitchens’ 44 RBIs rank second in the league. Sophomore infielder
Parker Martin follows with a .368 average, which ranks third in the OVC.
USI non-conference leaders. Junior designated hitter Cole Kitchens is hitting a team-best .450 (36-80) versus non-conference opponents with 26 RBIs and six home runs in 21 games. Junior first baseman Kannon Coakley followed by hitting .378 with 14 RBIS and nine doubles.
USI in the OVC. USI leads the OVC with a .306 team batting average. On the bump, the Eagles are seventh in the league with a 7.07 ERA. In the 15 games of league action, USI is second in batting (.305) and tied for eighth in pitching (6.77 ERA).
Martin leads in OVC play. Sophomore infielder Parker Martin is leading the Eagles and the OVC in conference action with a .444 average (24-54) and a .759 slugging percentage. Martin also has four home runs and 18 RBIs, tying for the team high.
Anderson has three wins in OVC play. Senior right-hander Ian Anderson leads USI with three wins in OVC play (3-0), all out of the bullpen. Anderson also has two of USI’s seven saves this season.
USI visits SLU. USI is scheduled for a makeup game at Saint Louis University (23-16) Tuesday in St. Louis, Missouri, at 3 p.m. The series is tied 2-2 after USI took the first meeting of the year, 11-4.
USI hosts Bellarmine. USI is scheduled to host Bellarmine University (10-29) after hosting Miami University (Ohio) Wednesday at the USI Baseball Field at 6 p.m. USI leads the series, 88-78, after falling at Bellarmine, 10-8, in March.
USI hosts EIU this weekend. USI visits Eastern Illinois University this weekend. EIU, which visits Butler University Tuesday and hosts Illinois Wesleyan University on Wednesday, is 19-17 overall, 9-5 OVC. The Cougars are 3-7 in their last 10 games. SIUE leads the all-time series with USI, 58-48, but the Eagles swept the Cougars last year at the USI Baseball Field.
VALPO MEN’S GOLF
DELISANTI IN FOURTH THROUGH 36 HOLES AT MVC CHAMPIONSHIP
Valparaiso University men’s golf senior Anthony Delisanti (Sanborn, N.Y. / Niagara Wheatfield) sits in fourth place in a 50-player field at the 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Championship, which began with 36 holes on Monday at the par-72, 7267-yard Des Moines Golf and Country Club in Des Moines, Iowa. Delisanti enters Tuesday’s final round with hopes of securing his fourth straight top-3 finish and potentially his third career conference medalist win.
How It Happened
Delisanti, ranked 144th nationally by Clippd and first among MVC golfers, started the tournament by stroking a 71 (-1) in the opening round with three birdies and two bogeys. He followed with a 69 (-3) in Round 2, using five birdies to counteract two bogeys.
Delisanti’s 36-hole total of 140 is one stroke behind Murray State’s Jay Nimmo for third, two behind Belmont’s Foster Wood for second and three beyond Murray State’s Trey Wall for the top spot.
Murray State holds a one-stroke lead on Illinois State in a battle for the team title. Those two squads are 10 or more strokes ahead of the rest of the field. Valpo is tied for fifth at +10.
Sophomore Adam Melliere (Zionsville, Ind. / Zionsville) is tied for 16th on the player leaderboard with a 146. He shot an even-par 72 in the opening round before following with a 2-over 74 in Round 2.
Sophomore Elliot Lee (Tillamook, Ore. / Tillamook) was third on the team with a pair of 75s, tied for 27th.
Thoughts from Head Coach Dave Gring
“We talk a lot about the importance of Par-3 and Par-5 scoring in our rounds. When we can win those battles with those sets of holes in a given round for the team, it typically bodes well for us. In the first round today, we played the Par 3s at one under, which was terrific and it was the best in the field. In the second round, we didn’t play the Par 3s well at all, finishing the round at six over. Our primary problem today was taking advantage of the Par 5s and using those holes as scoring opportunities. In the first round, we played those holes very poorly and the team was five over. In the second round, we played the Par 5s at even par. We’re going to have to play both of those sets of holes much better and to our ability tomorrow for us to make up any ground on the field.”
“We made a substitution in the second round and Owen Sander gave us a good boost in scoring. He had three birdies, but his two bogeys and one double-bogey were the results of poor putting. Adam’s ball-striking was excellent, hitting over 70 percent of his greens in regulation and over 60 percent of his fairways in regulation. Anthony led our team with eight birdies, paired with only four bogeys for the two rounds. His ball-striking wasn’t as sharp for him today, but he putted well and his chipping around the greens was good. We’re going to have to play very solid in all phases of the game tomorrow. This team has been resilient all year, and we are excited to get after it tomorrow.”
Up Next
Valpo will play the final round of the event at Des Moines Golf & Country Club in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday. A link to live scoring via Clippd is available on ValpoAthletics.com.
