Ex-Badger drafted No. 1

.Former University of Wisconsin women’s soccer star Rose Lavelle was selected first in Thursday’s National Women’s Soccer League Draft in Los Angeles by the Boston Breakers.

Lavelle led the Badgers in points, goals, shots and shots on goal as a senior in 2016. She was named Big Ten midfielder of the year for the second straight season and is a four-time first-team all-Big Ten pick.

Her selection marks the first time in school history that a UW athlete was picked first overall in the draft of their respective sport’s professional league.

Former Marquette midfielder Morgan Proffitt was selected by the Chicago Red Stars with the second pick of the second round (No. 12 overall).

Proffitt, the 2016 Big East defensive player of the year, is a two-time all-Big East first-team and second-team all-region selection. The defensive midfielder finished her Golden Eagles career sixth in school history with 83 matches started.

HOCKEY

The Nashville Predators recalled Admirals defenseman Alexandre Carrier from Milwaukee on Thursday.

Carrier, who has played in all 34 games for Milwaukee this season, has no NHL experience. The AHL rookie, named to the 2017 AHL All-Star Classic slated for later this month, has four goals and 17 assists with the Admirals this season.

MLB

The Cardinals and first baseman Matt Adams agreed to a $2.8 million, one-year deal to avoid arbitration, though his role remains unclear with Matt

Carpenter taking over his everyday job. Adams, who made $1.65 million last season, has been shopped this off-season but could also give St. Louis a power bat off the bench. The left-handed hitting Adams is a career .284 hitter against right-handed pitching, so he offers an intriguing option in a platoon role. Gillaspie, Giants agree to contract: Third baseman Conor Gillaspie and the San Francisco Giants avoided arbitration by agreeing to a $1.4 million, oneyear contract, a raise from his $1 million salary last year.

Gillaspie had a great spring training last year then briefly began in the minors before rejoining the Giants in his second stint with San Francisco. Then, he became an unlikely September and playoff star — as an injury replacement, no less.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson was named the first repeat winner of the Manning Award, which is presented by the Sugar Bowl to the nation’s top college quarterback after the postseason.

Watson, who passed for 4,593 yards and 41 touchdowns and ran for 629 yards and nine touchdowns this season, is coming off his second straight 400yard passing performance in a national title game.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Three female Chinese weightlifters have been stripped of Olympic titles for doping at their 2008 Beijing Games.

China faces a one-year ban from international weightlifting, which should be triggered for having three Olympic doping disqualifications in a retesting program by the IOC. The IOC said Cao Lei, Chen Xiexia and Liu Chunhonog tested positive for GHRP-2, which stimulates production of growth hormone.

The IOC also took a Beijing bronze medal in women’s shot put from Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus.