AZTECS SOFTBALL IN TEMPE REGIONAL, WILL TAKE ON LSU
The San Diego State softball team will play No. 20/18 LSU in the NCAA Tempe Regional, the NCAA announced Sunday. It is 12th NCAA tournament bid for the Aztecs (37-14) but first since the 2015 season.
SDSU, which earned an automatic bid to the tournament after winning the Mountain West regular-season title with a 20-4 record, will play the Tigers (34-21) at 5 p.m. on Friday in Tempe, Ariz., on the campus of No. 8/4 Arizona State (39-9), the tournament’s No. 8 overall seed. Cal State Fullerton (36-20) is the other team in the doubleelimination regional.
The entire NCAA Tempe Regional will be broadcast live on ESPN Networks.
San Diego State is 16-22 all-time in the NCAA tourney.
The Aztecs are playing in Tempe for the fifth time out of their 12 appearances in an NCAA regional (also 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014), owning a 4-8 record at Farrington Stadium.
SDSU is the only team to make the NCAA Tournament from the Mountain West.
Rugby
The San Diego Legion (7-7) defeated the LA Giltinis 31-27 at the SDSU Sports Deck. The Legion ended LA’s seven-match Major League Rugby winning streak. The Legion are four points out of the final playoff spot with two road games remaining.
Soccer
A dramatic penalty save might have kept the Premier League title race alive. Riyad Mahrez stepped up to take an 86th-minute spot kick for Manchester City knowing that converting it would virtually secure another league championship for his team. It was saved by West Ham’s Lukasz Fabianski and City had to settle for a 2-2 draw to leave Liverpool still with hope. City is now four points clear of Liverpool, which heads to Southampton on Tuesday needing at least a point to take the title race to the final round next Sunday.
AC Milan’s lengthy wait for the Italian league title will last another week at least. Second-half goals from Rafael Leao and Theo Hernandez
saw Milan beat Atalanta 2-0 and it now only needs one point from its final match to secure its first Serie A title since 2011.
Sam Kerr scored her second Women’s FA Cup final goal in extra time to complete Chelsea’s domestic double with a 3-2 victory over Manchester City. The Australia forward struck from outside of the penalty area in the 99th minute in front of a record attendance of 49,094 for the competition at Wembley Stadium.
Jesus Ferreira scored two goals and FC Dallas (6-1-4) cruised to a 3-1 victory over host LA Galaxy (6-4-1) on Saturday night. Chula Vista native Paul Arriola stretched the lead to 2-0 with a score in the 20th minute.
Paris Saint-Germain striker
Kylian Mbappe won the French league’s best player award for the third time in his career. He diplomatically swerved a question about his future. Mbappe is out of contract at PSG next month and touted to join Karim Benzema at Real Madrid.
WNBA
Arike Ogunbowale scored 18 of her 21 points in the second half and the Dallas Wings (2-1) beat the New York Liberty (1-3) 81-71.
Top-pick Rhyne Howard had a career-high 33 points — the most in any WNBA game this season — to help the Atlanta Dream beat the Indiana Fever 85-79.
Also
Three Canadian Football league teams canceled their opening training-camp practices Sunday, a day after the league and players union broke off negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices, with more teams expected to follow suit.
Luke Hughes scored with 1:57 left in overtime to complete the United States’ comeback from two goals behind to edge Austria 3-2 at the ice hockey world championship in Finland. Canada followed suit by cruising 6-1 past Italy for its second victory in Group A in Helsinki.