VALPO SOFTBALL
SENIOR DAY SATURDAY AS PART OF FINAL SOFTBALL HOME SERIES
Valpo (18-24, 7-13 MVC)
April 23 – at Notre Dame (21-26-1, 7-14 ACC) – 4 p.m. CT
April 25-27 – Drake (20-25, 11-10 MVC) – 3 p.m., 2 p.m., noon
Next Up in Valpo Softball: The regular season starts to wind down for the Valpo softball team with four games this week. The Beacons step away from conference play for the final time with a Wednesday matchup at Notre Dame before returning home for their final home series of the season against Drake. Valpo will celebrate Senior Day following Saturday’s game.
Previously: The Beacons went 1-3 last week, dropping a nonconference matchup at Illinois before winning one of three in their MVC series at Belmont. Valpo took the middle game of that series, 3-1, while the Bruins claimed 4-2 and 2-1 wins in the other two matchups.
Looking Ahead: The regular season ends next week on the road with a three-game series at UNI.
Following Valpo Softball: Wednesday’s game at Notre Dame will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra, while all three games of the Drake series will be broadcast on ESPN+. All home games and most MVC road games will be broadcast on ESPN+, while select nonconference games will have video streams depending on the host.
Head Coach Mike Armitage: Mike Armitage (87-91) is in his first season as head coach of the Valpo softball program after being hired as head coach on June 6, 2024. Armitage came to Valpo following a successful stretch as head coach at Minnesota State University Moorhead, turning around the Dragons’ program, and brings familiarity with the Missouri Valley Conference with a stint on staff at Illinois State. Armitage spent the last three seasons as head coach at MSUM, posting the first back-to-back 30-win seasons in MSUM program history in 2023 and 2024 after inheriting a Dragons program which had not finished above .500 since 2007.
Series Notes: Notre Dame – The Fighting Irish hold a 37-11 advantage in the all-time series, with Valpo’s last victory coming in 1989. The two squads last met up in March of 2021, a no-hitter for Notre Dame which finished 8-0 in its favor.
Drake – The Bulldogs own a 19-1 advantage in the all-time series and are a perfect 14-0 since Valpo joined the MVC. Last year’s series in Des Moines got completely wiped out due to weather, meaning the last meetings came back in April 2023 at the Valpo Softball Complex – victories for Drake by finals of 4-1, 8-4 and 8-0.
Scouting the Opposition: Notre Dame – The Fighting Irish enter the week with a 21-26-1 overall record and a 7-14 mark in ACC play, most recently winning one of three last weekend at #17 Duke. Notre Dame takes on Central Michigan Tuesday prior to Valpo’s visit Wednesday. Addison Amaral leads the Irish at the plate, hitting .387 with nine homers, 28 runs scored and 43 RBIs. It’s been pitching by committee in the circle, with Micaela Kaster pitching a team-high 101.1 innings and owning a 9-6 record with a 4.70 ERA.
Drake – The Bulldogs enter the week with a 20-25 overall record and sit in the middle of the MVC pack with an 11-10 record in Valley play. Drake, which won two of three last weekend against UIC, plays at Iowa Wednesday before traveling to Valpo. Ava Curry hits a team-best .388 and leads the Bulldogs with 30 runs scored. In the circle, Paige Bedsworth has stood out despite throwing just 66.1 innings, as she is 9-1 with a 2.01 ERA and a .206 batting average against.
Celebrating the Seniors: Three members of the Valpo softball program are playing their final home games this weekend. Over their four years, Kaiah Fenters has appeared in 121 games, making 47 starts, while Lauren Sena has appeared in 123 games, making 18 starts. While she’s only in her third season, this is Lexi Szostak’s final year playing softball as well as she heads to graduate school – she has appeared in 107 games, making 74 starts.
Checking Out the Standings: With just two weekends of regular season play left, eyes start to turn to the conference tournament bracket and where teams will slot in. Valpo enters the week in 10th place in the standings, three wins clear of UIC and Evansville below it. The Beacons are just one game back of ninth-place Bradley and just two wins behind Indiana State and Murray State.
This Season’s Improvement: Last weekend’s win over second-place Belmont gave the Beacons their 18th win of the season, already doubling last season’s win total. In fact, the 18 wins this year are the program’s most in a season since going 27-24 in 2018 in its first year in the MVC. In addition, Valpo has seven MVC wins to its name this year, also the most since the 2018 team (12-13).
Looking at the Record Book: As the season winds down, a number of Beacons are starting to impact the program’s single-season record book. Azalya Lopez and Erin Metz each have four saves, tied for sixth in a single season in program history – as a team, Valpo’s eight saves are just one away from matching the program team single-season record. Metz has also racked up 39 pitching appearances, tied for sixth and one shy of fifth, while Lopez’s current opponent’s batting average of .220 would be 10th in program history and the third lowest in the last quarter century. At the plate, Mack Gallagher has drawn 30 walks (a mark which ranks second in the MVC) – tied for fifth and one shy of fourth. In the field, Madison Vrastil’s current fielding percentage of .994 would be tied for eighth.
