Opposing groups fight over future of women’s professional hockey

Chelsea’s title protection in the Champions League finished irrespective of a 3-2 acquire versus host Real Madrid, with Karim Benzema spoiling the English team’s comeback by scoring in extra time to put the Spanish powerhouse back again into the semifinals. Benzema experienced scored a hat trick in the 1st leg to give Madrid a 3-1 direct, then obtained the decisive objective at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium with a header off a cross by Vinícius Júnior 6 minutes into more time. Madrid will up coming facial area both Manchester City or Atlético Madrid, which enjoy on Wednesday in the Spanish cash with Metropolis defending a 1- lead from the to start with leg . . . Villarreal surprised six-time European champion Bayern Munich to attain the Champions League semifinals for the initially time in 16 many years, thanks to Samuel Chukwueze’s 88th-minute target that salvaged a 1-1 road draw and a 2-1 combination victory. Villarreal’s 1- lead from the 1st leg was wiped out by Robert Lewandowski seven minutes into the next 50 %, but Chukwueze accomplished a counterattack inside of 4 minutes of coming off the bench to lengthen the Spanish team’s surprising operate in the opposition. “They made the mistake now of not killing us off and we took benefit of that,” Villarreal striker Gerard Moreno stated. “What this team has carried out is fantastic.” Specially specified the disparities in size and standing. The total populace of the southeastern Spanish city of Villarreal — 50,000 — could suit into Bayern’s 75,000-ability stadium . . . Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario each scored a pair of to start with-50 % goals in Chester, Pa., as the US women’s nationwide workforce defeat Uzbekistan, 9-, to prolong the team’s unbeaten streak to 67 online games on American soil. Trinity Rodman, who arrived in as a 2nd-half substitute, scored her initially worldwide purpose for the United States. The 2021 U.S. Soccer Young Participant of the Calendar year is the daughter of previous NBA player Dennis Rodman. Mallory Pugh, Midge Purce, and Ashley Sanchez also scored for the United States, which opened the video game with its youngest starting lineup — averaging 24.98 yrs — given that 2007.

Schools

Danton Cole by at Michigan Point out

Danton Cole won’t return as Michigan Point out men’s hockey mentor just after a 58-101-12 record about five seasons. “I think a fresh new commence is what the program desires most,” athletic director Alan Haller reported Tuesday. The Spartans missing 15 of their last 16 video games to finish the season at 12-23-1. Cole, who performed on MSU’s 1986 national championship workforce, was coach for the United states Hockey National Team Enhancement System prior to returning to MSU in 2017. He also was the head coach for a few seasons at Alabama-Huntsville . . . Saint Peter’s employed Jersey Metropolis indigenous Bashir Mason to change Shaheen Holloway as the men’s basketball coach. Holloway still left Saint Peter’s a working day right after his staff was eliminated in the Elite 8 by countrywide runner-up North Carolina to return to Seton Corridor, his alma mater. Saint Peter’s was the to start with No. 15 seed to attain the Elite Eight. This is also a homecoming for the 38-yr-previous Mason, who invested the earlier 10 a long time at Wagner University on Staten Island . . . Women’s basketball legend Seimone Augustus, LSU’s most embellished female university student-athlete, will come to be the to start with in faculty background to get her own statue, the college announced. The statue will stand outdoors the Pete Maravich Assembly Heart and join the likenesses of Pete Maravich, Bob Pettit, and Shaquille O’Neal as former Tiger greats honored in this sort of a way, officials claimed Monday. Augustus’s No. 33 jersey has hung from the rafters of the middle considering the fact that Jan. 26, 2010, when she turned the first LSU feminine university student-athlete to have her jersey retired.

TENNIS

Novak Djokovic loses clay-court docket opener

Novak Djokovic opened his clay-courtroom year with a surprising reduction to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina at the Monte Carlo Masters. Davidovich Fokina shocked the best-ranked Serb 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1 in the second spherical to hand Djokovic a different setback as he tries to move on from the controversy surrounding his refusal to get vaccinated versus COVID-19. It would make for uncommon back again-to-back losses for Djokovic, who had not performed given that remaining eradicated in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships in February — his only former event this year just after he was barred from enjoying at the Australian Open up. Djokovic experienced overwhelmed Davidovich Fokina in straight sets two times last yr, in Rome and at the Tokyo Olympics . . . Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Kim Clijsters has retired from specialist tennis again. The 38-year-old Clijsters, who ended her 2nd retirement in 2019 right after a seven-yr hiatus, declared that she will “no for a longer period perform official tournaments.” Clijsters, who already is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, won the US Open up for the 1st time in 2005 and walked absent from tennis two years later at age 23 soon prior to finding married. The Belgian player then took about two years off although possessing a daughter but returned and received the 2009 US Open up. She won an additional championship at Flushing Meadows in 2010, then extra an Australian Open up title the next time and moved back atop the rankings. Clijsters, who has a few youngsters with her partner, Brian Lynch, still left the tour once more in 2012. They reside in suburban New Jersey.

MISCELLANY

Shirley Spork, a founder of LPGA, dead at 94

Shirley Spork, a single of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour who figured out two weeks in the past she would be inducted into the LPGA Corridor of Fame, died Tuesday, the LPGA claimed. She was 94. The LPGA reported she died in Palm Springs, Calif., wherever she experienced been dwelling and taught into her 90s. When she by no means gained on the LPGA Tour, Spork’s influence stretched across 7 many years of setting up the tour and training the activity. She was at the rear of the creation of the LPGA Educating & Club Pro Division, which started with six users and now has a lot more than 1,700 gals gurus. Her death leaves Marlene Hagge, 88, as the only surviving LPGA founder . . . Yolmer Sanchez and Triston Casas homered in the sixth inning to electricity the Worcester Crimson Sox to an 8-3 get about the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the Polar Park opener in entrance of 6,900 . . . 2nd baseman David Hamilton ongoing his torrid get started (2 hits, 2 runs, 2 RBIs) as Portland conquer host Harrisburg, 7-1. As a result of four games, Hamilton is hitting .500 with 2 homers, 9 RBIs, and 7 steals, with a .500 common and 1.682 OPS