Stanford women clinch a share of Pac-12 regular-season title
Kiki Iriafen had 22 points and 20 rebounds, Cameron Brink added 14 points and No. 3 Stanford beat Arizona State 81-67 on Sunday at Stanford, responding after an upset loss to Arizona without Brink to wrap up at least a share of the Pac-12 regular-season title.
Brink, who also had nine rebounds, seven assists and five blocks, returned from an illness and had a strong all-around performance in her last regularseason home contest.
Stanford (24-4, 13-3) hosted its final regular-season Pac-12 home game, with the Cardinal moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season and Arizona State (11-17, 3-1) going to the Big 12.
Stanford has beaten Arizona State 12 straight times.
The Cardinal, looking to lock up the top seed in the Pac-12 Tournament next month, have a two-game cushion over both No. 7 Southern California and No. 9 Oregon State with two games to play. The Trojans and Beavers both lost Sunday. The Cardinal took at least a share of the regular-season title for the fourth consecutive season, and 27th time in program history.
Brink was held scoreless until midway through the second quarter. She had 10 points in the second half.
ELSEWHERE Earthquakes drop opener against Dallas
Dante Sealy scored his second career goal, finding the net in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time to rally FC Dallas to a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes in a season opener Saturday night at Frisco, Texas.
San Jose jumped out to a 1-0 lead just six minutes into the match on a goal by Benjamin Kikanovic, matching his total in 24 appearances last season. Daniel De Sousa Britto saved seven shots for the Earthquakes.
NHL: Kiefer Sherwood scored twice, Filip Forsberg added his 27th of the season and the Nashville Predators beat the host San Jose Sharks 4-2 on Saturday night for their fourth straight victory. Filip Zadina and Mikael Granlund scored for San Jose and Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 31 shots.
College football: Former Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Commanders offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy is expected to become UCLA’s associate head coach and offensive coordinators.
MLB: Cody Bellinger is going back to the Chicago Cubs, agreeing to an $80 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press. The slugger can opt out of the deal after each of the first two seasons.
College basketball: Duke’s Kyle Filipowski was hobbled after collision with a fan during court-storming following Wake Forest’s win over the Blue Devils on Saturday.
“When are we going to ban court-storming?” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said. “How many times does a player have to get into something where they get punched or they get pushed or they get taunted right in their face? It’s a dangerous thing.”
Filipowski’s collision happened as he walked from one sideline toward the Duke bench. He appeared to bang his right leg into the leg of a fan running by him and spun off balance.