Drew Peterson leads Maine Celtics to victory over Delaware

Drew Peterson notched his first career triple-double with 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, DJ Steward scored 27 points and the Maine Celtics defeated the Delaware Blue Coats 122-101 in Wilmington, Del. I defeated him and won 5 games in a row.

The Celtics opened with a 10-0 run and led 21-9 until the Blue Coats ended the quarter on a 12-7 run. Delaware State opened the second game with a 12-2 rally to take a 33-30 lead, but Maine built a 58-53 lead by halftime.

Maine took a 67-55 lead on Peterson's 3-pointer with 9:25 left in the third, but the Bluecoats rallied late in the quarter, scoring runs from Melvin Frazier, Jared Brownridge and Rob Brownridge. Edwards made consecutive 3-point shots to close the gap to 1 point, 80-79. , 3 minutes 24 seconds left.

The Celtics then took the lead in the fourth, starting on a 9-0 run and outscoring Delaware 34-17 in that quarter to win.

For the Celtics, Joe Wieskamp had 20 points and nine rebounds, and Kyler Kelly had 12 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks.

university

Women's basketball: Paige Bueckers had 27 points and five blocks and No. 10 UW defeated Georgetown 78-42 on Monday night in Uncasville, Conn., for its 22nd Big East Tournament title. did.

This is the Huskies' 29th overall title, and they have not lost in conference championship contention since Notre Dame defeated them for the Big East title in 2013.

UW (29-5), which is appearing in the conference tournament championship game for the 20th straight year, has won seven straight in the American Athletic Conference and since returning to the Big East in the 2020-21 season. , winning all four titles.

Georgetown was playing in the championship game for the first time in school history. The Hoyas (22-11) already have the most wins since the 2011-12 team won his 23. This was the school's last appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Although they made it to the title game, they have a very weak non-conference schedule and are a long way from making it to the NCAAs.

• Southern California won the Pac-12 Tournament and climbed to its highest ranking in 38 years.

The Trojans moved up to No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll after surpassing Stanford and reaching the title game in the conference tournament for the first time since 2014. This is USC's highest ranking since the final voting of the 1986 season, when the team placed third.

South Carolina remained unanimously in first place, receiving all 35 first-place votes from the Associated Press national media panel. The Siamcocks won in the SEC Tournament semifinals thanks to Camila Cardoso's 3-point shot in the final minutes, and will head into the NCAA Tournament undefeated for the second straight year. The Gamecocks then won the title by defeating LSU in a game marred by a late exit.

Iowa State returned to second place after winning the Big Ten Tournament, defeating Nebraska in overtime behind Caitlin Clark. It was the Hawkeyes' third straight conference tournament victory.

• Amy Evans scored 13 points and top-seeded Johnson & Wales vs. University of Charlotte (18-7) defeated eighth-seeded Southern Maine Community College (21-8) with 62 points. Broke it. He won 37 games in the quarterfinals of the American Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Small College National Tournament in Petersburg, Virginia.

Hope Butler led the Seawolves with eight points, followed by York and Aija Andrews with seven each and Jenna Philbrook with six.

The Seawolves will play a repechage game against Beaver, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

Men's basketball: Houston remained atop the AP Top 25 poll on Monday for the third straight week, but made a big jump as several of the game's traditional bluebloods peaked in time for postseason play.

The Cougars received 52 of 62 first-place votes from a national media panel a week after defeating UCF and ripping out the then-No. 1 league. 14 Kansas won the Big 12 regular season title in the league's first year. Defending national champion Yukon, the top seed in the Big East Tournament, finished second in the voting after receiving six first-place votes, leading to top seed Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament. remained in third place after receiving four first-place votes. Vote.

The big move happened to the rest of the top 10, with North Carolina State knocking out the then-No. 1 spot and moving up three spots to No. 4. 9 Duke and Kentucky beat then-No. 9 teams and moved up six spots to No. 9. 4 Tennessee.

• Luke Briggs scored 13 points, Andrew St. Hilaire added 10 points and Southern Maine Community College (21-9) defeated Penn State Mont Alto 87-66 in American Collegiate Athletic Association Division 2 repechage. The season ended with a loss. National Conference of Small Colleges held in Petersburg, Virginia.

basketball

NBA: Atlanta Hawks forward Saddiq Bey will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, another big blow to the injury-plagued team.

Bey suffered what was initially described as a hyperextension of his left knee and suffered Sunday night's 116-103 loss to New Orleans. An MRI scan revealed he had a torn anterior cruciate ligament, which will require surgery at the end of the season.

hockey

NHL: The Carolina Hurricanes have re-signed depth forward Brendan Lemieux to a contract worth $775,000 for next season.

Lemieux, 27, is the son of former NHL player Claude Lemieux and recently reached the 300 game milestone. He is in his first season in Carolina, scoring three points in 25 games and appearing in three games.

tennis

BNP Paribas Open: Coco Gauff gave herself an early birthday present by defeating Lucia Bronzetti 6-2, 7-6 (5) in the third round in Indian Wells, California.

Gauff, who turns 20 on Wednesday, struggled early, but found a way to save 10 of 11 break points and hold serve. She closed the match with a serve to the body, but Bronzetti couldn't return it. The win extends Gauff's winning streak in the U.S. to 18 matches, which includes her U.S. Open title last year.

dog sled race

Iditarod: Two dogs died over the weekend during the annual Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska, marking the first death in five years during the race, which mushers and their musher teams cross the 1,000-mile mountain range. There are renewed calls for the cancellation of the 1,609km (1,609km) race. Frozen rivers and sea ice – often occur during dangerous weather.

Bog, a 2-year-old male on hound racer Isaac Teaford's team, arrived Sunday morning at Nurato, a former Russian trading post located 582 miles from the race point across the Alaskan wilderness. It collapsed about 200 feet before the village checkpoint. He died despite veterinarians performing CPR for about 20 minutes.

A second dog on Musher Hunter Keefe's team, George, a 4-year-old male, also collapsed and died despite attempts to resuscitate him, according to a race statement.

George died on the trail 629 miles into the race, about 55 miles from the village of Kaltag.

Olympic

Drug test: Track and field athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will be tested more frequently ahead of the Paris Olympics because their countries' anti-doping programs are substandard, the sport's investigators said.

After the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, countries failed to heed warnings to improve unannounced testing for the 2023 Games, the track and field association announced, and targeted testing by country “This is unprecedented,” he said.

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