TODAY IN SPORTS
1937 — Byron Nelson shoots a 283 to win the Masters by two strokes over Ralph Guldahl.
1938 — Henry Picard beats Ralph Guldahl and Harry Cooper by two strokes to capture the Masters.
1983 — Lorenzo Charles scores on a dunk after Derek Whittenburg’s 35- foot desperation shot falls short to give North Carolina State a 54- 52 triumph over Houston in the NCAA championship.
1986 — Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky breaks his own NHL single- season points record with three assists to increase his total to 214. He scored 212 points in 1981- 82.
1987 — New York’s Denis Potvin, the highest- scoring defenseman in NHL history, scores his 1,000th point.
1988 — Danny Manning scores 31 points and grabs 18 rebounds as Kansas wins its second NCAA championship with an 83- 79 victory over Oklahoma.
1993 — Sheryl Swoopes shatters the women’s championship game record by scoring 47 points to lead Texas Tech to an 84- 82 victory over Ohio State.
1993 — Mario Andretti, at 53, wins the Valvoline 200 in Phoenix to become the oldest driver to win an Indy car race and the first to win a race in four different decades.
1994 — Arkansas wins its first men’s national championship with a 76- 72 victory over Duke, depriving the Blue Devils of a third title in four years.
2001 — Hideo Nomo becomes the fourth pitcher in major league history to throw a nohitter in both leagues in Boston’s 3- 0 victory over Baltimore. Nomo joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to accomplish the feat.
2003 — Toronto’s Lenny Wilkens sets the NBA record for most career losses when the Raptors lost to the Spurs 124- 98. Wilkens, in his 30th year as an NBA coach, was already the winningest coach in league history with 1,292 victories.
2005 — North Carolina defeats Illinois to win the NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship. Sean May has 26 points and the Tar Heels don’t allow a basket over the final 2 1/ 2 minutes to defeat Illinois 75- 70.
2015 — The United States defends their women’s world hockey championship with a 7- 5 win over Canada.