Tight Ballgames: Valpo played yet another one-run game last week, falling in its series finale at Belmont, 2-1. The Beacons have played 15 one-run contests this year out of their 42 games and own a 9-6 record in such games.
Dual Threat: Junior Azalya Lopez excelled last week in the circle and at the plate, continuing her strong first season as a Beacon. Offensively, Lopez hit .333 with two runs scored and a pair of RBIs, reaching base in all four games – including a multi-hit game in the Beacons’ win at Belmont. In the circle, Lopez tossed 11.1 innings over three appearances, posting a 1.85 ERA and a .135 batting average against. She went 6.1 innings and earnd the win in the victory over the Bruins, her second-longest outing of the season. Lopez ranks among the MVC’s top pitchers in saves (t-1st, 4), strikeouts (5th, 88), opponents’ batting average (5th, .220), ERA (6th, 2.72) and wins (t-7th, 8).
Loving the Music City: Junior Kim Rodas had some magic in her bat in the Music City last week. In 10 plate appearances over the three-game series at Belmont, Rodas went 4-8 with a pair of walks. She had back-to-back multi-hit games in the first two games of the series, her fourth and fifth multi-hit games of the year. Her seventh-inning walk in the series finale put the potential go-ahead run on base as well.
Continued Success: Freshman Madison Vrastil has ranked among the MVC’s best rookies this season. Owner of a 13-game hitting streak and a 22-game on-base streak earlier this year, both the longest by a Valpo player since 2017, Vrastil ranks among the MVC’s best in hits (t-2nd, 52), stolen bases (2nd, 14), batting average (8th, .364) and on-base percentage (9th, .442). The freshman is a perfect 14-for-14 in stolen bases, which would set a new program standard for most steals in a season without being caught.
Winning Series: While the Beacons dropped their series finale to UIC, they had already secured the season series thanks to a doubleheader sweep in Chicago – just the second doubleheader sweep of UIC in program history. Valpo also earned a 2-1 series win at Bradley as well.
Putting Together Wins: While Valpo dropped its series finale at Bradley April 6, the Beacons had won five in a row prior to that point – their second five-game winning streak of the season. Prior to this year, the program had put together just one five-game winning streak in the last six seasons.
Conference Streak: Notably, all five of the most recent streak’s wins came in MVC play. It was Valpo’s longest conference winning streak since stringing together six MVC wins late in the 2018 campaign – also the last time before this last week that the program had won consecutive MVC series. Before the series finale loss at Bradley, Valpo had won four straight road games overall and five straight MVC road contests — both streaks the longest since the 2017 squad won six consecutive Horizon League road games.
Earning the WWWWins: Freshman Erin Metz did something no Valpo pitcher had accomplished since 2008 – earning the win in four straight Valpo victories. Metz picked up the win in both halves of the doubleheader sweep at UIC, and turned around and recorded both wins as the Beacons swept a series-opening twinbill at Bradley. For the week, Metz went 4-0 with a 1.34 ERA in her five appearances, surrendering just three runs in 15.2 innings of work as she earned MVC Pitcher of the Week recognition April 7. The last Valpo pitcher to score the win in four straight victories was Andrea Zappia, who accomplished the feat in April 2008.
That’s All You Got, One Hit: Metz tossed the first four innings of Valpo’s opener at Bradley, giving up just one hit before turning the ball over to junior Azalya Lopez, who finished things out with three hitless innings in the 1-0 win. The one-hitter was the Beacons’ best effort of the season and was the fewest hits allowed by Valpo since its last trip to Bradley in 2023, when Caitlyn Kowalski no-hit the Braves.
Closing the Door: Lopez picked up the save with her three innings of hitless work in the opener against the Braves, one of three saves she picked up on the week, as she also earned saves with three innings of work to close things out in the UIC opener April 1 and the middle game of the Bradley series April 5. For the week, Lopez posted a 2.10 ERA and a .216 batting average against along with 10 strikeouts in 13.1 innings of work and was named MVC Newcomer of the Week – her second weekly award this season.
Coming Home: While the walks dominated the box score in the UIC nightcap April 1, the record the Beacons matched that day was in the runs department. Batting in the nine spot in the lineup, Carson Kuhlmann scored four runs to tie a Valpo single-game record, previously accomplished 10 times – most recently by Alexis Johnson last season. Valpo scored 15 runs as a team in that win over the Flames, its largest output ever against UIC and the program’s highest single-game run total since plating 24 against Seton Hall in February 2014.
