HOCKEY
Curtis Hall’s power-play goal with 2:31 remaining lifted the Maine Mariners to a 3-2 win Sunday against the Rapid City Rush, averting a three-game sweep of their weekend ECHL series at Cross Insurance Arena.
Adam Mechura and Ryan Mast also scored for Maine, and Gabriel Chicoine and Brooklyn Kalmikov each had two assists. Mariners goalie Shane Starrett made 26 saves.
BASKETBALL
G LEAGUE: D.J. Wilson scored 30 points to go with 11 rebounds and seven assists, and the Osceola Magic pulled away in the second half for a 112-89 win over the Maine Celtics in Kissimmee, Florida.
Kylor Kelley led Maine with 16 points and also grabbed nine rebounds. Drew Peterson had 14 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.
NBA: Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid will undergo a procedure this week to correct an injury to the lateral meniscus in his left knee.
The 76ers did not say how much time Embiid was expected to miss. He has already missed 14 games this season, and an extended absence would make him ineligible for the MVP award, which he won last season.
Embiid is the NBA’s leading scorer at 35.3 points per game and is averaging 11.3 rebounds and 5.7 assists.
COLLEGES
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Jacy Sheldon scored 25 points, and No. 8 Ohio State beat No. 10 Indiana 74-69 in Columbus, Ohio, for its ninth consecutive win.
The Buckeyes (19-3, 10-1 Big Ten) took off in the third quarter, going on a 16-5 run to grab an eight-point lead. They led by as many as 14 in the fourth quarter.
Sara Scalia paced Indiana (18-3, 9-2) with 25 points. Mackenzie Holmes of Gorham and Yarden Garzon each had 14 points and nine rebounds. Holmes is now 43 points away from Indiana’s career scoring record.
• Hannah Hidalgo scored 22 points, Maddy Westbeld got her eighth double-double of the season and No. 14 Notre Dame (17-4, 7-3 ACC) rolled to a 78-53 win at home against Pittsburgh (7-16, 1-9).
Anna DeWolfe of Cumberland added 10 points for Notre Dame.
• Kamilla Cardoso scored 13 of her 17 points in the final two quarters as No. 1 South Carolina (21-0, 9-0 SEC) won its 19th straight game against visiting Mississippi (16-6, 6-3), beating the Rebels 85-56.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Lance Jones scored 20 points, Zach Edey joined another exclusive club and second-ranked Purdue (21-2, 10-2) extended its winning streak to seven games with a 75-69 win over No. 6 Wisconsin (16-6, 8-3) in Madison, Wisconsin.
Edey had 18 points, 13 rebounds and three blocked shots. The 7-foot-4 center has 201 career blocks, joining Patrick Ewing and David Robinson as the only players in NCAA history to combine 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 200 blocks while shooting at least 60% from the field.
GOLF
PGA: Wyndham Clark was declared the winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday evening when the PGA Tour canceled the final round because of wicked weather conditions that would linger into Monday and cause safety concerns.
Clark’s final stroke was to tap in for birdie Saturday, giving him a course record 12-under 60 and a one-shot lead over Ludvig Aberg.
Overnight rain saturated Pebble Beach, and raging wind that followed led the PGA Tour to cut the tournament to 54 holes.
Clark picked up his third win in the last nine months, all of them big with a $3.6 million payoff. He also won the Wells Fargo Championship and his first major at the U.S. Open last year at Los Angeles Country Club.
LIV: Joaquin Niemann outlasted Sergio Garcia well after sunset in the season-opening event in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, making a 12-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the fourth hole of a playoff, with the green lit by a large video screen.
Niemann closed with a 1-under 70, parring the final two holes to match Garcia (66) at 12-under 201.
EUROPEAN TOUR: South African golfer Dylan Frittelli won his first European tour event in more than six years, making three birdies in his last six holes for a two-stroke victory at the Bahrain Championship.
Frittelli shot a 1-under 71 to finish at 13 under. Jesper Svensson of Sweden (70) and Zander Lombard of South Africa (68) tied for second place.
SOCCER
WORLD CUP: FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19.
The 39-day tournament will begin June 11 at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca. The U.S. will play its opener at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on June 12, then play seven days later at Seattle’s Lumen Field before finishing the group stage at SoFi on June 25.
Quarterfinals will be at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 9, at SoFi Stadium the following day, and at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, and Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 11. Semifinals are scheduled for July 14 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the following day at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
ENGLAND: Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker made two costly errors in a 3-1 loss at Arsenal as the gap between the two Premier League title rivals was trimmed to two points.
A mix-up between defender Virgil van Dijk and Alisson allowed Gabriel Martinelli to score the go-ahead goal in the 67th minute, before substitute Leandro Trossard fired through Alisson’s legs – via a slight deflection off Van Dijk – in second-half stoppage time.
• Gio Reyna made his debut for Nottingham Forest as a second-half substitute in a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.
The United States midfielder came on in the 78th minute, four days after signing from Borussia Dortmund on loan until the end of the season.
TENNIS
THAILAND OPEN: Rising Russian star Diana Shnaider defeated defending champion Zhu Lin of China, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, as she captured her first WTA title.
SUD DE FRANCE: Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan lost the first set before rallying to beat Borna Coric of Croatia 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 in Montpellier, France, earning his fourth career title.
SKIING
WORLD CUP: Swiss skier Daniel Yule staged an unprecedented comeback to win a men’s slalom in Chamonix, France, rising from 30th place after the first run.
Yule had 1.93 seconds to make up on leader Clement Noel of France in the second run but took advantage of a deteriorating course in spring-like conditions to become the first skier to win a World Cup race from 30th place after the opening run.
His teammate, Loic Meillard, trailed Yule by 0.16 seconds as he improved from fifth to second place. Noel dropped to third, 0.18 off the lead.
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