Former Jay Fernández dies
Tony Fernández, a stylish shortstop who made five all-star teams during his 17 seasons in the major leagues and helped the Toronto Blue Jays win the 1993 World Series, died Sunday after complications from a kidney disease. He was 57.
Fernández was taken off a life support system in the afternoon with his family present at a hospital in Weston, Florida, said Imrad Hallim, the director and co-founder of the Tony Fernández Foundation. Fernández had been in a medically induced coma and had waited years for a new kidneys.
Fernández won four straight Gold Gloves with the Blue Jays in the 1980s and holds club records for career hits and games played. A clutch hitter in five trips to the postseason, he had four separate stints with Toronto and played for six other teams.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Isabelle Spingola scored 17 points and the Marquette women’s team rolled past Butler, 76-54, Sunday at the Al McGuire Center to reach 20 victories for the fourth-straight season.
Camryn Taylor and Selena Lott had 13 points apiece for the Golden Eagles (20-6, 11-4 Big East).
UW-Milwaukee women 76, Detroit 51: Jamie Reit had 17 points and Sydney Levy added 16 as the Panthers (11-14, 8-6 Horizon League) routed the Titans at the Klotsche Center.
(17) Iowa 97, UW women 71: Kathleen Doyle scored 22 points and the Hawkeyes ran their winning streak at home to 34 with a romp past the Badgers (11-15, 3-12 Big Ten).
Wisconsin has lost 22 straight games in the series.
HOCKEY
Britta Curl tallied 1:36 into the three-on-three overtime period and the second-ranked Wisconsin women’s team beat No. 6 Ohio State before a crowd of 14,361 at the Kohl Center.
The teams played to a 1-1 draw through three periods and a five-minute overtime session. The Badgers (26-4-2, 16-4-2 WCHA) clinched a league point with Curl’s tally. The game goes in the record book as a 1-1 tie.
SKIING
Petra Vlhova won her third straight women’s World Cup slalom in Kranjska, Slovenia, to overtake the absent Mikaela Shiffrin on the top of the discipline standings.
Vlhova was more than nine-tenths off the lead in fourth place after the first run but posted the fastest time in a free-flowing second.
The Slovakian skier, who also won in Zagreb and Flachau recently and finished on the podium in 13 of the last 15 races, now leads the discipline standings by 20 points from Shiffrin.
The American three-time overall champion sat out the race, taking a break from skiing since the death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin, two weeks ago.
LUGE
USA Luge won the bronze medal in the team relay at luge’s world championships, catching a huge break when the host Russians were disqualified from the final event of the competition in Krasnaya Polyana.
Summer Britcher, Tucker West and the doubles team of Chris Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman were sitting in third place with one team left to slide. That was Russia, which had Ekaterina Katnikova, Roman Repilov and the doubles team of Aleksandr Denisev and Vladislav Antonov – all of whom had won world championships earlier in the weekend – entered in the relay.
Katnikova was first down the 2014 Olympic track, and before Repilov could begin she needed to smack a touchpad suspended from the top of the chute as she crossed the finish line. Katinkova reached up a split-second too late, missed the pad entirely and the Russians were disqualified on the spot.
TENNIS
Kiki Bertens beat Elena Rybakina, 6-1, 6-3, to retain the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy.
It’s the first title of 2020 for the Dutch player, who’s eighth in the world rankings.
SOCCER
Angel Curiel scored at 4 minutes, 1 second of overtime and the host Milwaukee Wave edged the Florida Tropics, 6-5.
Milwaukee’s Alex Bradley tallied at 9:04 of the final period to make it 5-5.