Walk It Off: Valpo closed its three-game series with Evansville with a bang, scoring four runs over the final two innings to walk off with an 8-7 win over the Purple Aces on March 29. It was the team’s first walk-off win of the season and its third in Valley play over the last two years, as the Beacons walked off Bradley and UNI last season. Prior to that Bradley game last season, it had been over four years since the program’s last walk-off win. It was also Valpo’s first walk-off win with two outs since a two-out, two-run single lifted Valpo over Western Michigan on April 17, 2019. The win was also notable for how the Beacons had to battle back to even get in a position to win the game, as they faced an early 5-0 deficit after surrendering five runs in the first inning. Valpo had not won a game after trailing by five or more runs since a Feb. 19, 2022 win over Lipscomb, when a 5-0 deficit after the top of the third inning turned into a 7-6 victory. It was the first time Valpo surrendered five or more runs in the opening inning and won since perhaps the craziest game in program history — April 14, 2012 against Youngstown State, when YSU scored 11 first-inning runs and Valpo fought all the way back to win 13-12.
Going to the Pen: Valpo has leaned on a trio of pitchers – junior Azalya Lopez, sophomore Sydney McDermott and freshman Erin Metz – for the vast majority of innings in the circle and hasn’t hesitated to use multiple arms in the same game, even when things are going well. The Beacons’ pitching staff has just two complete games this season, 42 games into the campaign – Valpo is one of just six teams nationally with just two complete games to its name this year.
Winning Record Into Conference: The Beacons entered MVC play this season with an 11-9 overall record. It was the program’s best record at the start of conference play since 2018, when Valpo entered its first season of MVC play with a 12-8 mark.
A Big Sunday: It was a noteworthy day on many fronts on Sunday, Feb. 9 as the Beacons run-ruled Green Bay, 12-1, and followed with a 7-2 win over Detroit Mercy:
– Valpo won two games on the same day for the first time since March 4, 2023, when the Beacons defeated Bellarmine and Eastern Illinois.
– The Beacons’ 19 runs were the program’s highest single-day output since plating 22 runs in a doubleheader split at Northern Kentucky March 25, 2017.
– The 11-run win over the Phoenix in the opener was Valpo’s largest win since an identical 12-1 score in a victory at Stetson March 1, 2020.
– The Beacons racked up 16 hits in the win over Green Bay, their highest single-game hit total since a 16-hit effort against Holy Cross Feb. 19, 2022.
– Valpo’s win in the nightcap was its 36th win all-time against Detroit Mercy, the most in program history against a single opponent.
Four For 44: Sophomore Kayden Krug was locked in at the plate in the win over Green Bay on opening weekend, picking up base hits in four consecutive innings from the second through the fifth as she went 4-for-4 with two RBIs. It was the first four-hit game by a Valpo player since Feb. 19, 2022, when Ryan Milkowski tallied four base hits against Holy Cross. It also was the first time a Valpo player has recorded a base hit in four consecutive innings since April 2, 2010, when KC Boldt did so at Detroit.
Who’s Back: Valpo returns 13 of 21 letterwinners from its 2024 squad for the 2025 campaign. The returnees accounted for 51.7% of the team’s plate appearances and 46.3% of the Beacons’ innings pitched last season.
Who’s New: Coach Armitage brought a pair of transfers with him from MSU Moorhead – junior infielder Mack Gallagher and junior pitcher/infielder Azalya Lopez, both of whom were All-Conference honorees. In addition, the program welcomes nine freshmen this season as well.
A Large Roster: Do the math from the above two notes, and you find that this year’s Valpo softball roster is comprised of 24 players. That is the largest roster in program history, topping the previous high of 21 players. Even more notable is that only two of this year’s 24 players are seniors.
Taking Advantage of the Numbers: Coach Armitage has shown a willingness to utilize his large roster as much as possible. 20 players saw action against Butler and Cleveland State, while 19 players apiece appeared in the wins over Green Bay and Detroit Mercy opening weekend and in the second game against Loyola at Marshall.
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“SPORTS EXTRA”
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
April 22
1876 — In the first National League game, Joseph Borden of Boston beat the hometown Philadelphia team 6-5.
1898 — Theodore Breitenstein of the Cincinnati Reds and James Hughes of Baltimore each pitched no-hit ball games. Breitenstein no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-0 and Hughes no-hit the Boston Braves 8-0.
1903 — The New York Highlanders lost their first game at Washington 3-1 before 11,950 fans.
1914 — At age 19, Babe Ruth plays his first professional game as a pitcher, as he throws a six-hit, 6 – 0 shutout for the Baltimore Orioles over the Buffalo Bisons.
1934 — Chicago’s Lon Warneke pitched his second consecutive one-hitter, beating St. Louis and Dizzy Dean 15-2.
1957 — John Kennedy becomes the first black to play for the Philadelphia Phillies, making them the last National League team to integrate.
