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LSU wins 1st College World Series title since 2009, beating Florida 18-4 one day after 20-run loss

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A day after it gave up the most runs ever in a College World Series game, LSU cranked up its offense and won its first national title since 2009 with an 18-4 victory over Florida on Monday night in the third and deciding game of the finals.LSU (54-17) staved off elimination three times in bracket play and bounced back from the humiliating 24-4 loss in Game 2 to claim its seventh championship, second to Southern California’s 12.The Tigers wiped out an early 2-0 deficit with a six-run second inning against Jac Caglianone (7-4). The runs kept coming until they finished with the most in a title game since USC’s 21-14 win over Arizona State in 1998. The 14-run margin was the largest ever in a final. Their 24 hits were most in a CWS game.Thatcher Hurd (8-3) allowed Wyatt Langford’s two-run homer in the first and then allowed no hits or runs while retiring 18 of the next 21 batters. Riley Cooper took over to start the seventh and gave up Ty Evans’ CWS-r...

Ozuna, Acuña hit homers to back Strider’s 10 strikeouts as Braves top Twins 4-1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Marcell Ozuna was increasingly frustrated against Sonny Gray, a history he updated in his mind with his latest strikeout in his first at-bat on Monday night.“I strike out for maybe the fifth time,” Ozuna said.Ozuna responded with a go-ahead homer off Gray in the seventh, Spencer Strider allowed three hits in seven innings while striking out 10 and the Atlanta Braves beat the Minnesota 4-1 in the Twins’ first visit to Atlanta in seven years.Before the homer, Ozuna was 2 for 12 — yes, with five strikeouts — against Gray.Ronald Acuña Jr. added a two-run homer in a three-run seventh. In the matchup of first-place teams in the NL East and AL Central, the Braves won for the 11th time in 12 games.Minnesota played its first game at Truist Park, which opened in 2017, a year after the Twins visited Turner Field.Joey Gallo’s 13th homer gave the Twins a 1-0 lead in the second. Strider gave up a third-inning single to Alex Kirilloff and then got 13 consecutive outs bef...

College World Series Championship Scores

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

2023 – LSU 18, Florida 4, LSU wins series 2-12022 — Mississippi 4, Oklahoma 2, Mississippi wins series 2-02021 — Mississippi State 9, Vanderbilt 0, Mississippi State wins series 2-12020 — Canceled2019 — Vanderbilt 8, Michigan 2, Vanderbilt wins series 2-12018 — Oregon State 5, Arkansas 0, Oregon St. wins series 2-12017 — Florida 6, LSU 1, Florida wins series 2-02016 — Coastal Carolina 4, Arizona 3, CCU wins series 2-12015 — Virginia 4, Vanderbilt 2, Virginia wins series 2-12014 — Vanderbilt 3, Virginia 2, Vanderbilt wins series 2-12013 — UCLA 8, Mississippi State 0, UCLA wins series 2-02012 — Arizona 4, South Carolina 1, Arizona wins series 2-02011 — South Carolina 5, Florida 2, SC wins series 2-02010 — South Carolina 2, UCLA 1, 11 innings, SC wins series 2-02009 — LSU 11, Texas 4, LSU wins series 2-12008 — Fresno State 6, Georgia 1, FSU wins series 2-12007 — Oregon State 9, North Carolina 3, OSU wins series 2-02006 — Oregon State 3, North Carolina 2, OSU wins series 2-12005 —...

LSU wins its seventh College World Series title and first since 2009, beating Florida 18-4 in decisive Game 3

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — LSU wins its seventh College World Series title and first since 2009, beating Florida 18-4 in decisive Game 3.Source

LSU 18, Florida 4

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

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Caitlin Clark wins Collegiate Women’s Athlete of the Year

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark was honored as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year on Monday night.She received the Honda Cup in a ceremony at UCLA. It’s the second consecutive year that a women’s basketball player won the award as South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston was the recipient in 2022. Overall, 17 basketball players have won the Honda Cup — the most of any sport.Clark, the AP women’s basketball Player of the Year, helped Iowa reach the national championship game for the first time in school history this past April before the team lost to LSU. The junior became the first Division I women’s basketball player to have over 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season. Other finalists for the award were Texas senior volleyball player Logan Eggleston and Stanford sophomore golfer Rose Zhang.“It’s so cool, different from other awards shows,” Clark said. “You meet people that play every other sport and see how amazing they...

Colombia extiende permanencia de Armando Benedetti como embajador en Venezuela hasta el 19 de julio

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

(CNN) — La Cancillería de Colombia publicó un decreto que extiende hasta el 19 de julio de 2023 la permanencia de Armando Benedetti como embajador en Venezuela.El funcionario presentó su renuncia al cargo el pasado 6 de junio, y esta fue aceptada a partir del 23 de junio. Sin embargo, de acuerdo con el decreto con fecha de 20 de junio, Benedetti “manifestó que no le es posible hacer entrega efectiva del cargo dentro del plazo inicialmente previsto, debido a la multiplicidad de asuntos pendientes que incluyen temas administrativos, presupuestales, de organización e implementación relacionados con la reapertura de la embajada y todos aquellos que se relacionen con cargo diplomático”.El embajador renunció al cargo días después de una publicación de la revista Semana sobre unos audios atribuidos a él, en los cuales supuestamente amenaza con revelar detalles de la financiación de la campaña política que llevó al poder al presidente Gustavo Petro.Sin dar detalles, Armando Benedetti, exemb...

LaSalle police officer fired after murder indictment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A LaSalle police officer who shot a person during a suspicious vehicle call has been indicted by a grand jury.Officer Erik Hernandez was working on an investigation after a suspicious vehicle call on May 3 when he and another officer encountered 31-year-old Juston Reffel at the Family Dollar in LaSalle. Judge sentences Club Q shooter with 5 life terms According to a release from the Weld County District Attorney's Office, Reffel ran from the officers and got in his vehicle.As Reffel was pulling away Hernandez fired four shots and hit him in the "upper torso," according to the DA.Reffel was pronounced dead at the scene.The shooting was investigated and presented to a grand jury, which issued an indictment for one charge of second-degree murder.Hernandez fired after indictmentLaSalle Police Chief Dave Arnold told FOX31 that Hernandez was on his third day of employment with the department and was in field training.Arnold said Hernandez, who had close to six years of ...

Stolen police car from Jackson Memorial Hospital found in police robbery unit is under investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

A cruiser crime where someone jumped into a City of Miami Police car and took off.Police said it was stolen from Jackson Memorial Hospital and later was found by their robbery unit left abandoned along Northwest 27th Avenue and 41st Street in Northwest Miami-dade, Monday. Police officials detained a possible subject in the area for questioning and the incident is still under investigation.

From cell to cell: Eliminating HIV in prisons

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:47:27 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast In the first episode of our EU Confidential: In Focus mini-series on HIV in Europe, we take you inside a French prison successfully tackling the spread of the disease.POLITICO’s Sarah-Taïssir Benchari...