KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Joey Gallo hit two home runs, Joe Ryan gave up one run over six innings and the Minnesota Twins completed a sweep of Kansas City with a 7-4 win. Gallo hit his first home run of the game in the sixth inning and in the next frame belted a three-run blast over the right field bullpen to extend the Twins’ lead to 6-1. The Royals finally got a run in the second inning off a home run by Edward Olivares to break a 19-inning scoreless streak. Joe Ryan went six innings, struck out six and allowed one earned run, three hits, two walks for Minnesota. Brad Keller threw 4 ⅔ innings giving up two earned runs, five hits, four walks and fanned six.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nolan Gorman had a pair of two-run homers to help the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Brendan Donovan and Alec Burleson added solo shots in the first inning off Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt. Bassitt gave up nine runs on 10 hits over 3 1/3 innings. Bassitt was making his debut for Toronto after signing a 3-year, $63 million deal in the offseason. St. Louis scored 22 runs over the three-game set. Dylan Carlson had three hits for the Cardinals in his season debut. Matt Chapman had three hits for Toronto.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run homer, Seth Lugo pitched seven strong innings in his first start for his new team and the San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 3-1 on Sunday, salvaging a split of the four-game series after dropping the first two. Bogaerts, a new fixture in the powerhouse Padres lineup, homered twice and drove in five runs on six hits in 13 at-bats in the season’s first four games. He has homered in two consecutive games.
DALLAS (AP) — LSU won its first basketball title in school history, overcoming Caitlin Clark and Iowa 102-85 in the national championship game. The victory made Kim Mulkey the first women’s coach to win national championships at two different schools. She won three at Baylor before leaving for LSU two years ago. Her four titles gave her the third most all-time behind Geno Auriemma’s 11 and Pat Summitt’s eight. Mulkey has never lost in a championship game. Angel Reese had 15 points and 10 rebounds for LSU and was honored as the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Clark scored 30 points to finish the tournament with 191, breaking Sheryl Swoopes' record of 177 set in 1993.
DALLAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark accomplished so much that had never been seen in any NCAA Tournament before, by any woman or man. It wasn't enough to get Iowa a victory in its first national championship game. The Hawkeyes lost 102-85 in a frustrating and foul-plagued finale against LSU. Clark scored 30 points, giving her a record 191 in this tournament. The dazzling Iowa-born guard still has another season or two remaining with the Hawkeyes because as a 21-year-old junior, she's not eligible for the WBNA draft.
HOUSTON (AP) — The once semipredictable ground that underpinned college basketball has been changing at lightning speed over the past 24 months. It's leaving coaches and their bosses scrambling to adjust to whatever comes next. The NCAA Tournament closes out Monday when UConn plays San Diego State, and will go down as one of the most unpredictable ever. Unanswered is the question of whether the shifting landscape in college sports was the reason for all bracket madness or simply background noise for an event that is always hard to handicap. Either way, things are changing and coaches are trying to adjust on the fly.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Taiyanna Jackson had 17 points and career-high tying 21 rebounds — her fourth consecutive double-double and 23rd of the season — Zakiyah Franklin added 19 points and Kansas beat Columbia 66-59 to win the WNIT championship. The Jayhawks finished with their most wins since the 1997-98 team that also won 25 games and set a program record for home wins in a season with 19. Abbey Hsu led the Lions with 19 points and Kaitlyn Davis scored 13. Hsu finished the season with 606 points, two shy of the program record set by Camille Zimmerman in 2016-17. Columbia won a program-record 28 games this season, three more than its previous best set when the Lions went 25-7 last season.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas sharpshooter Gradey Dick is entering the NBA draft after one season with the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-8 guard announced his decision in a social media post. Dick started all 36 games for the Jayhawks and averaged 14.1 points while shooting better than 40% from 3-point range. He made 83 3-pointers, a program record for a freshman. Kansas lost to Arkansas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, with Dick scoring just seven points in his finale.
UNDATED (AP) — Grant McCasland is Texas Tech’s new men's basketball coach. The announcement Friday came a day after North Texas won the NIT title to wrap up the school’s first 30-win season. North Texas was 135-65 in six seasons under the 46-year-old McCasland, who has a master’s degree from Texas Tech. During his time on the Lubbock campus from 1999-2001, McCasland served as director of basketball operations for coach James Dickey. That was after McCasland got his undergraduate degree in 1999 from Baylor, where he was listed as a 5-foot-9 walk-on player who got into 47 games over four seasons. He later was an assistant coach for the Bears and coach Scott Drew.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Corey Conners won the Valero Texas Open for the second time in five years Sunday for his second PGA Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory over rookie Sam Stevens. Also the 2019 winner, Conners had a 15-under 273 total on TPC San Antonio’s Oaks Course. The Canadian now heads to the Masters, where he tied sixth last year for his second straight top-10 finish at Augusta National. A shot behind Patrick Rodgers starting play, Conners had a three-shot lead after he birdied No. 15. Stevens eagled the 17th, but missed a 9-foot birdie putt at 18 that would have tied it. Connors ended it with a 3-foot par putt on 18. Stevens shot a 66.
SUNDAY SCORES
INTERLEAGUE
Final N.Y. Yankees 6 San Francisco 0
Final St. Louis 9 Toronto 4
Final Texas 2 Philadelphia 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 1
Final Boston 9 Baltimore 5
Final Minnesota 7 Kansas City 4
Final Chicago White Sox 6 Houston 3
Final L.A. Angels 6 Oakland 0
Final Cleveland 6 Seattle 5
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Washington 4 Atlanta 1
Final Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 1
Final N.Y. Mets 5 Miami 1
Final Milwaukee 9 Chicago Cubs 5
Final San Diego 3 Colorado 1
Final Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Toronto 128 Charlotte 108
Final Chicago 128 Memphis 107
Final Portland 107 Minnesota 105
Final Brooklyn 111 Utah 110
Final New York 118 Washington 109
Final OT San Antonio 142 Sacramento 134
Final OT Atlanta 132 Dallas 130
Final Orlando 128 Detroit 102
Final L.A. Lakers 134 Houston 109
Final Phoenix 128 Oklahoma City 118
Final Milwaukee 117 Philadelphia 104
Final Cleveland 115 Indiana 105
Final Denver 112 Golden State 110
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final N-Y Rangers 5 Washington 2
Final SO Boston 4 St. Louis 3
Final OT Columbus 4 Ottawa 3
Final Carolina 2 N-Y Islanders 1
Final Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 2
Final Winnipeg 6 New Jersey 1
Final Detroit 5 Toronto 2
Final Los Angeles 4 Vancouver 1
Final Calgary 5 Anaheim 4