1959 — The Chicago White Sox scored 11 runs with only one hit in the seventh inning of a 20-6 rout of the Kansas City A’s. Johnny Callison had the hit — a single. In the inning, Chicago was the recipient of 10 walks — five with the bases loaded — three Kansas City errors and one hit batsman.
1962 — The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Mets 4-3 in a game in which two NL records were tied. Bill Mazeroski tripled in a run in the eighth to give the Pirates a 10-0 record, which matched the record for most consecutive wins since the start of the season set by the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers. The Mets lost their ninth straight to match the mark set by Brooklyn in 1918 and tied by the Boston Braves in 1920.
1970 — Tom Seaver of the Mets struck out the last 10 Padres he faced for a 2-1 victory over San Diego. He gave up two hits and finished with a total of 19 strikeouts, tying Steve Carlton’s major league record.
1976 — Montreal’s Tim Foli hit for the cycle in a 12-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1978 — Andre Thornton of the Cleveland Indians hit for the cycle in a 13-4 win against the Boston Red Sox.
1980 — Ivan DeJesus of the Chicago Cubs hit for the cycle in 16-12 win against the St. Louis Cardinals.
1981 — Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela pitches his third shutout in four starts, strikes out 11, and has the game’s only RBI with a single in a 1 – 0 win against the Houston Astros.
1982 — The Atlanta Braves’ major league record for the fastest start was stopped at 13 straight victories when they lost 2-1 to the Cincinnati Reds.
1991 — San Francisco’s Robby Thompson hit for the cycle in a 7-5 loss to the San Diego Padres.
1993 — Chris Bosio pitched a no-hitter to give the Seattle Mariners a 7-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.
2007 — The Boston Red Sox hit four straight home runs against the New York Yankees, tying a major league record. Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek connected in a span of 10 pitches during the third inning against Chase Wright, who was making his second major league start for New York. Boston won 7-6.
2008 — Atlanta’s John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in major league history to reach the 3,000-strikeout plateau in the Braves’ 6-0 loss to the Washington Nationals.
2014 — Albert Pujols became the first major leaguer to hit his 499th and 500th homers in the same game, driving in five runs to help the Los Angeles Angels beat the Washington Nationals 7-2.
2020 — The Commissioner issues his findings in his investigation into allegations of sign-stealing by the 2018 Boston Red Sox, in the wake of a similar investigation into the illicit doings of the 2017 Houston Astros. While the investigation reveals that the Red Sox’s scheme was more limited in scope than the Astros’, it was still illegal, and the person responsible for the team’s video room is issued a one-year suspension, while the team must forfeit its second-round selection in the 2020 amateur draft. While there is no additional punishment for manager Alex Cora, already handed a one-year suspension for his role with the Astros.
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April 23
1903 — The New York Highlanders won their first game as a major league team, 7-2 over the Washington Senators.
1913 — New York Giants ace Christy Mathewson beat the Phillies 3-1, throwing just 67 pitches.
1939 — Rookie Ted Williams went 4-for-5, including his first major league home run, but the Red Sox lost to Philadelphia 12-8 at Fenway Park.
1946 — Ed Head of the Brooklyn Dodgers no-hit the Boston Braves 5-0 at Ebbets Field. Head was making his first start after a year’s military service.
1952 — Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians and Bob Cain of the St. Louis Browns matched one-hitters. Cain wound up as the winner, 1-0.
1952 — Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants hit a home run at the Polo Grounds in his first major league at-bat. He was the winner, too, and pitched 1,070 games in the majors — but never hit another homer.
1954 — Hank Aaron hit the first home run of his major league career. The drive came against Vic Raschi in the Milwaukee Braves’ 7-5 victory over St. Louis.
1962 — After an 0-9 start, the expansion New York Mets won their first game beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1 behind Jay Hook.
1964 — Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s became the first pitcher to lose a nine-inning no-hitter when Pete Rose scored an unearned run to give the Cincinnati Reds a 1-0 victory.
1978 — Joe Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds makes an error at second base, bringing his major league record of 91 consecutive errorless games to an end.
1989 — Nolan Ryan came within two outs of his sixth career no-hitter, losing it when Nelson Liriano tripled in the ninth inning as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1. Ryan finished with his 10th lifetime one-hitter.
1990 — Steve Lyons of the Chicago White Sox plays all nine positions during an exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs.
1999 — Fernando Tatis of St. Louis became the first in major league history to hit two grand slams in one inning in a 12-5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Tatis also set the record with eight RBIs in one inning.
2008 — The Chicago Cubs won their 10,000th game, joining the Giants as the only franchise to reach that mark with a 7-6 10-inning victory at Colorado.
2009 — Ichiro Suzuki lined James Shields’ second pitch of the game for a home run, the only run of Seattle’s 1-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. It was the 22nd time a leadoff homer was the deciding run in a game, and it was just the second time it happened for the Mariners.
