Wisconsin earns 7th women’s hockey title

Wisconsin upset No. 1 seed and defending champion Ohio State in the NCAA women’s hockey national title game Sunday in Duluth, Minnesota, capturing an unprecedented seventh championship at the Women’s Frozen Four with a 1-0 victory.

Freshman forward Kristen Simms scored in the first period and it stood up athanks to a 31-save save performance from redshirt senior goalie Cami Kronish.

The Badgers’ seventh national title broke a tie with Minnesota for the most ever by a women’s hockey program in the Frozen Four. Coach Mark Johnson has been behind the Badgers’ coach for 19 years.

Wisconsin was 26-1-1 entering the third period with a lead. Ohio State hadn’t been shut out this season and was last shut out on Jan. 21, 2022 — a stretch of 57 games.

OF DJ Stewart hit a home run in the seventh inning of the

Baseball:

Mets’ spring training game against the Cardinals, completing the cycle. Stewart tripled in the first, singled in the third and doubled in the fifth.

NFL: The Texans and LT Laremy Tunsil agreed to a three-year, $75 million contract extension, ESPN reported. The deal includes a $30 million signing bonus with $50 million fully guaranteed and $60 million in total guarantees. It also makes the 28-year-old former first-round draft pick the highest paid offensive lineman in the league . ... The Cowboys acquired Texans WR Brandin Cooks, 29, for a fifth-round pick in 2023 and a sixth-round pick in 2024. The trade for Cooks likely takes the Cowboys out of the competition for free agent WR Odell Beckham Jr., ESPN reported.

Tennis: Elena Rybakina defeated Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (11), 6-4 to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., and hand the second-ranked player just her second loss this year. The men’s final ended too late for this edition.