University of Illinois baseball completed the weekend sweep of Indiana State with a 5-2 Sunday win at Illinois Field. The Illini next face Missouri on Tuesday night at GCS Ballpark in Sauget in the St. Louis Metro East.
Illinois State softball dropped a 7-5 decision to Southern Illinois.
Illinois Wesleyan softball swept the CCIW openers 9-1 and 2-1 over North Park.
Carthage defeated Illinois Wesleyan baseball 11-0 to salvage a game in the three-game weekend series.
Bloomington Thunder hockey beat Cedar Rapids 3-1 at the Coliseum. The Thunder scored three times in the final period with Vlad Dzhioshvili recording the go-ahead goal with only 44 seconds left.
The Cardinals opened the Major League Baseball season with a 4-3 win over the defending champion Cubs on Sunday night. Wilson Contreras tied the game for the Cubs with a three-run homer in the ninth inning, but Randal Grichuk ended the game with an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth.
In the other Major League Baseball openers on Sunday, the Rays beat the Yankees 7-3 and the Diamondbacks walked off with a 6-5 triumph over the Giants. The White Sox open at home this afternoon against the Tigers.
The Bulls beat the New Orleans Pelicans 117-100 behind 39 points from Jimmy Butler.
The Boston Bruins beat the Blackhawks 3-2 while the Blues turned back the Nashville Predators 4-1.
South Carolina earned its first women’s basketball national championship with a 67-55 win over Mississippi State.
The men’s college basketball national title will be decided tonight in Glendale, Arizona as North Carolina takes on Gonzaga.
Frank Mason III of Kansas was named the Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year.
So Yeon Ryu won the LPGA’s ANA Inspiration in California, but the golf world is buzzing about the runner-up. Lexi Thompson lost the title after a four-stroke penalty was imposed late in Sunday’s final round for an incorrect ball placement that a television viewer noticed from Saturday and alerted the LPGA.
Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup race at Martinsville.