2012 — Ivan Rodriguez, who has caught more games than anyone in big league history, announces his retirement after a 21-year career.
2013 — B.J. Upton and his brother Justin hit back-to-back homers for the first time, leading the Atlanta Braves past the Colorado Rockies 10-2 to complete a doubleheader sweep. It was the 27th time in major league history that brothers homered in the same game, but only the second time they went deep in consecutive at-bats. Lloyd and Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates also accomplished the feat on Sept. 15, 1938.
2022 — Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers becomes the 33rd member of the 3,000 hit club.
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April 24
1901 — Chicago defeated Cleveland 8-2 in the first American League game. Three other scheduled games were rained out. The game lasted 1 hour, 30 minutes in front of a reported crowd of 14,000 at the Chicago Cricket Club.
1911 — Battle Creek of the South Michigan League turned two triple plays in the first two innings against Grand Rapids.
1917 — George Mogridge of the New York Yankees pitched a no-hitter against the Red Sox in Boston, winning 2-1.
1947 — Johnny Mize of the New York Giants hit three consecutive homers in a 14-5 loss in Boston. It was a major league-record fifth time in his career that Mize hit three home runs in one game.
1957 — The Chicago Cubs set a National League record by walking nine batters in the 5th inning of a 9-5 loss to the Cincinnati Redlegs.
1962 — Sandy Koufax struck out 18 Chicago Cubs and pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 10-2 victory at Wrigley Field.
1965 — Casey Stengel recorded his 3,000th victory as a manager as the Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6.
1978 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 15 batters for the 20th time in his career.
1994 — Julio Franco and Robin Ventura twice hit back-to-back homers in Chicago’s 7-6 loss to Detroit.
1996 — Greg Myers and Paul Molitor each had five RBIs as the Minnesota Twins set a team record for runs and routed the Detroit Tigers 24-11. It was the highest run total against the Tigers in 84 years, matching the mark set in a 24-2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on May 18, 1912.
1998 — Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Mike Piazza ties a major league record hitting his third grand slam of the month.
1998 — Moises Alou drove in five runs and Carl Everett homered from each side of the plate to lead Houston to an 8-4 win over Montreal.
2001 — The American League celebrates its 100th anniversary as a major league.
2007 — Oakland set a major league record in a 4-2 win over Baltimore, keeping the Orioles off the scoreboard in the first inning. It was the 20th straight game in which the A’s did not allow a first-inning run, a record for the start of the season.
2009 — Zack Greinke continues to dominate opposing hitters as he pitches a second straight complete game for the Kansas City Royals.
2012 — Chipper Jones homers on his 40th birthday as the Braves beat the Dodgers, 4-3. He becomes the fifth player in major league history to do this, following Bob Thurman, Joe Morgan, Wade Boggs and Tony Phillips.
2014 — P Michael Pineda of the Yankees is handed a ten-game suspension after being caught using pine tar on the mound in the previous day’s game.
2015 — Rumors emerge that the Rangers have reached a tentative deal with the Angels to acquire troubled OF Josh Hamilton. Hamilton left Texas after the 2012 season to sign a five-year deal worth $125 million, but has not been as productive a player since the deal and suffered a relapse of dependency problems. He has yet to play a game this season.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
April 22
1876 — The first official National League baseball game is played with Boston beating Philadelphia 6-5.
1914 — Babe Ruth’s 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win.
1945 — The Toronto Maple Leafs edge the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 to win the Stanley Cup in seven games.
1947 — The Philadelphia Warriors, behind Joe Fulks’ 34 points, beat the Chicago Staggs 83-80 in Game 5 to win the first Basketball Association of America title.
1954 — NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule.
1957 — All NL baseball teams integrate, John Irwin Kennedy becomes the 1st Black player for the Philadelphia Phillies.
1962 — The Toronto Maple Leafs capture the Stanley Cup in six games with a 2-1 triumph over the Chicago Black Hawks.
1969 — Joe Frazier knocked out Dave Zyglewicz in 96 seconds to retain the heavyweight boxing title. Zyglewicz, 28-1 against journeymen, was fighting as the hometown hero at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston.
1981 — Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts.
1987 — The NBA grants expansion franchises to Charlotte, Miami, Minnesota and Orlando. Charlotte and Miami join the league in the 1988-89 season, while Minnesota and Orlando join in 1989-90.
1988 — New Jersey’s Patrik Sundstrom sets an NHL playoff record scoring eight points — three goals and five assists — in a 10-4 rout of Washington in the Stanley Cup quarterfinals.
1990 — NFL Draft: University of Illinois quarterback Jeff George first pick by Indianapolis Colts.
1993 — The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils extends their NHL playoff record to 14 straight wins.
