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10:36 PM on Friday, April 3

Francisco Alvarez homered twice and rookie Nolan McLean retired his first 15 batters as the New York Mets snapped a three-game skid with a 10-3 rout of the San Francisco Giants

10:29 PM on Friday, April 3

American sprinters Sha’Carri Richardson and Christian Coleman have won their heats and qualified for Monday’s semifinals of the Stawell Gift, an annual race contested over 120 meters on grass in a small Australian town near Melbourne

10:14 PM on Friday, April 3

Cole Young broke a scoreless tie with an RBI triple leading off the 10th inning, and Bryan Woo combined with the Seattle Mariners’ bullpen to pitch 10 innings of one-hit ball in a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels

10:02 PM on Friday, April 3

Rookie Maxime Raynaud scored 28 points and the Sacramento Kings overcame a 17-point, first-half deficit to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 117-113 on Friday night

9:59 PM on Friday, April 3

Dylan Holloway scored a pair of power-play goals, Robert Thomas had a goal and two assists, and the St. Louis Blues kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 6-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks

9:47 PM on Friday, April 3

Cooper Flagg has scored 51 points to become the first teenager to reach the 50-point mark in an NBA game

9:44 PM on Friday, April 3

Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson opened the ninth inning with back-to-back home runs, sending the Atlanta Braves to a 2-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks

9:40 PM on Friday, April 3

Lawrence Butler hit a three-run homer and an RBI single, Max Muncy followed Butler’s fourth-inning drive with a solo shot after his earlier two-run double, and the Athletics pounded the Houston Astros 11-4 for a victorious home opener

9:25 PM on Friday, April 3

Haley McCutcheon scored two late goals and the Orlando Pride handed visiting Angel City its first loss of the season with a 2-1 victory on Friday night

9:18 PM on Friday, April 3

Dawn Staley and South Carolina are back in a familiar place, reaching the NCAA championship game for the fourth time in five years

9:07 PM on Friday, April 3

Madison Booker has led the Texas offense all season, so it was little surprise that she hit a jumper less than a minute into the game to give the Longhorns an early two-point lead

9:01 PM on Friday, April 3

New York Mets slugger Juan Soto left Friday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants in the first inning with right calf tightness

8:59 PM on Friday, April 3

Lauren Betts had 16 points and made a huge block late, and UCLA withstood a late charge by Texas for a 51-44 win to reach the women’s NCAA Tournament national championship game for the first time

8:23 PM on Friday, April 3

Wendell Carter Jr. scored 28 points and the Orlando Magic beat Dallas 138-127, overcoming a 51-point showing from rookie No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg and handing the Mavericks their 14th consecutive loss at home

7:59 PM on Friday, April 3

Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd was ejected after just one technical foul and forward Naji Marshall was tossed moments later from the bench after getting his second tech in a game against Orlando

7:25 PM on Friday, April 3

Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, Jayson Tatum added 23 and the hot-shooting Boston Celtics capitalized on another fast start in a 133-101 victory over the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks

6:59 PM on Friday, April 3

Giannis Antetokounmpo says he’s healthy and wants to play even as the Milwaukee Bucks continue to say the two-time MVP is too injured to take the floor

6:48 PM on Friday, April 3

Matvei Michkov had a goal and two assists and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Islanders 4-1 to move within one point of the Islanders for third place in the Metropolitan Division

6:28 PM on Friday, April 3

UConn’s Geno Auriemma was not a happy man

6:12 PM on Friday, April 3

Ta’Niya Latson scored 16 and Agot Makeer added 14 points and South Carolina played stifling defense to beat UConn 62-48 on Friday night, ending the Huskies’ 54-game winning streak and advancing to the women’s NCAA Tournament championship game