Barrington Hargress scored 31 points, including six in overtime, to help UC Riverside slip past Colorado State 77-75 on Friday night in Fort Collins, Colo.
Hargress also contributed six assists for the Highlanders (3-3). Nate Pickens scored 13 points and added seven rebounds. Isaiah Moses shot 4 for 15, including 2 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points.
Jaylen Crocker-Johnson had 21 points and seven rebounds for the Rams (3-2).
UCLA 80, CAL STATE FULLERTON 47: Kobe Johnson scored all 12 of his points in the first half to lead a balanced Bruins attack Friday night at Pauley Pavilion. Johnson made 4 of 8 shots from the floor and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line for the Bruins (5-1). He added 6 rebounds, 6 steals and 5 assists. Tyler Bilodeau and Eric Dailey Jr. both scored 12 for UCLA. Backups Aday Mara and Trent Perry scored 10 apiece.
Keith Richard and reserve Davis Bynum totaled 10 points each for the Titans (1-5).
NO. 12 DUKE 69, NO. 17 ARIZONA 55: Duke freshman Cooper Flagg scored 16 of his game-high 24 points in the second half as the Blue Devils pulled away for the victory before 14,634 at McKale Center on Friday night. Flagg, a preseason All-American, made 10 of 22 shots from the field, grabbed six rebounds and had three assists, two blocks and a steal for Duke (4-1).
Jaden Bradley had 18 points to lead Arizona (2-2).
NO. 15 MARQUETTE 80, GEORGIA 69: David Joplin scored a career-high 29 points and made six 3-pointers, Chase Ross had 14 points and five steals, and the Golden Eagles (6-0) beat the Bulldogs (5-1) in Nassau, Bahamas.
NBA
James Harden had 22 points and nine assists to lead the Clippers to a 104-88 victory over the Sacramento Kings in an NBA Cup game on Friday night.
Playing arguably their cleanest half of the season, the Clippers never looked back after ripping off a 20-1 run in the first quarter to take control. They led 51-29 at halftime.
MLB
The San Diego Padres re-signed untilityman player Tyler Wade (Murrieta Valley High) to a one-year deal with a club option for 2026.
Wade, 29, had joined the team on a minor league deal last year, but won a job out of spring training as a versatile glove who saw a lot of action at third base early in the season as Manny Machado eased back from offseason elbow surgery.
The left-hand-hitting Wade ultimately saw time at third (31 games), second base (15), shortstop (13), left field (12), right field (7) and center field (2). He quickly became a clubhouse favorite, was 8 for 9 on stolen base attempts as the team’s best speed option off the bench and was the team’s best bunter.
Wade hit just .217/.285/.239 in his first season in San Diego, but a penchant for big hits and the ability to get the bat on the ball outweighed the pure production as a bench option the team deemed worthy of carrying into the 2025 season.
— San Diego Union-Tribune
Chris Woodward was named first base coach by the Dodgers, marking his second stint on manager Dave Roberts’ staff.
Woodward was the Dodgers first base coach from 2016-18 before leaving to take over as manager of the Texas Rangers. Woodward fills the opening created after former first base coach Clayton McCullough became manager of the Miami Marlins.
NHL
Jiri Kulich scored with 59.4 seconds remaining in overtime and Buffalo rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Ducks 3-2 on Friday night in Anaheim.
Ducks goaltender John Gibson stopped Buffalo defensemen Owen Power on a 2-on-1 breakaway, but Kulich put the rebound into the upper right corner of the net for his second goal of the season and snap the Ducks’ three-game winning streak.
Peyton Krebs and Jason Zucker scored for Buffalo. Power had two assists and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 23 saves.
Drew Helleson and Isac Lundestrom scored for the Ducks and Gibson stopped 31 shots.
GOLF
Angel Yin was making putts from across the green and threatening to build a big lead until Jeeno Thitikul finished eagle-birdie for a 9-under 63 to share the lead going into the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship, with $4 million on the line, in Naples, Fla.
Yin had a 69 after another day of big putts and one chip-in from some 60 feet for eagle on the par-5 sixth hole that put her comfortably ahead at Tiburon Golf Club.
She holed a 30-footer on the eighth hole, another birdie from about 25 feet on the ninth and another from the 30-foot range on the 12th.
Thitikul seemed to be an afterthought until she lit it up on the back nine for a 30. The Thai made up quick ground at the end with her eagle on the reachable par-5 17th and a birdie on the closing hole.
The birdie briefly gave her the lead until Yin made birdie on the 17th to join her. They were tied at 15-under 201, three shots head of Ruoning Yin, who birdied her last two for a 66.
Cameron Smith birdied three of his first four holes for a 6-under 65 and was tied for the second-round lead at the rain-shortened Australian PGA championship at Royal Queensland.
Smith had a 36-hole total of 10-under 132, even with first-round leader Elvis Smylie, who shot 67.
SKIING
American Mikaela Shiffrin beat Albania’s Lara Colturi by 0.55 seconds to earn her 99th career World Cup race in a slalom in Gurgl, Austria.
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