1994 — Shannon Miller wins the women’s all-around title for the second straight year at the World Gymnastics Championships in Brisbane, Australia.
1994 — American figure skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500.
1994 — Michael Moorer outpoints Evander Holyfield to win the IBF and WBA titles and become the first left-handed heavyweight champion.
1995 — George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas.
1995 — NFL Draft: Penn State running back Ki-Jana Carter first pick by Cincinnati Bengals.
2003 — Minnesota and Vancouver become the first teams since 2000 to come back from 3-1 series deficits and win. The Wild take Game 7 in Colorado on Andrew Brunette’s overtime goal for a 3-2 win. The Canucks oust St. Louis with a 4-1 win.
2003 — Patrick Roy plays his final career NHL game.
2006 — New Jersey scores a playoff-record five power-play goals in its 6-1 win over New York.
2006 — In Berlin, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko stops Chris Byrd in the seventh round of a one-sided fight to gain the IBF heavyweight title.
2007 — The Boston Red Sox tie a major league record by hitting four straight home runs in a 7-6 win over the New York Yankees. Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek connect in a span of 10 pitches during the third inning against Chase Wright.
2008 — John Smoltz of Atlanta becomes the 16th pitcher in major league history to reach the 3,000-strikeout plateau in the Braves’ 6-0 loss to Washington.
2010 — NFL Draft: Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford first pick by St. Louis Rams.
2013 — Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012/2013 English Premier League.
2014 — Albert Pujols becomes the first major leaguer to hit his 499th and 500th homers in the same game, driving in five runs to help the Los Angeles Angels beat the Washington Nationals 7-2.
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April 23
1903 — The New York Highlanders, later renamed Yankees, win their first game as a major league team, 7-2 over the Washington Senators.
1939 — Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR.
1946 — Ed Head of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitches a no-hitter against the Boston Braves 5-0 at Ebbets Field.
1950 — The Detroit Red Wings edge the New York Rangers 4-3 in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup.
1950 — The Minneapolis Lakers become the first team to win back-to-back NBA championships by defeating the Syracuse Nationals 110-95 in Game 6 of the finals. George Mikan leads the Lakers with 40 points in a game marred by three fights, four Minneapolis players fouling out, and Nats coach Al Cervi being ejected for complaining too vociferously about a call.
1954 — The NBA adopts the 24-second shot clock.
1954 — Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers.
1969 — Jerry West scores 53 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers over Boston 120-118 in the opening game of the NBA finals.
1989 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores 10 points in his last game as a Laker in a 121-117 win over Seattle SuperSonics at the LA Forum.
1989 — NFL Draft: #1 pick UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman by Dallas Cowboys.
1993 — The Dallas Mavericks avoid matching the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers as the worst team in NBA history, beating Minnesota 103-100 for their 10th triumph of the season.
1993 — Orlando’s Nick Anderson scores 50 points in the Magic’s 119-116 win over the New Jersey Nets at The Meadowlands. Anderson’s feat is overshadowed by Shaquille O’Neal, who rips down the backboard in the first quarter, delaying the game 45 minutes. 1999 — Fernando Tatis hits two grand slams in one inning to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 12-5 win over Los Angeles. Tatis becomes the first player in major league history to hit two grand slams in one inning and set the record with eight RBIs in an inning.
2002 — Brent Johnson of the St. Louis Blues ties an NHL record with three straight shutouts in the playoffs. That had not happened in 57 years. Johnson reaches the milestone with a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.
2005 — NFL Draft: University of Utah quarterback Alex Smith first pick by San Francisco 49ers.
2008 — The Chicago Cubs win their 10,000th game, joining the Giants as the only franchise to reach that mark with a 7-6 victory in 10 innings at Colorado.
2011 — The Portland Trail Blazers rally from 23 points down in the second half, including an 18-point deficit to start the fourth quarter to defeat Dallas 84-82 and tie the first-round series at 2-2. Portland’s Brandon Roy scores 18 in the fourth quarter, including a 4-point play and the go ahead jumper with 39 seconds left. Roy outscores Dallas 18-15 in the quarter.
2017 — Kenyan runner Mary Keitany breaks Paula Radcliffe’s women-only marathon world record with a third victory in London. Keitany completes the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 17 minutes and 1 second to shave 41 seconds off Radcliffe’s 12-year-old mark.
2020 — NFL Draft: LSU quarterback Joe Burrow first pick by Cincinnati Bengals.
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April 24
1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who died in November 1944.
1962 — LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax’s 2nd career 18-strikeout, in a 10-2 win over Cubs in Chicago.
1963 — Bob Cousy ends his 13-year career by scoring 18 points as the Boston Celtics win their fifth consecutive NBA championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 112-109 in Game 6.
