Sports Briefs April 2, 2012
Golf
Sun Young Yoo won the Kraft Nabisco Championship with an 18-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole Sunday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., earning her first major title after I.K. Kim missed a 1-foot putt on the final hole of regulation.
Yoo won the LPGA Tour's first major of the season with steady play down the stretch, but she got to make the traditional leap into Poppie's Pond only after Kim's mind-boggling miss on the same green minutes earlier.
• Hunter Mahan won the Houston Open to become the first two-time winner this year on the PGA Tour, finishing with a 1-under 71 in Humble, Texas, to edge Carl Pettersson by a stroke.
Mahan, the Match Play Championship winner in February, finished at 16 under at Redstone. The victory moved Mahan to No. 4 in the world ranking, the first time he's ever been the highest-ranked American.
Baseball
Miguel Olivo and Kyle Seager hit consecutive home runs during a six-run sixth inning and the Seattle Mariners rallied past Kansas City in Peoria, Ariz, in their first preseason game since opening the regular season in Japan.
Munenori Kawasaki had three hits for the Mariners, who host Colorado at Peoria today at 1 p.m.
Soccer
Former Italy, Lazio and New York Cosmos star Giorgio Chinaglia died of complications from a heart attack. The Italian football great was 65.
Chinaglia died at his home in Naples, Fla., his son, Anthony, said through family friend Charlie Stillitano, who was Chinaglia's co-host on a Sirius XM radio show.
• Alex Morgan scored in the 72nd minute to give the United States women a 1-1 draw with Japan in Sendal, Japan.
Basketball
Terrence Ross has decided to enter his name into the 2012 NBA Draft and will forgo his final two years of eligibility at the University of Washington.
Ross helped the Huskies to a 24-11 record, NIT semifinal appearance and Pac-12 regular season championship in 2012.
NBA
Thunder 92, Bulls 78: Russell Westbrook scored 27 points and host Oklahoma City beat Chicago.
Lakers 120, Warriors 112: Kobe Bryant scored 40 points, Pau Gasol added 26 and host Los Angeles beat Golden State.
Trail Blazers 119, Timberwolves 106: LaMarcus Aldridge scored 26 points to lead host Portland over Minnesota.
Celtics 91, Heat 72: Rajon Rondo had a triple-double and host Boston handed Miami its biggest loss of the season.
Nuggets 104, Magic 101: Ty Lawson scored 25 points to help visiting Denver edge Orlando, which was without Dwight Howard, unavailable with back spasms.
Pacers 104, Rockets 102, OT: Danny Granger scored 32 points to lead Indiana at Houston.
Raptors 99, Wizards 92: Andrea Bargnani scored 18 points to help host Toronto beat Washington.
Suns 92, Hornets 75: Jared Dudley scored 21 points in the second half and host Phoenix beat New Orleans.
Hockey
Red Wings 2, Panthers 1, SO: Jiri Hudler scored with 14:30 remaining in the third period and again in a shootout to help host Detroit beat Florida.
Flyers 6, Penguins 4: Jakub Voracek scored twice in the third period to lift Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
Senators 5, Islanders 1: At Uniondale, N.Y., Kyle Turris scored twice and had a pair of assists and Ottawa clinched a playoff berth with a win over New York.
Wild 5, Blackhawks 4, SO: Devin Setoguchi and Erik Christensen scored in a shootout to help Minnesota at Chicago.
Bruins 2, Rangers 1: Tim Thomas made 33 saves to lead Boston at New York.
Oilers 2, Ducks 1: At Anaheim, Calif., Devan Dubnyk made 32 saves and Edmonton beat Anaheim.
Tennis
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic won his third Sony Ericsson Open title in Key Biscayne, Fla., holding every service game to beat Andy Murray 6-1, 7-6 (5).
- From wire and news services