Call & Times

TODAY IN SPORTS

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March 4

1960 — Phil Latrielle of Middlebury scores an NCAA-record 10 goals in a 13-2 victory over Colgate. Latrielle, a three time All-American, would score a record 250 goals in the 85 games of his collegiate ice hockey career.

1962 — Wilt Chamberlai­n of the Philadelph­ia Warriors registers his fifth straight 50-point game with 58 against the New York Knicks and sets a season scoring record with 3,921 points.

1968 — Joe Frazier wins the vacant New York world heavyweigh­t title with an 11thround TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison Square Garden.

1981 — Guy LaFleur of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 1,000th point with a goal in a 9-3 rout over the Winnipeg Jets. 1990 — Hank Gathers, one of two Division I players to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same season, dies after collapsing during Loyola Marymount’s West Coast Conference tournament game against Portland. He was 23.

2004 — Mianne Bagger makes sports history at the Women’s Australian Open as the first transsexua­l to play in a pro golf tournament.

2006 — Rafael Nadal ends top-ranked Roger Federer’s 56-match hardcourt winning streak with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory in the final of the Dubai Open.

2011 — Miikka Kiprusoff becomes the first goalie in 25 years to stop two penalty shots in a game and finishes with 37 saves, leading Calgary past Columbus 4-3.

2013 — Gonzaga, the small Northwest school that has delivered big NCAA tournament wins, is on top of The Associated Press’ Top 25 for the first time. Riding the best record in Division I at 29-2, the Bulldogs become the 57th school to be ranked No. 1 since the AP poll began in January 1949.

2013 — Brittney Griner scores a Big 12 single-game record 50 points in her final regular-season game at Baylor and leads the Bears to a 98-50 win over Kansas State. 2015 — Russell Westbrook becomes the first player since Michael Jordan in 1989 to have four consecutiv­e triple-doubles and the first since Jordan that year to have back-toback triple-doubles with at least 40 points. Westbrook sets career highs with 49 points and 16 rebounds, and adds 10 assists, helping the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Philadelph­ia 76ers 123-118 in overtime. 2017 — Marit Bjoergen wins world championsh­ip gold in the 30-kilometer classical race as Norway completes a sweep of women’s cross-country ski titles at the world championsh­ips in Lahti, Finland. Bjoergen takes her record 18th career gold medal and fourth of the championsh­ips. No country had won all women’s cross-country gold medals at a single world championsh­ips since Russia in 1997, when there were only five events, rather than the current six. 2017 — Austrian Marcel Hirscher stuns the world of Alpine skiing by locking up an unpreceden­ted sixth straight overall World Cup He becomes the first male skier to win six overall titles. Hirscher’s 44th career win also secures him the giant slalom title.

2017 — Napheesa Collier scores 24 points and top-ranked UConn routed Tulsa 105-57 in the American Athletic Conference quarterfin­als. The Huskies (30-0) extend their NCAA-record winning streak to 105 games and reach the 30-victory mark for the 12th consecutiv­e season.

PHILADELPH­IA (120)

Harris 11-19 3-4 28, Hield 4-11 0-0 11, Bamba 2-3 4-4 8, Lowry 1-9 5-5 8, Maxey 8-15 7-7 24, Martin 0-0 0-0 0, Reed 5-6 2-2 13, Batum 2-8 2-2 7, Oubre Jr. 7-17 6-7 21. Totals 40-88 29-31 120.

DALLAS (116)

Green 3-6 0-0 7, Washington 3-10 6-6 13, Lively II 2-3 0-0 4, Doncic 14-27 6-6 38, Irving 10-20 3-3 28, Jones Jr. 7-9 2-4 21, Kleber 0-2 2-2 2, Gafford 0-1 0-0 0, Hardaway Jr. 1-8 0-0 2, Exum 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 40-86 20-23 116.

GOLDEN STATE (88)

Kuminga 2-9 2-2 6, Moody 5-9 0-0 11, Green 2-2 2-2 6, Curry 2-13 0-0 4, Thompson 2-4 1-1 6, Jackson-Davis 4-6 0-0 8, Santos 2-4 0-0 5, Looney 0-4 3-4 3, Saric 2-4 0-1 4, Paul 1-6 0-0 2, Payton II 3-5 0-1 6, Quinones 7-16 0-0 17, Robinson 4-10 1-2 10. Totals 36-92 9-13 88.

BOSTON (140)

Brown 11-19 2-2 29, Tatum 9-13 5-5 27, Horford 3-5 0-0 7, Holiday 3-7 0-0 7, White 5-6 0-0 14, Hauser 4-9 0-0 12, Kornet 1-2 0-0 2, Tillman 2-4 2-2 7, Mykhailiuk 3-8 0-0 8, Brissett 3-7 0-2 6, Pritchard 8-12 0-0 19,

Philadelph­ia 32 24 34 30 — 120 Dallas 22 29 25 40 — 116 3-Point Goals_Philadelph­ia 11-37 (Harris 3-6, Hield 3-8, Reed 1-1, Batum 1-5, Lowry 1-5, Maxey 1-5, Oubre Jr. 1-7), Dallas 16-41 (Jones Jr. 5-5, Irving 5-9, Doncic 4-10, Green 1-2, Washington 1-7, Kleber 0-2, Hardaway Jr. 0-6). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Philadelph­ia 42 (Batum 11), Dallas 45 (Doncic 11). Assists_Philadelph­ia 26 (Lowry 7), Dallas 20 (Doncic 10). Total Fouls_Philadelph­ia 19, Dallas 18. A_20,277 (19,200)

Springer 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 53-96 9-11 140. Golden State 22 16 2426 — 88 Boston 44 38 3325 — 140 3-Point Goals_Golden State 7-41 (Quinones 3-10, Santos 1-2, Thompson 1-3, Moody 1-4, Robinson 1-6, Kuminga 0-2, Saric 0-2, Paul 0-3, Curry 0-9), Boston 25-49 (Brown 5-10, Tatum 4-5, White 4-5, Hauser 4-9, Pritchard 3-5, Mykhailiuk 2-6, Horford 1-2, Tillman 1-2, Holiday 1-3, Brissett 0-1, Springer 0-1). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Golden State 46 (Santos 9), Boston 51 (Brissett 8). Assists_Golden State 24 (Paul 7), Boston 35 (White 8).

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