1967 — The Philadelphia 76ers win the NBA championship in six games with 125-122 comeback victory over the San Francisco Warriors. Billy Cunningham scores 13 points in the final 12 minutes as the 76ers overcome a five-point deficit entering the fourth quarter.
1974 — Tampa, Fla. is awarded the NFL’s 27th franchise.
1978 — Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game.
1981 — San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA regular season game record.
1988 — NFL Draft: Auburn tight end Aundray Bruce first pick by Atlanta Falcons.
1993 — George Branham III becomes the first black bowler to win a PBA Triple Crown event when he beats Parker Bohn III 227-214 in the Tournament of Champions.
1994 — David Robinson scores 71 points to win the NBA scoring title as the San Antonio Spurs end the regular season with a 112-97 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Robinson, the fourth NBA player to score more than 70 points in a game, edges Orlando’s Shaquille O’Neal for the scoring title.
1994 — NFL Draft: Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson first pick by Cincinnati Bengals.
1996 — Petr Nedved scores a power-play goal with 44.6 seconds left in the fourth overtime, ending the longest NHL game in 60 years and giving the Pittsburgh Penguins a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.
2003 — Petr Sykora scores 48 seconds into the fifth overtime as Anaheim outlasts Dallas 4-3 to win the opener of the Western Conference semifinal series. The game is the fourth-longest in NHL history.
2004 — NFL Draft: Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning first pick by San Diego Chargers.
2010 — Jamaican Usain Bolt dazzles a capacity crowd with a lightning-fast final leg, overtaking USA Blue’s Ivory Williams to win the 4×100-meter relay at the Penn Relays. A quartet of Mario Forsythe, Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson and Bolt finishes in 37.90 seconds for Jamaica Gold, setting a Penn Relays record. Trailing entering the final leg, Bolt takes the handoff and finishes the final 100 meters in an unofficial time of 8.79 seconds.
2016 — Klay Thompson scores 23 points and the Golden State Warriors set an NBA playoff record with 21 3-pointers to overcome another injury to Stephen Curry and beat the Houston Rockets 121-94 for a 3-1 series lead. The Warriors made eight 3s in the third quarter alone to set a franchise playoff record for 3-pointers in a period. Thompson led the way from long range, going 7 of 11, and Draymond Green made four.
TV SPORTS TUESDAY
| MLB REGULAR SEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| NY Yankees at Cleveland | 6:10pm | CleGuardians.com YES |
| San Diego at Detroit | 6:40pm | Padres.TV FanDuel Sports DET |
| Cincinnati at Miami | 6:40pm | FanDuel Sports Ohio FanDuel Sports FL |
| Baltimore at Washington | 6:45pm | MASN2 MASN |
| Seattle at Boston | 6:45pm | NESN ROOT |
| Philadelphia at NY Mets | 7:10pm | TBS NBCS-PHI SNY |
| St. Louis at Atlanta | 7:15pm | FanDuel Sports MW FanDuel Sports South |
| Chi. White Sox at Minnesota | 7:40pm | CHSN Twins.TV |
| Colorado at Kansas City | 7:40pm | Rockies.TV FanDuel Sports KC |
| LA Dodgers at Chi. Cubs | 7:40pm | SNLA MARQ |
| Toronto at Houston | 8:10pm | SCHN Sportsnet |
| Pittsburgh at LA Angels | 9:38pm | FanDuel Sports West ATTSN-PIT |
| Tampa Bay at Arizona | 9:40pm | FanDuel Sports Sun DBacks.TV |
| Milwaukee at San Francisco | 9:45pm | FanDuel Sports WI NBCS-BAY |
| Texas at Athletics | 10:05pm | RSN NBCS-CA |
| NBA PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| East Quarterfinals Game 2: Milwaukee Bucks vs Indiana Pacers | 7:30pm | NBATV |
| West Quarterfinals Game 2: Memphis Grizzlies at Oklahoma City Thunder | 7:30pm | TNT truTV MAX |
| West Quarterfinals Game 2: Minnesota Timberwolves at LA Lakers | 10:00pm | TNT truTV MAX |
| NHL PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| East Quarterfinals Game 2: New Jersey Devils vs Carolina Hurricanes | 6:00pm | ESPN |
| East Quarterfinals Game 2: Ottawa Senators vs Toronto Maple Leafs | 7:30pm | ESPN2 |
| East Quarterfinals Game 1: Florida Panthers vs Tampa Bay Lightning | 8:30pm | ESPN |
| West Quarterfinals Game 1: Minnesota Wild vs Vegas Golden Knights | 11:00pm | ESPN |
| SOCCER | TIME ET | TV |
| EPL: Manchester City vs Aston Villa | 3:00pm | USA Peacock |
| La Liga: Valencia vs Espanyol | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Ligue 1: Nantes vs PSG | 2:45pm | Fanatiz beIN Sports |
| La Liga: Barcelona vs Mallorca | 3:30pm | ESPN+ |