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MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Tampa Bay Rays 5, Detroit Tigers 1 Milwaukee Brewers 9, Chicago Cubs 5 Chicago White Sox 6, Houston Astros 3 Rays 5, Tigers 1 – Springs 6 hitless innings, Rays beat Tigers for 3-game sweep Tampa Bay’s Jeffrey Springs was pulled after six hitless innings, Riley Greene got Detroit’s first hit with an infield single off Colin Poche in the seventh and the Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 5-1 on Sunday to complete an opening three-game sweep. Springs struck out a career-high 12 and matched his high of six innings. He threw 58 of 81 pitches for strikes. Detroit had just one runner against Springs: Nick Maton drew a two-out walk in the second. Three Tampa Bay relievers completed a two-hitter. Brewers 9, Cubs 5 – Winker drives in 3 as Brewers beat Taillon, Cubs 9-5 Jesse Winker had two hits and three RBIs, including a key two-run single in Milwaukee’s five-run sixth inning, and the Brewers beat Jameson Taillon and the Chicago Cubs 9-5. Christian Yelich, Garrett Mitchell and Brice Turang also had two hits apiece — part of a 13-hit attack for Milwaukee. Winker was acquired in a December trade with Seattle. He had a pinch-hit RBI single in the eighth inning of Milwaukee’s 3-1 win on Saturday. Taillon was charged with three runs and seven hits in four innings in his Chicago debut. The 6-foot-5 right-hander signed a four-year contract in free agency. White Sox 6, Astros 3 – Robert, Moncada power White Sox past Astros 6-3 Luis Robert Jr. and Yoán Moncada homered, Mike Clevinger threw five shutout innings and the Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros 6-3. Robert hit a solo home run in the fifth and made a spectacular sliding catch on the left-center warning track in the ninth to rob Kyle Tucker of extra bases. Moncada hit a two-run homer in the ninth as Chicago gained a four-game split of the opening series. Tonight San Francisco (DeSclafani 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Kopech 0-0), 3:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Smyly 0-0) at Cincinnati (Overton 0-0), 6:40 p.m. Detroit (Boyd 0-0) at Houston (Brown 0-0), 8:10 p.m. News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 7:45 NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball – Final Four Saturday NCAA Tournament – Final Four – NRG Stadium, Houston 5 San Diego State vs. 4 UConn, 9:20 p.m. NCAAMBKB – A San Diego St-UConn title game brings Fab Five memories Thirty years ago, a group of disrupters with baggy shorts changed college basketball as we know it. Those Michigan freshmen known as the Fab Five ended up one win short of the title. That is exactly where San Diego State, a team coached by former Fab Five assistant Brian Dutcher, finds itself in 2023 during another transformative period in college hoops. The Aztecs, who will face UConn in the title game, are a team forged quickly through the newly liberated transfer portal and enriched by opportunities that have sprung from name-image-likeness deals. All those were distant dreams for those brash Michigan players in the 1990s but part of something they started pushing for back then. NCAAWBKB – Women’s College Basketball – Championship Last Night NCAA Tournament – Final Four – American Airlines Center, Dallas 3 LSU 102, 2 Iowa 85 LSU 102, Iowa 85 – LSU wins 1st NCAA title, Mulkey’s 4th, beating Clark, Iowa LSU won its first basketball title in school history, overcoming Caitlin Clark and Iowa 102-85 in the national championship game. The victory made Kim Mulkey the first women’s coach to win national championships at two different schools. She won three at Baylor before leaving for LSU two years ago. Her four titles gave her the third most all-time behind Geno Auriemma’s 11 and Pat Summitt’s eight. Mulkey has never lost in a championship game. Angel Reese had 15 points and 10 rebounds for LSU and was honored as the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Clark scored 30 points to finish the tournament with 191, breaking Sheryl Swoopes’ record of 177 set in 1993. NHL – National Hockey League Yesterday Detroit Red Wings 5, Toronto Maple Leafs 2 Red Wings 5, Maple Leafs 2 – Larkin’s hat trick helps Red Wings top Maple Leafs 5-2 Dylan Larkin scored three times for his second career hat trick, Alex Nedeljkovic made 42 saves and the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2. Olli Maatta had a goal and an assist, and Jonatan Berggren also scored for Detroit. Moritz Seider added two assists. Calle Jarnkrok and John Tavares scored for Toronto which lost goalie Matt Murray to an injury late in the