Fever prevail, stop skid at 20
NaLyssa Smith scored 23 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to help the Indiana Fever end a WNBA recordtying 20-game losing streak with a 90-87 victory over the host Atlanta Dream.
The Fever (1-2) had lost 20 in a row dating to last season to tie the Tulsa Shock for the most consecutive losses of all time.
Indiana lost its final 18 games last season before dropping its first two this season.
Rhyne Howard led Atlanta (1-2) with 23 points.
Marina Mabrey put up season highs with 23 points and eight assists, and the Chicago Sky beat the visiting Dallas Wings 94-88 . ...
Jackie Young scored 23 points, and the host Las Vegas Aces defeated the Minnesota Lynx 94-73. The Aces (4-0) tied the franchise record for consecutive wins to open a season.
Coastal Carolina (39-19) of the Sun Belt Conference and Indiana State (42-15) of the Missouri Valley Conference are the other hosts.
Jenna Johnson hit a fifth-inning home run, and Alabama held off Northwestern 3-2 to win the bestof-three Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Super Regional and advance to the Women’s College World Series . ... Utah won 7-2 over San Diego State in the deciding game of the best-of-three Salt Lake City Super Regional for the Utes’ first trip to the Women’s College World Series since 1994.
In Pennsauken, N.J., Stanford won the varsity eight and second varsity eight to capture its first NCAA rowing championship in 14 years. The Cardinal also won their only other championship in 2009 at Cooper River Park.
Izzy Scane scored four goals to lead top-seeded Northwestern to its first NCAA women’s lacrosse title in 11 years with an 18-6 win over third-seeded Boston College in rainy Cary, N.C.
Seven years after its improbable Premier League title triumph, Leicester was relegated from English soccer’s top division, while Everton pulled off another lastday escape to extend its 69year stay.
Leeds also was consigned to the drop with Leicester and already-relegated Southampton.
Everton’s 1-0 win over Bournemouth meant Leicester’s 2-1 victory against West Ham was meaningless. Leeds’ season ended with a 4-1 home loss to Tottenham.
France crashed out of the Under-20 World Cup in Argentina despite a 3-1 group stage win over Honduras. The French lost their first two matches in Group F, from which Gambia and South Korea advanced to the knockout stage.
Primoz Roglic expanded his Grand Tour portfolio by winning the Giro d’Italia cycling race to add to his three Spanish Vuelta titles, while Mark Cavendish won the 21st and final stage.