Spartans return with big victory

Armani Franklin scored 19 points to lead a balanced attack and Norfolk State forced 34 turnovers in an 83-64 MEAC women’s basketball victory over North Carolina Central on Wednesday at McDougald-McLendon Arena in Durham, North Carolina.

It was the first game for the Spartans (4-7, 3-4) since Feb. 21 in what has been a season full of postponements and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jalynn Holmes added 18 points for NSU, while Mangela Ngandjui had 11 and E’Lexus Davis 10. Shine Strickland-Gills and Camryn Platt-Morris each added nine points. Ngandjui and Strickland-Gills pulled down 10 rebounds each.

Holmes had five of the Spartans’ 20 steals.

Anissa Rivera paced North Carolina Central (3-11, 1-6) with 19 points, while Faith Williams had 15.

The two teams will meet again at 4 p.m. today to close out the regular season.

Detectives are looking at data from the “black box” of Tiger Woods’ SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the Southern California rollover crash that seriously injured the golf star, authorities said Wednesday. The Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department said traffic investigators executed a search warrant Monday to retrieve data from the device from the Genesis SUV that Woods, above, was driving. The 2021 GV80, made by Hyundai, is likely to have a newer version of event data recorders nicknamed “black boxes” after more sophisticated recorders in airplanes. The devices store a treasure trove of data for authorities to review. Woods suffered a serious leg injury when the SUV he was driving went off a road and rolled over on a downhill stretch known for crashes. Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Woods wasn’t drunk and was driving alone in good weather when the SUV hit a raised median, went across oncoming lanes and rolled several times. The sheriff said the new data could provide more information on the cause of the accident.