first period. He allowed two goals on seven shots before being replaced by Ilya Samsonov, who made 13 saves in relief after stopping 31 shots in a 3-0 win over Ottawa on Saturday. NBA – National Basketball Association Yesterday Chicago Bulls 128, Memphis Grizzlies 107 Orlando Magic 128, Detroit Pistons 102 Cleveland Cavaliers 115, Indiana Pacers 105 – d Bulls 128, Grizzlies 107 – LaVine, DeRozan lead surge as Bulls rally to beat Grizzlies Zach LaVine scored 36 points, DeMar DeRozan added 31 and the Chicago Bulls used a huge second half to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 128-107 and overcome Ja Morant’s triple-double. The Bulls outscored the Western Conference’s second-place team 75-39 over the final two quarters after trailing by 23. They dominated the Grizzlies 40-16 in the third, ending it on a 17-0 run while taking the lead. And they responded with another big push in the fourth after Memphis pulled within three. Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 31 and made five 3-pointers for the Grizzlies who had won eight of nine. Morant had 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists and Desmond Bane scored 21. Magic 128, Pistons 102 – Magic hand Pistons 20th loss in 21 games with 128-102 win Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr. had 14 points and nine rebounds each before sitting out the fourth quarter Sunday night in the Orlando Magic’s 128-102 rout of the Detroit Pistons. Jalen Suggs led eight Orlando players in double figures with 18 points, and Cole Anthony added 17 points and six rebounds for the Magic, who shot 57.3% and won for the fifth time in six games. Franz Wagner finished with 16 points and eight assists. Killian Hayes scored 20 points and Eugene Omoruyi added 19 for the Pistons, who lost for the 20th time in 21 games. Jaden Ivey finished with 14 points and six assists. Cavaliers 115, Pacers 105 – Mitchell scores 40, Cavaliers power past Pacers 115-105 All-Star Donovan Mitchell scored 40 points and Evan Mobley had 14 points and 16 rebounds as the playoff-bound Cleveland Cavaliers pulled away late for a 115-105 victory over the Indiana Pacers. Darius Garland added 20 points and six assists for Cleveland, which reduced its magic number to one for clinching home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The Cavaliers won for the 31st time in 40 games at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Rookie Bennedict Mathurin had 19 points, nine rebounds and three fourth-quarter offensive fouls for Indiana, which was eliminated from postseason contention for the third year in a row. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Yesterday Baseball Lake Michigan College 19, Glen Oaks C.C. 8 Today Softball Lake Michigan College at Kalamazoo Valley C.C., (DH), Postponed MHSAA – High School Sports Today Baseball Eau Claire at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. Softball Niles at Brandywine, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer Bridgman at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. Brandywine at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Boys Golf Orchard Invitational at Buchanan, 4:00 p.m. Buchanan, St. Joseph, Berrien Springs, NilesTampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Jeffrey Springs delivers to the Detroit Tigers during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 2, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Willy Adames hits a single to Chicago Cubs center fielder Cody Bellinger during the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 2, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)Chicago White Sox’s Oscar Colas, right, celebrates behind Houston Astros second baseman Mauricio Dubon after hitting an RBI double during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, April 2, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) celebrates after his goal with teammate left wing David Perron (57) as Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly (44) skates past during third-period NHL hockey game action in Toronto, Ontario, Sunday, April 2, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)Chicago Bulls forward DeMar DeRozan, right, shoots against Memphis Grizzlies forward Xavier Tillman during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Chicago, Sunday, April 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Orlando Magic’s Paolo Banchero (5) makes a move to get past Detroit Pistons’ Eugene Omoruyi (97) during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, April 2, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. 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