COLLEGES
The University of Southern Maine was eliminated Saturday from the NCAA Division III softball tournament, as Gabby Buikema of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (26-11) hit a grand slam and Maddie Fink pitched a three-hitter to lead the Titans to a 7-0 win in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Acacia Tupa opened the game with a home run off Alexis Brown, and Buikema’s grand slam in the third made it 5-0.
Kaitlyn Nelson, Rona Scott and Belle Snyder got the only hits for USM (31-6-1), which was making just its third NCAA tournament appearance and its first since 1999.
BASEBALL: Connor Goodman’s two-out, two-run single capped a seventh-inning comeback in Game 1, and Tyler Nielsen pitched six scoreless innings in Game 2 as Maine (21-20, 16-17 America East) ended its regular season with a pair of wins against Albany (22-23, 20-18) in Orono, 6-5 and 4-2.
The sweep, combined with Hartford’s doubleheader sweep against UMass Lowell, enabled Maine to qualify for the America East tournament.
Maine was trailing 5-3 and down to its final out in Game 1 when Jake Rainess reached on an infield single to put two runners on base. Quinn McDaniel hit an RBI double to right-center, and Goodman followed with a single to center, driving home the tying and winning runs.
Peter Kemble got the win in relief of Alex McKenney, who took a shutout into the sixth before Albany rallied for five runs.
Nielsen gave up just three hits in Game 2 while striking out five and walking none. Matthew Pushard kept the shutout intact until the ninth, when he allowed a two-run double before closing out the win.
BASEBALL
SEA DOGS: Roldani Baldwin tied the game with a pinch-hit two-run triple in the ninth inning and scored on a single by Pedro Castellanos as the Portland Sea Dogs rallied for a 7-6 win Saturday night against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Joey Meneses was 3 for 5 with two RBI for the Sea Dogs, who complete a 12-game trip on Sunday.
TENNIS
EMILIA-ROMAGNA OPEN: American teenager Coco Gauff stormed to her second career title as she comfortably dispatched Wang Qiang 6-1, 6-3 in her first clay-court final, at Parma, Italy.
Gauff, 17, needed just 74 minutes to beat her Chinese opponent.
GENEVA OPEN: Casper Ruud warmed up for the French Open by winning his second career title, beating Denis Shapovalov 7-6 (6), 6-4 in Switzerland.
SOCCER
SPAIN: Atletico Madrid survived a dramatic final round to clinch its first La Liga title since 2014 with a come-from-behind 2-1 win at Valladolid.
Luis Suarez scored the winner for Atletico, which finished two points ahead of defending champion Real Madrid, which rallied to defeat Villarreal 2-1 at home. An Atletico draw combined with a Real Madrid win would have given the title to Real Madrid on the head-to-head tiebreaker.
GERMANY: Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski left it to the last minute of the last game before breaking the Bundesliga record with his 41st goal of the season.
Lewandowski missed a host of chances before he finally struck in the 90th minute of Bayern’s 5-2 win over Augsburg.
Lewandowski had already equaled the record of 40 goals scored by Bayern great Gerd Muller in the 1971-72 season. He scored in each of his last 10 league games, and finished with 41 goals in just 29 games.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: Charles Leclerc won the first pole for Ferrari since 2019 despite crashing with 18 seconds remaining to end qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix.
He could forfeit the pole if the damage to his Ferrari is too great that he receives a grid penalty. If the gear box must be changed – which Leclerc feared – he’d lose five positions on the starting grid.
The red flag prevented world champion Lewis Hamilton and his title contender, Max Verstappen, from completing their final qualifying lap. Verstappen had the second-best qualifying time for Red Bull; Hamilton was seventh for Mercedes.
TRUCKS: Todd Gilliland powered through wet conditions early, then grabbed the lead late and pulled away at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
Gilliland was in a four-car group that drew away from the pack at the start of the final stage, then overtook Sheldon Creed, Tyler Ankrum and Kaz Grala over the final laps. It was his second career Trucks win and first since 2019.
INDY 500: Six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon posted the fastest four-lap average to open qualifying and nobody knocked him from the top spot over the next six hours at qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. The pole and first three rows for the May 30 race are settled Sunday.
Colton Herta for Andretti Autosport was second fastest and followed by Ganassi driver Tony Kanaan.
HOCKEY
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Jussi Olkinuora made 29 saves, Iiro Pakarinen and Atte Ohtamaa scored and defending champion Finland beat the United States 2-1 in their opening game at the world championships in Latvia.
Jason Robertson scored for the Americans, and Cal Petersen stopped 27 shots.
CYCLING
GIRO D’ITALIA: Italian rider Lorenzo Fortunato soloed to victory atop the fearsome Monte Zoncolan while Egan Bernal extended his overall lead to more than a minute after the 14th stage.
Fortunato attacked with around 2 kilometers remaining in the 127-mile route to claim a stage win in his first Grand Tour, at the top of one of the Giro’s most prestigious climbs.
Bernal responded to a late attack from Simon Yates and then attacked the British rider in the fog at the summit to finish fourth and extend his overall lead to 1 minute, 33 seconds ahead of Yates, who moved into second.
GOLF
LPGA: Wei-Ling Hsu birdied the final hole for a 6-under 65 and a share of the third-round lead with Moriya Jutanugarn in the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Championship, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Jutanugarn eagled the par-5 seventh in a 65 to match Hsu at 10-under 203 on Kingsmill Resort’s firm and fast River Course.
The 26-year-old Hsu, from Taiwan, is winless on the LPGA Tour. She had five straight birdies on Nos. 3-7.
Jessica Korda was a stroke back, birdieing three of the last four in a 67. She won the season-opening Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions for her sixth tour title.
Lizette Salas shot a 64 to join second-round leader Sarah Kemp (69) at 8 under. Salas won the 2014 tournament.
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