Quick Hitters
Chicharito’s hat trick gets Galaxy past Red Bulls
Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez extended his torrid start to the Major league Soccer season with a hat trick, and the la Galaxy defeated the new york red Bulls 3-2 Sunday night.
The Mexican star has five goals in two games for the Galaxy after having only two goals in 12 games last year in an injury-plagued first season in MlS. He joins Houston’s Brian Ching (2006) as the only players in league history to have five goals in the first two games of the season.
78,113 attend Aussie Rules match for pandemic record
More than 78,000 australian rules football fans crowded the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday for an australian Football league match between Collingwood and Essendon — the biggest crowd for a sports event since the CoVid-19 pandemic began.
The crowd of 78,113 topped the 67,000 who attended a Twenty20 cricket international between india and England at ahmedabad last month.
The anzac day match is one of the traditional highlights of the aussie rules season, when sport combines with a solemn national commemoration. anzac day — april 25 — is the day on which australians commemorate those who served in both world wars and in other conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
Aussies Leishman and Smith win Zurich Classic
Cameron Smith’s aggressiveness on the TpC louisiana’s water-lined 16th hole appeared to doom his team’s chances of winning the Zurich Classic when his 294-yard drive bounced off an embankment near the green and into the water.
Smith’s teammate, fellow australian Marc leishman, then flipped the script with a deft chip.
leishman made birdie after a penalty drop in the rough, about 23 feet from the pin, pulling him and Smith into a tie with the South african duo of louis oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel that wasn’t broken until the aussies won the first playoff hole Sunday.
Kim Mulkey leaves Baylor, takes over as LSU coach
Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey has left Baylor to return home and take over the lSU women’s basketball team.
Mulkey, who won three national championships at Baylor, is a native of Tickfaw, louisiana. She helped Baylor win the 2019 nCaa championship, and the Bears lost in the regional finals to UConn last month.
The 58-year-old coach inherits an lSU team that went 9-13 last season and hasn’t made it past the Sweet 16 since 2007. She became the fastest coach in division i history to reach 600 wins — needing only 700 games to do it.